Yosemite Family

Top 11 of 2011

2012-01-01T05:48:00.000-08:00

Here are my top 11 images of 2011.

Mattie's perfect silhouette. With her ponytail that was too long to fit in the frame :)

Jake's silhouette

This is La Jolla Coves and it might be one of the prettiest spots on earth.

Jake had found a shell and he wanted his picture with his shell. I love this picture, it melts my heart.

Mattie (and Jake) took ridding lessons in 2011. Mattie loved every minute of it.

My Jake.

Happy Valentines from Jake to me :)

Miss Mattie being Miss Mattie!!!

Mattie practicing for her Ballet exams.

My take on the famous Breakfast at Tiffany's Image.

My little ones.

Happy 2012 to you!!!

2011 Review

2011-12-31T17:09:00.000-08:00

Jake is 6!

2011-12-30T16:59:00.000-08:00

My little baby boy turned 6! I guess at some point I will have to stop calling him my baby boy, but for now he doesn't seem to mind it!
I was able to talk him into doing a few birthday pictures, but as soon as I was ready, he had changed his mind. Negotiating with a 6 year old is getting tricky.

Christmas Morning

2011-12-30T07:02:00.000-08:00

Our Christmas Tree before the madness.

Jakes gifts from Santa

Mattie's gifts from Santa

The ramp was from a very cool Grandma Audrey---the kids could not believe it.

The "wall" to keep peeking out.

They didn't break through it, they went under it...

The gloves and scarf that Jake had wanted to badly he cried for. He couldn't believe Santa was able to bring them.

Mattie was so happy.

Sugar Plum Fairy.

Merry Christmas!!!

Christmas Eve

2011-12-29T08:00:00.000-08:00

After celebrating Kendra's birthday, we went to Ma and Pa's house to celebrate Christmas Eve.

And of course wait for Santa's first stop.

Checking the chimney

Kelly and Johnny

Did he come?

Who is that i see in the window?

Hurry

I don't know, thats not a sight word :)

So happy to open his gift.

Not so happy when he opened a book :(

Mattie loved her ballerina ornament

It was a book, not a toy....

Our tree

Christmas Past

2011-12-23T20:39:00.000-08:00

Just remembering Pa lately.
This was taken on 12/22/09 at the Mission Inn.

Nutcracker!

2011-12-23T20:32:00.000-08:00

Mattie was in the Nutcracker again this year! This year she was a candy cane! Here are a few pictures of her this year!

And here she was last year

And in 2009, on the right.

And in 2008

I don't have pictures from the earlier years on my external hard drives and I am way to tired to dig out the dvds :)

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-23T19:21:00.000-08:00

Jimmy is here!!!

2011-11-30T21:59:00.000-08:00

Jimmy our 'Elf on the Shelf' is here!!!! He joined our family last year, and I realize I failed to introduce him.
Please meet Jimmy.

{Jimmy, reports back to Santa every night about Mattie and Jake's naughty or nice status}

To introduce us to the Holiday season, he made a ginger bread house last night (his first night with us this year). He also brought both Mattie and Jake an advent calendar to help them count down to the big day.

Jimmy may be old, but he is on facebook, if you would like to be friends with him, please do Jimmy's fb page

Yosemite at Thanksgiving

2011-11-30T05:52:00.000-08:00

I mentioned it was cold right? So to keep warm we went to the Awanee for their huge fire places...

My sister Kelly and her family

The boys

Yosemite at Thanksgiving

2011-11-29T15:35:00.000-08:00

During the winter, we stay at Camp Curry. They have this cool tree chair :)

North Dome

Our 'cabin' was right next to my sisters ;)

There was a "friendly" game of football!

Yosemite at Thanksgiving

2011-11-29T15:24:00.000-08:00

When your freezing in Yosemite, where do you go, to the WARM Visitor Center :)

Jake is pointing to where we hiked to earlier in the day.

Did you know that there is a Indian Village in Yosemite?

And a cemetery

And a post office.

Yosemite at Thanksgiving

2011-11-29T15:17:00.000-08:00

We went to Yosemite (my favorite place on earth) for the week of Thanksgiving. It was COLD, no joking, really cold.

Here is Bridalveil Falls in the evening---so pretty.

A buck! Very cool, nothing something we see often in the Valley

On our way to Vernal Falls

Did I mention it was cold?

You can see Yosemite Falls right in the middle.

