Oct 17th 2011 bonfire at the greatest place in the world "Nema and Tepas backyard

Does the fun ever end . Bonfire and hot dogs and smores and playing in all the fall leaves that nema and tepa had been saving.

siblings and cousins together again after 4 yrs October 16th 2011

I love these pics it was such a great day when we all were together again hanging out like we had never left..well apart from there was alot more kids now then before. and we got to meet Landons beautiful wife Jen , uncle landon was elizas favourite (well at the beginning) The cousins all got on great . Made cupcakes for Alicias birthday (Talk about longest and most special birthday ever)
The kids had the most fun exploring nema and tepas best backyard ever.

Minnesota arrival

Woh did we have a long layover in L.a with nothing to do. kids went a little crazy but we were pretty patient when i wasnt falling asleep as we knew we were all off our normal timezones, schedules and pretty bored. When we got to minnesota airport there was nema and tepa with a happy birthday sign for alicia and princess balloon. such a lucky girl Alicia hving cute grandparents like that and i know for sure she had a great 2 day birtthday as it was her birthday night still when we got to minnesota.

Yay October 15th and we are going to see our family in Mn

So we were supposed to leave on the 14th but i dont need to go into the sad details waiting, missing plane no visas, moremoney etc etc
lets focus on the day we actually got to leave . We left ion the morning very early thanks to maree and kimball for driving us, we were much better prepared then last time and were able to get on as standby on the flight . Oh and it was ALICIAS birthday she wore a badge that said birthday girl and felt very special, we had brough cupcakes/muffins to take to airport to have in morning. Alicia was pretty upset the day before because she wanted to wake up brithday morning at nema and tepas house. so we tried reallt hard for her to have a good day...we knew it was going to be a loooong one on the plane for so long.
The kdis were actually great on the plane over to l.A aLICIA WATCHED Monte carlo over and over, tyler watched abit of everything and Eliza of course wanted to watch everything tyler watched.
They had lollies for take off ...and well you can see elizas didnt really stop her ears from popping as they were on her cheeks.
We were very thankful the kids were so good...without giving them the phenergan we had just in case.

Lecy our little Missionary oct 2011

Alicia asked her bff Nikolla to come to church today, they got ready together , alicia lent nikolla some church clothes and im pretty sure they tried to be as similar as possible.
We asked nikolla if she had a good time at church and Nikolla said yes until the last part...of course the sunday she came bishop got up 5 mins before sacrament would be over and talked for about and extra 20 mins . That is a long time for someone who hasnt sat through 3 hours of church before.

kindi farm at the shops sep 2011

The kids got a suprise when there was a petting zoo farm at the shops today . They werent scared at all. Eliza was having conversations with goats and tyler loved the ducks and rabbits but didnt want to hold them.

Levi was happy to just suck his fingers in the stroller and Lecy missed out as she was at school.

september 28th 2011

nap time for for my babies