Cutting down our forest!

I decided to post these pictures because this has been a big part of our lives lately. We cut down seven trees in our back yard. We have a forest.

Dan looking good cut'n down all the trees.

This is only one pile of many of our tree branches. We had to cut them up small so we could carry them away.

Me with a load of branches. Dan and I have cuts up and down our arms and legs from all the branches.

At our last load to the dump we ended up using the wheel barrel. We loaded up a 10 X 20 trailer three times to get ride of the trees.

Braden's T-ball

Braden loved playing T-ball this year. He was very sad when his games were over. I had to remind him that he would get to play again soon. He was a very good player for his age.

He was a little shy at first trying to catch the ball, but the more he played the more he became more aggressive, and would really go after the ball, like jumping over people and to the ground.

Baseball is by far his favorite sport to play. He looks so cute out there going after the ball. He though is was so big, because all his older friends play so this means that he is now a big boy.

Carnival Cruise

We are back from vacation. It was much needed, Dan and I have not spent time alone in a very long time. But we had a blast even though I missed my boys. This is very long post with all our stops on our vacation, so bare with me.

On the first day on the boat I was sunburned. But it didn't damper the trip.

It was beautiful out on the ocean. Is this not a amazing sunset.

We had fun at dinner every night, we loved our waiters, they made the trip more fun.

They had a lot of fun things to do on the boat. We loved the shows at night, and the activities during the day.

The food was good, and I thought the ice cream swan was fun.

These are our waiters we had every night at dinner, we thought they were so much fun, and became very attached to them.

This is a big family we became good friends with on the cruise. They went snorkeling with us, and after that they were family. They have video of me almost falling off the boat about 20 times, on our way back from snorkeling. They said they were going to put it on you tube, but I pleaded with them not to, so let me know if you see it.

Dan and I enjoyed a few virgin daiquiris.

Ensenada

We had fun shopping in Ensenada that was about all there was to do.

We found some fun things to buy for family and Braden, we also found funny things to take pictures with too.

At a scary mexican restarant.

Don't drink the water in Mexico. We loved the glass bottles.

The drivers are very scary. But I liked all the homes on the hills.

Cabo San Lucas

We had one good day of weather on our trip, it was in Cabo witch was a good day for warm weather, since we were in water almost all day.

We loved going para sailing it was a blast. We were 600ft. in the air, I would do it again in a min.

This is the rock were all the seals would hangout.

We saw so many beautiful views, we also went snorkeling. I was scared to do it, but it was amazing just like my Aunt Amy said it would be. The boat drivers that we had are crazy. They would almost crash into each other every couple of seconds, and would go soo.. fast on the ocean waves I almost fell out of the boat a number of times.

We had lunch in a fun little Mexican restaurant, with our friends Brian and Ashley that we went on the cruise with. But we did worry about getting sick.

San Diego

We had to go to Sea World. I've never been there before and I loved it.

I loved all the different shows we went to.

The animals were all amazing.

One bad thing is that it rained off and on all day, but we didn't let that stop us.

We stopped at a few of the beautiful beaches in Cali. We would have loved to gone swimming , but it was cold the entire time we were there.



We went to a fun restaurant were they just walked up and put the lovely bibs on us, they are trained to be rude to you it was fun they had a live band on the patio were we sat.


We also went to a Padres game we loved it. They were playing the Reds so we got to see Ken Griffy Jr. play it was great. Also Ken Griffy Jr. walked into my brother-in-laws jewelry store and he sold him two watches. Dan was very jealous.

MBA School is over!

My amazing husband Dan just finished his Masters Degree in Business.
I am so very very proud of my sweet husband. Thank you Dan for everything you have done and will do for our family. Your always thinking of us first and you last. I know that this past two years have been very hard on you, between working for Morgan Stanley and school at night, not getting to spend time with us or even see us has been hard, but it is all over now. We could not be more proud of you, and what you have accomplished. You have more then earned our cruise in a week to relax.
Way to go Danny! We love you!

Ok so Dan did graduate from the University of Utah but we would like you all to know that we do not claim to be Utes and never will be. Dan went there because it was closer to work then BYU. But we did represent our true school and team BYU and we all had on our True Blue. Dan, Braden, Brock, and I all had blue on, so that everyone would know we are true fans of BYU. Our blood is blue.

Braden did get a little board during the graduation so he played games on my phone.

Thank you to every one that came to support Dan, we love you and thank you for coming.

The very proud parents of the graduate. Thank you Ryan and Cindy for being there, I know that Dan loved having you there for him. They were so great to make it work that they could be there for the first graduate in his family on both sides of his family to get his masters.


The very proud in-laws. Thank you for coming to support us Mom and Dad.


I know that Braden has been waiting for this day to come he can't wait to see his Dad more than every other day or just on the weekends. He has been counting down the days until his dad was done with school, every day he would ask me how many more days until dad will be home more. It was sad but cute.

Dan loves silly pictures.

Happy Birthday Braden!

I still can't believe my little boy is 4 years old it makes me sad, but he loves getting bigger. Braden had a great birthday party with some of his friends. He wanted it to be a spider man party, so that is what we did.

Everything had to have spider man on it.

I loved this cake soo... much I keep looking around for the best spider man cake, and oh man did I ever find the best one.

It gets harder every year to control all the kids to take one good picture.


They all loved the spider man game.

They all loved there spider man masks, and I loved seeing them in them.

Last year the little boy next to Braden blew out his candles, so this year Braden made sure that he told him NOT to blow out his candle.


Braden got a bigger bike for his birthday. He was to big for his old one, he also got a bunch more things that he probably didn't need.