shopping, the wharf, and an A's game

On Monday, the 13th of April, we headed out with Jason's family to have a fun-filled day. Misty, Adam and Dylen tagged along with us. We first stopped to do a little shopping at one of my new favorite stores, H&M. My sister-in-law, Kari, introduced me to the place and I love it. After some serious shopping, we headed over to San Fransisco to Fisherman's Wharf. We had some yummy lunch, took some fun pics of the kids and then watched the lazy seals on the platforms. The kids were very excited to see the seals. They loved watching them and they'd giggle when one of the seals would make their barking noises or fall into the water. Pretty entertaining!

Eating lunch at the wharf.



She's so great at posing and taking pictures.

Afton and Dylen

I love this one of Logan. He is so darn cute!

yeah, this is pretty much how my day was. One sweet little girl and two boys who didn't want to listen or cooperate.

Dylen, Kya, Afton and Dax

Afton and her grandpa Rex

Dax and Dylen were having fun jumping down from these boxes.

Poor little Logan. I strapped him in the stroller and wouldn't let him out. He kept wandering off and it was getting really hard to keep an eye on all three of my kids, so into the stroller he went and he wasn't very happy about it.

Watching the funny seals. Dax was very entertained by them.

He loved them!

After hanging out at the Wharf, we headed back to Oakland for an A's baseball game. Jason wasn't able to come with us during the day, but he met us over at the game. They were playing the Boston Red Sox and there were more Sox fans than A's fans. It was ridiculous! It's ok though because the A's won. Dax was into the game and some boys sitting in front of him kept giving him high fives when the team would score or make a good play. We had a great time at the game, but I was ready to go home and go to bed. I was exhausted from a very long day.

The kids were very excited to watch the game.

Afton, Logan and Jason

One of Jason's friends from high school (Josh aka "Beav") met us there with his wife, Sarah, and their little boy, Mitchell.

Doesn't Dax look so happy to be taking a picture? It would've been a perfect picture if he would have smiled and opened his eyes. But that's my little Dax for you.

Easter Sunday

We had a such a great Easter this year. We had family in town and the kids were really excited for the special day. Afton and Dax were so excited on Easter morning. After going through their baskets, they couldn't wait to hunt for their Easter eggs. I think the egg hunt was more exciting than the actual presents in the Easter basket. And they even got Mario Kart! Jason and I were pretty excited for that gift. Anyway, when we started the hunt they both ran around the living room trying to find their eggs. Even Logan got in on the action, although he figured out how to open the eggs and was eating all of the candy. That kid loves candy!

Logan with a mouthful of candy.




Why is it so hard to get a decent picture of all of your kids together? I got some good ones of Afton and Kya, but when I attempted my kids together, Dax and Logan wouldn't cooperate. When one would, the other wouldn't. I guess I got an ok picture, but one of them together with their arms around each other and smiling would be perfect. Maybe one day.

Dax, Afton and Logan in their super cute easter clothes!

I love this little guy in ties. They look so darn cute on him.

They definitely look like cousins.

I know Dax looks like he's in pain trying to smile in this picture. That's just how he smiles sometimes.

I love when Afton wears purple. It's so pretty on her.

This one was a pretty good picture. They were all smiling.


And I have to thank my mother-in-law. She is so great. She got the Sunday Easter clothes for all of my kids and they were so cute! She does such a great job with her shopping skills. My kids are always well dressed because of her. Thanks Sharon!

Church was extra extra special this day. One, it was Easter and two my awesome husband spoke in Sacrament meeting. He's so calm and collective when he speaks. I wish I could be more like that. He did a great job. The whole meeting was really great. There were a couple talks on the Savior and his resurrection. And Jason spoke on the Life of Christ and based part of it on Elder Holland's talk in the last Conference Session. I loved that talk by Elder Holland. It just reminds me how amazing Jesus Christ is and all that he did for us. I'm so happy that we have this time of year to reflect on his life and resurrection. It makes me want to be a better person and be more like our Savior. I know that he lives and that one day we will all see him again.

After church, we headed over to Grandma Joy's house (not my grandma joy, Jason's aunt's mom, her name is Joy too and the kids call her grandma). We always go to her house for Easter. They have a yummy dinner and then a fun easter egg hunt and then we get to play a mean game of outdoor soccer. The kids had a great time hunting for clues to the eggs and playing with their cousins. And we had an awesome soccer game! It was really fun this year, although I got kicked in the shin and knee, but I survived. Just a few bruises. I think we decided that next year we're going to shoes and shin guards. We're getting too old for bare foot soccer. It really does a number on your feet. I'm so glad that we have family close by to spend time with on these special days.

The awesome soccer game. I never played soccer growing up, but I really enjoy it. It's definitely a good workout.

Battery-powered Grandpa

Since their cousin Kya got into town the kids had been dying to go outside and play in the backyard with her. So when Jason and I got back into town I headed outside with them. They had lots of fun riding their bikes and scooters and drawing on the patio with chalk. They also wanted to drive around in our little Jeep, but the batteries hadn't been charged and the thing would hardly even go, so the kids were pretty sad. But then Grandpa Rex came to the rescue. He put all of them into the jeep and he became the battery and started pushing them all over the yard. He was doing pop-o-wheelies, driving on two wheels and going really really fast. He'd push them up the little hill in our backyard and then let them go. Afton, Dax and Kya thought it was the greatest thing in the world. They were having so much fun and kept telling him "faster grandpa, faster"! I was even getting a little jealous because it looked like so much fun! Grandpa's really are the best. They love to have fun. Thanks Rex for letting the kids have such a great time on the jeep even though I'm sure your muscles were aching the next day:)

