South of the Border

Here's a video of our trip to Playas de Tijuana. We went to help celebrate our next door neighbor's mother's 91st birthday. It's tough to fit such a fun trip into a short video, which is why this video is almost 8 minutes long. Don't feel bad if you don't have the patience to watch the whole thing.

Video from the park: New Year's Eve Day

Here's a fun video. Enjoy!

Her performances...theater darling!

here are some photos of Scouts first play ever.  It was based on the Eric Carle book, The Very Quiet Cricket.  She played a mosquito, cicada, and praying mantis.  The second set of pictures is of The Nativity scene the primary kids performed at our church Christmas party.  She really wanted to be the sheep and boy was she a good one!

She turned 4!

Scout is now 4 years old and she has a bike of her very own.  Of course, Baxter had to get one too and he threw a monster fit over it:)  He  couldn't handle just watching and had to have one of his own.  I will put up pictures of the kids biking later.  For now enjoy some pictures of Scout's carnival themed birthday party. There was gumball machines filled with gumballs for prizes, cotton candy, popcorn, hot dogs, nachos, gifts, tons of friends, a pinata, and a clown to face paint.  Scout and her friends had a great time.  Hooray for 4!

Halloween post finally.

Halloween was a subject of much excitement at our house this year.  It is exciting ever year really, but this year we had a tooth fairy and a dragon!  We went trick or treating on Coronado Island with a neighbor.  The kids had a great time and Scout actually got too scared to go up to one particular door.  She loves the scary and spooky Halloween season, but for some reason that house just didn't sit right with her.  The consequences:  one less piece of candy than Baxter and the neighbor girl:)   I didn't mind one bit!

Scouts candy. She wanted to make sure everyone knew it was hers (she was nice about it though).

The Family

Bell and The Tooth Fairy

Saying goodbye to Halloween 2011.

I think he had a bit too much!

The Deal

Ok,  if you haven't noticed it appears as though we have abandoned our blog.  This is not true!  The truth of the matter is, our laptop (holding all pictures) broke and we did not take the time to figure out how to bloggicize on our borrowed desktop.  Ya know, move pics around etc.  Basically we were just being lazy about it.  Anyway, today some new pictures were taken.  Here are some really good looking kids!:)

PS:  I edited the pics and they are the right way up in file preview and all, but who knows why it is all wacky here.

Baxter and his apparent love for Sesame Street

Below are some ever so cute pictures of Baxter.  Until recently it was assumed Baxter did not love anything or anyone but his "ma, ma, ma ,ma, ma."  One afternoon while visiting Sea World with the Jenkins our eyes were opened to Baxter's true love, Sesame Street.  There we were riding rides, playing in water and boom Baxter gets sucked in to the singing and dancing show put on by the Sesame Street characters.  He was soooo excited and cried when the show ended, he ran to catch Elmo, Abby and Cookie  and was disappointed to find a long line.  Lucky enough for Baxter he has a very nice big sister who waited in line for him while he enjoyed the bounce area of Sea World.  Here are some pictures of all of Baxter's dreams coming true (and a couple of others.)

Summer fun.

I'm not even going to try and make any sense of the order of these pictures.  So, here they are...proof of all the fun we have.

Sanjaye (my nephew) came for a visit.  We obviously went to the Mormon Battalion Visitors Center.  We also went to the San Diego County Fair, the San Diego Zoo and did some swimming.

Bax and Aunt Linds always have lots to talk about.

Cedric and some dudes from school participated in the Camp Pendleton Mud Run.  It was a whole 10K.  I seriously have never seen Cedric run and find it hard to believe he did it!  But, he really did!

Aunt Deb should charge to use her place; it is like a resort.

Tavan's kids had a great time with Uncle Ced and Grandma at Lake Tahoe

BAXTER'S FIRST HAIRCUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This really deserves a post of it's own.  Scout and Sanjaye and Bax got their do's courtesy of Grandma D. This was Scout's second cut.  She felt soooo pretty and special.