Spring Break with Lots of Fun and Pictures!

Well sit back and get ready to see a whole bunch of pictures! Last week was the best week we've had in awhile. Shaye had Spring Break from school and I took off some time so we could go enjoy some time in Southern Utah and California! It was oh so wonderful and we enjoyed every minute of it. To start off our little vacation we went to Kanab for the annual Larriette Review. For those that don't know this is the dance review put on by the high school dance team. I participated in the dance team all of my years of high school. The Larriette Review was always the highlight of the year. This year was my younger sister Emily's last year as a Larriette. It was so fun to go and their dances this year were great! It was such a fun night and Emily was awesome!

Here's little Em's dancing with her escort Bryce Hafen. The girls ask a boy to escort them and they learn a dance with the boys that is always lots of fun.

The best part of the Larriette Review is that the Dad's of all the girls learn a dance and perform it at the review. Most people come just for this great performance. My Dad enjoys participating in these dances very much and I must say that he is quite good:) Here he is showing off his skills in the kick line. He is the one in the middle, if you don't recognize him. Shaye's Dad also showed off his dancing skills stepping in for a dad that was unable to be there. Good job Larry:)

My Dad was even honored by the coaches because this was his 10th and final year participating in the review. They even gave him a crown and sash:) Good job Dad, thanks for supporting us in our dancing and congrats on your ten years!:)

Me, Emily and Mikkel after the review. Good job Em's you were so awesome!

Shaye and Jen having fun after the show.

The rest of Spring Break we were lucky enough to enjoy some time in sunny California. We went with Mikkel, Jerron and Trajen and we had a wonderful time! Thanks to Shaye's Dad and Kelly for letting us use their time share we stayed in Oceanside and spent a couple days at Disneyland and a day in San Diego at Sea World.

We had so much fun with Traj at Disneyland it was fun to watch him have fun. This was probably one of his favorite parts. He found some ducks to feed crackers to for a good hour. He was loving it and so were the ducks, I hope we didn't make them sick:)

The best part was it was Mikkel's Birthday so she got into Disneyland for free! After a day of riding the rides we enjoyed dinner at Cheesecake Factory and I love this picture of Mikkel with such excitement to blow out her candle. Happy Birthday Mikkel, we're glad we could spend it with you!

Shaye and I with Pluto at California Adventure.

Looking good with our bug eyes before the Bugs Life show. It was really cool I don't know how people come up with this stuff, they are so creative.

Trajen loved getting pictures with all of his favorite characters we got to meet. Lightening McQueen was possibly his favorite he didn't want to leave. We stood there and watched them for quite some time while Traj danced to the music.

It worked out perfect for us to go with Mikkel and Jerron so we could take turns going on the big rides and keeping track of little Traj. Here's Shaye and Traj just enjoying the sunshine while Mik and Jer went for a ride.

These are my favorite pictures of Traj. Wall-E was the last character we met and by this time Traj was a pro at posing. He knew just what to do. He would walk up and wave and say hi, then turn around and pose for a picture. We didn't even tell him what to do he just put his are like that and put his other had like he was holding his hand. He is such a cutie and so much fun, we just love him!

Trajen we miss you, come see us soon!

Wednesday we went to Sea World and we had a great time. I have never been there and I must say I was quite impressed. I don't know how they train the animals to do all that stuff but it was way awesome and we had a great time! Here's one of the dolphins flying high!

Cute Trajen and Mikkel enjoying the show.

Shaye and Ash enjoying their vacation!

Yikes! We're being eaten by a shark!:)

The Shamu Show was really awesome!

Everyone enjoying the Oscar the Grouch ride in Sea World.

While we were down in San Diego we had to stop and see the beautiful San Diego Temple. It really is so amazing, I hope to go back there again.

Thursday morning before we left Shaye and I walked down to the beach to enjoy breakfast and watch the surfers. We had so much fun, it got us really excited for summer to come and for warm weather! We also got to see Grandma Alta while we were there. She just happened to be staying with a friend down in California too so we met up for dinner and we were so glad we got to see her too!

And to finish things off this picture is great! Every where we went to eat we told the people it was Mikkel's birthday. Her birthday was Monday but we celebrated all week long! Here she is at Texas Roadhouse getting her birthday Ye hah!

