Clayton and Hailey

Cuenca

2011-09-15T22:27:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of Atocha (the train station in Madrid that was bombed while Clayton was there on his mission) This is the area of the station that was bombed. They hit it a little early so it exploded right before it went underneath into the actual station so there wasn't too much damage.

We got a rental car and headed out across the Spanish countryside.

(That juice was my lifesaving nectar, haha. It didn't have to be refrigerated so I had that with me at all times and some Maria cookies and almond granola bars that I snacked on constantly. Thanks snacks for keeping the trip great, even with such unpredictable eating schedules. Not to say I still didn't have my moments, but they were few and mostly in non-public areas)

Here is Spanish countryside

They had random fields of red poppies all over the place. So pretty

Then we arrived in Cuenca. After so much open road we had an interesting driving situation or two in Cuenca because the streets were so incredibly tight. You'll have to ask Clayton about those though. Key words. 1 Running a light on a one way street, and 2 Trying to navigate the car to where I was standing after getting lost. Great stories and memories although stressful at the time. :)

Here is the view off of one side of Cuenca...

...from ontop of this thing that was constructed around the time of the Romans. That street Clayton is standing on is the main street. Yes, it is small

So we climbed up this structure and who knows why there was a prison gate halfway up? I don't know. Then we saw the view of the whole area from the top.

We headed up the street and found a cute restaurant to have lunch (those pictures are at the end). As we saw the view of the Hanging Houses from far away.

In order to get a better picture, Clayton wanted me to jump across this gulf that was forever deep and I was feeling pregnant and off balance and in flipflops. He was a little disappointed in me. Oh well. For once I wasn't the adventurous one. It was wider than it looks too, I might add.

The view. If you look close you can see the main famous hanging house wrapped up like a present.

This was just a cute house and I want to have this many flower pots one day.

Then we hiked down through the city. Clayton liked this street. It was cute.

The town Cathedral

The Plaza Mayor for Cuenca.

They have these drinkable water fountains in random spots all over the different cities. They just run constantly and you can just walk up and drink or fill up your water bottle. Genius.

A little bit of Spanish engineering. Ha! Glad that's not my house

The Hanging Houses

So we tried to navigate to this spot by walking but we passed the bridge and ended up below it and totally in the wrong spot, so Clayton went to get the car and come find me (insert interesting driving story here). After a long while, we made it over to the other side of the bridge in our car and approached from the other direction. :) So we walked across this bridge which was really cool.

We saw the Elders walking on the road below us, so of course we yelled and said hello. They looked like they were really bored. I felt bad that we couldn't get down to talk and and least talk to them a little. Oh well, hopefully it brightened their day for someone to say Hi instead of spit on them.

We asked the locals why the house was wrapped like a present. They said, "So more people will come and see it." ??? What makes them see that we would all want to come see some major icon that they have made un-see-able? Clayton was really mad because he said that is the coolest house so I'll just have to imagine it.

We stopped and had lunch in Cuenca before we ventured over to see the Hanging Houses but these pictures are in the wrong order. It was delicious. Cheese and tortilla of course. Then we had some lamb dish that you dipped bread in. It was great. And also some intestines. They were actually really good, but I could only do one bite, being nauseous and all, the thought was just too much for me.

These next two pictures are of the drive between Cuenca and Ciudad Encantada. I wish the camera could actually capture how pretty it was. There is a small farm town in the distance in this picture. We drove closer to it but I couldn't get a picture.

I want to live right here in this valley.

Ciudad Encantada or "Enchanted City"

2011-09-01T19:09:00.000-07:00

Clayton took me to Ciudad Encantada or "The Enchanted City" which is outside Cuenca about a half hour or so. Totally worth the rental car and the drive. It is an area in the mountains where glacier/water formed these awesome formations all by each other and you can walk around and look at them.

This is the famous rock at the entrance but we had to use the cell phone camera, so sorry about the picture quality.

