San Fransisco here we come!!

We are on our way to Sunny California! Brandon has had a rough go at work and desperately needs a break. We took the blessing of no church on Sunday to leave town. We were originally going to just do St. George and Las Vegas, but after a little research I determined that a little longer jaunt would not only be beneficial, it would be AWESOME!!

We are mainly going to take pictures of the temples: 6 to be exact! We will get the Reno NV, Sacramento CA, Oakland CA, Fresno CA, Las Vegas NV, and St. George UT temples!

Our hotels are going to cost a grand total of $75 for the entire trip! Yep, you read that right! We are staying in Reno and Vegas. The other 2 nights we will stay with Brandon's dad who lives in Sacramento.

We are going to go and spend a day in San Fransisco seeing the sites! We'll do Fisherman's Wharf, the Golden Gate Bridge, China Town, and just gathering seashells from the beach! The kids and Brandon and I too, are very excited! It is going to be such a fun trip!

I will post tons of pics when we get back!

Fair photos!

I know you have all been dying to see the pictures that we entered into the fair! So, with much ado, here they are!!

Sunny Daffodil ~ Katy

4th Place

Mother Goose ~ Katy

4th Place

Serenity Stream ~ Katy

4th Place



Skyler X. Rei ~ taken by Katy entered by Brandon

5th Place

Tiny Beauties ~ taken by Katy, entered by Brandon

5th Place

Seeing Stripes ~ Alexis

2nd Place

Sunflowers and Birdhouse ~ Domenic

3rd Place



There you have it! It was fun to enter! The kids were so excited about their ribbons!!

Busy much!

I have totally missed a lot of great posts that I took pictures for, so in a whirl wind of info, here goes!

For the 24th of July we let the kids ride their bikes in the Buttlerville Days Parade (here in Cottonwood Heights). The theme was following a Western Theme, so Domenic wanted to make his bike into a horse! He looked so cute! Alexis rode her bike for the first time without training wheels. We spent the week before practicing and getting her ready! She did so great! They looked so cute and rode the entire 1.3 miles, which included a huge hill too! We went and watched the fireworks and the kids got glow in the dark swords! They loved it! We also ran into one of Domenic's friends from school!

Domenic turned 6! I can hardly beleive how big he is getting. For his birthday we spent the day doing fun things for him! We started by going to see "Night at the Museum 2". It was such a great movie! We all loved it! Next Domenic wanted to go to a Nickel Arcade, so we spent a couple of hours playing games and winning tickets. To end the day he choose to take a friend to dinner at the Mayan restaurant! It was so much fun! He got Transformers, Legos, and some fun shirts! He had a great day!

Zoo Booster Night

We love the zoo! We went to the Zoo Booster night and had a blast! We took my friends Stella and Daniel along. It was so much fun!