{What else was on the camera}

These are the "other" pictures I found on the camera when we got home....mostly taken during the time we were waiting for the World of Color show to start in California Adventure....

This is what 2 boys find is important to document while on vacation...........

 I call this the many faces of E in boredom!

 Very important to remember the hard concrete we were sitting on waiting...

And to finish off the collection pictures of the "map" and the front of the map in case we ever lost them I guess...

{100 Balloons}

So we have a trusted and loved babysitter who graduated from high school this week. So since our school gets out a week earlier than public school we had the perfect opporunity to do something special for him for a grad present, this leads to the.....

100 Balloons!!

So we spent one afternoon blowing up all the balloons and stuffing each one with a small gift for him.

The next morning we headed to his house and took over his bedroom while he was at school....balloons, streamers, posters, grad decorations....it was wonderful!

 The boys loved doing it and our babysitter was totally surprised and schocked! (he headed straight over after seeing his room to tell the boys thanks!)

{Fishing}

As the weather warms up C and the boys begin making plans for outdoor adventures. They always talk about camping but as one of them doesn't enjoy it as much as the other two they try out smaller outdoor activities first.

So this Saturday was a fishing trip that turned into a horseshoe playing teip.

They went to the local park to fish and had a great morning. No fish caught but lots of horseshoe playing.

{To the Mountain}

After the boys asking all week we found a few spare hours to go hiking today in our local mountains. The only problem was the weather. Since it has been so "cool" in Vegas (cool being under 85) the mountain weather was "freezing" (for us that means 52 degrees). And I forgot to bring sweatshirts or have everyone dress in jeans so our time up there was only 2 hours.

But the boys have a lot of fun and any boulder, stump or tree they could climb on their wanted their picture taken. This is the first time in at least 2 years they have happily taken pictures and K even put his arm around his brother without any prompting! AMAZING!

how this mommy hems pants

So we are forever needing pants hemmed in this house. the boys keep growing and ripping their pants for school (we wear uniforms at school so we need khaki pants 4 days a week). And since we don't own a sewing machine and one of our grandma's is in Rome we are doing the best we can (or should I say I can).

So instead of saving up pants for a visit from Grandma Walker we are making do with what we have and my abilities to not really sew....

So K ripped his last pair of "dress" pants for school and needed a new pair for tomorrow and they needed to be hemmed up like 8 inches....yes he has the "walker boy" body shape...so I did it.

Can you tell?

The stapler is my friend. I am coloring the staples with permanent marker so they aren't so noticeable and K doesn't seemed bothered by it at all....especially since he has been the unfortunate boy who had to wear the last pair of pants I "tried" to actually sew and it wasn't pretty!

A Valentine Surprise

So when we pulled up to the house yesterday after school this is what the house looked like.

After reading all the signs we discovered it was from one of the activity days' groups at church, showing a little love for their primary president! Isn't that great?!

The boys thought it was really funny and brought some fun into our long day at school!

I have the best primary kids!

Thier First Game

Well Saturday afternoon some friends from the ward called and asked if we would like to go to the Las Vegas Bowl to watch BYU play Arizona State. They had extra tickets and the boys have never been to a game before so Chad decided to take them. I stayed behind since I had a baptism at church to attend for a Primary child...I wasn't so sad about it.

When Ethan was home I asked how it was and he said "well I won't do that again" He is such a homebody!

Weekend Vistors

This weekend we were lucky enough to get a visit from Kris and Elisa. Elisa flew in after a quick work trip to San Diego and Kris drove down to meet up with her. Kris also wanted to see Ethan play in a soccer game before the season was over. Ethan was so excited to have Kris come to see him play. He was running all over the place and very talkative the whole game.

I got to "Talk Wedding" with Elisa and see the wonderful colors, ideas and invitations she has picked out. She even brought down dresses for Amaya and Leilani (our neices) to try on for the wedding. We are so excited for thier marriage and wedding in January...we just aren't too sure about the cold Utah weather!

The boys also got to play with Kris and Elisa a lot and had a lot of fun.

We got to do dinner out with just adults and were lucky to catch up with Blaine and Vannessa in between their work schedules. After dinner I got these cute pictures with the kids and Kris and Elisa. The funny thing is that Chad walked into the room said one thing and Amaya started screaming. She went and sat with Elisa (someone she doesn't know all that well yet) and was perfectly content. She was all snuggled in and looked so pleased.

We are lucky to have Kris,and now Elisa, who is so good to our boys, and all his nieces and nephews!

Halloween Night

Well Halloween was more of an afternoon/evening thing for us this year.
We started at about 3 by going to our local shopping center where we meet up with some friends from the ward. We trick or treated all the stores and the kids got tons of candy and the moms got some coupons for free food from the restaurants.

Than about 5 pm we went with some of the same friends up to a model home area and trick or treated and they got more candy and we got more free stuff...we are liking that they give stuff ot the parents too!!

After we got home I took the boys around our little block and because there aren't a lot of kids who trick or treat this area we got a lot of candy. They boys loved to answer the door for the people who showed up at our door.

They sorted out candy and instead of trading Kaden just gave away most of his candy to his brother. He decided this year that he only needed two pieces of each type of candy...ss E really won out on this deal.

Here are the boys in all their Halloween glory!

And yes....Kaden always makes that face at the camera now.

A Weekend Trip

This past weekend we headed to Salt Lake City. Our Apo family was meeting up there at Kris' home for the weekend. My parents had never been to visit him there and also

had never been to general Conference so they got to do both of those things.

And since Blaine's Family and we are in Vegas we all drove up for the weekend.

We got to spend some great time together and everyone got to know Kris' fiance, Elisa.

We are so excited for their January wedding in the SLC temple.

Here are a few pictures of the boys and cousins at the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point.

We also got o visit with our Walker family...Chad's mom and her husband also live in Draper now so we got to stay with them at their house and spend some time visiting before they head off on their mission for our church.