There is a trail that leads around and through all the different rock formations and they give you a little map so you can see what they have named them all and what animals they have decided they look like. This was in a cave between the "ships"

How am I so strong? Well, let me tell you......I'm not

??? Ballet ???

I think these are the ships or boats. It was so green and smelled so good. I wanted to just lay down and camp under the stars. I loved it!!

This was "the alligator and the elephant" fighting. It's not quite a great picture but the alligator is on the left and the elephant on the right, and a few trees in the way.

"The Face" if you couldn't tell.

Not sure what's going on in this picture either

Part of the trail led up above the formations where you could see out for a ways. It just looked like volcanic rock that had settled. But down below, the water had created all the formations over thousands of years, thousands of years ago. Super cool.

"Mushroom Amphitheater"

"The Bears" I believe

Definitely a must see if you go to Spain.

May 26th

2011-08-26T11:19:00.000-07:00

Retiro Park

Love these! They were delicious

Famous chocolate shop since the 1700s

and boy was it delicious. Spanish chocolate is not similar to our hot chocolate at all.

Then we finished off the night with some Flamenco dancing. It was awesome. We got some videos but I'm not posting them now, maybe later. It was really, really cool.

Great Day!!!

The Car Elevator

2011-08-23T21:35:00.001-07:00

Our car

The entrance to our hotel parking lot

Inside the elevator

Definitely a highlight of the trip. And we thought parking was restricted in LA

Ciudad Real

2011-08-23T17:55:00.001-07:00

The awesome blow dryer in our hotel. It looks like it's doing a fantastic job eh?

I'm not going to lie, I thought it was a vacuum in the bathroom at first

Palm trees in Spain

Day trip to Almagra

This little city is where we bought most of our souvenirs. Cute little tiny town

Back in Ciudad Real. Bea invited us over for lunch and she was a great cook. Everything was so good.

Tapas for dinner. Yum!

On our way home we passed a group that was playing traditional music and dancing in the square. They were teaching anyone who wanted to learn how to do the dance. But we had just eaten too much.

We didn't eat here but check out this English translation. Best one I've ever seen for sure

Another Almagra picture with a cross in the square, it must have been some St.'s day

...at least that's what we heard when we asked why the high school students were marching through the town streets back in Ciudad Real and playing horrible band music.

Espana (last day there)

2011-07-19T21:34:00.000-07:00

Last day in Ciudad Real. We went to church and afterwards, Ana served us a delicious dinner at her home. This is us with Bea and her fiance Kenny, Soraya, and Anita

Luis

Ana, the amazing cook and hostess

The countryside on our drive home

Consuegra (where Don Quixote fought the windmills)

Inside the windmills

The view from the top

The castle at the windmills

On our drive through the town on the way out, we drove through the stream and passed the sheepherders.

Extra pictures of the windmills

2011-07-19T21:33:00.000-07:00

Graduation Day. Congrats Clayton!

2011-07-09T12:15:00.000-07:00

Graduation Dinner

2011-07-08T10:52:00.000-07:00

These are obviously not of the dinner but my mom and Keyan came to the park with us while they were in town. And it was fun. Anna couldn't stop laughing at her shadow.

Here are the pictures of the dinner.

Our good friends Ashley and Brik who are off to Hawaii for more school.

Ayuda dinner

2011-07-08T10:47:00.000-07:00

This is the dinner for the seniors who were graduating this year. They are presented with an award and a picture of the trip from this year. And we got to watch a slide show of their work (and fun) on their last trip.

Terebella

2011-07-08T10:45:00.000-07:00

This is a picture that I stole off of another girl's blog. That is Clayton on the right. Every year they do a clinic up by the Sunkist farms in a city called Terebella. They have a little rec center place that has this fake surfing thing inside and they love it. Go Clayton!!

