Nate's new step sister Jaime and her 4 kids along with Grandpa and Grandma June and Uncle Heath came down for a visit this weekend. They're stopping at Banryland on their way to Disneyland. We spent Friday night in the pool. They got in around 5, we fed them real quick and then pulled them out of the pool about 8. Then Saturday we spent the day in the pool. Here we are a whole HOUR BEFORE CHURCH started all ready to go. When you're ready an hour early, you have time for a snack before you leave. Who knew! I can't get my family of 6 ready on time but when I have 8 extra people in my house, we can be ready an hour early. Go figure!!! Anyhow, we're having so much fun with them. They leave for 3 days to go to Disneyland and then we get them back for the 4th of July. We'll be in the pool again! More to post later!
Jaime's kids are Garret (7), Kelden (3), Taryn (5) and Ayla (1)

Here's Chayse with her new braces. She's very excited.

Natey and his best friend "Bandon Mike". This is Clarissa and Brandon's little boy. They love to find trouble together, and often do! They also like to get the bad guys just like their daddy's!

Clarissa is the winner of what's Alli having for dinner post! The answer is Strawberries, carmel, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream. Sometimes I even add bananas to it!
Here are Clarissa and I at the Teacher Staff Appreciation Luncheon just in case you thought we hung out like this often!

We set off with no reservations for the weekend... we were beach bound. We ended up at Buellton, actually Flying Flags which is a beautiful RV resort that we have been to before. We took walks, played games, played in the pool, watched movies, watched Emalee text and text and text and just hung out. Actually she didn't text the whole time. We love to be in our trailer together, even Emalee likes it!

Now Scott and Mark will stop buggin' us about our blog being outdated. Actually, Mark doesn't have the right to complain, being that he doesn't have a blog.

Here's the cute bow that Sissa and I got her instead of a bouquet of flowers. This cute bow will last a little longer!
A very proud big sister Storme and it looks like a hungry little sister. Where's the bottle mama?

Maryn got to go on her first field trip with Kindergarten. Her other two field trips were "fired" out and "rained" out so she was pretty excited to finally get to go on a field trip. She loved the bus. That's her with her friend Morgyn. She's with her whole class before we got started seeing all the animals. The 3rd picture is our little group when we first got started "running" through the zoo. The last picture is our little group all tuckered out from "running" through the zoo! It was a very hot day but we took lots of water, kept them watered down and we had a really good time. Our other parent in our group was Mr. West!

With the recent release of the new Indiana Jones movie we thought we'd catch the kids up on the series. Natey loved the first one, and before it was even over came out dressed like this. The belt is his whip and the hanger his gun.

This is what Alli calls dinner. While everyone else was eating real food she decided this was what she was gonna have for dinner. First one who guesses all the ingredients wins.

So Natey needed a haircut, or so his mom said. Natey got all excited and got the clippers out. While he was waiting for me to finish my lunch he decided to get started and took a big chunk outta the front of his mop. I told Alli I could either give him a "Daddy-do", or a military cut. I think it looks pretty good. He's just such a handsome guy. He even has a pretty good "OohRah"!

I'm in Utah right now with this little sweetie. This is my new niece born Wednesday, May 21st. She was born at 4:26pm. She weighed 7lbs. and was 181/2 in. long. I got to spend the first night with my sister in the hospital because her hubby needed to be with her four and two year old. So...I got to feed GG and snuggle her all night long. That's the way to have a baby! Lauren is doing better tonight (Thursday). She hemorrhaged and had a hard night last night and a hard day today. She's got a beautiful little angel in the end.

Emee and her bestie, Kodey (that's a best friend) both got a Viking Valor Award and a Principals Award for excellence in Sign Language! Doesn't Emee have a cute bestie! She's cute too!

That's what makes me smile. Is there anything better than love notes from a kindergardner?

My cute little family made me a lovely breakfast of Clarissa's buttermilk flapjacks (you'll never eat boxed pancake mix again), sliced strawberries and fresh whipped cream (Nate's specialty). Notice my flapjack is a heart. Maryn made me 6 cards (they are all there around my plate). They make me so happy to be their mommy! Daddy, thank you for working so hard to let me be home with them. It's such a blessing to me. I love you my big girls, my little people and my boy!

Here she is at the cutest little kindy show! We put pink sparkles on her eyelids. She's with her favorite friend Morgyn. The kids sang all kinds of numbers songs and then some songs about letters and how much fun they had in kindergarden. Mommy and 3 other mommys (Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Hong and Mrs. Frank) made the back drop and we got front row seats as a thank you. It was really fun. She's off to first grade now!

So my cute little man comes up to me like this and says "Look Mom, I'm Hanny Manny!" For those of you who may not be familiar with who Handy Manny or Hanny Manny as Natey calls him, he is a Handy Man cartoon that Natey likes to watch. He always has a pencil behind his ear! He's so cute!

Here's Chayse playing Lady Larken in her school play, "Once Upon a Mattress". Didn't she do a great job! Sir Harry's microphone didn't work so well. You can hardly hear him.

This past week was filled with performances from all three of our girls. Stay tuned for pictures and maybe even some clips from the shows. (If I can figure out how Nate does that!)