Jake is a Soccer Star

2011-11-26T20:44:00.000-08:00

Jakes team finally won a game!!!
and Jake even scored a goal, in the right goal too!!!

My Spy Kids

2011-11-26T20:10:00.000-08:00

For Halloween this year, the kids were Spy Kids

Mattie's pumpkin

Jake's pumpkin

Halloween Party

2011-10-25T18:01:00.000-07:00

My mom holds an awesome halloween party every year!!!

Here are some pics :)

My very own spy kids :)

The very yummy cake I made :)

Dry Ice punch

Soul Surfer

2011-10-25T17:32:00.000-07:00

Mattie and Jake have been asking to see Soul Surfer. So like a good mom, I got it from netflix, and we watched it. It was very good! Jake, Mattie, Dave and I enjoyed it. The only problem is that the week before we had watch rouge sharks on the discovery channel. Jake really took soul surfer to heart, and now he is drawing pictures of people with missing limbs, because the shark bit it off, or this picture of shark eating someone.

Sorry its a little hard to see, its an original pencil :)

He did however get back into the ocean without a second thought and went swimming after watch both films :)

Jake

2011-10-25T17:25:00.000-07:00

Soccer Season

2011-10-09T08:27:00.000-07:00

Red Tide

2011-10-02T15:53:00.000-07:00

I've been hearing little bits here and there about there being a red tide. I've seen them before but I wanted to take the kiddos to go and see it. So we headed down to Seal Beach. There was no red tide at seal beach :( But there was a beautiful sunset. I tortured the kids a little.

Look it, they love their mom :)

The pier in seal beach

That little guy there is Jake. We are going to pint this for his room :)

After we left seal beach, we drove down to Huntington and saw the red tide, but i was too tired to get my camera, but it was pretty cool, it looks like a glow stick leaked into the waves!!

1st day of school

2011-08-31T18:55:00.000-07:00

First day of Kindergarten

First day of 4th Grade, UPPER GRADES!!

Back to School

2011-08-26T08:01:00.000-07:00

Its back to school time. I saw on a blog a long time ago, since I have been doing these since mattie was in Kindergarten, but on the first day of school, I give the teachers a little card with information about my child, just something to help them learn my kid.

And this year, I did this on the back...

Miss Mattie

2011-08-25T14:10:00.000-07:00

As part of Mattie's birthday celebration, I decided that it was time for an interview to document this time in her life. I know its late, but here is her interview :)

Back to School

2011-08-19T18:25:00.000-07:00

School starts in a week or so, so I did the kiddos school pictures :)

Tennis Camp - Jake

2011-08-16T10:36:00.000-07:00

Jake might have some Andre Agassi tendencies, I am not sure what he is yelling....

What, are you talking to me?

Tennis Camp - Mattie

2011-08-16T10:29:00.000-07:00

Mattie and Jake both did tennis camp this summer!!

I love the happy smile one mattie's face.

Kendra's Family

2011-08-13T08:45:00.000-07:00

A few of my favorites of Kendra's family from Oceanside this summer.

Karate

2011-08-13T08:21:00.000-07:00

Jake has been wanting to take Karate forever. So this summer he has been taking Karate.

I hadn't mentioned to Jake that I was bringing my camera, he wasn't really happy with me when he heard the shutter click.

He is yelling something in Japanese

Jake earned his first stripe

Mammoth Trip Day 3

2011-08-13T07:58:00.000-07:00

Day 3 the sun came out and stayed! So we started our day by fishing for our dinner.

Doing the fish dance, its similar to a rain dance however there is a lag time in results.

Finally we caught a fish! Now keep in mind, we don't have food for dinner tonight if we don't catch more fish or find pizza hut that will deliver :)

Well the fish were not biting so we headed back to Mammoth to go on the Gondola to the top!

Top of the world, 11,506 feet, we live at a whopping 56 feet.

I loved the clouds!

After the Gondola ride, we let the kids climb the rock wall. Mattie rocked, she raced up nearly to the top in record setting speed then noticed she was about 50 feet in the air and decided she would rather come down.

Jake took more encouragement to get on the wall.

then more encouragement to keep going, but he did make it to the top and then rang the bell!

Now zip lining, Mattie was all over this!

So we headed back to our campsite to fish for our dinner, and Mattie's fish dance kicked in!

Hello dinner.

Now you see the two fish waiting to be eaten off to the right, well Jake would go pet them and say its okay your going to be my dinner :)

After it was dark we did some light painting!

