Day 1 at Disneyland

This day started out great!! Everyone was so excited to get a start on our fun vacation. After getting a delicious breakfast we raced out to wait for the bus that would take us to the Magical Kingdom:) We waited for about a half-hour. We all decided they need a better bus schedule. Just as I thought to get a picture the bus showed up....

Whoops, no one really wanted to look at the camera.

One adult and one child were in charge of "each other" for the vacation. We all did pretty good. Grandpa and Porter lost each other for about 2 minutes.

Grandma and Madi

Grandpa and Porter

Dad and Ry

Surprised?

Mom and Brayd......

We were off!!

As we got to Disneyland we went to take a picture by the gates and the camera wouldn't work. So, after getting chewed out by Aaron:) I went to charge the batteries. It still didn't work! It ended up being broken. So, we had to buy a new one that night.

We went on lots of rides!! The longest we had to wait to get on a ride was like 15 minutes and that included walking time to get to where the ride actually started.

We went on Space Mountain lots of times and I think that was the favorite. Brayd was able to go on all the rides too!

We watched the parade that night then headed back to the hotel.

Good times at Disneyland!

Off To Disneyland!

About a month ago Aaron thought it would be fun to take the kids to Disneyland! I tried to say no because the kids were in school. I lost. We went to Disneyland....

Aaron's parents came with us and we had some good times!

We stopped in Vegas and Ry got to open his presents from grandma Smith early.

He was very excited!

Lots of fun stuff from Grandma. Porter always has to figure things out. After all, he is the big brother.

We got to our Hotel, went to dinner than came back to swim. The kids did great on the drive and they were very excited for Disneyland tomorrow!!

But first....

Porter lost his front tooth!

Gotta love with all the teeth start comin' out:)

Bonnie's Birthday Night

My birthday continued to be a great day!! My family gets together every week but since it was my birthday, my family was cute enough to throw a "surprise party" so, we had dinner at Bud and Moss' house. They spent lots of time preparing and they made it perfect!!

My dad used to always have obstacle courses at our birthday parties so he made one for my 30th:) Aaron even took a few pictures while I humored my dad.....

Taking Off with Jason and Bud in tow

Heading for the playhouse.

Oh, Bud lost her phone.

Thanks for picking that up Jason.

Under the table.

That was rough!

Made it!

Doing a sweet roll on the tramp.

Whoops, Alan was in the way.

Aaron explaining something....Who knows What!

After the excitement of the obstacle course was over we went inside and played a game of "who knows Bonnie best?" It was fun to see who knew what about me.

Bud made this sweet poster for me. It had a bunch of pictures of me throughout the years. I quite like it.....

Then this poster....

Trini and Nicole also share November birthdays-the adults in the family anyway-So we had some Oreo pie and blew out our candles....

Trini, me and Nicole.

Something was funny!

Bud and I uploading some songs for Ry on his shuffle for his birthday....

We then busted out some Karaoke.....

All of us got into it and had a great time singing

Bud really rocked it!

Brayd was singing.

Ry was in the middle of it all too.

I think my dad was in heaven!

There were lots of balloons around and the kids had a blast with them.

They got them all to cling to the wall.

I think Brayd was worn out from all the festivities.

The party was a blast. It was so fun for Russ and Nicole to even come up from Vegas to celebrate with us.....The crazy thing was this was only the beginning of a crazy, busy week!

Now, for California....

But first....

When Ossie Baby is thirsty, this is where he goes!

Bonnie's Birth(weekend).....

If this birthday is any sort of preface to how this year is going to be than I'm going to have an AWESOME ONE.......

This, quite possibly has been my BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!! It all started on Friday night......We went to dinner with Brent and Heather at Outback. It was great of course! After dinner the plan was to go shopping for Ryan's birthday which is on Wednesday, but because we are leaving for DISNEYLAND on Monday, we wouldn't have time to shop any other time. Well, when dinner was dying down Aaron was hinting that he wanted to go to a movie, not shopping. What happened from then, until Heather and I were running to my car was all a blur. I do remember Aaron telling us to go shopping for ourselves-pretty much to go on a shopping spree!! We were so excited but we had less than an hour to get some good stuff!! So, we headed to Maurices of course!

