Payton seemed to love the beach more than the older ones even. She couldn't get enough of water or the sand crabs....she would help dig them up and put them in and out of the bucket too. Tanner went boogie boarding a few times with dad, but I only got one not so good picture of it!! He did a good job and stayed on the board the whole way in(most of the time!) Anyway, here's some pics from the week....
Since my parents moved to Gilbert two years ago, we hardly get to go to California anymore...So we were looking forward to this beach trip all summer long! We decided to take a day to go to Disneyland...it was a long day, but the kids loved it of course. We'd ask Kamryn what she wanted to do next, and she'd say, "a rollertoaster!" She was PERFECT height to go on almost everything there. I couldn't believe they both came out of the tower of terror laughing and wanting to go again! (we left Payton at the beach with my family, thanks again mom!) 
Yes, it's a little delayed, but time has flown by this week! I thought I'd take a sec and post some pictures from our vacation last week. We went up to Utah and were able to spend time with Shannon and her new baby, and Tanner was SO excited to have a whole week of playing with Case. Then Saturday we headed up to the Section in Wyoming to the yearly reunion for Brian's grandpa's birthday! It was a fun, but crazy-busy week. Needless to say, it's taken us most of this week to get things back down to normal! 
We went straight to dinner when we pulled out into town....so happy to be done driving!
We also took the kids to the Zoo while in Utah. They LOVED it!!! I had never taken them to a zoo of any sort and Tanner has always wanted to go. He says that was the best part of the trip....
About an hour ago, Kamryn came into the computer room and took Brian's I-pod off the desk (he had just got home from running and it was still on). Well, I just went to check on her, and she's asleep! She was very hesitant to go to bed tonight, but she's sleeping now!
That's right! Tanner was so excited for his first day of school! He was sad to find out that none of his friends were in his class, but later found out that he could still play with them at recess! When I asked him what the best part of kindergarten was, he said, "playing outside!" He will be greatly missed around the house, but at least Payton is now at an age where she and Kamryn can play together! The girls were so excited to pick him up also! (it took 40 mins! that place was a ZOO! -as expected) Here's his pics from this morning...of course Payton wanted to join in on the camera fun!
I know EVERYONE loves pictures like this, so I had to share! The first picture was taken within 5 mins of her eye hitting the coffee table while we were in Utah...and about an hour later it was almost double that size! It looked like she had a bouncy ball insider her eye brow! It was swollen about another day, and then it hit the colorful stage, which she loved actually! We kept telling her it was purple and pink eye make-up, and she thought she was special.....(ignore the dirty camping face, we had been in Wyoming that day before she zonked!)
Yes, we are loving our vacation even though we miss Payton a ton! But it was nice to see that we left her in good hands!
Just had a few random pics of Payton from the last few days I thought I'd share!
Payton got into the mascara....she kinda missed her eyes - you think??
She had a fever and had a random crabby sick day yesturday.....the best part was I got to lay down with her in Tanners bed, and she actually fell asleep! (first time in forever!)
Then she was demonstrating her "serious" look that she gives me when shes mad....followed by a sweetheart smile! She cracks us up and has us on our toes!
Friday was the big day...7 years married and now 28 years old! I had a good day swimming and relaxing with the kids, then had a nice dinner out with Brian that night. Then tonight some friends of ours took us to dinner and we stayed up until midnight playing Guitar Hero and some Tennis! Check out this cake April made-SO cute! Why didn't we get any pictures of us 5 girls together??, and not even a group picture! We've got to get one before Nate and Lori leave to Maryland for sure. Thanks again everyone for a fun night!
Well, this has been quite the process! And we're still not done! But we did get to hang the panels on the huge door today and I love it! I need to train them still to fall properly, and also get some sort of tie back for the sides of the panels. All we have left is to put the panels up on the bay window and when our table comes in then we'll be set! It's been so fun trying to figure out what we wanted and everything, but so glad it's done! I'll add a pic of the bay window next week once we get the hardware and get it hung.....
We'll probably never shut them, but we thought it was cool how much stinkin fabric there was! It's like a ginormous wall of fabric....
Kamryn has been sleeping on a mattress on the floor for almost 8 weeks now, so we were pretty excited to set up her new bed! Since I got the bed together and the dressers put in, I haven't had the motivation to get the other twin put together. Payton won't need it for a while anyway....So here's her new stuff! Now onto figuring out what to do with her wall space!
We have family pics this weekend in Ca with the whole family. I decided this morning that I had better try everything on the kids before I pack, and thank goodness-is it just me or are Kamryn's pants a tad too short! I swear they fit her 2 months ago! Anyway, ignore the hair....they had just all crawled out of bed for the morning!
So, yesterday my back started hurting in the morning. I don't remember what made it hurt, but it felt like a kinked neck does and I had to be careful all day which way I moved, etc...Well, after dinner, I was taking a pic of the girls and Tanner wanted in it, so I went to lift him up, and as I did we both went crashing to the ground. He got right up and I laid there for a bit with Brian trying not to laugh at me....Now my back hurt REALLY bad! I was dreading getting up because that meant moving and hurting more! Needless to say, it was a long bumpy ride home, and a long night trying to sleep! But thanks to left over pain meds from after I had Payton, I'm getting by today. And... I think I'm due for another nap! Hopefully this doesn't last long...My house is a mess and bending over to pick things up is out of the question today! Oh yeah, and of course Tanner still wanted a picture with him in it, so Sandra took it for me!