BELIZE

2011-06-24T15:11:00.000-07:00

Alrighty, here are all the pictures of Clayton's AYUDA trip to Belize. He had a fantastic time and he actually worked a lot but who takes pictures of the work? So most of these are of the awesome stuff he was able to do and see. Enjoy. There won't be much commentary since I wasn't there but you'll have to ask him I guess.

More Fun

2011-06-22T21:14:00.000-07:00

2011-06-22T09:37:00.000-07:00

They told everyone to be quiet. They were listening to the creepy monkeys

Ooops, these pictures were supposed to be on that last post.

2011-06-22T09:33:00.000-07:00

Tikal

2011-06-13T22:48:00.000-07:00

For Clayton's annual AYUDA trip this year they went to Belize and as part of the trip they were able to head over to Tikal for a day to see the pyramids and such. I don't know the details so there will be no explanations with these pictures but here are the pictures nonetheless. He had a great time and said it was awesome.

Update on Anna as of a month ago

2011-06-05T21:49:00.000-07:00

The two of us took a little trip to the beach and found about a gazillion sand dollars

She crawls down the hall around bathtime now and knocks on the bathroom door

She can stand and she was loving watching the choir

Happy Anniversary to us. 5 whole Years!

2011-03-20T19:22:00.000-07:00

Best Show ever

Our anniversary was last week. Theirs was last month. So we thought, "Hey, why not celebrate together?" We dropped Anna off in Palmdale at Clayton's parents' house and headed out to follow the boys' perfected devised Anniversary plans. (Which turned out fabulously I might add) We headed to Vegas and played tourist all night. Then the next afternoon we went to see the Lion King and then headed back home again. Quick trip but wonderful.

The Lion King was absolutely amazing and I loved every second of it. Totally worth seeing....about a gazillion times even.

Our room

The View

The Buffet entrance

Don't worry I ate dinner twice, and then I ate dessert, and then I ate dinner again and then dessert again. Yum! totally beats Sizzler. Ok that's the only other buffet I've ever had. And this was incredible, I've never eaten such fancy delicious food. I felt totally spoiled.

Clayton was loving the prime rib but this is his pudding cup or something

This was a garden in the middle of the hotel lobby but you can't see it very well. The look on Clayton's face is trying to express the horror of the very large girl in a weird floofy dress with her gross butt cheeks hanging out that just walked past us.

This was his face after she was gone, it really was a horrible sight.

This clothing shop had real sewing machines forming the walls. It looked cool and this pictures is for you mMom, because it made me think of you

This is a restaurant in the City Center

Cool raining trees

This is outside the City Center? I didn't pay attention to much of where I was, I just let them lead and followed my personal tour guide. Thanks Clayton

And inside the City Center again, the awesome hurricanes in bottles?

These will be my next wardrobe purchase. Ha! First of all they are probably like $3,000, second of all, how would I walk? And third of all their gorgeous? Right

Who let the bunny out?

Frozen ice columns

The Bellagio is a classic must do in Vegas

Clayton, after watching this guy for a minute says, "Ok, now turn into a car." (We have seen this done before) To which replied the car, "Why don't you just turn into a girl?" Ok, good come back?

This was what we saw looking straight down from our room's window. However this is zoomed in. We were on the 53rd floor. Awesome!

Don't ask

Also our room, PIIIIIIIMMMP ( I should have taken a picture of the bathroom since that was the most bomb diggity)

Goodbye Vegas

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

2011-03-20T18:39:00.000-07:00

Someone, or something I guess, came to visit us in the night.

Yay for the leprechauns

The Irish Princess

The crazy Irish family

I tried to get individual family photos for everyone but I kept getting distracted, so sorry that I missed most of you.

