Happy Birthday Jared!

Jared is 1



and he is on the go!!

I made caterpillar cupcakes

He wondered about it

He felt it

He samshed it

and he finally tasted it!

Only a couple bites though. He was more interested in smashing it.






The older boys however devoured it!

Present time!

It's a pair of pants! Yeah!

I love pleasing a 1 yr. old. Don't you wish this satisfaction would last!

Happy Birthday Jared! We love you!!

Vacation!

We had a fabulous time in Southern California where we attended a King family reunion. We were there for one week. Thanks to my parents we stayed in some very nice condos right on the ocean. We played at the beach, went to Lego Land and Sea World. I'm still trying to decide what my favorite part was. Unfortunately, Nate got sick very Tuesday night and was in bed till Friday morning. He still got to do some of Legoland, some of the beach, and all of Sea World so we were grateful for that!





Here are some pictures I got at the condos, just hang'n out with family.





Dallin loves it when Grandpa throws him in the pool.

Mae is with her dad waiting her turn to play with Grandpa.

Aunt Becca with Landen

Jared had a lot of fun bouncing on this innertube. He was really cute.

The boys! Brandon, Carter, Mom holding Austin, Landen, Dallin, Isaac, Jared.

Landen, Carter, Austin

Isaac begged all day while we were at Sea World for a Shamu whale. He was very excited to get one at the end of the day. It still hasn't left his sight.

Our view from the condo

The Beach

Isaac waiting for water to come fill up his bucket

I didn't get any good pictures of Jared. If he wasn't in his stroller, he was crawling into the ocean. He loved it!

Lego Land

The boys are big fans of legos and have been waiting a long time to see LegoLand. It was so much fun to be there. It is amazing what thousands of little legos can make! Dallin's new answer to "what do you want to be when you grow up?" is, "I want to build legos for LegoLand"

This picture was taken at the end of our day at the water park. Nate was home sick. Landen and Jared were being babysat by some terriffic aunts, and Grandma and Grandpa. Emily's family had already left. So, Savannah took the picture of just me, Dallin, and Isaac.



Dallin, Savannah, Isaac with a father and son made out of legos.




Dallin on a helicopter ride





Dallin and Isaac riding in lego cars. They're straight in the back.



Isaac

Buying legos by the pound!

Ship ride at Pirate shores.

Isaac starting down the slide. Dad & Landen getting ready. Ryan & Carter thinking about it.

The lady telling Nate he's not allowed to have someone on his lap!

Landen did not like that rule!!

Dallin, Katie, & Mae on a little airplane ride.

Isaac in the front, me and Landen in the back.

One of our favorite stops was the bionicle room. They got to build their own bionicle and watch some of the movie. D & I each bought one with some money from Grandma Jeanne. Since we have been home they have been in their room, all day every day (I'm not exagerating) playing with bionicles.

New York built to scale with legos

Sea World

Sea World was awesome! It was amazing to see the dophins, killer whales, sea lions and other animals work with the trainers. They put on some great shows for us. I didn't get great pictures this entire trip, which I'm pretty disappointed about, but here's an idea of some of the things we saw.

This is the roller coaster we went on at the end of the night - me, Isaac, Katie, Dallin, Grandpa and Jason. It was so fun. Dallin loved it, Isaac said it was a little too scary - but he was smiling.

Penguins

The dolphins were our favorite

The killer whales were amazing too!

This picture is three whales jumping and flipping in a spiral jump together.