Now we are back home and getting settled back into normal life. We hope to be hearing in the next couple weeks what hospital Shaye has been accepted to for the Radiology program. The anticipation is killing me but I will survive. As soon as we find out I will be sure to post! Hope everyone is enjoying life and all is well!

Fun Times With the Brown Kids

I have really not been very good at blogging lately. I have been so busy with work and then we have been out of town for the past week, which was wonderful and now I need to get caught up. So first of all a couple weeks ago we got to spend an evening with my Uncle Brants kids while he and his wife Jana went to dinner for their anniversary. We were so glad we could help them out so they could enjoy their special day together and their kids were so great it wasn't any work at all. Luckily we have a indoor pool at our apartment complex so we went swimming which the kids loved so everyone had a great time.

After we returned from the swimming pool we were a little chilly so we warmed up with some great hot chocolate prepared by Shaye. We even put some coolwhip in it. That was Heath's favorite part so we had to limit his coolwhip intake:) We are all looking like little ragamuffins cause we had just got out of the pool.

They were such great kids to watch. Rianne is so helpful and would help keep things picked up. I used to babysit Rianne often when I lived in Cedar before my mission. We had many fun times back then. I asked her if she remembered me babysitting her and she said, "No but my Mom always tells me that." She is such a cutie. Heath was great too he loved swimming and the Mac & cheese with hot dogs we had for dinner. Thanks Brant and Jana for coming to visit and letting us watch your cute kids, they were great! We hope you'll come again soon!

Happy Valentines Day and lots of sister fun!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day and long weekend! Shaye and I had a great weekend. We were so lucky to have my younger sister Emily and Shaye's sister Jennica come stay with us for a few days. It was so much fun and now that they are gone we are so lonely:( But first for Valentines Day. Honestly I am not way into Valentines Day I would much rather do something special on just a regular day because we want to. But I must say I did enjoy the nice flowers Shaye gave me, and the best part is that he made the arrangement himself! I was so impressed! He bought 2 dozen roses from Costco and the pretty vase. He found some decorative rocks I had to put in the bottom of the vase and trimmed the flowers to look perfect. It really looked like he could have bought them that way they looked so nice. I have posted a picture bellow of the beautiful flowers, thanks Shaye:)

The rest of the photos to follow are of our fun weekend with our sisters. Next week they both will be celebrating their birthdays so we had lots of birthday fun.

Here's Jen, Shaye and Em at the Aerospace Museum. Since it's right by our house and it is free we like to take visitors here. It is actually pretty neat and there are a ton a really cool planes. When we were leaving they were beginning to close for the day and one of the workers over heard us jokingly say that we were going to hide inside one of planes til everyone was gone. I think the worker thought we were serious and he started making strange comments to us about how the ghosts come out of the planes at night and he wouldn't want to be there in the dark. We laughed at first but he kept saying things and it was starting to make us wonder.....

Here are the sisters preparing for an exciting game of bowling.

Here's Shaye showing off his skills, of course he won, but I guess he can win for being such a good sport and hanging out with the girls:)

Aren't these girls the cutest!?!

It was a fun game and yes Shaye won!

We took Jen and Emily to Texas Roadhouse for their birthday's. It was crazy busy cause it was Valentines Day so we went there at 4:30 and it was a two and half hour wait! So we took our number, went bowling, walked around the mall for a bit and then walked right in to be seated at 7, it worked perfectly. We were all very pleased with our meals and they even came out and sang to the girls.

Here the girls are climbing on the saddle to get their happy birthday wish.

It seemed our waiter even had a little crush on Jennica, he gave her the elbow squeeze with a happy birthday:)

We also had a wonderful Sunday. After we went to church Shaye and the girls worked on homework while I made dinner. Here they are all working so hard. I must say I was feeling pretty lucky that I didn't have any homework!

We decided we wanted to go for a walk but it was really cold outside so we had to bundle up. I broke out all my old mission ear warmers and scarfs to keep us warm. Aren't we looking good?!

