Caden turned 10 yesterday! Happy Birthday Caden!!!
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Here we go again..
Ok so we have had a lot happen since I posted last!
On March 22, 2010 Brad and I had our 13th anniversary! Time flies!! We didn't have a babysitter to go out of town for our anniversary so we decided to make a mini family vacation out of it! I won tickets on the Breeze radio station to Monterey Bay Aquarium, so we planned a trip in that area. First we stopped in Santa Cruz, where we lived 13 years ago, right when we got married. (What a awesome place to start our marriage!) We stopped by the Boardwalk to play mini golf at Neptunes Kingdom and to ride some of the rides. Our kids want to move to Santa Cruz, and so does Brad. I would love to again but I rather be near family!
I had to get a picture of the first place we lived in! Yes it was a motel and yes it was a little scary! We borrowed pots and pans to cook from the manager. Haha. It was an adventure! Then while we were trying to save money to get into an apartment our Bishop at the time, Pete Pearson and his awesome family let us stay with them! Our payment for staying with them was to plant a ton of flowers etc. in their huge garden. Well I feel sorry for them because anything I plant does not stay alive for long! I don't think any of the things we planted even grew a bit!
After we took the kids to The Boardwalk we went to Monterey and stayed in the PG&E beach houses. They are tiny but pretty nice actually. We went to Monterey Bay Aquarium the next day. I had been there a long time ago, and I forgot how cool that place actually is! My kids loved seeing all the sea creatures!
Check out this Sea Horse! Amazing!
We had a blast and the rest of the day we spent at the beach and watching "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". I am glad we decided to spend our anniversary with our awesome kids! Next year though, will be just the two of us! :)
You know school is almost out when the school tries to fit in so many different activities! They just had their school track meet. Carsyn and Caden were pretty excited to compete in the races. Carsyn ran the 100 yard dash and did the softball throw. Caden ran the 280 and the relay. They both did great!
Here is Carsyn coming in second! I was so excited for her. If you know her, you know she is not an athlete! But she sure was that day!!
To start out our Spring Break, we decided to go to the beach with my cousins Amy and Emilee and their kids. We went without our husbands, it made me appreciate Brad, because normally he hauls all the crap down to the beach! We handled it though!
Here are the kids before going out to the beach. Caden wouldn't get in the picture because he was mad that I forgot his swimsuit! I at least brought him an extra pair of regular shorts!
The kids had a blast!
During "Spring Break" there was this day called EASTER, That we thought we'd celebrate! I love Easter and hanging out with our families! We had 3 different Easter egg hunts! The kids ate their share of candy, that's for sure! So did I actually, haha!
Here are the Race kids minus Charley in Indiana!
This is at the first Easter egg hunt at my cousin Amy's house. Did I mention how much I love to spend this time with family!!
This week the kids returned to school! Yay! But with school returning so do all the school activities!
Nixon had a class field trip to the most popular school field trip spot, the little fake zoo, Calm. I usually hate going to Calm, because when I've gone in the past it has been really HOT! This trip was actually pleasant since the weather was really nice that day!
Here is Nixon with his two best friends at school Faris and Breyden.
So now I'm caught up! I'm sure I will have a lot more to post about in a week or so since there are so many different activities coming up, like birthdays and us moving!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Birthday, Vegas and Valentines Day
So... I'm not doing too well at keeping up with my blog! I guess since I started facebook my blog has been on the back burner. Facebook is too addicting! Well anyways, I had a birthday. Not too exciting since it was my 32nd birthday!! I feel so old! Brad was going to work on my birthday, but as soon as he woke up that morning he decided to call off. Funny how that works, he really just used it as an excuse to not go to work. Haha. We had fun cruising around town and stuff. I promised the kids that after school we would go to Daddy O's to celebrate, so we went. Yum.. I am a fan of their yogurt!
Since my birthday was on a Thursday, we got to go out on Saturday thanks to my Mom and Dad watching my kids and John's kids. We went to Akira (another favorite).
Becky called me a few weeks ago and asked if we wanted to meet in Vegas and hang out with them and Jeff and Laura. The kids were so excited to go play with all the kids!
Of course all the kids wanted to all ride in the same car together, we need a bigger car next time! Maybe a 15 passenger van, but I don't think Brad would go for that!
First stop was Bowling, I was surprised that the bowling alley wasn't very smoky at all, since we were in "Vegas".
