Growing older today!

Jonah- 4 years old.

Jonah- 9 1/2 years

It is strange to think that my baby, Jonah, is 10 today. He is almost a teenager! He is almost old enough to drive, to go on a mission, to get married. Ok. I know it is still years away, but it is just around the corner. These first 10 have flown by for me. I get a little misty when I look at this picture above. I can see what he will look like as a teenager.

He is such a good boy. He got teary-eyed when we sang Happy Birthday to him this morning before school. I asked him later if he was upset because we got him a different game instead of one he asked for last week. He said, "No, I wouldn't cry over that. I was just happy."
What a sweet boy he is!

Don't grow up Jonah. We love you.

Here is a cute video of Jonah. We were walking around Thanksgiving Point and came to this little "dance hall" so he had to dance. My favorite is his ROBOT.

I love that they do this.

Sit quietly reading.
Lately, they have been hooked on reading Calvin & Hobbes.
You would be surprised with the large words they learn from it. Seriously!
Jake has the whole collection and he also grew up reading them.
It will be quiet and then all of a sudden I will hear bursts of laughter.
So funny.

CA Trip part 3- The Finale

The last part of our CA trip was in Lake Arrowhead. It is so beautiful there. It is up in the mountains near San Bernandino County. My uncle's friend has a cabin and we stay there every year now. It fits all of us......barely. I love it though!! It is fun to swim, kayak, play board games/cards and eat good food. I don't care where we are as long as I'm with family. Good times!

Group photo before we left the lake on Sunday. We were missing some that were out running errands though.

Jonah loved to kayak.

My brother Andy. Sweet shades.

It was very bright outside:)

My brother Jay is a good uncle. Niece's Julie and Taylor.

Melinda with Tay Tay.

My niece Kenna girl.

Jake and Breck floating around the dock.

Dave and Robyn Inc.

Lukity-Luke.

Jay and Robyn "engagement" photo. haha.

Melinda and Luke.

My cute Mom.

Jake and Gavin going on a kayak adventure.

Jay, my brother.

Robyn and Jenna girl.
Andy and Shawna. So cute!

Jeffrey, my bro.
(pic a little blury, sorry)

Julie and her silly mask she made.

Mom and her daughters:)

It was hard to leave the family, as usual.

CA Trip Part Deux

We drove up to LA for a day to visit The Griffith Observatory. We drove a lot this trip. We just wanted to visit so many places this time I guess. I had to snap a shot of the freeway, since we spent a lot of time on it:) At least the traffic wasn't too bad.

Griffith Observatory above. It was a neat place. If you haven't been, go and take your kids to a cool show in the planetarium. We saw "Water Is Life". If not, there is a lot to see for free inside the building. Plus, there are incredible views outside since the observatory sits high up on a hill.

Too bad for a hazy day, or the views would have looked better.

We met my Uncle Allan, who lives nearby in Burbank. We hung out, grabbed IN-N-OUT on Sunset Blvd. and had a nice time.

We headed over to La Brea Tar Pits afterwards. It smelled a lot like Tar, I don't know why though. (wink, wink)

Random cement cubes calls for random poses inside them.

We drove down Hollywood Blvd. to see the weirdo's dressed up like Spiderman, Batman, Storm Trooper, etc.... Chinese Theatre, Kodak Theatre, Hollywood Walk of Fame, etc... Neat-O!

You know you are in CA when you drive down palm tree lined streets. I love it!

Back to Grandma's home.


Part 3 coming soon......

CA trip part 1

****There are too many pics to post in one post so I thought I'd spread it out.****
We made our tri-annual (haha) trip to CA a couple of weeks ago. The kids are quite good in the car for the 12 hours it takes us to get there with all of the stops we make. We arrived around 7pm and just hung around my Mom's house. The kids love to jump on her trampoline when we stay there. We were crammed into this house because I have two brother's that were living at home for the summer.
The next morning we took off to T-Street in San Clemente which is the beach I grew up on.
The kids had fun playing in the water. It is awesome because it stays pretty shallow for quite a ways out. Jonah figured out body-boarding and loved it. Sadly, I didn't take my camera to the beach. (Too much sand to get in my camera. For this reason, I should have brought my little point and shoot for that.)
The next day, we drove to Escondido to visit my sister, Melinda and her family. We had fun hanging out and going to a park nearby. She then made us a quick yummy dinner and we were off, back to my mom's house.

The cute couple.
Melinda and Jon.

Pretty Melinda.

Tay-tay. My niece.

Baby Luky-Luke. My nephew.

I had Melinda be my model on the swing.

Taylor and Breck enjoying a drink at the park.

Jon and Melinda.

Me and Shawna.

Pretty sister-in-law and pretty photographer friend, Kelly.

Part Two coming soon.......

I'm still here.....

....but I'll be back soon.

FHE

Tonight for FHE, we decided to utilize the amazing place that is just a hop, skip and a jump away from home. It is sad we don't go there more often, but we will now. It was so nice to just walk around the temple and see the flowers and the cute Sister's and Couple's working around the Square. The time of day was perfect and I got that amazing pic of the temple above.

The flowers are georgous, of course. The Church really knows how to beautify!!

Two things I realize from looking at this picture above: 1. I love my cute little family and 2. I have to lose my gut! Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Argh! Ugh!

Handsome and Me:)

Different angle.

I love to see the temple.......