Sunday was so fun we just ate, visited lots and played lots of card games. (And we took lots of pictures of ourselves these are only a few of them:) Thanks for coming to stay with us girls we loved having you and we had a blast! Come again soon:)

Happy Birthday to Shaye

So yesterday was Shaye's birthday! He is finally the big 24! Since I am a year older than him I turned 25 before he turned 24 and he loved to tease me for that month difference that I was 2 year older than him. So now I feel much better saying that he is 24 instead of 23:) Shaye had a pretty good birthday. Unfortunately he had to go to school all day and I didn't get home from work until 6. But as soon as I got home the party began. I had wrapped his presents the night before and had them sitting out so he could stare at them all day until I got home:) I don't think I was in the house 1 minute before he said he was opening his presents cause he'd been looking at them for the last couple of hours. So he opened his presents and was happy to find some things he's been wanting. Then we went to dinner at our favorite Texas Roadhouse for a delicious dinner, it really was quite good! Those rolls are the best. If you've never been, it is definitely something you want to try. Anyways it was great and then we headed to a late movie. We had a great time and I hope Shaye had a happy birthday.

Nice new all weather mats for his truck.

Here's what he really wanted, new slipper shoes. These are his favorite! Anyone who knows Shaye know that he always wears his slippers. He even brings them when we go on trips:)

Some how these got out of order and the opened present pictures are ahead of the wrapped presents. Oh well, in this big present was the slippers. I had to disguise them in a bigger box so he wouldn't know what they were. I'm always trying to surprise him with his presents and he seems to always find out or know what they are before he opens them. Hope you had a wonderful Birthday Shaye! I love you!

Weekend With Traj

Well this is going to be a long post with lots of pictures because for the past four days Shaye and I have had a special visitor staying with us. We were so lucky that Mikkel and Jerron would ask us to watch little Trajen while they went to Cancun with Jerron's company. It really turned out to be a great weekend and we survived our time with the two year old. We were quite proud of ourselves that we made it through without any long drawn out crying sessions, any time he started crying it only lasted about 30 seconds and then he was fine. He was such a good boy and now we are missing him. The following are many many pictures of the fun we had "playing house" and trying out our parenting skills. 

Traj has always loved me for my jewelry. Since his Mom doesn't wear any jewelry he is very fascinated by mine. As I was getting ready and putting on my earrings and such he found all the watches he could find and found a jewelry box with some bracelets and necklaces. Also he was trying out my shoes as you can see:) He really does like to wear jewelry Shaye and to bargain with him to get him to take it off so we could go to dinner. Silly boy:)
Yep we went to Chuck E Cheese's and it was crazy. I don't think I had ever been there that I can remember and I don't think I would care to go again. It was crazy with kids but Traj loved it and was so excited when he saw the mouse as we pulled in the parting lot. 

Trajen LOVES pizza! And anything he didn't want to eat he would turn to me with a big smile on his face and say yummy as he went to put it in my mouth. Funny kid:)

Turns out Traj likes Rootbeer floats just as much as Shaye does. 

Ready to go see the airplanes!

While I was at work on Saturday Shaye and Traj took a trip to the Aerospace Museum by our house at Hill Air Force Base. 

Trajen looks confused? Really he's just saying, "I hold it!" Cause he was to take the picture.

Get ready for lift off!!

Trajen and I did lots of coloring. Saturday night I was preparing our primary lesson and Traj was helping me color the pictures.

This is my favorite! Here he is after bath time sporting his super cool robe.

Traj with his camera, he is very into taking pictures these days.

Getting his beloved apple juice ready to take to church. We were a little worried about how church would turn out but Traj was awesome! He went to nursery and had a great time. 

This isn't the best picture of me but I love Trajen's smile. After our Sunday afternoon naps we just had fun playing around the house. This is Traj and I after we had been dancing around the house to my favorite Taylor Swift! He would try to copy everything I did as danced around it was so fun.  That was my favorite activity.

Two little monkey's jumping on the bed.

Traj very much enjoyed his horsey rides provided by Shaye. And in this picture it looks like Shaye is getting into character by the look on his face.

Hold on tight!

Thanks for coming to stay with us Trajen we miss you! Come back and see us soon! Also thanks Mikkel and Jerron for trusting us with him, we love him:)