Welcome to Orlando!

We made it to Orlando well on Saturday. Flying is pretty crazy with two senior citizens, two toddlers, and a handicapped adult who likes to hide from us every time we turn around, or he wants to lead the way with no idea of where he is going, but in the end we got here! The first night it rained and rained and rained. I do not believe I have EVER been in rain like that! It was amazing. After about 45 minutes it was gone. That was about the extent of the rain we have seen besides the 5 minute cool offs that happen. We got to our house in Kissimmee and it is AMAZING. It truly exceeded my expectations. 6 bedrooms and 4 baths, private pool/hot tub in the back yard that is AWESOME! On Saturday we got here and unpacked late. Sunday we went to church, and then walked around the temple for a while. Then the fun began on Monday. Monday we went to Animal Kingdom. It is absolutely amazing to me that Disney spends so much money in all of the details that they put into their rides and the entire park. Billions of dollars. It has also amazed me at how AWESOME the Disney "cast" members are. Everyone is so friendly and nice. And if they are faking it they do a great job! Tuesday we went to Magic Kingdom for a few hours then came home and we back for Mickeys Not So Scary Halloween Party. I read a lot of reviews and there were different opinions of it. Well my opinion was it was one of the funnest and best things I have EVER done. It compares to the cruise I took 8 years ago. We got to the park at 8:30 (an hour and a half after it re-opened) The parade was going on. Now I am not a parade guy but this parade was so cool. The costumes were awesome and it was a lot of fun. We had Evan with us but left Dallin home since he was so tired and it went till midnight! We got TONS of candy. We trick-or-treated as we walked from ride to ride. When we added everyone's candy together we got a large Disney souvenir bag FULL of candy. In the 3 and a half hours we were there for the party we did not wait in one line. No matter the ride we did not wait. Splash mountain, tea cups, dumbo, pirates, magic capret, buzz light year, haunted mansion and I could go on! The park was empty and it was decorated awesome. Disney sure knows how to throw a party. Wednesday we went to Epcot. All I have to say is epcot sucks. We didnt like it. There are 3 rides that are good and the rest sucks. So basically if you do not get a fast pass early for the rides and then wait the others out you are never going to get to ride them. And the World fair thing seemed to me to be a big mall that never ended. We went to the beach on Thursday, it was a lot of fun. Then we went to dinner and got full lobsters for $15.99 I thought that was a great price! Then on Friday we went to Hollywood Studios. Evan and Laurel were not feeling well so it was just Brad, Sarah, Ben, Josh and me that went. At about 4:00 I called to see how everything was going and Laurel said Evan was really sick. So I decided we better go back and take care of our kids. We got back to the house and Evan was really bad! So we called out insurance to find an instacare we could go to. Well we went and he had the Swine Flu! Well to make a long story short, I got it on our flight home, Sarah got it later that night and Sunday morning Dallin got really bad, he could barely breath. He got a breathing treatment and some steriods and they have seemed to have helped. We are almost all better now. I would bet that we will be good by tomorrow or Thursday! On a side note while we were in the parks we used a software called RideMax basically it statistically tells you what rides to ride and when for the shortest wait time. We never waited longer than 7 minutes when we used the software. We decided to get off it once and we waited 30! We swore we would never do that again. I highley reccommend it to EVERYONE. They have it for DisneyWorld and Disneyland. It is cheap too! Here are a few pics!

This is the flight out not home... we looked like death on the way home ... lucky they let us on the plane.

Summer Fun

Sarah and I got a new camera! It is a Nikon D40! We are pretty excited about it. So I figure we now have little to no excuse to not post some pics on the blog. There may be quite a few pics!

Evan and Dallin all ready for church!

I took Evan camping with Derek and his kids. Here he is with Bryce and Olivia.

Evan was so proud of this "stick" that he found.

The boys discovered that blankets make cool Superman Capes!

Gotta love mom's brownies!

The splash park in Herriman. Sarah had a CPR class she needed to take for her preschool. So I took the boys to the splash park.

We have had a busy month. Well last month. Sarah had a photographer come to the preschool and take some end of the year pics. I thought I would post a few of the boys. Not much changes, I dont think that I have posted that we traded the Land Cruiser in for a Nissan Armada. I really like it. It is big and roomy! It is a 2004, but was taken care of really well! Reflecting on last month helps me to realize how much I absolutely love my wife and boys. They are my world and mean everything to me. I can not, nor want to, imagine life with out them. I am a lucky man! Sorry the post is so short, but it is better than nothing!

