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We had so much fun on our trip to CA. We are so excited to be moving there. I wish that I wasn't always so behind on posting. I really want to try and catch up before we move and I get really behind. Janie only likes to swim if she can touch. She is not interested in hanging out in a floaty as I am sure you can tell.

I am sorry I just thought this picture was really funny, I always seem to catch Nellie making the funniest faces.

How do you like the random kid in the picture. I love it when parents are totally clueless and don't get it. We went to Fairy Tale Town. We visited when Lizzy was 2, but she didn't remember it so she was totally excited to go. She has been really into nursery rhymes, learning them and memorizing them, it is really cute. She kept calling it Mother Goose Land so she really wanted to go and sit on Mother goose's lap.

The girlies watering Mr Macgregor's garden.

The girls on the crooked mile. That is always a favorite.

In Cinderella's carriage.

Janie loved Alice in wonderland rabbit hole. She kept going over and over and she didn't want help she wanted to go by herself.

We also went to the fish hatchery because Lizzy is seriously obsessed with Salmon (it is her favorite food) and she wanted to see them jumping, but it is the wrong season. But there were trout that you could feed and the girls loved it because the fish would go crazy when you dropped the food in.

Grandpa giving them some fish food.

I love this picture. It takes Janie a while to warm up to people, but she gets there eventually.
I am so glad that my kids are going to get to spend more time with my parents and not have to warm up to them every time we see them.

Kevin and I got to go to a Dodger game. We were so excited, my mom watched the girls and we headed down with my Dad, Joe, Jarom and Kristen and McKay and Joanne to San Francisco to watch them play the giants. Kevin and I have gone to three other Dodger games together and they have lost them all. They won this one! It was a really good game. The only problem was the giant fans were so mean! They were cursing us out, it was awful! We have been to other ball parks and worn dodger apparel and no one said anything, but wow they were awful.

The rest of our group. It was so much fun to go and even more fun that the Dodgers won. It was crazy because it was a really hot day, but down on the bay at night it gets really cold, but still we were feeling crazy that we were wearing such warm clothes, until we got there. It got pretty cold that evening, I started shivering with my warm jacket and long pants.

It's Official!

We are moving! Yes you heard that right, after more than five years here is Kansas we are finally moving! We leave August 9th. Crazy, it is only 3 weeks away. I think that it finally hit me this afternoon when I started packing stuff up, that after all this time and all the plans that never happened we actually are moving this time.

Kevy and I have spent almost a year now praying about where to go and the right time to leave. We are so grateful that we have been so blessed by the spirit in so many ways. We are moving to Sacramento! Wahoo. I am so excited I love it out there, and of course my parents are there, not to mention civilization. Plus we will be in driving distance to most of our family.

We are so grateful to have had the experience of coming out to Kansas. The crazy thing is that we have been here for most of our marriage. We were married only about 17 months when we moved here. We also have been here through everyone coming and going but never us, but this time it is finally us! It has been such an amazing growing experience and brought us closer to each other and closer to the Savior. there have been some incredibly difficult times, but the funny thing about difficulties is that is where you really grow and learn to rely on the Savior. I will be forever grateful for the experiences that we have had out here, but I am really glad to be moving!

Cousins

I love to see my girls with their cousins. It is something that I didn't have growing up, we were never very close with our cousins so to see my girls have so many cousins that they are so close to is so fun. We had so much fun in California, with that many people it gt a bit crazy at times but there were so many good times too. The girls were absolutely in heaven waking up early and staying up way too late and playing the whole time in between with their cousins that they hardly get to see. But it is amazing to see what a bond they have only getting to see each other a couple times a year. I am looking forward to the time when the girls get older and they can go stay with their cousins and we can have them come stay with us. It will be really neat. Here are the youngest half. I didn't get a picture of the whole group, You can see twelve in this picture and there are 24. Can you see Lizzy's pose, she was posing the whole night it was hilarious. I love how Jane is lifting up her shirt, and how the youngest two Jack and Jerry are checking each other out. The girls had a lot of fun with Jerry. Lizzy loves babies and she is just like a little mommy with them. She reminds me a lot of myself when I was her age, in that aspect, other ways she and I are completely different.

