A dReAm Is A WiSh YoUr hEaRt MaKeS!!

Tuesday and Wednesday we went to.... DISNEYLAND!!!! The happiest place on earth (as long as you are okay with insane crowds! haha) This was the first time going to Disneyland for Brandon, the kids, and me. I had been counting down the days for weeks... sorry everyone at work! :) In the morning we caught the hotel's shuttle and it took us to Disneyland. There was so much to take in! It is so beautiful there. There is so much creativity as well. Right off we ran into a few characters! I was thrilled about that!

Taiya's excited look! She was SO excited to be there!

I am sorry about the picture overload... but I can't help it!! I had WAY too much fun not to share it!

We ran back to the hotel to change and eat lunch! That was an adventure. We only had about 1/2 hr. to run to the hotel... change... run across the street (which didn't have a crosswalk the easy way, so we had to make a huge square to get there)... get our lunch... and eat it on the run! Luckily the shuttle driver was awesome and let us eat on it! We went on tunz of rides (I chickened out right when we were getting on Space Mountain! Haha) It was so cool to go in all the shops and all the rides and see the creativity and imagination that was put into them! I wish we would have had a whole week to stay there. (Incentive to go back soon!)

Haha... I loved all the fun things at Toon Town! We went to the Parade at night! It was SO much fun! I had the biggest blast! I felt like a 5 year old because I was SO excited!! We were in the front row and one of the guy dancers ask Taiya to come and dance with him and she turned him down!! I was dying! I told her that she is going to regret it SO much and sure enough the next day she told me she does. Taiya and Ethan were both invited to go dance around the floats and they said no to that too! My kids are NOT cool! Haha. If I didn't have 2 left feet and look like a nerd I would have been out there with him! :)

Here is what happens to kids when you are done with Disneyland! haha. Cute lil stinkers!

St. George/ Newport Beach

We went on our first BIG family vacation! On Saturday, May 15 we loaded up our car and headed for St. George! We stayed at my sister Kristi's house for 2 nights. It was so much fun to see Kristi, Mike, and Skunk. We don't get to see them very often because they live so far away! We spent most of the day swimming at their pool. It was so nice to lay in the sun and enjoy the heat! (It was around 90 there!) We went to eat, went shopping, and make yummy cake pops! It was so much fun to just hang out with them and not be rushed. My little Skunky is the cutest thing ever! We could not get enough of her! On Monday, we loaded our car up again and headed to Newport Beach, California.

It was a little chilly when we got there, but it was so much fun to see the ocean! Taiya kept saying over and over, "I can't believe I got to swim in the Pacific Ocean!" Haha... silly girl! Ethan didn't care that it was pretty chilly. He went right in and stayed in! He was pretty cold by the time he got out.

Haha... I know the last picture is creepy, but we are a creepy family! We went and walked the pier after a while! It was amazing all of the things that people were catching. There was a guy who caught a HUGE California King Crab and people were constantly catching fish. When we were on the pier we saw seals, dolphins, and a jelly fish! It was such an awesome experience!

After walking around for a while we went and ate dinner and then we headed to the Double Tree Hotel in Anaheim, California. It is an awesome hotel. I would highly recommend staying there! I will post more on our vacation tomorrow!

Soccer Games!

The kids played soccer this year! It was so much fun to watch them. I felt a real soccer mom sitting through heat, rain, and even snow! Taiya's team won a few games, but Ethan's didn't win any. Haha. This was the first time playing for both of them and I am really hoping that they will keep it up next year! We got to know a few people in our ward a lot better seeing them at all the games and the few practices they had. I am just hoping that next year the weather cooperates better!

I could not believe that they did not cancel the games! I felt so bad for these poor kids having to play in weather like that! They really seemed to like it though! I hope this weather gets better soon... we haven't even been able to plant our garden yet because it has been raining too much and it keeps freezing at night!

May 1, 2010- SUPERCROSS!!

Today we went to Supercross at the Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. We paid a local riders fees so that he could race, so we were able to park in the pits where all of the "huge pros" race! It was fantastic! We got there at 9 a.m. and it was freezing and lightly raining. We learned our lesson from last year and wore thermals, lots of layers, coats, hoodies, ponchos, and blankets! When we got there, we went and walked around the pits... we were hoping to see some of the big dawgs! Hehe. We did see a kid who does Arenacross. It wasn't until later that we started to see people. Here is a picture from when we had a brief break from the rain. It was still FREEZING!!

We were walking around and I saw Jeff Emig! He won a few championships quite a few years back and now he is the announcer for all of the Supercross races. He was with Ralph Sheheen who is his announcing sidekick. I was too embarrassed to ask for a picture so Brandon's friend did it for me! I was in 7th heaven when he said yes! Haha. I wanted to get one with Ralph too, but after the picture with Jeff I was a little excited and didn't. I ended up seeing Ralph around 2 more times during the morning but I never had the camera with me and he smiled at me every time I saw him... so needless to say I went through the rest of the day feeling SO guilty! When we were watching the race on t.v. when we came home I had horrible guilt... so Ralph if you are reading this... next year I am getting a picture with you... no matter what! Haha. Here is Jeff Emig and me!

We were walking around and saw that they were having a rider's meeting, so we stood in the back and listened! They were having some guy give a motivational thought... oh my... it was SO weird! I was trying so hard not to laugh. The prayer he gave was crazy! After the meeting we were able to meet Kevin Windham and Tray Canard! We got pictures with both of them! IT was awesome because Kevin won the race tonight! He was so sweet. He was talking to someone when we walked up to him and he stopped talking and came up to us and let us get pictures with him. He is darling in person! Tray hung out with Brandon in 2006 or 2007 at the Amatuer Opens in Phoenix! Brandon had Ballz Racing down there and Trae was hanging out in his booth! Tray remembered Brandon so that was pretty cool. He is a great kid and we were so excited to meet him too. I was really sad though because when we put our pictures on the computer my picture with Tray was all messed up. Oh well. At least I have the memories. Haha. (I added the messed up picture just so everyone could feel my pain. lol)

Pink's husband Carey Hart does Supercross stuff so sometimes Pink will come with him and Taiya knows this from watching Supercross with us. Taiya found Hart's semi and was parked out there waiting for Pink! Unfortunately, Pink was not there this time. Taiya was really bummed about that. Hopefully next year she will get to meet her. After all the fun of meeting everyone it was time to go and watch the races. It had stopped raining for a good portion of the afternoon but as soon as they started the races it started pouring!! We got rained on, it snowed, sleeted, and hailed! We had our ponchos on with blankets underneath... but everytime Brandon or Ethan would move, the rain would run off and land right on me. By the time we left my pants were soaked and I had so much water in my boots that you could just feel the sloshing! That made it so hard because it was freezing! Ethan fell asleep during the races because it had been a long day for the kids! Here are some pictures from the track. I didn't take any during the race because it was raining way too hard! I felt so bad for the poor riders because they were soaked and covered in mud!

When we got back to the truck we saw Cowboy Kenny and his gang. They are freestyle riders. They weren't able to perform because of the rain, but we were able to meet them because they were parked right next to us! The picture didn't turn out too well because it was still pouring! Here are the pictures of them and some pictures of what our riders bike looked like after he raced in the mud.




We went to IHOP for dinner close to midnight. We had to pull over around 1:30 and sleep for 40 minutes because we were exhausted. It was so much fun! I love going to Supercross every year! It has been so much fun and it is always so exciting! I can't wait for next year!