Costa Rica

Well I'm back full force!! My sister called me and told me she saw a blog printed into a book and how cool it was. Last year I tried to print out my blog and it would not work so I gave up on the whole blog thing..

I started doing this so I would have a journal and when I thought it was not going to happen I went back to the normal handwriting journal. I finally printed out my 2008 blog and I love it. YiPEE

My parents surprised us for Christmas with a trip to Costa Rica with all my siblings. We went in July and had the time of our lives. I've never laughed so hard except all the other times I'm with my family . Let me tell you how great it is to have 5 married siblings and 2 sisters; one still in high school and the other who is single at BYU. They had to plug their ears more than half the time. We really do have such a great time together and we have such amazing parents who still enjoy being with all of us. They rented a beautiful ocean front house for the first few days and during that time we played rook, 99 and read lots of books while enjoying the beautiful view!!!

We then went over to Mt. Aernal and went zip lining, white water rafting, souvenir shopping and attempted to see the volcano which was another one of those laughing moments..

Ready-Set- Take off

Lace n Ash on the Segways

All of us girls doing our souvenir shopping

Grandpa and Grandma having a grand time

more souvenir shopping

Sunday activity

This is where we ate breakfast, lunch and dinner

Tortuga Island

Zip lining

Enjoying the banana which brought back many memories

Here we are acting like we were 15 again

This is the house we stayed in

Our beautiful boat ride to Tortuga Island

Ash and Miles

Mason and Scott Zip lining

We were surrounded by these monkeys

view from our house with jaxson and Miley

jungle walk to see the monkeys

getting on our plane to go to Tambor

4th of July with Campbell's

We had such a wonderful time hanging out with Brian and Heidi's family. Heidi is the best hostess and makes such amazing food. We went to the aquatic center to swim and then to a fire work show.

Jett's 1st missing tooth

Kindergarten Grad

Jett you sure loved Challenger Basic and your teacher Mrs. Whall. We will be going to a school closer to the house and we hope it is just as good.

Preschool graduation

We are so proud of you Roc! You have become such a sweet little boy. You are such a great example to your siblings. We can't believe how fast you are growing up. You love to play blocks and swords with your brothers. Your favorite food is fruit. You love to tell dad and I we are the best parents. You always use your good manners and say "please" and "thank you."

Roc went to a preschool down the street from us

Miss Rinna

Macey's modeling shots

Natalie and Macey playing with my camera. They love to take pictures

My birthday!!

We were in California for my birthday. I had a really nice day. We went shopping then to lunch and then off the the Tea Party in down town Laguna. We had a great time and it was really good for our kids to see what was important to us. Mason took me to dinner to an Asian place that we both did not like too much!!

Ashlyn babysitting for us while we went out

Way to go

Macey waving her Flag to see who will give her the thumbs up

WOW!! There were some creative signs made this is just one of many

macey took this of Miley on my birthday

my birthday lunch with family

ouch

I had to take this picture of my boys with scratches on both of their noses. Too funny!

We had a really nice Easter in Laguna. The kids woke up as usual to look for easter eggs and baskets. They got new suits, books, candy and transformers. We had a really nice quiet day.

3 musketeers

Mason came down stairs to get the boys to bed and found this. There is nothing that makes a mom happier than having your boys cuddling so close

Tate and Macey hanging out with the chickens

Macey ad Tate hanging out with Ty and Kirsten's chickens