sea world with the cousins

Our dear friends the AZ Nelsons met us at Sea World. We let the kiddies run amok. Neither J or I have been in 20+ years, so it was a really fun time. { Though he was in a bad mood about our booth picture (above) - I adore booth pics but J says only bad things happen in dark little curtained-off booths. The picture says it all. I love the lone pigtail }

We also wanted to issue an apology to the nice man who sold us his free passes from his work: you saved us $50! But Jason double-checked with the security guard that they were legit, who promptly asked the nice man to leave. Sorry about that... Here are our adventures:

vacation, all we ever wanted

We went to Utah in April for Amanda's graduation. Yea, Buddy Lee,

you are done! Congrats on your degree in Public Health :) It was

Belle's first flight and she did awesome. {If you ever fly with a carseat,

you must get this invention, it saved us and Stella loved it!} We had a great time up in Park City in an AMAZING cabin (many thanks to Amanda McC!).

How nice to hang out all together and enjoy some weather!

ready to go

all the generations

THE cabin

loved the moose

Stella with two bears

Temple Square

goodbye, Utah!

We just got back from our annual Yosemite trip with my parents and

it was so relaxing. The weather was beautiful! You really must go if

you have never been up there. We saw a bear (the first I have ever

seen there in all my life!) and loved hiking around and watching

Stella chase the squirrels.

Yosemite Falls in the background

"wash your hands"

hike to Vernal Falls

Mom in front of El Capitan

friends in front of our cabin

Yay for vacation!