More old Pictures... Grand Falls

We went to Grand Falls on Good Friday, it is about an hour away on the Navajo reservation. This hugemongous waterfall is spring run off, it is only there for a few months in the spring!

That is just the top half, I guess I didn't get a good picture of the big drop off... oh wait you can kind of see it in the previous pic with Ky and John...

Silly Leo!

Our kite, Chimone. The kids got him for Easter and we were super excited to take it to Grand Falls because it is ALWAYS windy there, like blow little ones away windy. Someone heard we were coming with a kite... no wind!! Chimone was in the air long enough for me to snap this picture and that was it.

Catch Up...

I really wanted to blog about Johnny's b-day but the camera and the computer are fighting... silent treatment... and Steve isn't home to help them work it out. So with Steve gone and kids asleep what is a girl to do... catch up. I got busy around Easter and didn't put these fun pictures up, so now is my chance...

Saturday before Easter we went to the "Spring Festival" in Sedona. Kyla was very excited to ride the ponies!

Johnny would pull this face every time we asked to see his face painting...

Beave practicing his moves for the Circus.

Wait for it... wait for it...

The wind up...

And GO!!

The kids were all very impressed!

Leo also liked playing in the hula hoops.

Beach Bums for a day... or two

We spent a day on Treasure Island beach, the beach came recommended by some friends who live in So. Cal. It did not disappoint... it was a great beach! (Thanks Kelsi!)

Kyla loved collecting shells! The beach we went to the second day had lots of seaweed, she made piles of that there...

Beach Steve sporting my sunglasses... He lost his in Disneyland... :(

Beautiful. Girl and ocean.

Johnny LOVED the HUGE "sandbox!!" He dug this hole up to his shoulders...

Leo did NOT like the first day at the beach, he was tired and worn out, he didn't even like to sit in the sand. He was feeling much better our second day and played in the sand a little.

Ky and John were much more into the sand than the waves, fine by me until they get a little bigger! Actually Johnny got knocked down by a wave and it scared him enough he kept 5 feet of sand between him and the waves the rest of the day...

Yep, we moved in.... three kids at the beach for 6 hours requires a lot of "stuff..."

Johnny's cool new shades and blowing bubbles at the beach!

We left the camera in the car the second day of beach but it was more of the same, minus some "stuff" and with the addition of a DOLPHIN and a good friend, Jake. We saw the dolphin swimming around close to shore for about 5 minutes, I think Ky saw it but I don't think Johnny did, it would pop out of the water and back in so quick... it was really cool, Steve says we have no need to go to Sea World now... I think Belle might disagree... :)

Beave and Jake + Kids, all packed up and ready for the drive home, back to the snow...

Hide and Seek

"I'll count and you hide. 1..2..3..4... ready or not here I come!" -Ky

"I'm not behind the chair..." -John

Squeals of delight when Ky finds John behind the chair!

"OK you count now and I'll hide. I'll hide under the couch." -Ky

"1... 2...3... ready set go!" -John

"John come find me I'm under the couch!" -Ky

More squeals!

Johnny is Trained!

Johnny got this cool Lightning Mcqueen track for going a whole week, church day to church day, without accidents...

Yeah for only one kid in diapers!! Johnny is fully potty trained! I took pull ups to Disneyland intending to have Johnny wear them, I thought it would be easier... But, if you can imagine, John refused to wear them... The AMAZING thing is he did it! A week of vacation with no accidents and 3 days at home since with no accidents. I was a little worried the magic of disneyland would wear off and he would go back to accidents, no faith mom?!

Two down one to go...

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

We just got home from Disneyland!! It was a super fun trip, I actually had to be talked into going but that probably won't be the case next time.... yep next time! ;) We had such a great time! This is the first family vacation we have taken since moving to Flagstaff 5 years ago that hasn't been to Utah... We love going home and being with family but this was great too. We will still go to Utah this summer, we just have to leave Steve home to work... someone has to fund all our adventures... ;)!!

Here we are the first morning, all bright and happy!




