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Cadence on Principal's List

Cadence was on the Principal's List this year which is better than the honor roll! He got all A's and one B this year in school. I am so proud of him and he is proud of himself. They had a lunch for the parents and had the kids get an award and a pin. Way to go Cadence! I hope he always remembers how good it feels to get good grades :)

Cadence with one of his tutors at school.

Cadence getting his award from his principal and his teacher Mrs. Thomas.

Omama

My Omama (Grandma) passed away and since she lived in Brazil all my brothers and sisters were able to get together with my parents and even some relatives from Brazil to celebrate her life and have our own memorial service in Utah. We had the memorial service after conference on Easter Sunday. It was beautiful. What a beautiful woman and a beautiful life she had here on earth. I am so blessed to be her granddaughter.

We also had a lot of Easter fun while in Utah. We colored eggs, spent time together, and the kids even got to go sleding for a few minutes one morning before the snow melted.

Baby Audrey!

My sister's little baby Audrey was born May 2, 2010 and she is perfect! She weighed 6lbs 4oz and was 18 1/2 inches long. Everyone was so excited, especially big sister Natalie!

Disneyland

My sister Alisa's work (Safeway) had a night at Disneyland. It was only Safeway employees and the tickets were cheep so I couldn't resist. My boys had never been before and I hadn't been since I was very little. I didn't tell the boys until we went to pick Alisa and her kids up to start our drive. What a surprise it was for them! It was so fun to have this experience with my kids and my sister and her kids. We were there from about 5pm until about 1am out time. We are all so tired (especially Easton) and cold and our feet hurt but we had a BLAST!

I like this picture because if you look real close you can see that Easton is missing his two bottom teeth.

My sister Alisa with her kids Spencer and Ashleigh.

Can you see Buzz Lightyear?

Ashleigh with Minnie Mouse!

Cadence and Easton with Mickey!

It's a Small World was the only ride I remembered from when I came the last time (I think I was 3 years old) so we had to try it. It was kind of boring but it's one that you have to do at least once.

Space Mountain was my favorite ride...I think it was everyone's favorite ride!

The next day we went to Seal Beach for a little bit. The boys had never been to the beach before so they LOVED it....even though the water was FREEZING!

Phoenix Zoo

One of Cadence's scout leaders couldn't make it to their trip to the zoo so I was asked to step in and help out so I said yes. Easton was happy because this meant that he got to go too. It was our first trip to the Phoenix zoo. Five boys at the zoo made me nervous but they were pretty good. The zoo itself wasn't too exciting to me. It seemed like the good animals were either hiding, sleeping or off exhibit but the boys had a lot of fun. It was fun to be out with my boys!

Christmas 2009

This was my boys and my first Christmas here in Arizona. On Christmas Eve the tradition here in Arizona is to go out for Chinese food and so that is what we did. It was a lot of fun to see everyone together. I can't believe that so many of us live in Arizona! After dinner we went to my brother Lee's house to open family gifts, open their new pajamas and have some more fun. We got home late pretty late so the kids helped me get cookies in the oven for Santa. Since it was so late I put the cookies out for Santa along with milk and carrots for the reindeer.

I woke up before the kids on Christmas morning. I was so excited. The boys finally got up and we headed for the pile of gifts under the tree.

Along with a bunch of other stuff Easton got a few dart guns which he loved!
Cadence got his Red Rider BB gun (yes, the one from the movie) He was so excited! After we explained the rules and I warned him not to "shoot his eye out" he went right outside to try it out.
Cadence made me a very nice stained glass bottle at school. I love it! It is so special!
Easton made me a cute calendar using his hand and foot prints. It is soooo sweet!
It was a great Christmas! I am sad it is over!

Easton's Christmas Program

Easton had his cute kindergarten Christmas program. He was so excited. They practiced so hard and even made their own shirts. The program was so cute. I was tearing up the whole time. I LOVE MY KIDS!