Sunday, June 26, 2011

Jack's Birthday!


Jack is five!

We landed in St. George the evening of June 4 and everyone actually slept that night (except for Carson) so they could be awake the next day for Jack's birthday! My parents and Mike were awake first so they went to sac. mtg. at my parent's ward, then Mike and I took everyone else (except Carson) to church at Katherine's ward (Mike's sister). Carson was the only one who couldn't sleep and was up watching TV until 4:00am. That's jet-lag for ya...everyone's body seems to handle it differently!

Anyway, Jack was so lucky to have a party in St. George with lots of his cousins there! Uncle Steve's whole family drove down from Enoch, Utah and Aunt Katherine's family just moved to St. George a few months ago so they were able to come! Also, Jane & Grandad drove up from San Diego and surprised our kids for the party!

Jack really wanted a bowling party so Grandma Cecil found him a sweet bowling-themed cake!





Skylar liked Jack's party too...even though she wasn't allowed any cake! She'll have to wait another month until she turns 1!

Jack got some cool presents too: bey blades and a remote-control 4X4!





Bailey, Paige and Isabelle had some time for a sweet Taylor Swift dance party.






Then we spent the evening playing on the most beautiful grass EVER! The kids ran around chasing rabbits all over the golf course. They also had races and just enjoyed running and playing on GRASS without worrying about sweating like crazy (two things you can't do in Singapore.)






Uncle DJ insisted on catching a rabbit. He finally did but the rabbit was not alive...don't think that counts.





Cute photo of DJ, Kath and two of their kids- Janie and Jill - who would agree to be in the photo!



How can you resist this boy? When he wants to be.. he is a sweetheart!



Cousin David does sweet head stands!



Cousin Janie has her own style:



It was great to have both sets of grandparents there for one of our kids b-day parties...don't think that had ever happened before!





Thanks Jack-Jack for having a birthday! We sure love you!!!


Thursday, June 16, 2011

Day 12 of summer 2011

We left Singapore on June 4 for our summer vacation in the U.S.A! I've finally got some time to update my blog! Our summers in the U.S. are always fabulous but this year there are some really fun things on the agenda:

June 4 - Fly Singapore Airlines to Tokyo, then to L.A., then to Las Vegas...meet parents in Las Vegas and drive to St. George with Becky's parents (check!)
June 12- Becky, Bailey, Jack & Skylar drive to Provo in rental car (check!)
June 15 - Mike, Sammy & Carson drive to Provo with Becky's parents (check!)
June 13-16 - Bailey attends BYU soccer camp (check!)
June 18 - Mike & Sammy fly to San Francisco - Sammy stays with cousin Jessica; Mike flies on to Singapore
June 20-26 - Sammy attends girls camp in the mountains near San Fran. with cousin Jessica
June 20-24 - Carson attends BYU football camp
June 28 - Sammy flies back to Salt Lake City to hang with rest of fam in Provo
June 27-30 - Carson attends week 2 of BYU football camp
July 11 -20 - Fly to Seattle
July 20-27 - Family reunion in Preston, Idaho with Daynes fam
July 27 - Drive to San Diego
July 30 - Carson's baptism
August 10 - fly back to Singapore

We are 12 days into the fun and are having a blast! Will update when there's time...