Johnny was so excited to see Lightning Mcqueen! "Hey Lightning is that your best friend Mater?" -John

Our friends who we went with made Ky and John autograph books, they had fun meeting the characters and getting autographs and pictures.

Cute Kyla and Minnie. Notice the awesome 'mouse ear' hair bumps I gave Ky that day... :)




Kyla and I went on Splash Mountain together. She watched Steve go once and kept asking when she was going to get to fall off the waterfall too... I have to say the ride is a lot scarier (is that a word...) when you are a mommy riding with your 4 year old... I was holding Kyla tight!

So the pictures is not actually of Ky and I, Steve was looking for a mom in a green shirt in the back... well he got that part right, just not the right mom... :) He didn't realize that until we got home and were looking at the pictures!!

Johnny giving Buzz a "solid bump!" The Buzz ride was one of his favorites!




Kyla DRIVING?! Yikes! And I was nervous about kindergarten!

Johnny got to drive a RED car! Lucky Lucky! Today driving Ky to school he kept asking me which way he should turn the wheel...




Johnny let me take a picture of your driver's license...

Johnny and Kyla rode the Matterhorn... I remember riding it when I was 5, the abominable snowman scared me so bad I think I cried... We learned the trick to avoid being scared is to scare the abominable snowman first. This is Johnny practicing!

Alice in Wonderland in a PINK car...




Tea Cups, it was enough for me to watch the ride...



DIZZY!



Meeting Tinker Bell!



The boys were so happy to be meeting Tink... Luckily we only had to wait 5 minutes!!

Leo! He is so cute! This is the face he pulls when he knows he is being funny!



So glad we had good friends to go with!





"Hey Dad look, my shadow is holding your shadow's hand." -Johnny




Leo and Lilo... Leo gets called "Baby Lilo" sometimes... We'll stop before he figures out Lilo is a girl...




Waiting for the parade.

Kyla's favorite ride was the Jungle cruise. Boat, water, animal statues... Kyla is good! She wasn't too fond of anything inside and dark!

Mickey Mouse lollipop and a happy girl!




I made Steve watch High School Musical a couple months ago and now he thinks it is HILARIOUS to tease me about how much I love the movie, he couldn't pass up this photo op...

Steve went on some big kid rides, this one starts out really fast!!



The fam on the carousel.

On the Toy Story ride, another fave! Ky adopted our friend's Grandma...

I can't believe someone talked us into waiting 45 minutes to meet princesses... ok yes I can. We actually lucked out here too, Sleeping Beauty was one of the princesses there at the time, she is Kyla's favorite!!

She met Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Mulan, & Jasmin. The only one we didn't see that she wanted to was Ariel... next time :)


Johnny loved riding on the RED train! When the conductor would yell "all aboard" John would yell with him...



TIRED!


Welcome Home! Nothing like snow at home to get us back to reality... fast!



We also spent some time at the beach... I'll get those pics up next, I may have to finish unpacking first...

unauthorized growth

learning to read...

potty training...

learning to crawl...


I don't think I signed off on all these, who said it was okay to grow up?! Someone press the rewind button for me, I'd like to see the last 6 months again, this time in slow motion...


Kyla is super excited to be learning to read, she has little preschool books with a total of three words, but she thinks they are cool. I just got word from our school district that they are allowing early entry kindergarten for sept. b-days so now I am back to making the decision of whether or not to send her next year...

Johnny is on week three of potty training, he is doing great! He is super stubborn and is forcing me to let him learn it on his own. With Kyla I trained myself to take her every couple hours until she got it. Johnny will do it when he wants or not at all... Johnny is even keeping it up with one bathroom down... Steve just tore apart the kids bathroom. High five for construction... ;)

Leo is starting to inch worm his way to toys a couple feet away. For the last couple weeks he has been trying to grow his arms but without success, he decided if he is going to get the toy he will have to move his whole body... it was the cutest thing to see him lay there and stretch and stretch trying to get at something.

We have some great kids, I am one lucky mama!