Mammoth Trip Day 2

2011-08-13T07:46:00.000-07:00

Did I mention the rain? Well it rained, and rained, so we drove up to Mammoth Ski Resort for the day.

Then we drove around the different lakes a little

We stopped at Twin Lakes

We also did some off roading in the drizzle while the kiddos had a very bouncy long nap!

Mammoth Trip Day 1

2011-08-11T08:37:00.000-07:00

For our summer vacation this year, we went up to the Mammoth area. We tent trailer camped up at Convict Lake. The weather promised rain, and it rained every day we were there but it was still a good trip.

Our 'Campgrounds' Please note Miss Mattie relaxing in the hammock

After our campgrounds were set up, we headed the 100 yards to the lake for some fishing.

And Dave caught one!! But it was too small, so back it went to be caught another day.

And then Dave caught a keeper!

Jake trying to catch his own.

Since we only caught the one keeper, we gave it away and headed back to bbq some hamburgers before the rain came.
But Jake and I went on a photo walk

After dinner, our own deer came to visit and accept any leftovers. We named him Bambi.

I am pretty sure he would have eaten from Jakes hand if I had let him.

OC Fair with the cousins

2011-07-23T08:19:00.000-07:00

We went to the Orange County Fair yesterday with some cousins.

looking at some cows

baby chickens

kendra and porter visiting from utah

chickens

not even 24 hour old piglet :)

the BIG slide

Swimmers!

2011-07-23T08:10:00.000-07:00

Mattie and Jake have been in swimming lessons this summer! They have been having a blast!

walking the plank

Happy Birthday to Miss Mattie

2011-07-09T18:05:00.000-07:00

Miss Mattie had a very happy birthday, she woke up to a room filled with balloons :)

Then we headed to disneyland to go on the new mermaid ride.

And we stopped by the car's display

Then we went to Cheesecake Factory for a birthday lunch.

Then on sunday we had a family party for her. She wanted to have a rainbow cake :)

Jessie's Family

2011-07-02T08:54:00.000-07:00

Here are a few of my cousin Jessie and her cute family :)

Since Dave asked so nicely.....

2011-07-02T08:46:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago, we went down to the beach so I could take a few pictures of my cousin Jessie and her cute family. But I knew I could get a few of mattie and jake too!

Miss Mattie and Scout!

This one is on my new phone case!!!

And because it was such a beautiful place, here is a landscape

Miss Mattie

2011-06-28T04:50:00.000-07:00

9 years ago today, Miss Mattie made us a family.

She was just a little thing and fit inside her dad's baseball hat.

And now, just look how big she is.

And for some fun birthday pictures, we did some inspired by Breakfast at Tiffany's!

Watch out world, here comes Mattie!!!
Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

Miss Mattie

2011-06-27T22:07:00.001-07:00

New Blog Changes

2011-06-24T11:28:00.001-07:00

If you are a google reader then click on over, I made a new header, but I feel a little bad the picture wasn't in yosemite :(

Love Letters

2011-06-24T11:11:00.000-07:00

Jake had a 'friend' in preschool, not a girlfriend just a friend who is a girl. Anyways school has been out for a few weeks, so he wanted to write her a letter, so he did, all by himself.

It says:
dear angelina,
i hope you feel good
Jake

He wants to make sure it goes out in the mail today!--too funny

Perfect attendance!

2011-06-24T11:03:00.000-07:00

Way to go kid!

Jake!y!!!

2011-06-24T10:50:00.000-07:00

Jake graduated speech!!! This is a huge deal for him!!!! Way to go Jakey!

Jake

2011-05-27T15:20:00.000-07:00

Just a silly picture. We were at the beach doing some pictures for our babysitter (she was in the ocean in her prom dress) and Jake and Mattie were helping me. At least the Jake is prepared!

Reader

2011-05-27T15:15:00.000-07:00

Mattie has read more than 400 minutes each month since October! So she got a reading award at school yesterday!

Jedi Jake

2011-05-26T11:24:00.000-07:00

Jake and I went to Disneyland a few weeks ago. While we were there, Jake was able to take part in Jedi Training! Here are a few pictures of his training.

Proper Light-saver handling

Now he has to face Darth Vadar

My Jedi

Its official. He is a Jedi.

After he got his certificate he asked me in all seriousness, if he was a real Jedi. I said yes, then he asked forever? He is taking this serious, luckily it fits in with his plan to be a police officer.

