Sunday, May 22, 2011

Adventures in Boise!

We had the oppportunity to go on a little mini vacation with some good friends of ours. We met them in Boise to spend a few days! We had such a good time~! We started out at the Boise Zoo! It doesn't matter where we go it seems we usually end up at the zoo! It is an activity that we love to do together! Maybe it just means we are like a bunch of animals!
Reagan going down the giraffe slide!

Wheeeee Ryland!

Hang on tight Lydia!

Beautiful Leauna!

Lydia sitting on the elephant statue!

Ryland riding his long last brother!

Leauna rides the elephant!

Reagan riding the gorilla!

Reagan, Ryland, Leauna, and Lydia!





Mommy and Reagan with the Camal!

My wonderful family! Mommy, Reagan, Leauna, Lydia, Daddy, and Ryland!




Lydia riding the carousel !

Reagan and Daddy! Reagan LOVES Carousels!

Ryland even got a little braver and sat on a bench to ride it this time! That is progress from just watching in the past!

Leauna riding her giraffe!


The next day the weather was rainy but we still had a great time! Our first stop was The Idaho Train Depot! This is such a beautiful building inside and out!

Lydia, Ryland, Ryan, Leauna, Leah, and Reagan in the top of the tower!


I loved all the beautiful artwork on the beams!

Leauna, Lydia, Reagan, and Ryland!

My sweet men! Ryland, Daddy and Reagan!

Ryland, Daddy, and Reagan!

Ryland, Reagan, Lydia, and Reagan on the Idaho train!

Me and my girls! Leauna and Lydia! I had to get a picture, after all I am an Idaho girl at heart!

We also went to the Discovery Center that day! We had a great time there!

Me working on a puzzle!

Reagan playing the vetrenarian!

Ryan blowing bubbles!

Ryland blowing air on his face~! Makes me laugh again just looking at it!

Love this picture! Reagan made the funniest faces doing this!

Ryland doing some grocery shopping!


Leauna!

Lydia!

Pull Reagan Pull!
We stoped at the park to let the kids play, but it ended in Ryan chasing a goose, because I dared him too. I realy didn't think he would do it! I thought that the mommy would come after him, but no! And so he won and cought himself a baby goose, after ALOT of running! And then he nicely returned it back to his mother! He realy is a kid still!
We spent a great deal of time at the swimming pool! The kids had a blast playing together!
Leauna practicing with out floaties! She is doing so well!

Lydia practiced also! I am so proud of them and how well they are doing!

I don't know why but I always seem to catch the the goofiest pictures of Reagan!

Ryan looking realy excited about getting his picture!

Swim Ryland Swim!

We took a day to take the kids to the Boise Temple! It was so beautiful! Ryland, Reagan, Lydia, and Leauna!

Leauna by the beautiful flowers!

LOVE this picture of Lydia!

Daddy, Mommy, Ryland, Reagan, Lydia, and Leauna! My forever family!

Lydia, Leauna, Ryland, and Reagan!


My four angels! Lydia, Leauna, Reagan,and Ryland!

Me and my hubby! Love this man!

We also spoiled the kids with a stop at Build a Bear!
Reagan chose a cute frog that he named Spot!

Lydia and her kitty Cindy!

Ryland and his Camo Bear Bugsy!

And Leauna and her bear she names Repunzel!


We had such a great weekend! It was so nice to spend time with good friends! 

Easter Best!

I had to take a few pictures of the kids in their Easter Best! They are quite cute if I might say so!
Ryland, Lydia, Reagan, and Leauna~!

Sisters, Leauna and Lydia

Ryland and Reagan! Such goofs!

My beautiful Leauna

Sweet Lydia

Goofy Reagan!

Crazy Ryland!

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Easter in Portland!

We spend Easter in a motel in Portland! The Easter Bunny was sneaky enough that he was able to get to us anyways! I'm sure he was limited on hiding spots so all four kids baskets were found in the dresser!
Rylands basket


Regans basket

Leauna's basket

Lydia's Basket

Daddy got a special treat!

Mommy got a couple shirts!

a few eggs were hidden!


Ryland and Reagan were sleeping!

Leauna and Lydia decided to rest also!

Reagan was so excited The Easter Bunny was able to get to him after all!

Leauna and her stash!

Crazy haired Lydia!

All the kids got nerf guns and Ryland was so excited!

Reagan and Ryland  finding the hidden eggs!

Later that after noon we decided to venture out and do some exploring! We thought a fun activity for the kids would be riding the trolly around town a little! The is daddy with Ryland and Reagan! They were so excited to ride a train!

Lydia, Leauna and Mommy!

Lydia


Ryland, Daddy, Mommy and Leauna!
We had a great Easter together as a family! It was different to do it out of a motel but we had a good time with it!

Oregon Zoo Easter Eggstravaganza!

While we were in Portland area we decided to take a couple extra days to spend some time exploring as a family. We took a day to go to the zoo and it just happened to be the day of their Easter Eggstravaganza so it was insane, but we still managed to have some fun!
Because it was so busy we had to park in shuttle parking lot which is a ways away. Because it is so far they have school busses that take you to the zoo. This is Reagan on the bus!

Daddy, Leauna, and Lydia! This was the first time for any of my kids to ride on a bus, so they LOVED it!

Ryland, Mommy, and Reagan!

We finally made it to the zoo and the first thing we saw was the black bear!

Reagan checking out the bears with daddy! He had so much fun and was so excited to see what was coming next! This was the first time the boys have walked at the zoo, and they were champs, and had so much fun with it!

Leauna, Reagan, Lydia, and Ryland!

Reagan, Ryland, Daddy, Lydia, and Leauna! My five favorites! Love my family!

Lydia playing on the log!

Leauna joined in on the fun also!

Ryland doing some exploring on the trail!

Reagan, Leauna, Lydia, and Ryland in front of the fishies!

Ryland and Reagan check out the fish!

Ryland, Leauna, Reagan and Lydia with the fairly creepy easter bunny!

Lydia, Leauna, Reagan, Mommy and Ryland

Reagan insisted on wearing my glasses because the sun was so bright!
The zoo was so busy and we didn't get to stay as long as we would have liked, but we still had such a wonderful afternoon together! I love getting away with my family!
Since it was such a nice day after the zoo craziness we decided to get some ice cream! We splurged on some cold stone! The kids love being able to pick out what kind of ice cream they got and what they put in it! It was a yummy treat to end the great day!