Our Irish games are never very official but that ball symbolizes a boulder and the laundry basket, the target. "Heave Ho"

I don't think he let go of these bottles all night long

Rootbeer chugging contest

The Champion

Heave Ho John

The leprechauns always seem to find their way to our guests' shoes too

Rootbeer Keg. Woo woo! Finish it off for us Clayton

Every party needs to be finished off with a little dancing

Thanks for coming everyone

Snugglin wit my babeh girl

2011-03-20T18:34:00.000-07:00

Dental Formal

2011-03-20T18:14:00.000-07:00

This year we actually went to the dental formal. They gave the LDS couples tickets for the price of one person since we don't drink and we don't like to pay a fortune towards other people's alcohol. So we thought, "Eh, why not?"

We danced the night away :)

So much fun!

USC vs. BYU Men's Volleyball

2011-03-20T18:04:00.000-07:00

It was an awesome game. 25 to 17 then 23 to 25 then 17 to 25 and then 25 to 23 with a finale of 15 to 11 (or something like that). Go trojans!!!! Way to keep us all on our toes.

Mom, I couldn't help but remember the good ole days of your navy blue pants and white polos. I kept waiting for you to take the stand

Yes, we were approaching bedtime here (or past it)

The decoration process

2011-03-20T17:59:00.000-07:00

Anna was thrilled when we pulled out our decorations. It was fun to see her get so excited.

The Kings

2011-03-20T17:57:00.000-07:00

Clayton got the chance to go to a Kings game a couple weekends ago with the young men. He thoroughly enjoyed himself.

The Train Museum at Griffith Park

2011-03-20T17:41:00.000-07:00

Clayton had the day off of school so we headed to the train museum to take a little ride. Afterwards we checked out all the fun old trains.

On our way out, we couldn't pull Anna away from this fence. She was completely mesmerized by the grass on the other side blowing in the wind. Who would've thought the grass would be her favorite part?

This is the little train that takes you for a ride around the park twice. It is cute. Anna liked the wind in her face.

We're off to the races, literally

2011-03-07T22:28:00.000-08:00

Clayton had the day off a couple weeks ago so we decided to try out the Horse Races. It's only five bucks a person, and a new experience. We called up his brother and sister and they met us at the Santa Anita Race Track.

We would watch them show the horses and then go inside for each race.

We had a little betting going on between us where you got certain points for where your horse placed. Travis actually started out winning and then I came in strong at the end, so everyone owes me icecream. Wahoo.

Check out this woman's hair, can we say amazing?

Good thing they love each other because they're going to be related for a long time.

The question is, will we go back? Definitely. So much fun, cheering on these horses.

Funny thing

2011-03-07T21:54:00.000-08:00

Laughing at Dad

At Physical Therapy

Trying on the new dress from Grandma Hansen

Love the Arboretum

2011-03-06T16:58:00.000-08:00

Ok, so these pictures are all out of order but we went to the Arboretum again and were not really quite ready for the day so we both look a little frumpy but here are the pictures nonetheless.

This is my friend Vanessa

This tree looked like it had been toilet papered but it was just the flowers.

It rained hard the night before so this awesome turtle was swimming in rain water, I'm assuming. I have seen this pond before and it is usually very nice looking.

Here is Anna watching the water

The Catawampus

More water

Happy Valentine's Day

2011-02-17T22:15:00.000-08:00

We started out our day with a little fun at the church where some girls threw a little party for their kids. Anna and I joined for a few minutes and had fun.

Then when Clayton came home he brought us this!! My favorite flowers in my favorite colors.

Then we joined our neighbors for a fun relaxed dinner

This is why I love him

Anna is starting to use this almost on her own. We are so happy and excited!

Oh the boys

How could not call it an excellent day when it ends with this? Thanks guys

Happy Valentine's Day everyone, hope yours was great too

Girls' Night in Corona Del Mar

2011-02-17T22:02:00.000-08:00

Love this girl!

