Happy Birthday Buddy!

Breakfast in bed was Swedish pancakes of course and Canadian bacon.
Lunch at McGrath's, Austin's favorite food in the whole wide world is shrimp. He loves it so much that he didn't want to eat any snacks or anything all morning because he was saving his appetite for shrimp!
Austin and Grammy
Austin's comment to the cash he is holding- "Money Rocks"! He has $83 dollars in all!

Pinewood Derby

Austin and Rob putting some graphite on the wheels to make them super slickery!
This was Austin's first Pinewood Derby and he had a great time. Technically he's not really even a scout until his birthday tomorrow but because he would have missed it by only one day they let him participate. I can't believe my baby is a bobcat!

Matt and Austin have the funniest conversations. I've learned that if I try to set them straight then it just becomes the two of them telling me that "I just don't understand what they are saying? Whatever!

Austin: Matt did you know that my cat will live longer than I will?

Matt: It will? How come?

Austin: Because cats have nine lives. They can die 8 times before they HAVE to go see heaven. Then on the 9th time they will
finally kill over.

Matt: Wow! I wish I had nine lives because then I could do lots of crazy stunts and never die for a long time!

Austin: Me too dude!

A couple of hours later this other conversation took place.

Matt: Trent how tall are you?

Trent: Not very tall.

Austin: Matt we're not very tall either.

Matt: So. That just means we'll live longer cuz tall people don't live very long.

Trenten and Austin: Why?

Matt: Because tall people don't have as much oxygen in the air up where they are so they can't breathe as well, so they die
earlier than we do.

Austin: I know, I've heard that before. I think my teacher told me that or something?

Trenten: Didn't say anything to them, he just gave me a silly face, giggled, and rolled his eyes.

Wicked awesome dude!

Monday Rob's mom decided to have the kids play hookie and go snowboarding at Brighton. It was the perfect day, great weather, awesome company, and some really fun memories. She is such a COOL Grammy! They had an absolute blast. I was very impressed as to how well they all did with this sport even picking up on the lingo (wicked awesome dude). By the end of the day I thought that they would be exhausted and ready to go home, but boy was I wrong! They actually rode the lift until it closed, snowboarding back down the mountain as fast as their little legs would let them just so they could hurry up the mountain on the lift one more time before it closed. Thanks Grammy!!!

The first picture is of Kaytlin and Alex after performing a fashion show for us, they were so cute together always laughing and chatting about whatever they could think of. The next pix is of my 3 kids and Alex at Salt Creek Beach. They chose this beach to go to because they wanted to search for sea urchins. They found lots of hermit crabs and Austin apparently found part of a seal vertebra. The weather that day was about 85 degrees and it felt sooooo good!

Disneyland 2008

Our trip to Disneyland was an absolute blast! The kids were great, they played well together and loved visiting with their cousins. We actually got Austin on every ride that we wanted to go on, some he decided that he loved, and some he swore he would never go on again ( Tower of Terror). Being at Disneyland takes me back to being a kid and I loved it. We all decided that the best ride in Disneyland was Space Mountain, the Honey I shrunk the Kids 3D show was the best show, and the best treats were the Churro's and Cotton Candy.

After we went to Disneyland we went to California Adventures, it was a lot of fun too and my fav. ride their was the Tower of Terror, but I think everyone else's was California screamin roller coaster. Rob told Austin that the California Screamin roller coaster was called California Dreamin so it sounded a little less scary and he actually went on it. Once he got off it, he said " lets do it again"!

We stayed at Julie's house and had a great time relaxing and having fun conversation. My kids loved being there and asked several times if we could move there so that they could hang out with Alex and Nathan their cousins. Lots of memories were made and we all came home really relaxed!

Yesterday Trenten received the Priesthood, it was a great day filled with family, good food, and lots of fun! It was so awesome to experience that with one of my own children. He is such a good kid, and I'm lucky to be his mom. When Austin saw him in his suit for the first time he said "wow Trenten you look dashing!" And he really did, I just didn't expect those words to come out of Austin's mouth!