Geneology

Well I am up in Utah visiting my family. I thought it might be fun to have the girls be up here for the 24th to do real fireworks and enjoy cooler weather. Well since the new Oquirrih Mtn Temple is just around the corner from their houses, we got tickets to go to the open house. We went on Thursday. It was beautiful. Savannah thought it was pretty and she loved the mirrors in the sealing room that they went on forever. Charlotte loved all the pretty sparkling lights.

Later in the afternoon we went to the Jordan River temple to do family names. We brought my neice and nephew along with us to do baptisms. We did 9 women and 3 men. My brother John baptized them and my bro-in-law Trent was a witness. The rest of us; me, my mom, sis Stephanie, sis-in-law Melanie, got to go out to the font to watch. What made it so special was that my nephew got to baptize my grandfather, (moms dad), her grandfather, and her uncle. My neice also did a few of her aunts, and also others that went back farther than she remembered. It was really neat experience to be able to witness his baptism and confirmation. There was a great spirit there. I hope that he accepts the gosple and the baptism that was done for him on his behalf.

It makes me want to do more geneology on my moms side since it is just getting started by my sister.

I was glad I was able to have that experience.

Part 2 of pictures

So I think I had too many pictures on that last post. Blogger was getting mad at me and I couldn't load anymore. So here are the remaining pictures.

Beach Part 2.

Memorial Day - Some friends invited us to their parents house for BBQ and swimming. Their parents were out of town so it was just us 'kids'. All the youngin's had a great time. Even the adults were jumping off the cave. Way to go Aaron and Jill!! It was a fun to hang out with all the families. Lundgrens, Robisons, and especially the Ashtons ... thanks ... It was a great time.

Miscellaneous Pictures of Savannah

Miscellaneous Pictures of Charlotte- Charlie is ultra mischeivious. She is into everything, from climbing in and on everything, putting the chalk in the dogs water to make 'paint', turning one M&M into a chocolate orgy, packs her bags and 'says bye-bye' on her way to the garage, and then running to hide behind daddy's pants in the cloest when she gets in trouble for it all.

Pictures

So i finally uploaded pictures since like Easter so here you go. I always like to see pictures of people on their blog so I hope you don't mind all of them. I had like almost 300 I had to upload. It took forever. So I apologize for the picture overload.

Chad IS 17 again! 18 months of kissing metal for me. He was a little bummed to get them a second time. Like 7 years wasn't bad enough the first time. I made him grow out the goatie so that he didn't look like he really was. Although he does not look 33.

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Easter - The girls found their baskets Easter morning. After church the Easter bunny had brought eggs and hide them in the front yard. (We thought it a little odd, because we didn't even dye any eggs this year). We found that our neighbor Don had brought a few for the girls. It was fun to have them look for them. We also took a few pictures of in the back yard after church. I had fun doing Savannahs hair that day. Savannah was our photographer of the picture of Chad and i.

Savannahs Preschool Field Trip - Savannah's Preschool had a field trip to the Phownix zoo. They had an extra special treat by having a private viewing of some of the animals: snake, hissing roach, owl, ferret thing, huge toad.. The kids had a lot of fun. They got to play in the new splash pad cave area and I think that was the biggest hit. My friend Raschell came with us too. Savannah wants to work at Disneyland someday too because of her, but only if she can work with Raschell. Horray for Miss Holly. It was so much fun!!

Girls Trip to California - I have to say it was kind of nice to get to be away from the kids. I did feel a little guilty about going to Disneyland without the kids but we would be back in 2 weeks for Savannahs birthday so I thought it would be okay. We hit disney, of course, then shopping, the Newport Beach temple, church and home. I thought the temple was beautiful. Although we did not do a session, it was fun to walk the grounds after church. It looked so much like a Spanish Mission or something. I did really love that it was not white though. Made it unique. It was fun to hang out with the ladies. I still need to pull out of my shell a bit more since they are all a lot more outgoing than I. But fun none the less.

Preschool Graduation - I can't believe Savannah is a preschool graduate. She is getting so big. But I have to say I am just as excited for kindergarten as she is. It will be great. Her graduation was so sweet. They said the pledge and did a few of the things they do for their normal morning routine. We watch a little slide show of their year and it was so cute the things the kids said. They all got up to say their favorite part of Preschool. I feel bad that Savannah will leave so many friends behind. Poor Semanee and her have been friends since we first moved here. They will not go to the same elementary school and since the ward split we are not in the same ward either. Special thank you to Miss Holly. Savannah loves you and misses you so much.

Savannah's 5th birthday in California - We literally left right after Savannahs graduation to head to disneyland. I got totally sick on the way, which sucked. But hey ya puke in a garbage sack then your good right. Savannah got a $60 gift card to Disney for her birthday (compliments of have a pass and the whole get in free for your birthday bit). We also gave her a sleeping beauty dress. So we were blessed to be in the company of Sleeping Beauty and Tinkerbell. We had a lot of fun. Savannah even got to dance in the parade and place musical chairs with Alice and the Mad Hatter.

The Beach - Another criterial for Savannah's birthday weekend was going to the beach. It was freezing!! We did see a baby sea lion on the beach, and made a sandcastle. Savannah enjoyed finding shells.