The next hour was a BLAST!! There is nothing better than shopping with your best friend on someone else's dime:)

After our time was up and the mall was closing we did make it to Wal-Mart to get Ry some presents.

Saturday was filled with more shopping and fun! I went to Vegas with some friends from my ward. It was so fun to get to know these cute ladies better. We pretty much shopped until we dropped! We all decided we are old. That's o.k. we have accepted it.

This is the result of shopping! I had so much fun and am excited to wear all my goods!

This morning I woke up-early of course! I can't seem to sleep in on my birthday. EVER!!

Aaron got up about a half hour later and told me I was a grandma because I can't sleep in. It might be true.

Ry was in charge of the still camera....

My face after seeing the decorated kitchen:) Aaron even filled balloons with helium from his work. He makes me smile.

Porter the camera-man.

All set up with my breakfast. Aaron made me a most delicious omelet with 8 egg whites, mushrooms, tomatoe and cheese. Complete with wheat toast and a bottled water! He's the best!!

Check out that food!

And the cute boy behind me:)

Aaron cooked up the egg yolks for the kids. The other boys didn't like theirs so Ry took care of them.

That's a good eater Ry!

I then got to open my presents...I got some Avril Lavigne perfume, a gift card to Maurices, a blender and a Kitchen Aid. As a mom, I'm really excited for the kitchen stuff. Of course they are both "Professional Grade" I guess when you marry someone that always wants what is best I benefit from it!

Madi was so cute to make me a necklace and some earrings. The necklace is the one that I am wearing. One day while I was napping she measured my neck-I love this girl-. She put all the kids names on it. She then wrote me a card. At the bottom she had erased something so I looked closely and it said....

P.S. Porter and Brayden didn't love you enough to write their names....

She told me she was mad when she wrote.

I laughed so hard. They did end up writing their names. That is so something I would say. Maybe she is a little like me....

I do need to thank my mother-in-law.....She taught Aaron that birthdays are a HUGE deal! She loves them and makes a HUGE deal out of every one of her kids birthdays. I'm so glad that Aaron was raised by her....

It is 10 o'clock in the morning on my birthday and it has already been an awesome one!

I guess that because it is getting to be the middle of November, we should be expecting some cooler weather. It is fun to wear sweatshirts, but not so fun to be cold. For dinner I made Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup that is delicious! We then waited for Aaron to get home and had some Crock-Pot Cocoa by the fire.

As we were sitting around the fire Aaron told stories of being a boy-scout. The kids loved it and thought it was just SO FUN!!

Ry enjoyed a little CAFFEINE FREE Dr. Pepper......

I do my best to not let the kids drink soda, but occasionally their dad thinks he needs one. So, to keep him happy I keep them around. But only caffeine free these days:).

I have to take some responsibility for it. When I am pregnant I LOVE Dr. Pepper!!!!! (Not caffeine free). It just tastes SO SO good to me. Do you think they started loving it in the womb???

It was such a nice day out and the kids were already outside having a good time. So, I decided to cook some dinner-nuggets and fries-and eat outside......

The kids thought it was the coolest thing to take a break from eating and go ride for a minute then come back.

I can't believe all the freedom that comes with having "older" kids.

Do You Ever?

Do you ever just feel.........blessed?

Porter did so good at doing his homework this afternoon so I let him go out and ride the motorcycle. As I heard the motorcycle start up in the garage I realized just how lucky I am, to be able to have a yard big enough that I can keep a close eye on my boys as they do their jumps. All while making ranch dressing for dinner.

I am starting to LOVE hearing the motorcycles purr in my back yard.

It makes me happy:)