Idaho & Disneyland

I have way too many pictures to even attempt to describe all of them. Here's a brief recap.

The kids and I flew to Idaho the beginning of June. We were on a small plane that only had two seats on each side of the aisle. I was unsure about putting the two kids side-by-side, with me on the other side of the aisle but it worked out great. Can I just say my kids are such champs - they did so great on that flight. It could be because Jeremy had the brilliant idea to borrow two iPod Touches from a friend of his and loaded each with the kids' favorite movies and games - the ant squisher game was a favorite. I found myself BORED on the flight wishing I had brought something to do but figured being bored on an airplane with two kids is NOT a bad position to be in!

Idaho was so much fun. We love visiting with all our family there. Throwing a baby shower for two of my sister-in-laws was so fun. I need to get the pictures that Jeremy's amazingly talented sister took of the showers and give them their own post.

Then it was off to California, where Jeremy met up with us and we hit up the beach and Disneyland.

These pictures of Davis at the beach are the best. He was truly terrified of the waves but loved chasing them and running around being chased by them. 


In no particular order, here are some of the pictures we took from our beach day:

I just have to say my kids were at such a fun age to take to Disneyland. Addie loved some of the "older" rides but was still amazed and starstruck at the sight of princesses, Davis loved seeing Woody and Buzz, Darth Vader, etc. 

Addie and I had a special mommy and me morning at the Princess Breakfast. I was feeling really good about our decision to splurge on the meet and greet until later that afternoon. On a whim, I took my 8 year old niece and Addie to see the "Royal Coronation" in the Princess Faire area of Disneyland while some kids slept (Davis took a nap on Jeremy's chest - unbelievable!!!) and some went on the older rides. Anyway, we went and it was so fabulous. There was hardly anybody there, it's in a covered pavilion, there were 3 princesses in attendance and the kids got to go up front to "dance" with them, they even did a maypole with each of the princesses. Then afterwards, they all came out and took pictures. Unbelievable. 

So word to the wise for those of you going in the future. It was just as fun for Addie but was, you know, FREE, so in the future I would just do that. (OH, and pertinent side note - 7 months pregnant was pushing my limits just a tad..poor ankles were huge by the end of the day and it took my feet days to recover. But looking at the pics - so worth it!)


Anyway - here are the pics I took. (Most on my phone.)

Here are the Princess Breakfast photos. We had to RUN to get to it on time from the other end of Disneyland all the way to California Adventure... I was sooo happy to sit down at the air conditioned table and have that sweet waiter bring me a Diet Coke (and another, and another....)  Our neighbors took our picture from probably the worst angle possible even when you're not 7 months pregnant, but I had to document our special morning together.

And here are the Coronation photos. Totally DO THAT instead for anybody going in the future.

Picture Update

Wow, so haven't updated since February which is slightly embarrassing, but what are you gonna do? Life keeps trucking along here in Omaha. I can' t even remember what I have missed posting. I guess here's the highlights:

In January, we found this out: 

In February, this guy had a birthday:

In March: this guy had his appendix out (while on his surgery rotation which is highly ironic. The surgeon was even kind enough to provide me with 8.5x11 photos of his inflamed appendix for Jeremy to look at later. Uhhhh...thanks.)

 Then a week later, this dude turned 3!: 

In April, my best friend Jentry came to visit and we took off to Kansas City, Mo for the weekend. This is the only pic I have on my phone from the trip - the Kansas City temple under construction:

In May, we found a new (to us) car for expanding brood and drove to central Kansas to pick it up.....:

.....And had to reroute ourselves on the drive home because tornadoes had closed the interstate back to Nebraska....no not joking (this picture doesn't do it justice).

And also in May we got the amazing news that my brother and his family were moving to Omaha!!!! Here's Addie with her newest cousin, baby Gabe.

In June, we went swimming and took rides in our bike trailer:

Also in June, the kids and I flew to Idaho for a couple of weeks to visit family and throw a couple of baby showers for 2 of my sweet and wonderful sisters-in-law. We also visited California and DISNEYLAND - separate post.

July has been one big party so far. Having cousins in town is pretty dang fun. We are also lucky enough to have ANOTHER brother (this time it's Jeremy's!) moving to Omaha the end of this month to start school at the Med Center. Things are pretty non-stop but we're having fun!