California trip!!

We were so blessed to be able to go on a vacation with our wonderful little family!! It all started on Friday after mark got off work then he came and picked us up! We journeyed the 5 hours to St. George and stayed at aunt Nola's trailer! And we're blessed to be able to see my mom and dad and aunts and uncles who were all in St george to redo my grandmas shower!! Which because of the tiny living quarters of my grandmas trailer we were unable to help with because we would have definitely been in the way!

We stayed Friday night and Saturday night watching conference and shopping. When mark went to priesthood session my mom, my aunts and I were able to go to a baby shower in Colorado city! If was at a 30,000 square foot home of a poligimast. Very interesting so if you are curious call me and I'll tell u all about it!!!

Sunday morning we slept in and cleaned up then decided to continue on our journey to California!! Another 5 hours but the girls did great! We stayed at a beautiful hotel with 3 swimming pools!! We drove to the beach and watched the sunset and got a tiny bit jealous of the beautiful homes right on the coast line!! Monday morning we got ready and headed to the beach to swim this time.. Kensington loves the water as does mark but this was avy's first time and she was not sure of those waves!! She loves water like crazy but would not even consider going in the ocean maybe it was just a little big for her. So she and I played in the sand instead! We walked around peer and found some great food! A pastry shop next to a fish taco shop and the Both looked like holes in wall but had lines out the door!! They were fantastic!

Then Tuesday came the day kensington was waiting for the day we were to go to mickeys Halloween party at Disneyland! We were able to go at 3pm to check in. We of course saw the princesses first and we were blessed to see princesses we had not seen yet! Kensi was so happy! We saw the Disney parade and then the moment came Avy saw Minnie mouse her jaw dropped for a solid minute and after she passed Avy kept looking for her instead of watching the rest of the parade! So we trick or treated and ate some dinner and waited in line for an hour to see Mickey and minnie for Avy who was soo excited until....... We got to them it was like Santa and she clung to me like a koala and would not even look at either of them! So we learned our lesson about waiting in lines!!

So after lots more candy the Halloween parade, some rides, and fireworks our girls were tired! We headed out. Sad to leave but had such a blast there! Then Wednesday morning we checked out and headed home after getting a couple more pastries of course!! So like I have said before the pictures post how they want to post and I cant write under them so hopefully you can figure our what goes where!! The best is Avy seeing minnie picture!!

School time

Kensington has started an online preschool, since schools around here are non existent unless u make under 30k a year!! The school is called Cullen's abcs and we have liked it! So the video of our arts and crafts section and Kensington loves the art section best and of corse naked Avy always joins in!! K so I lied about posting the video I'll keep trying to do that but here is a picture of my little artists!!

Utah trip post2

So because I now post off my iPad I can't explain every picture so this post is all about Johansen cabin trip to Yellowstone!! Our cabin was actually in island park but it was all beautiful either way! We visited old faithful and the hot pots we went to a theater and saw a show called home school musical 2 it was hilarious and we were grateful to have nieces and nephews all old enough to be able to leave all the little ones home it was nice!! One of our favorites was the upper and lower falls we even hiked down in to be right on top of the fall which about killed me carring Avy! Another favorite we went to a natural spring and i think it was honestly the most beautiful place i have ever seen!! So here are the pictures of a wonderful week!! Thanks mom and dad for making it possible and my whole family for making it fun!! We love u all!! Sorry if I didn't explain a picture!

Church ready!!

I attempt to take a picture of my girls every Sunday but doesn't always happen!! But here r a few! I'm trying to import from my card to my iPad so the pictures might not look too clear but I have to try it out! The other picture is us out by the fire and for some reason it was huge we think the valve was broken but it was fun for us!!

Fishing

For family nights out we have started fishing! We r surrounded by beautiful lakes and need to take more advantage of them! Avy was hilarious I would cast her pole then hand it to her and she would real it in then hand it back!! We did this for a solid hour and she just sat there it was really nice. So just keep that in mind if anyone ever comes to visit we will take u fishing!!

A day in our life!

We r going a little crazy around our house!! Avy has decided she deserves more attention and is in battle destructive mode!! The one picture is of what she did while I was doing some banking!! Serves me right not checking on her every 2 minutes! The best part is the laundry detergent was at the top of the closet so she scaled 5 shelves then muscled it down then proceeded to dump the entire thing on the floor!! . So as I sat and thought of the first step in cleaning this up... Moping,scraping back into container, rags?? I had no idea, but apparently kensi could read the look on my face and said its ok mon I'll get some rags and help u!! What a sweet heart!! So while we cleaned avy got into everything else like empting my pill cubord dumping olive oil and vinegar on a batch of cookies soaking each individually!! Next I ban her to the couch to not move and she obeyed completely even when she needed to pee!! Just decided to soak my couch!! Ahhh all in a day!! Got to love being a mom! Finally I knew we had to get out of house!! So we pumped up the little pool and we swam!! In cold water and I would let them get out ha ha! But of course they loved it!! So that's a day of my life and I hope it makes everyone smile and remember their bad days as fun !!

utah trip part 1.

Our trip to Utah Was wonderful!! And thanks to mark we have now figured out how to blog from our phones much easier on me!! So unfortunately I took most of my Utah pictures on my camera but here are a few of us off my phone... The flowers are from mark!! He had them sent to me while he was home! Soo sweet!! There is a couple pictures of us at the zoo with our London cousins that was a blast!! And the picture of avy holding dresdyns hand was soo special she just decided to hold it and held it for a while!! And last but not least is a picture on the way home with our very tired girls!!


And just so you know I will put pictures on because I accidentally put them on my other blog of london family flavors so you can just look there if you wish!!