Easter

2011-04-30T10:37:00.000-07:00

Since everyone was able to get together for Easter this year, I pretty much forced everyone into the Easter clothes and off to a field not all that close to my mom's house. I knew it would be prefect. Here are the pictures from that day. Katie and Kendra, your cd (to share) will be in the mail next week. Kelly I will put them on your computer for Brent to use in your mother's day present for next year :)

Peeps 2011

2011-04-23T09:53:00.000-07:00

So my heart just hasn't been into the peep off this year, but the kids remembered last years set ups and wanted to do some this year. So today, (the day before the deadline) we finally got some peep shots
Here is mine: Peeps Camping

And Jakes, Peeps camping with humans, his title not mine

And Matties, the Royal Wedding Kate Peppleton and Prince Peepiam

And Matties, the Royal Wedding Princess Pepial and Prince Eric.

Pa 1924-2011

2011-04-21T20:33:00.000-07:00

My Pa passed away early today. He was a wonderful grandfather and will be missed.

Our Trip to the Arctic!

2011-04-07T15:36:00.000-07:00

Man, it was as cold first day of spring break in the arctic.....

at Sea World

Helping in the Vineyard

2011-03-27T08:53:00.000-07:00

and so can you..... go find out how here.

Super Moon

2011-03-20T20:08:00.000-07:00

Silhouettes

2011-03-05T15:56:00.000-08:00

Miss Mattie

2011-03-05T14:40:00.000-08:00

I found these pictures of Mattie that I took this summer.

Miss Mattie

2011-03-01T15:03:00.000-08:00

My Miss Mattie. She was freezing when I asked her to please let me take some picture, but of course she let me :) That is just how she is. On Sunday, Jake was supposed to give a talk in primary, well I stepped out for a few minutes, and some how missed Jake's talk, but don't worry, Mattie was there, she helped him give the exact talk we had practiced, and they both did a great job!

Happy Valentines

2011-02-03T10:05:00.000-08:00

For the family :)

For Jake's class

For Mattie's class, its a bookmark

And because I may be a little obessed

Top 10 of 2010!

2011-02-01T15:04:00.000-08:00

Mattie and her Horse

2011-02-01T07:37:00.000-08:00

So not to be done up by Jake, here is our own Miss Mattie on Summer.

The two kiddos are taking classes right here in Anaheim at Fun with Horses

Jake and his shell

2011-02-01T07:31:00.000-08:00

While we were in San Diego, I wanted to go to the la jolla cove for some early morning pictures. Jake wanted to come with me. While we were on our photo walk, Jake found a shell. He asked if he could have his picture with his shell.

Well after the photo walk, we went back to the hotel, and Jake put down his shell. Dave noticed that the shell had moved! Upon further inspection, the shell was not a pretty shell but rather a Hermit Crab! We told Jake he could keep his new pet, but he was not having that. We took the crab back to where he had found him and released him back into the wild.

Here are a few more I snapped while on our photo walk

Silly Boy--- he is holding tight to the Ipod!

The tree where my parents got engaged.

and a few of the ocean that morning

I printed this one pretty large and plan on hanging in the kiddos bathroom.

and of course the seals-- I am have been a little close :)

San Diego

2011-02-01T07:17:00.000-08:00

Continuing our photo review of our weekend in San Diego..... I wanted to take the kids to the mormon battalion Neither Dave nor I had been their since the remodeling, so we weren't sure what to expect. The kids loved panning for gold.

The did not want their picture taken on the hacienda scene

After we went through the visitor center, we headed back to Old Town to look through some of the houses and of course have mexican for lunch :)

Sea World, San Diego Trip

2011-01-29T08:01:00.000-08:00

While we were in San Diego for the weekend, we went to Sea World! We got to watch the Sea Lion Show.

We of course saw Shamu

Jake and Dave sat in the last row of the 'soak zone' (they did not get wet) Mattie and I sat in the safe for curly hair and cameras zone ;)

Jake was our navigator. He planned out our day with the park map

and of course I may have snapped a few of the kids

Mattie was so excited to get her picture with the Penguin.

Jake would not pose for a picture with the silly girl penguin, but had they had a boy one, he would have.

Love is in the air

2011-01-27T10:27:00.000-08:00

Valentine's is sneaking up, so last saturday, before riding lessons, we did a mini-photoshot! Things may have got a little silly!

I love this one of Mattie!!

And last year, my Christmas cactus did not bloom :( but this year it did!! And what is more important, is that I have kept it alive for over 2 years!!!