2011-02-17T22:00:00.000-08:00

No words necessary

2011-02-17T21:42:00.000-08:00

My Favorite People in the World

2011-02-17T21:39:00.000-08:00

A Yacht for a Day

2011-02-15T18:28:00.000-08:00

A retired LDS USC dental grad decided that it would be fun to take a boat load of current LDS UCS Dental students out for a ride on his Yacht. He said he knows how hard it is to think of fun things to do every weekend on a low budget with little kids. It was really nice and a fun way to spend our weekend for sure. Thank you Sir!

Ha! I just noticed Anna is crying in this picture. It must have only been for a second because I don't remember her crying at all. She loves looking at the water and having the wind in her face.

This is a more accurate picture of her experience

Dance Central

2011-02-15T18:25:00.000-08:00

Awesome poses guys. We rock!

The Polar Bear Club

2011-02-15T13:52:00.000-08:00

This is Anna's first day standing in flipflops. She really is my girl. She didn't even try to get them off once. Love her!

Here is Anna with Great Grandma Rosie

Even thought it was January we thought it was such a nice day that we wanted to get in the pool. Unfortunately the pool is not heated but we did it anyway.

It felt like ice and looking at the picture above you wouldn't think it was that bad. The kids hardly seemed to mind. Looking at my expression however, you realize otherwise.

Anna was loving it. She thought it was funny. I finally had to just pull her out, purple toes and all.

Travis would jump in on one end and go as fast as he could to the exit over and over with warming up in between

The funny part was that the second you were out of the water you were completely warm again. Not even any shivering.

The sun started to go down so we went back inside where Anna was having a grand old time playing Grandma Rosie's piano.

Fun Times. We always love visiting!

Razzle Dazzle

2011-02-15T13:40:00.000-08:00

Cowabunga Dude

2011-02-15T13:32:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Eric

Happy New Year!

2011-01-26T21:24:00.000-08:00

Enjoy yourself! it's later than you think

The year's go by as quickly as a wink

Enjoy yourself

It's later than you think

This is the annual Rosell family party that starts at 4 in the afternoon. Lots of dancing (to the same song over and over) and then the Eggnogg fizzy drinking contest.

Clayton's mom dominated in the picture above.

At the end of this movie Clayton was competing. See what happens

Family Pictures

2011-01-26T21:08:00.000-08:00

Christmas Vacation

2011-01-14T13:46:00.000-08:00

We drove through multiple snow storms on this last adventure. We did have a minor mishap with a bird. There was so much new snow that the birds kept sitting on the road to get warm and this poor thing didn't get out of the way in time.

Here's Anna snuggling with Uncle John

To get out of the house we took a little walk down to one of the neighborhood parks.

Christmas pajama time!

Itching! AAAAAAAHHHHH

Grandma is getting ready for the festivities of the night. So excited.

The kids were all playing and in the commotion of all the fun, Nora hit her head on the metal railing of Grandpa's bed and had to head to the ER for staples

But when she got back we started the Christmas program

Everyone's roles look pretty obvious, however who knows what Anna was she was just happy to hold the bells

Time to open presents

So much fun.

We had to try out the wagon as soon as possible, so that evening we headed out for a walk. Love those Cedar City Sunsets

Then the next night it dumped snow

These boys were so excited they had to go out even though the wind was so bitterly cold and intense.

Overall...awesome vacation

Visiting my family for Christmas

2011-01-14T12:37:00.000-08:00

We took one night to go to dinner with our friends from out here. (They also are from Salt Lake). Why on earth would they sell this at a grocery store? I'm completely baffled

We forgot our coats and any thing resembling snow clothes so we borrowed this coat for Anna from my sister. It was hilarious. Here she is faking asleep

Early present exchange

No, it's not Halloween, this is what he wanted for Christmas. He looked so amazing in it too, I actually thought it was the real Ironman right there in the room with us.

We took our loot from Ellen and played the kinect Dance Central. Go Mom!

Then everyone joined in

I think I look a little constipated or something. Oh well, the picture didn't capture the amazing fun we were having, maybe next time.

So much fun. Until next time....

LA version of a white Christmas?

