Girls Night

My Friend Alli and her daughter Bailey came over and we had a girls night. We had a lot of fun and it was Megan's first sleep over. The girls had a good time and ,were so tired when we put them to bed @ 11pm. Alli and I stayed up later and watched chick flicks while we painted wood blocks and frames! It was so much fun!

Sweet Girl

What a cutie!
I think she is eating a fuzz ball off the floor LOL.

I love those Big Cheeks !

Lanie is almost one! Where has the time gone. It feels like she was just born and I blinked my eyes and now she is turning one in a few weeks. She has started to army crawl everywhere. She is so sweet and loves her big brother and sister! If you ask her where her teeth are she opens her mouth SO big, it is so cute!We love You !

Firsts -

This last weekend was a couple of Firsts for this adventure we are on in California.

-Ben's Sister and her family (Melissa, Chad, and Chase) made their 1st visit from Elko, Nevada. It is always nice to have visitors. Jaden, Megan, and Lanie haven't seen cousins that often so they loved playing with Chase. We all ate our fair share of food (as seen by the candy wrappers), and as always didn't play enough card games.

-Ben ran his 1st ever half marathon on Saturday. Where did that come from you ask? Melissa and Ben had this idea in December to start training for a half marathon. After really starting to train the first part of February it just so happened this weekend worked out perfectly with a 1/2 marathon along the American River Parkway in Sacramento. If you want to see pictures of the course and where Melissa and Ben placed check out www.parkwayhalf.com (yes it is the 1/2 marathon not the 1/2 walk and we ran all 13 miles)! Melissa ran the St. George Marathon (26 miles) several years ago so she is experienced and helped get Ben motivated, in decent shape, and across the finish line. Yes, his little sister even finished ahead of him and believe it or not neither of them are extremely sore.

-Natalie had her 1st California scrapbook retreat and we are all shocked it took nearly 10 months to occur. Even though timing wasn't all that good with both events falling on the same weekend she still managed to complete over 20 plus pages, stay up until after 4 am both nights (she's asleep on the couch as we speak), and come home anxious to see the rest of us despite missing out on the events in California's Capital.

-I believe this is a first. Chad, since he wasn't crazy enough to scrapbook or run 13 miles with his wife and Brother-in-law, he was gracious enough to watch 4 kids (reminder 3 of which aren't his) for several hours. He is the one that should get a shirt and medal! In order to pay him back we stopped by Bass Pro Shop on the way home. It may not be as good as Cabella's but for this trip it will have to do. We would have taken more pictures of these events but the camera's were left in Nevada and Modesto. LOL!

Next up - a 10k in Utah in July!!


Isn't Chase cute!!


Chad and Melissa playing cards!


The proof - Nice shirts and medals!


The Happy Marrott Family!


The Scrapbooker in Preparation Mode!

Easter Weekend

The Beautiful View of Orchards

Grants Grove

WE love you G & G!

Jelly Belly Factory

Lanie On Easter ( SHe was not sure of the grass on her feet)

Megan and her Easter Basket

Happy Easter!

Gotta love those cute big cheeks

(The PIctures came out in the wrong order. I guess I better Blog more to figure out the right order LOL!)

My parents came to visit us Easter weekend! We had so much fun. We thought it would be a great Idea to take them to the Jelly Belly Factory.( along with the whole state of Cali). It was well worth the wait in line to see how they are made. Holy Cow! It is really intresting and soooo many Jelly Beans are made in one day. We got to try a few and then of course had to buy all of our favorite ones along with Jordan Almonds, Candy COrn , Swedish Fish etc..WE also took them to Sequia Nat'l Park. It was amazing! We couldn't make it all the way to the top because of snow and fog , But we did go to Grants Grove. They were cool trees. The Highlight of the trip was a man "Pepe" . WE bought fresh ORanges and Avacados from his little fruit stand. We had a fun easter egg hunt after church and ate way too much candy, along with Fresh Picked strawberrys for our short cake. Or as ben calls it LOng Cake!

Basketball

Jaden and his team mate Charles
aka LIL Jordan. That kid can play basketball.
(He got the MVP award.)
I think Jaden came to his waste. He was a sweet
kid. He would try to pass it to Haley ( who is sitting next
to Jaden)the only girl on the team, but most of the time she would
be too afraid to catch it and it would hit her head.They were so funny to watch.

Jaden is Lucky number 4 trying to play defense. This was early in the season he did improve his game alot more. Notice he is the first one down the court . That kid can run.... Even though the games were way too early in the morning for a Saturday we did have fun watching them.

We are still alive!

Our love notes!


Sibling love

Josh and Stacey

Happy V-day !

Oakland Temple

Wow, time is just flying by these days . Where did the month of February go? And now it is the middle of march ahh! We had a great Valentines day. We were able to go to the Oakland Temple and is was so beautiful. Then after we went to Armadillo Willys with our friends Josh and Stacey . They are so fun to hangout with. Thanks guys! In the month of Feb. we had fun putting love notes to eachother in our mail boxes. Jaden and megan gave eachother notes almost everyday , it was so cute! Lanie is really getting fun to play with now.And we have been so busy with Jaden's basketball, with practices and games. But now that is all over and Jaden is almost out of school for a month. So I hope to be blogging more. More pictures and stories to come...

NO traning wheels

Megan wanted to take her training wheels off this week.What??? I was a little scared but she was excited. She did a lot better than I thought she would. She only fell a few times. She actually learned faster than her brother. She is always trying to keep up with him. So this will make it so she can brag when she gets older. We are so proud of you Megan and love you lots! Hope you don't get dizzy watching this. She did go in a straight line eventually.Look what I can do Grandma! You go MEG!