almost 2 week vacation

Here are some photos from our vacation in Noth west country last month.

We had a great time up in cabin despite of the fact that we got rained on first two days.

And we got kind of sponteneous after that. We just weren't ready to come home in hot Arizona. We decided to visit Granny in Coos Bay and we are so glad that we did it! It took whole 3days to get there. First night we stayed in Jonathan & Keri's house and second night in Bend, OR.

Anyhow, we made it to Coos Bay and we had wonderful time there with granny. We ate fresh seafoods and played on the shore and the beach, and went to a county fare. We tried crabbing, too.

Our boys got to know granny well during her stay in Arizona early this year, but we think that this trip really helped our boys to know and remember granny for sure.

I bet we wore her out in the end, but granny was very gracious about it. Thank you Granny! We hope we will visit you again before too long.

I caluculated that our total distance we traveled in this trip would be a little more than 3500miles. I am so glad that we had no melt downs or screaming babies but happy kids on the road. It was just as a pleasent trip as it could be.

Cute Video

Jackson LOVES his GG! (Great Gramma) He always gives her the best smiles and laughs at her all the time! It makes me just a little bit jealous! But I still thought this was cute enough to share!

Alexander's First Broken Bone

July 19 about 5:30 p.m. we are working outside preparing for the cement pour on Monday. We have to move a lot of dirt. Asher and Alex are running around the trampoline that I had just taken the surrounding net off of so I could take it in to get sewn. Someone had slashed it with a knife and there was a great big hole in the side. I guess the kids were just used to it being there and Jon heard a loud thump. He found Alex on the ground with his right arm shaped like an S.
Both bones in the lower arm had a radial break. Jon tried to take a picture of the S curve but didn't notice that there was no memory card in the camera. We went to the hospital by ambulance and the arm was set. We were home by 12:00a.m. Poor little man. We are going to get it casted on Tuesday.

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Matt & Jena. I hope you two have all the love this world can offer. The wedding was so beautiful and the details, like the cake, were great. It definatly represented you both. Welcome to the family Jena. We are glad to have you.

To the rest of you looking at these posts, Tara was great at putting Ammon to sleep, Payton loved her "Princy" dress and danced the night away with friends in the gazebo and on the bridge. The Smith family made a brief appearence and the Bride and Groom lived happily ever after.

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Matt & Jena Garcia Wedding post 2

Matt & Jena Garcia Wedding

Continuing the move

So first we had to move it out of our back yard.
Then down the street.

Here are the Lord's missionaries, catching a ride.

The Big Move

Some of you have been in my back yard and have seen my shed. We have big plans that are to take place this next monday involving a lot of concrete and a new shed so it was necessary to move the old shed. We gave it to some friends down the street. Here in Utah, missionaries have a very difficult time finding service projects because I guess people here are too embarrassed to accept help. Not us. 4 missionaries and one member or our ward later and we are jacking up the shed and trying to push it onto our awaiting trailer.

So we figured we could put those steal pipes that have been sitting in our yard for so long to good use. We layered some wood under the shed for the piped to roll along and feed the shed onto two pipes at the opposite direction on the trailer. Heave hoe and is slowly rolled along up onto the trailer. I make it sound easy but it took about 3 hours for this whole prosses with a day of prep work to cut the shed free from the existing slab of concrete.
So these are the guys that stuck to it. They just wouldn't give up.

Perry's Cabin

We had so much fun up at Carri and Joe's cabin. We're hoping to be able to go back sometime soon and hopefully stay a little bit longer. The boys had fun hikimg with Peter and just plain old getting dirty!
This was Daisy's favorite spot because she could see out the window.

Our sweetest beloved pain in the neck

Familiar image finally Captured!!

***He is only trying to catch some bugs .***

Little Boys

This is for Granny. I'm sorry it's not very good quality, Peter took it with my phone. But...no one else seems to be able to post for some reason...

Cute Boys

The boys can be so cute and sweet at times. But lately not so much...I just have to keep looking at pictures like this one to remind me that they can be so sweet!

Hello from Japan3

Spencer just left and we have been missing him ever since the moment the bus took him.
While he was with us, we went on a trip to visit boys' great grandmas and grandpas tombs.

In front of grandma's side's family tombs

I couldn't help wondering how my grandparents are feeling about their great grandchildren's presence in their house. That would be their wildest dream.

Boys loved to go for a walk with grandpa. Grandpa was so good at catching bugs by hands, they followed him to get next prey as you can see.

Wow, I can't believe what a handsome family I have!

We stayed at hotel and they had matching Yukatas for us. Can you tell Kenta's excitement?

We went to boys granpa side family tombs on second day. We also got to play on the beach.

Since Taiki is the oldest boy in all his cousins here, his little cousins loved playing with him!

He is such a crown!

Hello from Japan 2

Hello, everyone! We are busy having a lot of fun almost everyday.
We love having our daddy with us here.
Here are some of the fun we had since daddy got here.


We went to this huge aquarium in Osaka.
Here is our lovely Kazuto. He is getting very good at having his opinion heard lately.












This one sea otter somehow liked Kazuto, so he swam to him and lied down right next to the glass window acting like he wanted Kazu to rub his feet.

So many breath-taking views and boys just loved to sit and watch fish going by. We got to see two huge whale shirks!

We got to even touch shirks and rays.

We have also gone on a car trip to visit both sides of our family tombs.

More to come later...