our "Wicked" weekend

Jason's family came into town on April 9th. And since we had some free babysitters Jason thought we needed to take advantage of it. Well in advance he asked his parents if they could watch the kids for a night and they gladly accepted. I have the greatest in-laws. Thanks so much for watching the kids. So Jason had been planning this night away for a month or so now and hadn't told me anything about it. It was a surprise and I love surprises so I was very excited. Although I thought I knew what we were doing. He supposedly told me like a week ago, but it was only to throw me off so I wouldn't have any idea what we were really doing. We started off the day by going to the Temple, which was really great and then Jason told me we weren't going where he had told me we were going. Instead, we were headed to San Francisco to do something really fun. And I immediately knew what we were doing. I had thought that was what we might be doing and then he threw me off with that little white lie. And then to find out it's what we were really doing I was so excited. We went to see WICKED !

I have been wanting to see this show forever and it finally came to San Fransisco so we were able to go. We stayed right across the street so we were able to walk there. It was great! Before the show we walked down to Union Square and ate at a little Thai place called Bangkok Restaurant. I've never had Thai before and I really wanted to try it and I'm glad we did because it was very good.

Jason and I eating our very delicious Thai dinner. I don't remember what Jason got but it was really good. Something with noodles and eggs and peppers.

After dinner we went to see Wicked. There were so many people there and I was so excited to watch the show. It was Amazing!! I couldn't believe how good it was. It was funny, emotional, breathtaking and the music was awesome. Jason even liked it and that shows how good it was. He's definitely not a Broadway guy. The actors were all so good and they had the most amazing voices. It really was an amazing show and I'm up for going to it again so if any of you ladies want to go see it let's plan a day and go. I'm so happy that Jason planned this special night for us. It was so much fun and a nice little get away even though it was only for a night. Thanks Babe for the surprise. It was AwESome!!

Before we went into the theater I wanted to get a picture out front. The show was playing at the Orpheum and it was a really cool theater.

The next morning we went back over to the theater to snap a few more pictures. I actually wanted one of the entire poster. The picture above we had some lady take for us after the show and she cut out half the Wicked poster. So I made my cheesy husband stand in front of it for another picture.

Spring Party

Afton's class had a little Spring party and I was able to go help out in her class. My great friend, Amber, took the boys for me so I was very lucky to be able to go. I actually went an hour early to do some art corps stuff. We're finally done with all of the lessons and now we're in the process of matting the artwork. We went through each kid's portfolio, picked out their best artwork, selected color paper to mat behind it and now we just have to mat them. They are going to look so great! I can't wait to see all of them matted. I'll definitely be taking lots of pictures at the art show. Anyway, for Afton's party, they got to decorate cookies, make cute bunny baskets and then they went on a little Easter egg hunt. It was lots of fun to see the kids race to get their eggs and to be their with Afton. Thanks again Amber for watching the boys.

Afton with her cute bunny basket.

Afton's class lining up after getting their eggs.

My garden

Well, it's official now. I finally planted my garden. I was waiting for better weather and it finally started to warm up some, so I decided that I better get planting. Now I just have to wait patiently and see if any plants pop up and then if anything grows. I'm really nervous because I planted all seeds and I don't know if anything will grow. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. But I'm really excited for this new adventure.

Big belly

I happen to be talking about Logan's big belly. He seriously has the biggest belly I've ever seen.........that is for a 20 month old. And he seems to be pretty proud of it because he's always lifting up his shirt and showing everyone. He also loves to point to his belly button and play with it. I think every kid this age has a fascination with their belly button.

He is saying so many things now. He pretty much copies anything you say and it's so cute. Although he has a few words in his vocabulary that we're trying to work on Not saying. One of the first things he started saying was "Big Dummy" which he learned from his big brother. He loves to say it all day long and when he gets mad at me he calls me a "Big Dummy". We are still working on that one. He also loves to say "Rebound that basketball" and he says, "webound at baset baset ball". Oh and Dax has just taught him to say "mean mommy" and when Logan gets mad at me he says, "Mean momma!" I just love that he has an older brother who teaches him such great things.

Birthday sleepover

For part of Afton's b-day present, we let her have a sleepover with one of her friends. She invited her friend, Halle and they were both so excited for the sleepover. It happend back on Friday, March 20th. We picked up Halle around 4 o'clock and headed to the movie theater. We saw "Race to Witch Mountain" and then stopped at Red Robin for dinner. Those two girls are so cute together. They were so giggly and silly. After dinner we headed back to our house for some more fun. They played dress up, played with barbies and then watched some Hannah Montana. They finally crashed around 10:30 p.m. and were up bright and early at 6:00 a.m.!

The boys had fun also. They had fun teasing the girls and following them around all night.

daddy-daughter date

I've been wanting Jason to take Afton out for a fun daddy-daughter date for a while now and they finally went. A few weeks ago on Saturday, March 14th, they had their fun little date. We asked Afton what she wanted to do and gave her a few options. At first it was go see a movie, but then I told her about minature golfing and she changed her mind. Jason has the Tiger Woods Wii game and Afton loves to play it, so she's been very excited about golf lately. She even know's how to keep score and all of the terms for scorekeeping (for example: par, birdie, eagle, bogie). She was asking Jason what they meant one day and now she knows all about them. I, on the other hand, have no clue what they mean. So Afton was very excited to go minature golfing. Jason's friend, Chris and his daughter Emma, joined them on their date. They golfed, rode the racecars, and played on the playground. They had a great time and Afton loved being with her daddy on their special date.