The next day we went to Red Rock Canyon. The kids loved hiking to the waterfall that we found.
Carsyn and her little side kick.. Emma.
Since the last day we were in Vegas was Valentine's Day, we had a little Valentine's Day Party for the kids. They played games that were made up by "the Party Planners", Becky and Carsyn.
Okay that was another long post, we'll see how long it takes me to post another one!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Happy 5th Birthday Nixon!!!
New Year's Eve!
My sister Becky and her family came into town for New Years. It was fun to have them stay at our house! The kids loved having their kids to play with all the time! New Year's Eve we all went out to dinner to P.F. Changs, then came home and played games made up by Carsyn and Aunt Becky. They even made party hats, everyone wore them, they were awesome! After games we watched a movie and Becky's whole family fell asleep before midnight! Haha! Becky did wake up and threw poppers with the rest of us. The next day of course Brad and Caden had to leave to watch the college football games allllllll day long! As long as they have fun! :)
Christmas 2009
Christmas seems to have come and gone so quickly! I can't believe it. I'm a little sad that it went by so quickly! I love all the traditions that our little family has and also all the traditions of our extended family! We always start out decorating our christmas tree of course, and the house. A couple weeks before Christmas we go take a drive and look at Christmas lights. I think I enjoy the lights more then the kids.
I always have to have a picture of the kids dressed for church the Sunday before Christmas. They are such funny kids, I soooo love them!
The Sunday before Christmas we go to Brad's parents, to do a little Nativity play. The guys always make me laugh, they come up with some funny costumes! This year Brad looked more like a transvestite, then a wiseman! Haha.
Christmas Eve was at our house this year and we missed having it at my Aunt Sharon's house! It turned out alright though. Thanks to my mother in law we had some costumes to do the Nativity also!
Christmas Eve night the kids always get a new pair of pajamas! Here they are being nerds! I'm telling you, I have the goofiest kids!
We normally get Smiths thumbprints for Santa, but this year Smiths was all out! Poor Santa, and Poor Mrs. Claus! So we had to give them Smiths maple bars instead!
Christmas morning is always so fun! It's the one day a year that all the kids wake up in a good mood, even when it's 6 in the morning!
This year all the kids got IPod touches, they were so excited! Now they don't have to play on our phones all the time! Poor Carsyn has had a cold the whole vacation, she is addicted to breath easy strips!
Brad got a new wakeboard to use this Summer, he warned me that he might kill himself on it, so maybe it needs to go back to where it came from!
After we open gifts at our house we always head over to The Race house and eat breakfast burritos made by Brad and his sister Alyson! They are so good!! Granny and Poppy always get everyone ornaments having to do with something that happened that year. We got a boat ornament, because we bought the boat this year. Caden always gets some kind of Snowman ornament, Carsyn gets a Cat ornament, and Nixon gets a Santa ornament. It's always exciting to find out which ornament we will be getting!
Usually we go to my parents in the afternoon, but this year my mom was really sick! So she sent my dad over with their gifts. The kids loved their new beanies! They turned out so cute!
Christmas was fun this year, but I was glad to get my house back to normal after putting all the decorations away!
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Thanksgiving
To start off our Thanksgiving Brad had double hernia surgery! He was in a lot of pain for about a week. Poor guy, the funny part was when they brought him into the recovery room and he was totally drugged up! He sounded like a drunk man.
We did our traditional Turkey Bowl. The kids love being able to play in their own game of football.
Caden and some of the cousins playing flag football.
Brad had to watch this year because of he was recovering. Here he is watching from the side lines. So sad!!
My brother John got to have Thanksgiving at his house this year, Lucky him! :) We didn't have your traditional Thanksgiving feast, we had ribs, hot wings and ham. All pretty tasty.
Here are the some of the oldest boy cousins.
The kids making a mess of John's house.
After the party for my family, we were off to Brad's family's. The get togethers were one hour apart so we had to pace our selves on eating the food.
This year my mother in law had to get a few more tables. The family is getting pretty big!
To top off Thanksgiving, we did our after Thanksgiving Black Friday shopping! We missed my sisters and my mom this year but it was fun hanging out with my cousin Amy, my aunt Sharon, and my cousins Brent and Samantha!
We also got to take Amy's baby Brett with us. Here his is modeling his Christmas gift from his grandma, what a cutie!
On to Christmas now!!
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