More California

As you will see I took a lot of pictures. We had so much fun. We left Salt Lake at 1 am June 22 and got to Newport at 2pm. We went for Deb and Dean's 50th birthday. If you don't know, Davis' mom is a twin. Her twin planned this vacation and got another condo under the one they normally rent each year. Here's a picture on the last day before we went home. Deb wanted a picture of everyone in Newport Beach shirts. :) I know it's a bit hard to see, but the top has from left to right: Trevor (17 one of the twins); Andy holding Will, Scott (the other twin), Davis holding Adylin, McKell, Gordon and then Jeff. 2nd row is Heidi (Andy's wife), Holly (Davis' wife) holding Matthew, Kiersti, Bryan (kiersti's hubby) holding Lauren. Lexi is hiding next to Heidi and Deb is holding Tanner. PHEW!! 7 kids, 3 spouses and 6 grandkids.....just getting started!!!

Will at the beach.
My babies holding hands. Ady was so helpful with Matthew. :) LOL
Ah the beach photos. The guys had so much fun in the water. They sure got beaten up by the waves. But in the end they got the boogie boards figured out and had a great time.

Tanner and Lexi. This was the last day. Tanner was telling Lexi a secret. Ady and Will. They are only 2 days apart in age.
The condo behind, this is a picture of the Blomquist's with Ady......Brandon, Dean and Rashell.

Dean's granddaugter couldn't make it to the beach this year, so Dean adopted Ady as his granddaughter. They were so cute together. She called him Papa and he beamed everytime she wanted Papa. She also couldn't go to bed at night without kissing Papa. Also, if she snuck out of bed and found Papa, he wouldn't put her back to bed right away. She was down right spoiled!!! It was cute though!!! Gotta love grandparents!!!! They truly make life fun for kids and difficult for parents. LOL!!!! Here she is getting in the last kissed with Papa.

HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY DEB AND DEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grandpa loves his grandkids. He spent a lot of one on one time with everyone.

Here he is with little Matthew.

We saw all these bikes around. This one here sat 4 adults and had a spot for kids in the front. They put 6 adults in it and it was a bit crazy :) They also had some that had one row sitting two adults, tons of bikes that sat one, two or three people. It was such a neat and fun place. Here you can see Trevor, Kiersti (and Lauren in lap) and Andy. Bryan, Hiedi and McKell were behind them. Lexi and Will are cozy up front.
Our condo was next to a pier and Tanner loved going there. A few times some of our group saw dolphins and otters off the pier....I wasn't so lucky. Tanner and I did see a smelly fish head :) You can fish off this pier without a fishing license, so there was tons of fishing going on. Tanner wanted to fish so bad, but Mom was lazy. I really should've taken him, especially sinde Uncle Dean brought all the stuff for it. ooops, maybe next time.
Relaxing under the shade of a palm tree.
The kids did really well together.

Here they are watching Dora or Diego on the DVD player. :) I thought it was so cute.

California-Newport Beach

We are coming home tomorrow, but I thought I would hurry and post a few pictures. We've had fun in the sun!!!! The kids have gotten along really well and have done well. The napping hasn't been fabulous, but they still did great!

Both Matthew and Adylin were scared of the waves and Tanner did better as the days went on. He never really went in too far, but he got pretty wet.

Here's a picture of Tanner and his cousin Lexi playing in the sand.

Kiersti and Lolly (Lauren)

The boys played A LOT of frisbee.

Playing with Uncle Scott. Ady and Lexi kept saying, "Giddy up horsey!"

The kids loved the swing set. We were right off the pier, beach and play area. Tomorrow morning I'll take a picture from our balcony (if I remember...LOL)

My heart skipped a beat when I saw little Lexi this high. I'm glad she was with Trevor....phew.My little sunworshipper. She layed down next to Uncle Jeff and he put some sunglasses on her. She tried to sleep, so I moved her to a chair with Matthew. BEFORE

Less than 10 mintues later.

Adylin's official birthday party!!!!

Adylin's party was Sunday June 3rd. We had so much fun. We had a nacho bar for dinner. It was a big hit!!!! Ady of-course loved the attention. Here she is blowing out her candle.


Matthew covered in chocolate asking for more cupcakes.

Uncle Andy and Aunt Hiedi got this cute outfit for Ady. Like the total girl she is, she wanted to put it on right away!!!
Opening presents. She got a lot of GREAT presents. She loves Dora and it was a Dora party.

