ROCK ON!

The other day as I finished doing Makenna's hair she was running out of the bathroom and yells "ROCK ON MOMMA!" Crazy little girl!

I did it!

Makenna loves watching Dora the Explorer and has learned the "We did it" dance that they do at the end of each show. I have finally recorded it and hopefully you can see how cute it is! Enjoy... I apologize for the loud noise in the middle of the recording!

Nap Time!

This is Makenna at nap time. Once again she had a hard time staying in her bed for her nap, and I heard her get out of bed so I decided to ignore her to see what would happen. This is what I found. Then I decided to take a pic of Gav as well. Looks like I'll have a peaceful hour or so!

I have a booger in my nose!

Makenna used to go to bed perfect! I mean, we would say prayers read 2-5 books depending on the time, give her a kiss and shut the door. Well that was about three weeks ago and things have not been the same. I'm not sure what happened but that is not the case anymore. The first couple of times it happened it took us 2 hours to get her to finally fall asleep. And she started making up excuses.... my tummy hurts, my bum hurts, my leg hurts, I want the fan on, I want my heater on, I can't find Diego etc. Luckily the time shortened but she still comes out at least once a night and has some excuse. Tonights was my favorite! "I have a booger in my nose!" So I wiped her nose and she went back to bed. I thought it was funny at least!

I tried

Well I tried to do the posts in reverse order so you wouldn't have to stop from the bottom and go up, but it didn't work for some reason so if you are interested in reading about San Diego then start with Family Trip 2008 and go up! It's more interesting that way!

Rancho Cucamonga!

We all piled back up in the "bus" about 1:30 and headed home for good ol' St. George. It was pretty loud on the way back with Mike snoring, the kids screaming and the "road" California roads are kind of crazy and at one point it got pretty dang bumpy. I thought Gavin was going to have shaken baby syndrome because it was so bad. Mike came up from his trip because it was so bad and thats when Aaron decided to pull over and see what was going on. Well, it comes to find out it was the air pressure/brakes that didn't work. It wasn't the road at all, we just didn't have any suspension. The guys went to go figure out what was going on while we all chilled on the bus. They decided we needed to get it towed so they unloaded the Yukon (mind you we are off the side of the CALIFORNIA freeway) and loaded all 8 kids, Bonnie, Jill and I, and Mike who was driving. I believe 6 of the 8 kids were screaming, Bonnie was almost in tears and the rest of us were laughing. Luckily Rancho Cucamonga isn't like Baker. Oh how I wish we could have broken down there!!! haha/ We found a really nice outdoor mall that had a huge grassy area where we let the kids run around like crazy and then ate at the Cheesecake Factory for dinner to kill more time. After we tore the restaurant apart, the guys were done and we headed home! We made it back at 2 AM and went to bed! The trip was great but its nice to be home and get back in a routine! We made it YAY! I do have pictures but I can't find the cord to my camera so I'll post those later...

The rest of the trip

Monday night the guys were nice enough to let us ladies have a "ladies night" It was so eventful let me tell you. We got to go grocery shopping for everyone. We found a Wal-Mart (not a Super Wal-Mart though) and a place called Staters. Between the two we got all of the food that Aaron likes ;) and not the ice cream that Brent likes (sorry babe). The guys claim that it took us 4 hours to shop (I think it only took 3 1/2) and they whined about it the rest of the trip. We aren't sure what took us so long but they think we went out on the town to party. Unfortunately I have to say that we honestly grocery shopped for that long and were going crazy because of it. The guys got their night out the following night and took some of the kids to the Padres game. They all loved it and us girls got to stay home and cook tacos for the rest of the kids that didn't go, put them to bed and then watched American Idol and Biggest Loser. That was about it! It was still fun though. We went to the beach (which was FREEZING but we still got some sun) and went swimming after at our place. We also went to Sea World which was fun and the kids enjoyed and then BBQ'd some delicious chicken. The next morning the guys took the kids swimming and we packed up, ate some lunch and headed home (see next post) Here is a slide show of some pics that were taken (there are quite a few)