Crystal Cove

2011-01-15T18:18:00.000-08:00

This morning the kids and I went down to Cyrstal Cove for a little fun.

Jake and his horse

2011-01-15T18:16:00.000-08:00

Since Dave is now working on Saturdays, I thought it would be fun for us to get out and do something. So I signed the kiddos up for horse ridding lessons. Jake was super brave, and had a blast!

He hopped right on to the saddle, no trouble at all

after class feeding the horses.

Mattie is signed up too, but her class went where I couldn't watch, so watch out for pictures next week

Discovery Zone

2011-01-09T08:34:00.000-08:00

Over Christmas break, we went to thte discovery center.
They always like to build a dam and trap up all the water.

Mattie noramlly won't do the hockey game, but that day she did, and she rocked it! She stoped 4/5 goals!!!

Christmas Morning

2010-12-29T08:54:00.000-08:00

Trapped in the hallway

Santas gifts

Merry Christmas

2010-12-23T07:24:00.000-08:00

Yosemite in the Snow!!!

2010-12-15T13:10:00.000-08:00

Here are some landscapes I took while in Yosemite for Thanksgiving.

The veiw from our cabin

Our cabin

North Dome

The last two were accepted by the Church for their use in their website.

Nutcracker Time!

2010-12-15T12:36:00.000-08:00

Miss Mattie was in the 5th Annual Nutcracker! This year she was a soldier. She did an awesome job!

She is the second from the right , below

Jakes's video from Santa

2010-12-14T12:30:00.001-08:00

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/guest/jTi_QVaTNszIgZOPR91Hkg

Mattie's video from Santa

2010-12-14T06:56:00.005-08:00

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/guest/p1h6I1pmjSe9f8BcUDrzHQ

Mattie's video from Santa

2010-12-14T06:56:00.001-08:00

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/guest/p1h6I1pmjSe9f8BcUDrzHQ

A new layout

2010-12-02T09:13:00.001-08:00

The blog got a new header, I know finally :) So if you are a google reader, go click over and check it out.

Yosemite in the Snow!!!

2010-12-02T07:15:00.000-08:00

We headed up to Yosemite for Thanksgiving weekend. I was expecting Fall, but I got a Winter Wonderland! We bought a sled and embranced the snow :)

Here is our HEATED tent cabin in Camp Curry

Mr Jake-- freezing

Our 'hike' through the snow to dinner

Yep, we went sledding.
This is a video of Jakers Sledding.

and this is miss mattie on the sled!

Golfing

2010-11-07T12:50:00.000-08:00

Never in a million years did I think I would end up in a family of golfers. But here I am. I went with them golfing on Friday (I did not golf). Here are a few of my shots :)

Halloween Time

2010-11-05T06:21:00.000-07:00

Last week was Halloween. Here are some pictures from the games at Mama's house.

I love this one, its like she just cast a spell.

Jake lost something today.....

2010-10-23T20:35:00.000-07:00

HIS TRAINING WHEELS!!!

So, sort of joking today, we told Jake it was time to take off his training wheels, he said ok, now? So we took them off.

Dave gave him a little push,

And he was off!

And within a few minutes, he was trying tricks and asking for a ramp. Mattie kept saying go slower--not so fast.

Halloween Time

2010-10-23T20:18:00.000-07:00

Since it rained today, soccer was cancelled!!! :)
So we went to the movies and then got our pumpkins and came home and carved them!

Jake and Dave's creation

Miss Matties

My cat

Jake is a Soccer Star

2010-10-21T13:32:00.000-07:00

Here is Jakers. He was awesome too!

he had a small injury, so he needed a little hug :)

Mattie is a Soccer Star

2010-10-21T12:59:00.000-07:00

Mattie had a game this past saturday. They lost, but mattie rocked!

She was plowed over by a much better girl. Dave and I both thought for sure she would be coming off the field crying, but no, she hopped right up and got back to playing.

Look at the happy girl!

Once again, she was knocked over, and once again she was right back up off to play.

2010-10-14T20:53:00.000-07:00

Apple Season! Last saturday we went up to Riley's Farm in Oak Glen and picked apples

Then we made apple cider :) a lot of apple cider.

Primary Program

2010-10-03T18:25:00.000-07:00

Mattie and Jake were in our ward's primary program last week. They both did their parts wonderfully.

