San Diego

About a week after school got out we headed down to San Diego.  Our first stop there was Sea World.

I didn't take very many pictures while we were there, but I had to get this one of my two youngest in front of their favorite ride, the Tentacle Twirl.  We rode it over and over and they never got tired of it.

My older boys loved the thrill rides like Journey to Atlantis and Manta.  Dallin also loved the new Electric Eel ride.  I told him there was no way I was going on that ride with him, because I did not have a death wish.  He and Thomas went on it.  Dallin came off it begging to go again, and Thomas  came off it saying "Never again!"  Since we were basically walking on the rides I let Dallin ride a few more times.  He is crazy!! 

I also got this picture at the Dolphin show, which was Tad's other favorite thing at Sea World.  I think he would have been happy if we had done nothing but the dolphin show and the swings all day long.

One more picture of all my boys right after we had all gotten soaked on the ShipwreckRapids ride.

All in all, it was a good day at Sea World.

The next day we headed to the beach.  We decided to visit Coronado beach since we had not been there before.  We loved it.  It was not very crowded the day we visited and the weather and waves were perfect.

Before I get to the pictures of my boys, I have to share this picture of the Coronado sand. It is full of fools gold, and sparkles in the sun.  Very pretty!

My boys had so much fun playing in the waves and in the sand.  It was a great day.

After the beach we cleaned up at the hotel and then headed out to La Jolla Cove.

It was a pretty and fun place to hang out for the evening. 

 I thought it was so sweet how Tad had his arms around his big brothers legs.

There were, of course, tons of sea lions there and a lot of them had little babies that were so cute.

One more shot of La Jolla Cove.

We finished the evening with a stop at the beautiful San Diego Temple.

The next day we got up and took a tour of the USS Midway. I had never visited the Midway before.  It was pretty interesting.

After we finished at the USS Midway, we headed back to Arizona.  We spent the night in Gilbert, and then did some running around and shopping down there before we drove home. 

It was a good trip.

Catching Up

It has been awhile since I have updated the blog.  In an effort to get caught up, I will be posting a few posts over the next few days.

Way back in May we had a a day off from school for an unused snow day.  So, we used Jack's Every Kid in a Park pass and went to the south rim of the Grand Canyon.

We have been to the North Rim a couple of times, but this was our first time visiting the South Rim.  It was good to finally see it. Since my boys are all born Arizonans, I figure it was a moral obligation to finally take them there. :)

We saw lots of cool Grand Canyon vistas.

We took a walk over to see the Grand Canyon watchtower.

We all walked up to the top of it.  This is a picture of the boys looking out of one of the windows on the walk up.

Drake and Thomas had their piano recital in May as well.  We are so happy with how hard they are working at the piano and the progress they have made this year.  They both played their pieces perfectly!

Tad completed Kindergarten, and they had a cute little program that the kids put on for the parents in his kindergarten classroom.  He did a great job!

Dallin also had a good May. He had an end of year choir concert.  His choir did well, and he was also asked by his choir director to do a mash-up with one of his friends.  He sang really well.  I asked him if he was nervous, and he told me he was super nervous, but you couldn't even tell.  That kid has nerves of steel!

Speaking of his nerves of steel.  He had the courage to run for Student Body President at his school and he WON!!!  He is honestly so nice to everyone and I know he will do a great job.

It was a good month!