Our Baby is One!!

Wow. Time sure does fly. I think that has been the fastest year of my life! Ellie turned one year old. She was born on Easter last year so we made her a bunny cake. She absolutley LOVED it. It was so fun to watch her. She has been such a blessing in our family. I can't imagine our life without her. We love you Ellie!

Little peice of heaven

I had one of those moments in time yesterday where I was just overcome with gratitude for the blessings in my life. Bryan and I had taken the kids to the park. The temperature was PERFECT. The trees are in bloom here and covered in beautiful pink flowers. There was a little breeze and it was blowing some of the blossoms off of the tree. It made the air smell so sweet with perfume. I had Ellie on my shoulders and the boys were running around laughing. I had to take a step back and just soak it all in. I just wanted to pause that moment. It just hit me how blessed I am. Riding home we had the windows down feeling the warm air on our skin, and looking at a gorgeous sun setting behind the palm trees. And I just felt so grateful to be alive! To be here with my family that I love so much. Sometimes I get so busy living life with all the hustle and stress of trying to get everything done, that I forget how wonderful it is just to be here! And how important it is to have those great moments together as a family as much as possible. Needless to say...today I made sure to find the time to just lay on the grass with my boys and watch the clouds go by.

Pocatello, here we come!

We are so excited that Bryan has been accepted into the AEGD program at Idaho State!

From the big city...
to wide open spaces!

Good Times

Grandma Jill, Heather, Anli and Sadie came and stayed with us. It was so much fun to have them here. Now if only the sun would have come out for them! It was overcast the whole time! We went to the beach, Disneyland, Arboratum, Aquarium and the Flea Market. One of my favorite things was watching these two babies crawl around in the sand together. It was adorable! Thanks for coming guys! Love you!

Santa Anita Horse Races

This is the first horse races I have ever been to. It was so much fun. We live so close to this and drive by it all the time. I can't believe it took us this long to go! The boys loved it. It is the racetrack where the famous Seabiscut raced.

Long Beach Aquarium

It was a perfect day at the Aquarium. The weather was gorgeous, 82 degrees. We had gone the week before with Grandma Jill and Heather and it was pouring rain (sorry guys). So it felt nice to have the sunshine this time. We spent the whole day there looking around and enjoying the day.

Feeding the Lorikeet birds

Ellie loved the fish

Queen Mary. (What a bunch of cute boys)

Happy 2009!

We went down to the Rose Bowl on New Years Eve with our good friends the Bates. We got to take a sneak peek at some of the floats for the Tournament of Roses Parade. It is amazing to see these floats up close like this! They are gorgeous covered in all those flowers! (The picture below is of the Asimo robot float.)