Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts

Thursday, June 9, 2011

San Diego Vacation

Matthew loved playing with his new toys in the sand, and throwing sand everywhere!
Everywhere we went Michael made new friends.  Here he is with a buddy trying to beat the waves before they got him.
Who me?
Cute picture of the boys watching the waves coming in.
We went to the Birch Aquarium in San Diego.  Michael just had to get a picture of him in the sharks mouth.
They had really beautiful fish that I had never seen before.  I was going to post more pictures of fish, but I thought that might get kind of boring.  We got to watch a scuba diving show, and see sharks.  I liked the sea horse exhibit the best, and to see the babies in the nursery.  They were hard to get a picture of, because they were so tiny.
Matthew touching his first star fish.  He was sad when he couldn't hold it.
Michael giving his first news broadcast.  Not too bad for a beginner, he just needed to stand a tiny bit more to the right.
Once again he found another friend to play with.  This time he's playing a board game, with a spinner.  Matthew was even getting into it, and spinning it for them.
The Sea Lions were fun to watch.  They were so close to people, and even swimming right up next to them out in the ocean.
Michael was having a blast running in and out trying to catch the waves.
A cave we discovered near where we were camped out on the sand.
My little rock climber.
We went to the Knott's Soak City Water Park lastly on our trip.  They had some awesome water slides that Shane and I took turns going on with Michael.  We hung out at the tykes trough and lazy river with Matthew.  Which were also so much fun.
A very fun and long vacation equals one very tired boy.  We drove the 7 hours to San Diego, and Shane did a mud run while we were there.  I wish I had some pictures of that, but me and the boys stayed at the hotel and played in the pool while he did the race with a friend.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Utah trip

Matthew and I were able to spend a week with my parents. We spent time with a lot of my family. On Sunday we had a get together and had dinner at my parent's house. I think Matthew was the center of everyone's attention. I don't think he quite knew how to take it. He sure thought his Uncle Trevor's beard was pretty cool. His cousins just loved him, and tried to get him to laugh by playing peek-a-boo. The next couple days we spent with my brother and his family. They had a huge project to put up a swing set. I don't think anyone really anticipated how long it would take. You can see in the pictures all the wood on the ground before and after when it was almost completed. Of course Matthew enjoyed his first licorice while we were there. He loved his first time in a pool, maybe next time we'll put more in then just his feet. We didn't have a swimsuit for him. Shane came and met us the following weekend after his book conference and we all flew back home together. I just love my family, and we had so much fun!












Saturday, January 2, 2010

Christmas Festivities

We spent a fun Christmas day with the Chism family in Las Vegas.

Grandma Chism holding Matthew.







We had a fun time playing in all the snow and visiting with my family.

Michael LOVED the snow and followed Grandpa Edstrom around while he snowblowed.

The kids enjoyed playing at the Treehouse Children's Museum.

My parent's with Matthew.



Shane spent hours building a ramp for the kids to go sledding down and then they decided to go sledding in the backyard.



Michael and my nephew Sam having fun with the chocolate fountain.