New York Trip!

 This year Dan and me were able to go to New York again for five days! We did a lot walking around and eat a lot good food!  We also went to see STOMP.  I really enjoyed it and Dan liked it but he wishes it had more of a story line.  One of the mornings we had a nice relaxing walk around Central Park.   

 While we were there we both got to spend time with our mothers.  Dan's mother lives there, so got to see her almost every night and most of the last day we were there.  The first night I got a call from my mom that she was stuck in New Jersey for the night, so she came to New York to have dinner with us.  It was nice to be able to spend the first night of our trip with both of our moms!  We are grateful for both of you and everything you guys do for us.  Thanks for being our mothers!

 Outside our hotel widow you could see the crane that collapsed in the storm Sandy.  We were there three weeks after the storm. We didn't see a lot of damage where we were.  The only damage that we saw was this crane and a couple of down tree's by the airport.

 Just a really cool famous building I had never heard about until this trip!

 

 When we were walking around in Time Square we walked right by Snoop Dog.  

He was surrounded by a crowed of people. 

It was nice having sometime way from the kids but I missed them and I'm glad to be home with them.  Thank you Gail for watching them for us.

Christmas Party

This year our ward did a breakfast with Santa!  This second Santa came out Olivia ran up to him and gave him a big hug. She also put her arms up so he would pick her up. He was really nice and held her for a moment.  It made her day and it was one of the cutest things you ever saw. 

 There was another special visitor!  Elf also showed up and read a story to the kids. Then he gave them a Arizona snowball fight.  It was a bunch of crumpled up paper filled with a peppermint candy in side to weigh it down.  The kids had a lot of fun! 

Catch Up

Cutest Picture Ever!

 Train Festival!

We went to the train park with Lucia and her kids. They just happened to be doing a Train Festival that day.  They had a lot of fun things for the kids, like bounce houses, face painting, and a bunch of train model.

Halloween!

 

Keanan's school does a Fright Festival every Halloween.  The kids had a lot of fun at it. Keanan got to go through his first haunted house.  He went through with Dan while Olivia and me played carnival games. 

Wild Weather

This morning we had one of the craziest storm we've had since we moved here.  We got about 1.5 inches of rain in 30 minutes.  We had a rushing river in front of our house and our back yard became a pound.  I couldn't get out of our driveway to get Keanan to school.  Luckily the bus stop is in front of our house and the bus driver was nice enough to let Keanan hitch a ride to school.  

The new river in front of our house!

Sorry this isn't the best picture of the kids.  We also had lighting and loud thunder.  Keanan didn't like this storm.  He was scared our house was going to flood.

This car barely made it through.

 After it stopped raining Olivia had a lot of fun running thought our pond in the backyard!

Kindergarten!

 Today start a new chapter in our lives.  Keanan starts all day Kindergarten!  He has been looking forward to this all summer long and now its finally here.  He was so excited that he was ready to leave the house by 7 o'clock this morning.  We didn't have to leave until 8.  

 Olivia wanted to be just like Keanan and bring her backpack too!

 Playing together before school starts!

 Keanan is waiting for the bell to ring and for class to start! He was a little nervous but really excited!

Everyone said that I would cry when I dropped Keanan off for his first day of school but I didn't. I am excited for him because he just loves to learn.  Olivia on the other hand did cry.  She was very sad that we left Keanan at the school.  She was so mad at me that she wouldn't even look at me or talk to me.  To make her feel better about leaving Keanan I took her to get a doughnut.  She cheered right up.  This is defiantly going to be an adjustment for all of us.  I will miss having Keanan around all day.

Dust Storm

 The last couple of years we have had some crazy dust storms! This is one that we had a couple of days ago.

 I took this picture right outside my house!

This is a picture that someone I know posted on facebook of the same storm!

 Here is a picture of a dust storm we had last year!

Birthdays!

 July is birthday Month in our house!

 My birthday came first! It was just another day for me until Dan got home.  He brought home these beautiful flowers and a card!  He also got dinner for me so I didn't have to cook! Then we sent my birthday weekend in California.

 Keanan's birthday came next!  We had this fun birthday party planned. Keanan wanted to play outside and have water games.  I had the cake done, all the water balloons filled up, and the water guns ready. Then the morning of the party Keanan woke up sick so we had to cancel it.  Keanan was devastated.  It took me a little bit to calm him down but I told him we would still do his party just another day.  His party still happen but a week and a half later.  It was a lot smaller then Keanan wanted but he still had fun.