Jake

2010-09-30T10:09:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, Jake decided he did not like the way I had organized his shoes, so he took over, if you want a job done right, do it your self!
Here is how he likes his shoes

and yes it is totally blocking his door :(

Soccer Season has started

2010-09-14T17:56:00.000-07:00

Jakes first day of soccer!!

stretches...

I'm at soccer!

My kid is number 2. Ready to go!

And now miss mattie

THE VICTORY TUNNEL

This was Jakes first season of soccer, Matties 4th. We always 'pay' our kiddos with slushies if they get a goal (they usually get a slushy anyways but they haven't figured it out yet) Dave told Jake that he Jake made a goal, he would get a slushy. The game started, Jake took the ball, and scored, ran straight to Dave and asked to go get his slushy, he was finished, game over, slushy time. Dave had to talk him into finishing out the game. He ended up getting 3 goals (in the right goal)!

Miss Mattie is not U10 which means her games are competitive. Her team did great up until the 4th quarter where they got tired and hot and stopped caring, so their 3-0 game going into the 4th, ended up being a 3-3.

10 years ago today......

2010-09-08T05:44:00.000-07:00

I married my best friend.....................

2010-09-07T17:39:00.001-07:00

too little kids, I *might* want them back tomorrow, but for right now they can be yours :(

I've been spotted

2010-09-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

for the best OC Photography Blog!!! Please, please, please go and vote for me and of course feel free to post the link on your blogs/facebook!
click to vote --Kristie's Fotos :)

Thanks so much!

Jakes kindness

2010-09-02T20:14:00.001-07:00

Some of you know Jake is a night owl. Well he his still up and Dave came home. Dave gets his dinner (waiting in the microwave for him) and starts to tell me about his day. Well Dave is fine, but he had a little excitement at work and got in little scuffle and got kicked in the leg and his leg is sore. Well Jake is in and out of the room during the story. Well all the sudden Jake rushes in with an ice pack for his dad. Such a sweetie. I didn't even know Jake was paying any attenion. Moral of the story Jake is always listening and processing. Also stupid people of orange county just answer the boys in blue's questions--it's just easier that way!!!!!

What keeps me going.....

2010-09-02T18:00:00.001-07:00

"The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner." — Gordon B. Hinckley

1st day of 3rd grade

2010-08-30T19:47:00.000-07:00

Miss Mattie started 3rd grade today! No tears, and no fears!!!

She had request to please have curls for the occasion :)

That's right, 3rd grade baby!

New backpack

New kicks :)

Water Park

2010-08-19T19:36:00.000-07:00

Have you ever wondered what Jakers does while Mattie is in ballet?
Well, during the summer we walk over to the fullerton farmers market and water park!

He even had enough fun to let me take a smiling picture :)

Orange County Fair

2010-08-19T12:37:00.000-07:00

We were lucky enough to score viewing rights to the goat show, we did double the audience :)

My pretty Mattie

Nasty Fair food, we opted for Wahoos

Heaven on Earth

2010-08-14T19:47:00.000-07:00

Isn't it pretty

Mattie's Birthday Party

2010-07-24T10:48:00.000-07:00

I never did post these, but here are a few from Mattie's Birthday Party at Mama and Papa's house

and on her birthday we went to Disneyland, and she got to make a new bear, well a horse, name Goldie. The helper, gave her 8 hearts to put inside her new horse, since it was her 8th birthday!!

Jake

2010-07-24T07:08:00.000-07:00

Jake may or may not have fallen asleep in the car, the review board is still out :)

Monterey

2010-07-24T07:03:00.000-07:00

While we were in Big Sur, we went to Monterey for an afternoon

First we stopped off at Pebble Beach Golf Course for Dave

Elephant Seals

2010-07-24T05:27:00.000-07:00

Soccer Camp

2010-07-23T21:11:00.000-07:00

Mattie and Jake spent each morning this week at Soccer Camp. I think they loved it :)

Shin guard check.

hustle

he didn't score :(

Matties Offical Baptism Photos

2010-07-21T21:51:00.000-07:00

So these were taken in May, but I wanted to wait to share them until after the annoucements went out, then life just got crazy, so here we are sharing them now :)

Its Offical--Member Mattie 2010

2010-07-21T21:43:00.000-07:00

Mattie got baptized this weekend! We are so proud of here. Here are a few from Church

Mattie in her dress her Grandma Audrey got her :)

Mattie in the dress my mom made her, so she wouldn't have to wear a church jumper!

and the mini ice cream cone cupcakes I became obsessed with having.