Trip to the Beach!!!

We went to Oceanside with Ryan, April and Cameron. It was a lot of fun minus the mishaps. We were like 15 minutes away from our hotel and a guys pulls up beside us and tells us that our back tire was totally smoking. So we pulled over to check it out. It looked like brake fluid so we didn't want to drive on it for very long so we found the closest shop and stopped. He said that the seal on the axle broke but he would be able to have it fixed by tomorrow for like $800! So we called him the next day and he said that he wouldn't be able to get the part until Wednesday! Very frustrating! So Ryan and April were very nice to tow it back for us behind their RV. Seriously it was very nice. They left their vacation a day early (cause they were planning on leaving Sunday) and when we went to get the trailer they guy wasn't at the liquor store yet (yes the liquor store! very strange) and we had to just wait there for over an hour! We are very appreciative of them. ( Thank you so much!!!) But other than that it was a lot of fun. We went to the beach both days. Bradley wasn't really into it but Ethan liked it.


Bradley

Ethan and Kyle

Bradley. We are trying very hard to get him to stop sucking his thumb. Any suggestions?

Ethan and Bradley

Buried Ethan. He thought he should test the sand out to see if it was edible. Looks like it was to him cause he tried many many times :)

Bradley helping to bury Kyle.

My buried boys!

This is Kyle trying to put Bradley's feet in the water.

He didn't like it very much.

Ethan really liked the water. It was fun to have him stand up and have the waves come and get his feet. He would laugh. Very cute :)

The fam

Ethan and Bradley on our towel. I have no idea what they are looking at.

Crashing in the hotel after the beach. It was sweet. We gave the kids a bath then Kyle took a shower. It was finally my turn and when I was done I came out and Ethan was asleep on Kyle and they were just watching tv. It was cute.

Farnsworth Reunion

This is at the Farnsworth reunion. It was a lot of fun...



Ethan and Grandpa

Bradley and Kyle playing kickball

Running in to home plate!!! Looks like Bradley is having the time of his life!

Bradley

...It was very nice up there. It was very cool and pretty...

...Until the rains came!!!


We put our tent right in the middle of the wash! It was actually a very funny experience. Kyle, Ethan and I were inside the tent and Bradley was right outside and then all of a sudden "Boom! Crack!" The first sounds of thunder and Bradley comes running to the tent and dives on the air mattress screaming and crying. I reached for him and tried to comfort him while trying to hold back my laughter because it was quite comical. So Kyle and I laid on the air mattress listening to the thunder roll and tried to comfort our kids for about half an hour. Then rain started coming and boy did it come! Our tent started to leak right off so Kyle went out into the down pour and put a tarp on top of our tent. That helped a lot. The tarp started blowing off of the tent so Kyle had to go out there for a second time. I was holding both of the boys and trying to comfort them when all of the sudden we hear Kyle yelling and screaming. He had sprained his ankle! So he came back in and I went out and finished. When I came back in everything was okay for a while. We continued to lay there trying to comfort Bradley and in the mean time Ethan fell asleep in Kyle's arms (the joys of parenthood right there). Bradley finally calmed down and started relaxing and singing songs with us when all of the sudden the tent starts to move. I got up to see what was going on. I looked outside of our tent and we were in the middle of a river literally!!! I turned back to Kyle and told him we had to get out of there and go to Ryan and Aprils RV (thanks for the help Ryan and April!!!). So he hobbled over to the car and I took the boys out him. They waited in there while I got all of our stuff out. It was quite the experience. We ended up packing up and going home. We had to leave our tent because we didn't have room in our car to bring it and one of the poles broke and I ripped the zipper. So it wasn't really worth trying to find somebody in the pouring rain that could bring it back for us. Daniel and Kyle's cousin were suppose to dispose of it. Hopefully they did.

That is our ice chest. Our car was parked right to the left of it.

Ethan, Kyle and Bradley in the car waiting for me. By the way that is Bradley's real face. He was terrified, obviously.

Me getting all of the stuff :)

Happy Anniversary!

This past week Kyle and I went to California for a week. It was so nice. Michelle and our family watched the boys. It was really really really nice. (Thanks Michelle!!!) The first day that we got there we went to Hurricane Harbor. That was a lot of fun. We only stayed until about 4. After that we went and checked into our hotel. It was really nice.



This is the lobby.



This is the hallway. It was built in the 1920's. They had an Oscar ceremony there. After we got checked in and everything we walked around downtown LA. And let me tell you! It is just like the movies. There are a ton of homeless people and just scary people too. We walked by this one lady and she was waiting for the bus and all of a sudden she starts going, "Baa... Baa... Baa" really loud. It was weird. Then we walked down a different street and this black, older man comes up to Kyle and says, "Smell my finger." Kyle just said, "No thank you" as we walked by and he starts laughing, this really loud laugh like he knows something we don't "WAAHAHA!" It was really crazy. I felt like the people in Adventures in Babysitting. Then by this time it was dark and we were trying to get back to the hotel and we turned down this street and I saw something dart across the side walk so I stopped and looked ahead and there were at least 8 to 10 huge rats running around!!! It was so disgusting. But we finally made it back to the hotel. I was very glad.



The next day we went and did a session in the Los Angeles Temple. That was very nice.

Kyle thought he was clever :)

After the temple we went to Fogo De Chao.

It is a churrascaria, Brazilian Steakhouse. It was really good. They have a salad bar and then they have the waiters come around with all different types of barbecued meat that they cut off onto your plate right there. They have a little coaster looking thing that you flip to the green side when you want them to stop at your plate and the red side when you don't want them to bring you any meat. You can flip it over as many times as you want. It was really cool. We got to try a bunch of different things. But beware when the check comes. It is very expensive. We thought it was half the price and it was still going to be expensive for us. Surprise!

After dinner we went to Wicked! I loved it!!! It was very good! I highly suggest it!

Sunday we went to church at a church in Beverly Hills. It was really cool. It was built in the 1920's and they really wanted to get this stained glass but it was to expensive for the tithing money so the person in charge went to one of the really wealthy members and asked them if they would donate the money for it. He did. It was $250,000 and that is back in the 1920's. It looked really cool. The stake pres. wife was telling us all of this. She also said that Pres. Hunter was a Stake Pres. there. It was a very nice building. (check out the guys green mohawk)

Monday we went to Hard Rock Cafe. That was cool. Then we walked around Universal City (that is the entrance to Universal Studios, there are a lot of shops and Hard Rock Cafe :)

Then we finally made it to Venice Beach. That was a lot of fun. It felt so nice. It was a little chilly even.

We rented bikes one day. That was fun. I liked that.

They have a bunch of places to work out and play on. It was cool. Kyle made it all the way to the top. I couldn't even get my feet of the ground :) Way to go Kyle!

They had some cool street performers. These guys were on Americas Got Talent. They were really good.

You have to bury somebody right. Beach rule.

There were some awesome sunsets. Kyle got tired of me taking pictures.

I was expecting to see a mermaid anytime :)

Over all it was a lot of fun. Happy anniversary! I can't believe it has been 3 years already. It has been the best time of my life. I love you!