Here are Nellie and Max. I love that these two are just the best of friends. Nellie loves Max so much and she talks about him all the time. it was really funny to listen to them talk to each other too because it sounded so much like two adults talking. They got quite serious in their conversations.

Lizzy loves her cousin Ozzie they have so much fun together and they get along so well. Lizzy asks me all the time, "I can't marry Ozzie right Mom?" no honey we don't marry our cousins.

the little monkeys in Grandmas big tub. They loved taking baths together.

Enjoying their ice cream. So cute. I love the memories of theses cute pictures.

I just love this picture because I can just tell how much Nellie loves Max by the way she is holding his hand. A funny story about Nellie, we have had a very difficult time getting her to not pee so much in her pull ups at night, it is like she holds it in as much as she can during the day so that the instant she puts on her pull up she lets it all go. Well when she discovered that Max doesn't wear one at night she has been on a mission to keep dry at night so much so that she is trying to give up her beloved night time milk. One night she said "I want to be like Max I don't want my milk." Of course an hour later she was begging for it, but baby steps right. She has started to keep dry sometimes and it is really important to her to be like Max which is so sweet.

Zoo

I forgot to blog about this but before our California trip we went to Wichita to pickup Kevin's parents and thought it would be fun to take the kids to the zoo. Nellie threw up on the drive down from playing her Leapster, so that is always a fun thing to deal with, but we had some clothes to change her into so it wasn't too bad. We hadn't taken Janie to the zoo since she was tiny, so it was fun to watch her with the animals. The girls got to feed the giraffes and Janie thought it was so cool, she just held out this branch until the giraffes came and took it.

Lizzy used to be really scared of animals and never would have done this, but she isn't scared anymore.

The gorillas were a favorite with the girls. They were fascinated by them and of course Nellie had to make a comment about their buns. "Look mom you can see their bunny cakes!"

Janie has all of a sudden become super independent, I guess I should have known that would happen. She absolutely did not want to ride in the stroller and had to walk by herself everywhere. She is a big shot who thinks she is just as big as her sisters.

Why is it that when they are little they don't want to ride in the stroller, but when they get big they decide they have to ride in the stroller. Silly girls.

Janie discovered a new place to ride and she just loved it!

It was a fun day at the zoo! I love having kids because everything in life is just more fun with them around.

Dancing

I just thought this was too cute. Lizzy loves to dance and her cousin Jake really got into it too.

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McKay's Wedding

I have so much to post it is a little overwhelming right now, but I will get there I hope before we pack up and head out.
We headed out to California for my little brother McKay's wedding. It was such a neat wedding. Joanne is a convert and has such a strong testimony, even though she is the only member in her family. It was a really neat experience to get to be there for their wedding. We spent the three days before pretty much making food, there was definitely not a lack of food at the wedding. Because Joanne is from Taiwan she wanted to have both kinds of food for her wedding so they brought in Panda Express and then my mom, sisters and I made all the rest of the food and it was a ton. The one disappointing thing was that everyone that came was so enthralled that there was panda express that they hardly touched the really yummy food and desserts that we made. Oh well that is life. We all certainly enjoyed eating all of them the next couple of days. The day after was Fathers day and we all just laid around my parents house and stuffed our faces because we were all so tired. I can't get Janie to look at the camera lately, if she sees it she automatically looks away. I love this dress, Nellie wore it for Kevin's brother Jake's wedding two years ago.

The colors were red and yellow and I found these really cute yellow jumpers for the other two.

Lizzy is so photogenic! She always looks so beautiful in all her pictures. Definitely not like her mom.

I love going to temple sealings because it always just takes me back to the day that I married the love of my life. I just adore him more everyday and am so glad he is mine!

Our little family. I just love these people so much, what a lucky girl I am.

Here is the lovely couple dancing, I realized after that i didn't get any other pictures of them, Joanne looked so beautiful and McKay of course looked very handsome as well.

Janie was having a good time eating lots of food and dancing. What a cutie she is.

Nellie eating chocolate, of course Nellie is always hungry for treats. Her eyes are so blue here.