Digital Scrapbooking!

I'm so proud of myself! I learned to Digital Scrapbook! It is waay fun, but it took me forever to learn how to use it. Hopefully I can do this a lot more during the summer when I'm bored!


My dad told me to give Zoee a bath the other day, so I did - in his shower and in my swimsuit!


This was my first page ever, and probably my favorite!

I don't know if I blogged this one before, but its super cute!

Experimenting with my volleyball pics.

Cute Family Pictures

We went to Thanksgiving Point and took all these pictures of the grandkids for the Grandmas on Mother's Day. They were super cute!



Nathan, Nicole, Caleb, Morgen, Talon, Kinley, and Kyson isn't in this picture, but he is the baby!

Trying to get 7 kids to all look at the camera at once is really hard!

Recent 'Funnies'

Mostly Caleb. Actually probably all Caleb, but all Cute!

Mom painted the laundry room and showed it off to everyone. Caleb walks in and goes, "Wow! This looks AMAZING!"

We were at Costco and Caleb wanted lunch. We were trying to figure out what he wanted. He kept saying, "One of those long cimmon (cinnamon) fings yis (with) cimmon and sugar." "A churro?" "Yeah! A cheerio! That's what it is!"

Caleb usually has a hard time finishing all his dinner. He eats like 5 breakfasts and nothing else the whole rest of the day, unless there are cookies in the pantry. Then he will eat about 5 of those, along with his 5 breakfasts. Anyways, we made French Toast one night for dinner (a breakfast food) and Caleb says, "Yum! Mom, I can finish ALL mine dinner tonight!"

When I exercise, I have a giant water bottle that I drink out of. When I'm done, it's usually about half full, so I just stick it in the freezer. I was running on the treadmill one day, drinking out of my waterbottle that is half ice, and Caleb notices and says, "Whoa! How did you get dat big ice cube in there?"

You probably all know that Zoee has been in heat. So, we have bought baby diapers, cut a whole in the bottom for her tail, and stuck them on. Real diapers for dogs at the Pet Store were like 20 bucks for 6 or something, so we improvised a little! We decided to take Zoee up to Oma and Opa's for dinner on Mother's Day! Talon noticed her diaper and asked why she was wearing a diaper, and Caleb says, "Because her butt is bleeding!" in the duh-why-didnt-you-know-that kind of voice.

We were in the car yesterday talking about ideas for the car situation when we go to Lake Powell. (we are taking Zoee). When I mentioned that detail, Caleb goes, "We can't take Zoee! If she goes in the water, she will sink!"

And the best for last (this one is by Nathan)-

After church on Mother's Day, my dad asked Nathan to put the dishes away. Nathan groans and says, "Ugh. I thought today was gonna be a HAPPY Mother's Day!"

Washington DC

I'm going to try to keep these in chronological order, and I am gonna try to only put a few pictures, but I don't know if that's going to happen!

We left on Wednesday morning at like 11:00, I think, but our flight didn't get into DC until about 4:00. The Doty's (the people we stayed with - my mom and dad's old home teachers from a million years ago) picked us up and we went to Chipotle for dinner, then the Museum of Natural History. It was kinda cool, but the only thing I remember was the security guy that scared Brookie when he said, "Do not lean on the exhibit" of the Hope Diamond!

Dad couldn't leave the airport without his Cinnabon!

Thursday - lunch at Uno's, with everyone except Nick.

Morgen (11) and Nick (14)

Me (13) and Brookie (9)

All the girls

Thursday, still - we went to a battefield of the Civil War. Morgen is sitting on one of the cannons that were there. There was an 80 year old woman who lived in the house in the background, and while the war was going on, she refused to leave it, so she was eventually shot and killed in her own home.

I guess this was still Thursday, too - the Religion Day. We went to the DC Temple - it is GORGEOUS! The pictures don't do it justice! After the Temple, we went to the National Cathedral, which was big, but not nearly as pretty as the Temple. Every time we passed a little church on a corner, someone would say, "Let's go take a tour of that one!"



Kelly and Mom

Friday - the Monument Day.

Me, Morgen, Kelly, and Preston in front of the wall with all the war names on it. I can't remember what it was called.



In front of the World War II Memorial, with the Lincoln Memorial in the background.






Thomas Jefferson Memorial

Closer up on the World War II Memorial. Every pillar has a state on it, and there are about 60 pillars, because there were a couple with countries, too.

We didn't actually go into the Washington Memorial, because Preston said that it is pointless. You go up in an elevator and can see everything, but there is nothing more, except the wait in line.

Friday, we got a tour of The Capital Building! It was way cool. There were huge, bigger-than-lifesize statues of famous people around the whole building - 2 statues for each state. Originally, they wanted to put them all into one room and call it the Statue Room, but it buckled under the weight, so they decided to spread them all out. Also, there are a bunch of pillars around the star thing that says what North, South, East, and West are, and the pillars hold up 90 million pounds! It was kinda a scary thought if they ever fell.

In the Statue Room, there was also a whisper spot. You could stand in a spot and hear what someone was whispering when they were clear across the room (this was a huge room) because of the way the sound worked or something. It was way cool!

You'll have to find a way to zoom in on it, but I'm a 'special' child in this picture!

After our tour of the Capital Building, we got to ride a REAL TRAIN back to the Doty's! It was the coolest thing ever! There was a real dressed up conductor and everything!

Saturday - we went to the National Zoo with everyone. We saw the pandas, elephants, and that was about it. Since it was Saturday, it was really crowded, so we were just in and out.

The panda bear was really cool, though! He made laps around his 'enclosure' and was walking around and around it, and he even went into the water and started swimming!

This thing just looked really cute, so I took a picture of it. I don't even know what it is.

After the Zoo, the Doty's went home and we took their other car and went to Arlington Cemetery. It was crazy! There were thousands of graves, and everywhere you looked there were more and more. They are so far into the distance that it looks like a white line across the grass - like a fence or something, but it was more graves.

We played Rockband quite a bit! They had their projector shine on the wall, so the lights had to be off for it to work, which is why you can't see the screen when I had the flash on.

On Saturday, we also went to a park right by the airport. It was barely off the end of the runway, so the planes would fly right over your heads before they landed. It was the coolest thing in the world! Nathan and Caleb would have loved it if they were there!

A cute family 'matchy matchy' family picture at Emilios, the best pizza place ever!

Trying to get home on Sunday was chaos. We ended up travelling for 14 hours, getting on 4 different planes, and going through security 4 times. So FUN! We were originally going to get on a flight at 4:30 on Sunday, but that filled up on Saturday, so we decided to go for a 7:30 AM flight instead. We woke up at 5:00, didn't even make it on that one, and instead we got on a United flight at 8:30 to Denver, thinking that we would get a flight from Denver to Salt Lake. Well, once in Denver, everything from there to Salt Lake was completely filled up, so we had no idea what to do. Dad called someone he worked with, who said that our best bet was to go to Helena, Montana and then to Salt Lake from there. So we did! We stayed in the Helena, Montana airport (which was like as long as a football field - really small!- and it didn't even have any food or stores or people, and only had 4 gates) for 3 hours until we got on the flight home. We got home at around 6:00.

Anyways, it was still really fun, and I had a good story to tell! Its just a good thing that the boys weren't with us, and that nobody in our family gets airplane-sick.