My Mom and I made Adylin this adorable tutu. She wore it to church and had a "blowout", lucky me!!! She sure loved being pretty! I also made her headband and got her this cute set of necklaces. Ah, my little princess is getting so big!!!

Kindergarten ZOO day

Last Wednesday, our school to all of the kindergarten classes to the zoo. Crazy, I know. Well, I went to work and then met the buses at the park for lunch. I was getting lunch ready and I heard, "TANNER'S MOM!!!!!!" I turned and saw a boy from our ward, Carson Sweet, waving and yelling at me! It was so cute!!! So, since I knew his Mom couldn't make it, I took a picture. :)

Carson then pointed out to me this cute little bird.
SIDE NOTE: After lunch all of the kids were playing on the playground equipment and the Mom's were talking. I saw a group of kids running around screaming and laughing. One of the other Mom's said, "Is that a little bird?" I said, "Yes, it was hanging out with us while we ate." The other Mom started yelling to the group of kids, "Leave that bird alone." We decided to walk over to the group and see if we could save the little bird from being too frightened. Unfortunatley the kids were doing more than scaring the bird. Some of the kids had feathers in thier hands....they were pulling feathers off of it!!!! This Mom and I were horrified. We gave the kids a pretty good lecture and took them away from the bird. Poor thing!!!!

Tanner and Kaylee!!! I was in charge of two kids, Tanner and Kaylee, it was wonderful. Most of the other Mom's had four kids. YAY for me.

My friend Amber and her son Nathan.
Taylor, Tierra and Tanner looking at snakes.
Tanner thought the rinos smelled really bad!!!!

Climbing on the Rhino statue!

My little group hung out with another little group of girls. It was fun. We took a few pictures but most of the time we were so busy trying to count heads.

Left to Right: "Pow", Tierra, Kaylee, Taylor, MaKenzie, Tanner

The watering hole!!!

Grandma's House

Last weekend while Dad was in Canada, we spent a lot of time at my Mom's house. She was cleaning out her house and getting ready for a garage sale. I was helping my Mom carry this coffee table down to the garage....I only got to the landing when I had to do something else. A few minutes later Adylin came doewn the stairs with a lampshade on her head. She climbed on the coffee table and started dancing with Matthew. Tanner then came home and got in on the fun. It was hilarious. I figured I would take pictures and if she ever does this again in her teen years (drunk of-course) I'll tell her it was destiny!!!! LOL

What is that look, Tanner???
TA-DA!!!!!!!!!!
Ah, my little table dancers....Mommy is so PROUD!!!!!

ADYLIN IS TWO!!!!!!!

Adylin turned two on May 25, 2007. Davis was in Vancouver, so my Mom had me bring Matthew and Ady into our work (my Mom and I work together.) We got there and there were a bunch of cupcakes in the conference room with a DARLING doll a few people at work got for her. The doll gives kisses and says, "I Love You." It's really cute. Ady calls all of her dolls LaLa, so she had another talking LaLa. She sleeps with it and it seems to be her favorite right now. :)

We sang Happy Birthday and she blew out her candle. Then she said, "AGAIN!!!" We all laughed. She was happy to eat her "cake" and she had some vanilla icecream.

After eating cake and icecream Ady and Matthew decided to wander the halls and visit everyone that was working.

We will have Ady's official party on Sunday June 3, so more pictures will be coming.

BYE BYE DORA

On May 18, 2007 Mom and Tanner took Dora our kitty to the humane society.

Since we've moved into our new house, Dora has been stuck down in the basement. Occasionally I forget she's there (it's been lovely.) So, with us building the new house, Davis and I felt it was time to get rid of all of the animals. We explained this to Tanner and he CRIED and CRIED. We tried to give him a little while to get used to the idea. But, finally it was time to go. Tanner got to spend the last night in the changing room with Dora and he took some pictures of her.

So, on Friday we met Dad at work and switched cars. Tanner and I took Dora to the Humane Society. This was a big mistake, because Tanner was a MESS!!!

Tanner did write a note to Dora. It was really cute. He was so emotional in the end he forgot to give it to her and that made him even more angry.

The note says, "Dora, you can swing by anytime. I love you Tanner

Tanner was so concerned that Dora was going to forget him. It was a very sad moment. Now he is fine and Mommy is very happy that the cat is gone. :)