2011-01-14T12:28:00.000-08:00

I woke up one morning to this weather and figured this was a close to a white Christmas as we were going to get out here. It was good enough for me. I loved it.

White Christmas

2011-01-14T10:54:00.000-08:00

Every year we watch the movie White Christmas and have a small little party . The kids loved it too this year.

Ward Christmas Party

2011-01-14T10:37:00.000-08:00

Clayton got sucked into singing in the choir and he did a fantastic job, if I might add. He is right in the middle of this picture, I couldn't take any of my own pictures because I was accompanying all the singing throughout the little show.

I didn't catch a picture of the angels but they were two adorable little girls from our ward, they sang away in a manger or something and it was so cute. Here are the rest of the people.

The wise men

Huntington Gardens

2011-01-12T17:52:00.000-08:00

Huntington Gardens had a free day once a month and you have to apply online the month before to get the tickets. I was lucky enough to get several tickets so Mary came up with her boys and Clayton's dad came down and we all had a great time.

I can't remember which plant that is the Mary is pointing at but Travis is pointing at the coco bean plant.

This was a bog in a glass case so you could see the different layers. Please don't ever let me step into one of those. Man that is disgusting.

This room was the tropical jungle where they had mist going constantly

If you can zoom in and read about this plant it is completely fascinating. Just make sure if you ever come across it you don't drink out of it. It doesn't catch rain water, that's for sure.

These little pots had water that would spurt out of the fishes mouths or holes in the ground and plop into the water. Anna was completely fascinated for the longest time.

Then Tyler showed her you can splash the water for even more fun.

There was a big water thing in front of us but the picture didn't catch it.

The kids area is really fun and super interactive. This was the mist area where they could just run and run. So fun!

Ellen 12 days of give away

2011-01-10T18:13:00.000-08:00

For 3 years we have been trying to get on the Ellen show for the 12 days of give away. We finally made it this year. Our tickets were standby so I went at four in the morning to sit in line. Everyone there got in so that was a good thing. Lindsay had standby tickets too so we waited together. There were people in tent chairs who had been there all night.

This is my few from the sidewalk where I slept. I definitely felt homeless for a minute.

John-Stephen (Clayton's brother) was my guest. Clayton had tickets for the next week and we didn't want to jinx ourselves by both of us going both days. Clayton took his sister Mary the next week.

Can you spot us?

I zoomed in just in case you couldn't

We got seriously hooked up. It was awesome! Thank you Ellen!

2010-12-13T12:32:00.000-08:00

Laura!!!

2010-12-09T11:53:00.000-08:00

My friend Laura came home for Thanksgiving and I got to meet up with her and her boyfriend Sam for lunch. It was so good to see her.

P.S. that lady in the background above kept saying weird things right as we were trying to take the pictures. She was a little bit crazy. I don't think she had teeth or shoes and she was counting for us. It was hard to keep a straight smile on our faces.

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas Laura.

Washington/Oregon

2010-12-07T21:41:00.000-08:00

Clayton and his buddy from school Big K went up to Washington and Oregon for a weekend Dental Conference. Clayton loved it up there and had a great time.

(I don't know the details of all the pictures so he'll have to add them in later but here's a look)

So fun

Update of Randoms

2010-12-07T21:13:00.000-08:00

I experimented with Anna's hair. Don't worry it will get better but I felt like the best mom in the world that day

Anna got a new hat and gloves

She is learning to try to keep the bottle up while drinking

We made our annual Pumpkin Soup or rather soup in a pumpkin

It was delicious

We found a cute hat that we didn't buy. Go SC!

Anna's hair is getting long

And that's it

Halloween!!!!

2010-11-22T14:48:00.000-08:00

On our way to the ward Halloween Party. You can tell she's thrilled

Jesse and Jessica came with us and it was so much fun to have them there with us

Haven and Anna being Best Friends, ok, maybe just Haven

Our friends from our ward

Kathy Bence our RS Pres

Hmmm...what's happening here Brik?

