Dallins 2!

Yesterday we had a b-day party for Dallin. It was great for people to come over and have a party. Here are a few pics of the party and this morning with his presents from us...well they were actually from Santa, but he had so many presents on Christmas that he didnt even notice these. So we decided to re-gift to him. Can you do that? I guess you can if they are 2!

The Boys had a good time sitting with his cousins!






Dallin got Mike and Ikes as part of his presents.





This is when we took them away so he could continue to open presents.









Dallin loves Evan and wants to be like him even down to the patch.

Trip to Mom and Dads

We went to my parents in last weekend for a family dinner. It was fun. The guys took the kids out to ride 4 wheelers and the ladies made some Christmas Gift Tags. I don't have pics of that since I have pics of the 4 wheelers. These pics are in reverse order but that doesn't matter.

Dallin and Evan love to Color!

Everytime we go to my parents this is Evans favorite thing to play with!

Dad and Dallin

I think the trailer was the boys favorite part of the trip!

Dad and Evan

Dallin is always cool just to do his own thing.
He doesn't need anything or anyone to keep him entertained!

Uncle Todd and Dallin

Sometimes Sarah thinks it is cute to get the boys matching Cheesy outfits.
Here is a great example!

Halloween Costumes

The boys sure looked cute on Halloween. Evan was pretty cute he was worried that he would scare the other little kids since he was such a scary Dragon. He was pretty cute. Dallin just loved to Roar at people. It was pretty funny.

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.