Jimkeepers

The tale of the Jimkeepers goes back many years to when a bunch of rowdy teenage boys became friends.  Well, somehow those crazy boys became men.  I love it when we can all get together.  We were extra lucky to have Lee and Jaclyn in town from Georgia.  It would be so nice to have them closer (hint, hint:)).  

We met at a beautiful park in southern Orem.  We fed ducks

we picnic'd and the kids played 

and the big boy's played 

Oh, and Owen has a fierce love of dogs.  He is always chasing after them. . which I have to watch out for sometimes.  He gives kisses over and over again to dogs and Ollie was his new love:).   

Arizona Summer

Months ago Brett suggested that we go to Arizona for a week after our Disneyland adventure.  All I could think was July + Arizona = NO!!!  Well, after a lot of talk I finally gave in and I was glad I did.   The 110+ degree temperatures really weren’t as bad as I was dreading.  Swimming makes everything more bearable, along with all the fun with family.  We spent a lot of time in the pool and the boys even took some swim lessons with their cousins.  I really feel like both of the boys have improved leaps and bounds this summer.  Hyrum likes it when I call him little fish when we’re in the pool and Noah then usually insists that I call him scary shark.  Our boys are so cute!

Disneyland 2

Hyrum and Noah both got to fight the dark side as Jedi’s in training, along with most of their cousins.  That was a great experience!  Hyrum also got to have his birthday at the happiest place on earth.  He is FIVE!!! I can’t believe that we have a five year old and he is such a joy to have in our family.  He is curious and always asking questions about everything.  We tried to make the day special by taping streamers up in the hotel while he was asleep so he could wake up to something special.  We also let him pick out a big ice cream cone.  He ate about half of it before he decided that he was full (yes, this boy has a lot of self control) and was ready to open presents.  He gave the rest to Noah who demolished it.  I’m just glad we put down a towel on the floor:)

Noah is now tall enough to go on the Tower of Terror, which of course means that Brett insisted he tried it once.  I won’t even go on it!  Anyway, he did try it, he didn’t cry, and all he said was “I don’t like that fast elevator”.  He’s such a brave boy.  The kids also got to dance away at the Phineas and Ferb show.  (I love the top picture with Hyrum in the air as he was jumping)

We got to see their Aladdin show which is just the coolest, funniest, Broadway-esque show to see.  With all the fun  the kids would get pretty zonked out which means I got in some extra snuggle time. 

There was a lot of waiting in lines, but the lines overall were great.  It was fun seeing the sea of like colors with our matching shirts.

Disneyland

Ok, so these are not in order, but I’ve spent the last week looking at these pictures and trying to figure out how to post about 100 pictures onto the blog.  It was really hard to condense them, but these were some that I wanted to remember.  Carsland was AWESOME! 

There were some other awesome rides and people to meet.

There were some great treats to cool us down.

We did some fun Disneyland trivia that brought in the Partridge competitive gene and kept our minds searching.  The boys really loved all the rides and spending time with cousins.