Ok so we both had a hard time looking at the same camera. But it was so fun to have you here!!!

The next night we headed up to Grandma and Grandpa Clark's house for some more festivities

Getting three kids to smile at the camera is harder than you think

The dual with Ironman

The Geriatric Chili (which was still good I might add)

Costume Contest

Anna won a prize!!!

Trunk or Treat after the chili cook-off and costume contest

Yumm, gummy hamburgers

These two loved playing together

So much fun everyone! Thanks for the good times

The Kangaroo

2010-11-18T21:56:00.000-08:00

OK, is she adorable or what?

Ellen!

2010-11-18T21:46:00.000-08:00

Anjuli got tickets to the Ellen Halloween show and invited me to come with her. I was so excited and then I learned that my college roommate was coming into town and Anjuli had another extra ticket. What a fun day. Thanks Anjuli!

Here we are on the front row. We had standby tickets and ended up getting the best seats in the house. A guy who was wearing a beer can or a soda can or something couldn't fit in his seat and they spent the whole time seating people trying to get him to fit. Then they gave up right as we were entering the studio and what do you know? We were thrilled

Jessica's birthday is on Halloween and we were hoping to get good seats or some prize or something with this sign. It didn't work except in the good luck department.

A bunch of friends and girls from my ward all got tickets so here are a few pictures. I don't think I got everyone but here's the pictures I caught. Also I must say, I am very proud of our crowd. These girls had the most creative costumes, and I guess that is kind of inevitable when you don't wear slut costumes, you have to come up with something else. I had no idea there were so many variations of hookers :) Even a finding Nemo hooker costume. Who knew?

They had a costume party at the end and there were five girls from my ward in the top ten and then we swept the top four, winning huge prizes. I didn't get one but it was fun to see them all winning.

The Fan

2010-11-18T21:40:00.000-08:00

Oh how I love the simple things in life.

Lombardi's Pumpkin Patch

2010-11-04T17:12:00.000-07:00

Oh it's corn corn corn...

Scarecrow Alley was really cute and there were some really cute scarecrows. My favorites were Michael Jackson and Mr. Potato Head. But I won't post all the pictures I took of them.

Here's Grandpa teaching Tyler how animals poop. Haha. Just kidding

This is the grand prize winner of a scarecrow. Not my favorite

Llamas!!!

Travis got to pet all the sheep and goats. He was loving them, and loving to chase them a little bit

Kisses!

Just chillin

We all took a wagon ride through the sunflowers and corn fields.

Here is Mary and the mangey dog that was part of the ride? We're not really "dog people" if you can't tell by the look on her face. I'm sure he was a nice dog, he mostly slept, but anyway...he was getting a little too much "all up in da grill."

This is the back of our tour guide and he was really nice and friendly. He had this whip for the horses and apparently the whip thought I was a horse as well.

2010-11-04T16:48:00.000-07:00

Happy Baby Shower to Lindsay, thanks for the leftover balloons!

I know we have posted pictures of the swings before but she just loves them so much!

She was a little distracted in this one...

And I think she's finally starting to get the idea of the slides, whoopiee

Go Trojans!!!!

2010-11-03T12:44:00.000-07:00

I think she was excited

We're so happy to have John-Stephen in town

The Blimp

Nap time, oh wait, for mother or child? Hmmm... What can I say? we were ahead by at least 30 points

Best Buddies

Ooo whoo oo whoo

Clayton's Mom had to work and we missed her. But we had lots of fun with his Dad.

Oh the boys

Group shot after the crowd cleared out

On our trek through campus to get to the game, we stopped in the dental school to see where Clayton spends all his time

So much fun!!!!!