Mothers day

So I decided on Mothers Day morning I would try to get Evan to say some pretty cute things to Sarah while we were eating breakfast. So I said:
"Evan... what do you like best about mommy?"
Evan: "Hmm...hmmm... I know when she goes to preschool and the baby sitter comes over to play with me."

Well that wasn't what I was looking for so I asked:
Ok well if you were to describe mom what would you say?
Blank stare so I said ... You know Ev... like mommy is...
Evan: a butt head!

We know that Evan loves his mommy. But really Sarah really is an amazing mother and wife. She loves being a mommy and is always trying to find fun things for the kids to do and learn. She is a great example to me in pretty much everything. I certainly married far better than I am.

Evan telling about the Ressurection

Evan loves nursery. It amazes me on how much he can remember from the lessons! He has got awesome teachers so that helps a ton! I thought this was so cute that he could recall a good portion of the lesson.

Yes we are still alive!

Yea it has been a while again. Things are pretty well the same. They boys have been sick recently but seem to be doing well now. Evan just makes me laugh. The other day we had some friends over. Their son goes to Sarah's preschool. (this must have triggered Evans thought) He needed something and he walked up to Sarah and said "Umm Mrs. Sarah can I have a ...." (whatever it was he asked) It was so funny to hear him call her that. They also the other day he said to me "Hey Greg, don't worry about it Sarah will take care of it". He has certainly learned our names!

Sarah is going to have her spring break this next week. I decided to take the week off with her. We are going to be going to St. George and then just hang out. I was going to do some concrete work but it looks like it is going to rain so that may have to be post poned. Well that is about it for now. Here are also some random pics of the boys!

Dallins B-Day (a little late)

Well I have been thinking that Sarah would update this for Dallins b-day but she never has so I figured I may as well. Dallins b-day was pretty fun it landed on a Sunday (25th of Jan) so that worked out pretty well to have family over. We all in all had about 30 people over for dinner and cake and ice cream. Sarah decided for dinner we would have soups. It was great we had chicken tortillia, chicken noodle, clam chowder, and beef vegtable stew. Thanks to everyone that brought something! Dallin loved his cake he first started off a bit reserve and shy with it, then he realized how good it was and dug in. Blue frosting, by the way, doesnt change much through the digestive tract. His poor little bum was stained blue for about 3 days after!

Discovery Gateway

Happy MLK Jr. Day! To celebrate Greg and I took the day off! We decided that it would be a lot of fun to take the boys to the Children's Museum at the Gateway. We knew we were slightly insane to take them when every kid in Utah had the day off school, but we went anyway.

Evan had an absolute blast! He went shopping at the supermarket, played with water, drove in a car, rode a horse, sat in a helicopter and got pushed around by a bunch of bossy little girls. It was great! (Not your girls, Elisa!) Dallin did well so long as he wasn't sucking on everything in sight. If we could keep his binky in his mouth that helped. It was a fun-filled two hours of quality family time. The price was a bit steep, but I guess that's what you get for entertainment that isn't "mind numbing". Thanks again to Martin Luther King Jr. I enjoyed my day off!

Been away

Sorry I have been away for so long. I joined facebook. I think that is enough said. I will have to admit I am pretty much addicted. I am on it no less than 5 hours a day. (While I am working) It is on in the back ground. It is amazing how many people I have found on there that I once knew. Amazing sometimes. So sorry I have not updated but if you wanna really know how things are going add me as a friend on Facebook. If you dont have a Facebook. I would suggest it!

Family Pics

Here are a few family pics that we took a couple of weeks ago!
Dallin taking a cheap shot on Evan!


Evan forgiving Dallin for the ear pull... or is he biting Dallins ear off?

Dallin is crawling

Yesterday Dallin decided to crawl and he is off to the races now!

Sarah's 102 year old Great Grandma

Sarah's Great grandma was on the news here is the link!

http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/1108/567836_video.html?ref=newsstory

Bubble Bath

Evan decided he wanted to take a bath in our tube so I filled it up and turned on the jets. He was almost engulfed in bubbles. He loved it.

October

In an earlier post I said that I sure wish that we would have gotten a longer fall. Well we got it. It has been an absolutely gorgeous week. Here are some pics of the kids this week.

The Boys same age photos

A lot of people tell me that our boys look just the same as each other. I usually agree but that is just to be nice. I think Evan looks more like me and Dallin like Sarah. Well you be the judge. Evan was just over 10 months and Dallin is just under 9 months in these pics.