There's no place like HOME: 2012

Funny and cute things the kids say ...

Tim had 2 tickets for the Warriors game Friday night. So one boy got to go to the game with him while the other would get to go to Lincoln Lopez's house to play. We let the boys choose. First they both wanted to go to Lincoln's house! Then they decided that Miles would go to the game with Tim and Caden would go to Lincoln's. Caden said the prayer that night. He said "Thank you dad can go to work, thank you that Miles can go to school, and thank you that I can go to Lincoln's house." We were all busting up laughing during the prayer.
-November 15, 2007

Miles was at a high school football game with Tim. One of the players had tattoos on both of his arms. Miles thought that was cool (oh great!) and told Tim that he wanted a tattoo. Tim asked him what kind of tattoo he would want and Miles replied with "SpongeBob."
-November 9, 2007

Miles: "Caden Doll is my arch enemy!"
-October 31, 2007

Tonight for dinner I made turkey broccoli casserole with rice. The boys always say that I make gross dinners, but tonight Miles added that "This dinner is worse than school lunch."
-October 22, 2007

Tim took the boys to another football game friday night. This time it was the Concord Minutemen vs. the Dublin Gaels. So this time, Caden thought the "Minimen" were playing against the "Girls."
-October 19, 2007

Last Friday, Tim took the boys to the high school football game that he was covering for the newspaper. The teams playing were the Northgate Broncos vs. the Concord Minutemen. They got to stand on the sidelines and watch the game. Caden thought it was really cool. The next day I was asking Caden about the game. I asked him if he remembered what teams played. He said, "the Boncos and the Minimen!"
-September 29, 2007

Caden is learning to count. He can count to 29 with a little help (but he somehow manages to skip 16 everytime). He gets to 29 and says twenty-ten, For 30. And does the same for the rest of the numbers.
Thirty-Ten = 40
Fourty-Ten = 50
Fifty-Ten = 60
and so on.
-September 2007

Tim and I went out with some friends on their boats. The boys went to the babysitter's house. After we picked them up we were telling them about how Tim got flipped around on all the different tubes. Miles said "So dad, there was 2 people on the tube ... you and your KIDNEY STONE!!"
-August 11, 2007

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Truckee/Tahoe Weekend

Back in April, our Stake had a HUGE fundraiser to send all our youth to EFY for Youth Conference. We were able to get in on a newly built cabin and split the cost with our friends.

The weekend that worked for all the families was the one right before school started at the end of August. It turned out to be a nice weekend weather wise and one last thing to do with the kids before school started. It was perfect. Our family ended up getting to the Cabin late Thursday night/Friday morning. (however you look at it.) Friday we drove all the way around Tahoe. The Lake is beautiful -- just freezing cold. We stopped for lunch at Big Daddy's Burgers in South Lake Tahoe, a nice hole in the wall joint and then stopped at Zephyr Cove and let the kids play at the beach for a few hours. They loved it even though the water was so cold. The sand was course and rocky but the kids didn't care.

The kids got a time out for wrecking each others sand areas.

Kyle, Riley and Caden in their "hot tub." Kyle found the big log floating in the water and pushed it over to shore.

Miles got buried in the sand courtesy of Tyler and Michayla. They even gave him some sand boobs.


Miles unburied himself and probably had sand in places that we don't want to know about.

The next day we went to Sand Harbor. The water was still cold but the sand was so soft. The "Big Kids" swam over to these big rocks and jumped off. Miles, Caden and Tim all jumped off.

John, Tim, Miles Tyler and Caden are all standing on the rock.

Ethan and Lincoln - what cuties.

Unfortunately my camera died while at Sand Harbor. I did steal a few pictures from Tara. and I know April has some great pictures of Tim jumping off the rock.

We had a great rest of the weekend. We stayed up late and played games while the kids slept. Sunday we hiked down to Emerald Bay and then hiked up to some beautiful waterfalls. We hiked about 3 miles total. On the way back up to our car Avery and Zani were touching the water run-off and Avery slipped and fell into the ice cold water with her clothes on. We had to strip her down to her shirt and diaper and carry her the rest of the way up.

No trip is complete without a Tim & Chris picture.

Monday morning we got up and cleaned the cabin and headed home.
We took pictures with our friends before leaving.

December 18, 2011 ~ 13 years

December 18th. Our Anniversary. We have been married for 13 years!

Our Anniversary was on a Sunday this year. So Tim took the girls with him to Safeway on Saturday and they helped him pick out the flowers for me and a card. (He came home with 3 cards!)

The night of the 18th we went up to the Oakland Temple, and watched Behold the Gift dance performance. Then we walked around the temple grounds and enjoyed the Christmas lights. It was kind of cold that night so we didn't stay too long.

I still can't believe it has been 13 years and soon after

these 4 turkeys came into our life:

Even though we didn't get married in the Oakland Temple, I love this temple and the temple grounds. There is something unique and special about the Oakland temple.