Motion City

2010-11-03T11:55:00.000-07:00

Oh how I love them!!! (The band as well as the people in the picture below)

P.S. watch his dance moves. They are my favorite

2010-11-03T11:20:00.000-07:00

Why did I feel the need to take so many pictures? Why is she so cute I guess is the real question! Ha, that's because she's mine

2010-10-31T18:20:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I4cF5Tc1Tw&NR=1

Check out my hot dance moves

Visiting

2010-10-25T17:56:00.000-07:00

I went home to Utah for a visit a couple weeks ago and had a great time. Of course I took Anna with me and Clayton worked on lots of stuff for school. Anna got to hang out with her cousins and I got to hang out with my fam. So much fun!!!

...only the coolest girls ev...er!

SUPERCHEESE

P90X My brothers thought they were made of steel...

... so I had to step in and show them what real steel is haha

Celebrating Liam's birthday a little late

Happy Birthday kiddo

These two were fascinated with each other

Oh the dreaded haircut for school pictures

And just in case you think there was no crazy fun...you haven't seen the dance moves yet.

So much fun everyone!!!! Thanks for being the greatest!

Visitors

2010-10-08T11:30:00.000-07:00

Dinner at BJ's and we of course had to sample one of each flavor of pizookie

Sorry girls, this is definitely not the best picture, so send me a better one and I'll replace it. :)

Quicksand what? yes, I took one step and ended up buried in sand and sinking. Scared me to death but don't worry I made it out thanks to the lava rocks. I felt like I was in the princess bride

It was raining earlier that morning so all the anemones were covered in small shells. They looked really cool.

Anna was hungry

My mom looking for starfish

Anna has now eaten

Grandma Hillock finding loads of seashells for me

Aunt Cindy

When we got back to their room my Mom and I went for a bike ride on the beach. It was my Mom's first time on a beach cruiser and she loved it! My Grandma watched Anna for me.

We went to this restaurant that was in an old train depot, or so we thought. It is actually still functioning with real trains that come through and scare the living daylights out of you. Ha, just kidding, I thought it was really cool and Anna liked to watch it run the length of the whole building through the windows, you can't see it in this picture but it was fun. And the food was fantastic

Dad's new babysitting tool

2010-10-08T10:20:00.000-07:00

Noah's Ark the second time

2010-10-07T19:51:00.000-07:00

We had so much fun at the Noah's Ark exhibit that I got tickets again right away and I went last week with Mary and her boys and Clayton's dad too. We had a lot of fun. Then we heard that it may be a permanent exhibit now. Wahoo!

Travis would pump the water for Tyler and Anna to watch.

Travio just couldn't get enough of the conveyor belt. The animals, they came on, they came on by twosies, twosies....

This giraffe was cool, you cold move his head and neck from side to side by that lever behind Mary, but Travis was much more interested in the conveyor belt so he was breaking away to get to that again.

Here's Anna in one of the grain storage compartments

Thanks for going guys, it was so much fun!

2010-10-07T19:42:00.000-07:00

The sunset last week off my balcony

I can't wait for Halloween!

The LA temple visitors center just finished their renovation and it is beautiful

Anna's long awaited MRI

2010-10-07T17:58:00.000-07:00

The Kaiser in Anaheim could get us in a month sooner than the one by us so we headed down there. Since it was first thing in the morning, Mary and Scott were so nice to let us stay there overnight.

Anna was trying to figure out this sweet crying boy.

Anna was such a good patient. She was smiling and just having the best time looking at her reflection in the bars. All the nurses were loving her blond hair. The way they carried on, you would think they had never seen blond hair before. (Maybe they haven't) But it was really fun.

The nurses were dressing her up...

And then decided that we needed to be dressed up too? Then they pushed us into the corner and said, "Take a picture" with their Asian accents and it was awesome. Definitely the most pleasant hospital trip ever. Even for Anna, she was high through most of it. ;)

Anna loves versed! She didn't care that the nurse was digging a needle into her foot for the IV, because she was high, because she was high, because she was hi-igh.

MRI/Happy Juice

2010-09-22T22:55:00.000-07:00