Visiting all of our kids!

We headed to St. George thursday April 1. Donny picked me up in Salt Lake after the General YW leadership training meeting. We met Kim for lunch in Provo and had a great visit with her, then drove the rest of the way. Stayed with Mandy and Cam thurs. night. Kelle came over for awhile too. We went to Tag's preschool easter egg hunt to say hi to Miss Lori and ended up staying the whole time visiting with Bruce, Kalli and Lacy. It was fun to catch up on things and play with the kids. Then Donny and I drove to Vegas to stay at the condo for the rest of Easter/conference weekend. McKelle, Markie, and Jessica came down after a school dance, saturday night and stayed till sunday. It was a little cool but we got some good sun rays. Oh, and the worst thing ever is that we forgot our camera. Who does that? Therefore no pictures of any of this. Kelle did bring her camera so she has a few.
Anywhoo get home sunday night. I work a full week and little miss Emma Kate decides to come four weeks early and is born April 6th. It was so awesome cuz I was training at the Logan hospital for my job and so I was there!!! She is sooo little and petite, you just forget. We were so thrilled and glad that everything was ok and they came home the next day. On thursday night Kim and Blair drove to logan to see the baby and Donny and I went over to. Fun visiting with eveyone.

Kim and Blair look pretty natural don't you think!! So excited for them! Mandy is next in line though with a boy!




We flew to California Friday night, April 6th to spend a week with Jason, Claudia and kids. I have been craving fish and chips at Ventura Harbor soooo bad! I was super excited to go for lunch on Saturday. It was yummy as ever! Then we walked along the beach a bit.


We got up Sunday and went to sacrament meeting and then headed for Indio. This is a picture of the condo there. We love it. It was so green and flowers everywhere. The roses were huge and smelled so good. Wasn't quite as hot as we would have liked but I won't complain.





Claudia had found out about this place called Paramount Ranch. A western town(where they filmed Dr. Quinn medicine woman) where you can take awesome pictures. So we took their family picture and a ton of others.



We went to Zuma Beach afterwards! A little windy and cool but it was just great to walk in the sand and listen to the waves. The kids loved chasing the seagulls and we had to keep telling them to come back to us.



We flew home thurs. April 15 and picked up Maddie and Tag at Marions. We are going to watch them while they work on getting the Logan house back in shape. They stayed till Sunday. Oh and Saturday we had a shower for Jocelyn and baby Emma. So in about a 2 weeks span we spent time with all of our kids all the way from Logan,St. George, Vegas, and California. And did I say we even bought a new car in the middle of all of this. Wow