CP-just o-K

Abby's class "pet" is Corduroy the Bear. Whenever she gets to bring Corduroy home for the night, it's a huge deal. This time, we took him with us to CPK for dinner. (Totally because he wanted to, not because we happened to have 3 free kid's meal vouchers.)
Abby has recently been "allowing" me to put her hair back in a loose braid. Thank goodness!
P.S. James officially can not and will not order the aforementioned kid's meal. Apparently, he is not a "little kid" anymore. Heaven help us.....

Ironman 2011

The 2nd Annual St. George Ironman was Saturday, May 7th and our good friend Tom Naylor was a participant. We were in desperate need of a St. George vacay, so we all headed out to watch and cheer on our favorite Ironman!
The race starts at 7am with a 2(point)4 mile swim at Sand Hollow, followed by a 112 mile bike ride and a 26.2 mile marathon. We spent the whole day spectating the craziness. It was fantastic!

 

We had to leave at 5:30am to ride the bus out to Sand Hollow. A tad bit early, but totally worth it, especially since a warm breakfast was awaiting us at the VIP tent.

 

We found Tom in the crowd before he lined up to start the swim. Did I mention his daughter Brynn was there with us too? Brynn is like a super-star in my kid's minds. (Especially Abby) Love her!!

 

 

 

Tom made great time on the swim. He is the happiest racer we saw all day. I swear he always had a smile on his face when we saw him!

 

 

 

We had some down time during the bike ride. Plenty of time to hang out, eat shaved ice, go for a walk to Iceberg to get a soda, pose in trees...

 

 

 

 

 

See what I mean? Smiling- after 112 miles up crazy hills in 92 degree weather. Oh by the way, he's got to go run a marathon now...

 

Baby sisters of big brothers-they get each other!

 

 

 

 

He made it thru, with a smile! He finished at about 10:30pm. We girls were able to stay up to see the finish, the boys had partied too hard all day so they missed hearing, "You are an IRONMAN!"

 

 

This was one of my favorite days, in recent history! I would even dare to say it was more fun (and exhausting) than a day at Disneyland. (That's alot coming from me.) There was such fantastic people-watching, great weather, fun spectators to mingle with, and of course, all the VIP perks!

VIP Baby-Sand Hollow

Ok, so this is how we do Ironman. We be VIP. Shout out to Robie for bestowing VIP passes upon us. Our race spectating days will never be the same if this is what we have to compare to. So we went over to the convention center Thursday before the race to get hooked up.

 

 

 

 

Being a VIP means you can eat all the goodies in the VIP room, including hot chocolate, chips, fruit snacks, candy, etc..

 

We also got to make some cheering signs. My favorite is David's. "It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's Iron Tom!"

 

 

We then headed to Sand Hollow to check it out. What a fun place! The weather was perfectly warm and the kids played in the water. We will definitely have to go back there next time we are in town.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That evening we went up to the rocks on Red Cliff. The boys have so much fun climbing and exploring and the sunset made for a perfect photo backdrop. I love the red rock of St. George! It is gorgeous!!

 

David's Dixie!

 

 

 

 

 

No better way to end the day than a trip to Nielsen's! Yummy!

 

Easter

Some how I managed to get thru all the Easter festivities with only two pictures. Trust me though, we had a wonderful Easter. We had an Easter egg hunt at the Wick's, which turned out to be very profitable for the kids. Aunt Chris goes all out! We had a relaxing Easter morning and since Mark didn't have meetings, we got to be together all day. Such a treat!
David enjoying his Easter basket...(where have all the peeps gone?)

 

Abby got all dressed up for Easter church. She choose all her own accessories. She is such a girl! She did later tell me that gloves are cute, but definitely too hot to wear all day. Seriously, I love that girl!!

 

We had dinner at the Bybee's house. It was a great ending to our Easter weekend.

Oceanside

We took a day trip out to Oceanside on Easter weekend. It was so nice to vacation in our own San Diego town! The kids loved playing at Oceanside pier and walking around talking about Dad's old school days.

 

 

 

We even visited the Subway that Mark worked at in high school. The boys thought it was AWESOME!

 

We were able to visit with Mark's mission president, President and Sister Heslington, and their family. We have kept in touch with them over the years and it was great to see them again. They are great people and treat us like we are family!

 

Mark was the Assistant to the President when their family entered the mission so he got to show them all around. They love him! And, the feeling is mutual! Lots of reminiscing and good memories...