{Summer Vacation Volume 1 part 1}

We headed to the beach early Sunday morning so that we would get to spend the day on the beach.

We had never been to Newport Beach but found a spot and even with all the clouds and cold water we had a nice relaxing day!

It was so cold E's lips were blue!! He is after all our desert rat.

{back to the normal}

So Spring Break is over and today we are doing chores, homework, piano lessons, and speech. E keeps calling it doing the "normal stuff" as opposed to last weeks non-structured days. We didn't travel this year over break but spent a lot of time here doing nothing which is what all of us wanted anyways so it was great.

We started break with bad weather (Vegas bad weather which means wind, a tad bit of rain, and cold...yes i know it could be worse but we were just thinking about pulling out all the shorts when the weather went to cold again) and I was sick for the about first 4 days .

We made library trips, rents some Wii games from the video store, had family sleepover in the front room, went to see Aliens vs. Monsters, had dinner out once and did random things around the house.

When we went to the movie we were the only ones in the theater! I couldn't believe it! Here the boys are in the center of the whole place with no one around.

One of those random things is this brown sugar game I remember doing in young womens at some point. The boys really liked it and I think Chad just thought I was crazy but they played it for a good hour one afternoon.

But now we are back to "normal" and counting the weeks until summer break....8 Weeks to go!

Another Weekend Trip

We headed back to Salt Lake this past Friday to join our Walker family in a well-wishing farewell for Karen and Will (Chad's Mom and her husband) as they get ready to leave for Rome, Italy on an 18 month mission for our church.

We had a short fun visit with everyone and the boys even got to sing in church with all their Walker/Sommerfeldt Cousins. I think there might have been over 20 there to sing out of 39. It was wonderful. Karen and Will gave wonderful talks. Their assigned topic seemed to be faith but it weaved nicely into more personal stories about their childhood and their own parents. Those are the kind of sacrament meetings I enjoy, ones filled with personal experiences and stories as opposed to those filled with quotes from other church people and peppered with to many stories that are not personal to the speaker.

Here is one of the pictures i took of a few walker grandchildren practicing the night before. I told Chad it was sad we couldn't take a picture during sacrament meeting of all the cousins singing b/c it is likely we won't have many of those times with our new Sommerfeldt family and walker family all together (especially the grandchildren.)

We are headed out for the next few days

And this is where are are going.....

to brave the cold weather (it is warming up here we are at 65 again) and to attend the wedding of my brother Kris to Elisa!!

Happy Wedding!!