wahoo!!

my computer is FINALLY fixed....so be prepared for lots of posting--from like July.  oops.  :)

Oma and Opa visit

Oma and Opa came to visit in August for cousin Aidan's baptism.  They were only here for a few days, but we loved having them.  We went up the canyon one day and picnicked.  

 2 crazy boys

 Keagan loves her Opa

 Easton, Oma, Abbey, Keagan

Oma and Opa with the Utah grandkids (minus one who was having one-on-one time with the other grandma)

Beach Bums

While in California, we stayed only a few minute walk from the beach.  It was beautiful.  However, we were so busy, we only did the beach 2 days.

 "Ah!  Sand on my face!"

 Keagan and Saylem

 Getting buried

 Breaking free!!

 Keagan's turn

 sand monster!

 sand face!

 they were covered from head to toe with sand!  

Easton did a little boogie boarding too.  

San Diego Zoo

The San Diego Zoo is awesome.  We did this on our third day in California.  By this point, we had been to SeaWorld, LegoLand, and the Zoo, so we were pretty tired and it was lots of walking, but the kids did great and didn't complain....too much.  :)

 Outside the hippo place

 outside the arctic place

 my two crazy seals

 always my favorite, the elephants

 guess who lost her first tooth in California?  Keagan was so excited!  It had been loose and she wiggled it all the time, so it fell out faster than Easton's first tooth did, which seemed to take a couple of months.  She was eating a cinnamon roll for breakfast and it came out in her cinnamon roll!  The tooth fairy said that meant her tooth was extra sweet.  She was so concerned that the tooth fairy wouldn't find her, but she did and she got $2 for her sweet tooth.

 we stopped midday to get some lunch at a zoo cafe.  holy. overpriced.  It was ridiculous.  $8 for a kids meal?  seriously?

 this set of pictures makes me laugh every time I see them.  She is supposed to be a paleontologist, and I asked her why she was shooting and she said, "I kill the animals and then I find their bones."  hmm...okay.

 Easton showing me his rhino horn

 flamingos

Easton showing me how he can balance like a flamingo

 At the end of the day we were so tired and didn't want to walk all the way back to the front, so we took a bus to the sky ride and rode it to the front gate.  Then we went into the shop and let the kids pick out souvenirs...well, Easton did.  Keagan spent all her money the day before at the LegoLand princess section. surprise, surprise!  

Easton+StarWars+Legos=happy little boy

Easton was in heaven when we were in the Star Wars section at LegoLand.....there are a ton of pictures.

 Darth Maul

 "Whoa!  That is awesome!"

 the little battle scenes from the movies

 Anakin

 Yoda

(Easton trying to look like Yoda)

 Darth Vader and Easton trying to look like Darth Vader

 Lea....and Easton not happy about taking a picture in front of Lea

 Ewok and Easton...making an Ewok face?

 Luke

 Han Solo

 Chewy

 R2-D2---and Easton trying to be small like R2

 Darth Maul

Chewy, Easton, R2-D2

I think we missed Parker the most on this day. 

(He couldn't go to California because of work)