Spring Break

Andrea has spring break one week, Karissa the next--so we planned Levi's baby blessing for in between and met in the middle. Andrea headed out first--then I flew into LA and Alysha picked me up. I was on my way to Boise when I realized that my phone was back in Baker City. I didn't think the plane would wait for me, so I had Darren call her and leave a message that I would met her outside when the plane landed. How on earth did we pull all of this off prior to cell phones??? I didn't panic to badly. Had only carry on luggage and headed for the sidewalk--but which one??? Limos? Taxi's? I asked a man on the sidewalk....just then I heard a voice yelling MOM, MOM--turned, and there was my favorite youngest daughter. It was awesome. :)

They had all tried Salad Pizza the night before and judged it fantastic, so... we did it again--WOW, that is one incredible pizza. We were pigs!!
The next day Alysha went to work--so did her roommate Sam, and her mother; Jake and his girlfriend went house hunting, Denise went to work, her mother went sight-seeing. Andrea, Kayleigh, Koy, and I went to the Long
Beach aquarium. We spent almost the whole day there...

You'll have to check Andrea's blog for those
pictures. Then we met Alysha and headed
out to have our toes done. Anyway, Alysha,
Kayleigh, and I did. The boys were disgusted.
However, they waited semi-patiently as we were headed to the beach for a bonfire next. We did our normal park by the beach road, to cheap to pay the parking fee to park by the beach, then walked down with all supplies for our party. It was pretty fun, too. Then we hauled ourselves back up again. It is soooo fun.




We arrived home and then Lysh and Andrea insisted that I had to try Toppings...with ice cream underneath. I had a Kiwi sorbet, with blueberries, blackberries, strawberries. It was incredible.

















No pictures for that. Next am Alysha went to work again. We were VERY quiet when we got up so we wouldn't bother any of the other people that were staying/sleeping. Come to find out they were already gone. We walked the mile down to Trader Joe's and bought breakfast and other very important items. I picked up a 6" pot of basil and a shopping bag, along with chipolte chocolate hazelnuts, etc. When Alysha got home she took Lucy to the sitters, then off we went for the 4 1/2 hour trip to Logandale. ONLY there was a bit of Friday afternoon traffic headed for Vegas, so it took us 7 1/2 hrs. I watched Princess Bride (while I read a JD Robb book), then Radio, then 50 First Dates. They were all great. My education has been sadly lacking. When we arrived at Tami's, we found Karissa, Matt, Sara, Brielle, Xave, Dax and Lissa already there. They had driven Grandma and Grandpa Cox from SLC and left them at the hotel. Now the real party started!
Since I am entirely at the mercy of my family for pictures, I have no Valley of Fire pictures..and no pictures of the whole crew at Tami's. However, Alysha did copy these pictures for me. THANKS, honey :)
The star, of course, is Levi. He is sweet and handsome and we love him. He is laying on the white blessing afagan that I crocheted for him. Now I have two more days with Tami, Lonny, and Dillon, Garrett, Wyatt, and Levi. Love to all, Mom/Missy

Wonderful Holidays, Beautiful Family!!

Luke made it home and we all gathered at Lacey's on Christmas Eve to celebrate. We had a great time--that's Jesse next to Luke, and Mike, his son in front of him. I'll bet that Stephanie is right close to him, and Emma is close by, too. I cried when I called to tell him goodbye and hurry back home. Uncle Aaron cried when he saw the picture of Matt with his haircut. Guess we all love each other a LOT!! and miss Aunt LaVonne and the great love she gave to all of us. Heavenly Father definitely has blessed us all! The kids had so many fun things to do. Aunt Lysha helped them play muscial pipes. We are FANTASTIC musicians :)


















The dogs were delightful...






Phoebe, who is 104, came for dinner. She had fun--Jingle Bells was her favorite song. She sang it with Caitlyn.

Sara came and brought Brendie, Andrea and Koy, Kayleigh, and Kyler brought Hank, Uncle Jim and Aunt Louise came and brought Zoe--she and Mayme and Hank and Brendie were an interesting combination...























Matt got a haircut....




And then he shaved. Whooooee, who is that young man? Alysha was going to send him to Primary cuz he looked so young!

















And, then there was Payton...