California

In June, my sister, Katie, and I and our (all together) seven children crammed in her car and trekked to California to visit our family for two weeks. We had so much fun at my parents house and at Grandpa Christensen's too.
Side note: So, I just realized that most of these pictures are of Henry and Matthew. Those little boys are just too cute!


This cute little Matthew boy fell right to sleep in the relaxing pool.

I absolutely love his wrinkly little belly!

Jumping on the tramp with our auntie and cousins.

Lily was practicing her skating skills in Uncle Andrew's roller blades.

My mom is going to be mad that I took these pictures of her sleeping, but how could I resist capturing all of these girls reading their bedtime stories?! So cute!

Henry loved cruising around in this walker! (He still wasn't walking when we took this trip)

One of his favorite sleeping poses.

We went to my old high school and played in the ceramics room for a while. This is what Henry looked like by time we were done.

Henry LOVED playing in Grandma's fridge.

Our Uncle Zach is so much fun!

Nuzzling up to his mama to fall asleep :)

We adore our Aunt Rachel!

I miss Henry's little Mowgli crawl!

We got to celebrate Rachel's birthday while we were there, too.

Our drive home was so beautiful! It was overcast and rainy the whole time. I love what clouds do to the colors of landscapes.

I really do love living in Utah!

Just silly children

These pictures are from May. One months-worth of pictures down, 4 more to go :)

One morning, I went into the kids bedroom and there was something blocking the door. I pushed harder and heard the grunt of a little girl just inside the door. I'm not sure how long she had been sleeping there.

That sure is the cutest door stopper I've ever seen.

I guess she must have been pretty comfortable there because she turned over and went right back to sleep... for about 5 minutes :)

And this cute chub!

The Happiest Place on Earth

  And, yes, I'm talking about Disneyland! I am 25 years old and I still think it is just as magical as I did when I was five. It was so exciting to take Makenzie there now that she is old enough to know the Disney characters and appreciate the rides. I must say that she had a blast, but her favorite thing of all from the day was watching Fantasmic. She absolutely loved the musical water show that displayed all of her favorite Disney princesses and characters. It was so fun for Shane and I to watch her excitement throughout the performance. We really had such a lovely day and I can't wait until the next time we are able to go.
  Home, of course, really IS the happiest place on earth and we got to spend several days at Shane's parents and mine (but I accidently deleted the pictures from my home) while we were in California. It was such a wonderful trip.

At Grammy Klenk's.

No, I did not set this picture up. These two just really loves each other.

When we got to Grandpa Christensen's, Zach and Rachel had made Kenzie a piñata for Cinco de Mayo. They are always so good to my kids! 

I actually didn't get a whole lot of pictures at Disneyland but that's alright because Steve had his camera clicking all day and he is going to let my raid his photo's soon. So there will be more to come.

Excited to start our day at Disneyland!

Astro blasters! Makenzie was so excited to see Buz and Woody.

Doing double duty. What a great dad!

We watched a cute little Rapunzel play.

I love that Shane snuck right into the very center of this picture of my brother and his adorable wife.

We rode the Winnie the Pooh ride three times! It was so fun!

I think Henry's face looks so funny in this picture.

I couldn't resist adding this one. She really wasn't scared; I just got her at a funny moment.

Waiting for Fantasmic, the highlight of the day.

Because the following Sunday was Mother's Day, we were able to join my family in a Skype chat with Andrew, who is on a mission in Chili. It was so fun to see him and talk to him.

Kenzie and Grandpa sang a few songs for us afterwards.

Our dear friend Micheline.