Goal met!

Maddi loves the show So You Think You Can Dance. So for the past little while we have been stalking all of the Utah boys that were on season 4. She was able to take a class from Gev, we saw Thayne (her favorite) in Footloose this summer and we met Matt today after It's a Wonderful Life. Matt was way cute to her and was super nice! The show was great and now that she has met all three we can stop stalking them! Well, we still will probably stalk Thayne occasionally!

Home Sweet Home!

We had the most awesome opportunity to go get out of town for a few days last week. We started out in St. George, then on to Disneyland and Universal Studios and then off to San Diego. We had a fantastic time it was hard to come back! This is really the last time we will be able to do a big Family vacation before Mitch goes on his mission. ( yes , I teared up as we walked in to Disneyland that first night!) Disneyland was SUPER fun and SUPER crowded! The first night was the best we were there for a few short hours but managed to do most of the rides, the crowds were smaller that day. Then the rest of the days there were crazy!! SO many people! It still was fun though. Everyone laughs at me because I say that even when all the kids leave the house I will still go there on vacation, I LOVE IT!!!!

More Disney

Universal Studios

We have never taken the time to do anything other than Disneyland while in the L.A area, so this time since it was Mitch's trip, we went to Universal Studios. He has always wanted to go there. It was really fun and the crowds were small so we got to do most everything. We went on the back lot tour and saw lots of cool stuff. I decided that it was a boy place because there were no princesses and everything ends in an explosion. It was cool to see some new things and not wait so long for rides! Poor Thomas woke up that morning throwing up so Kevin took the others over to the park and then in the afternoon when Thomas insisted he felt good he came ALL the way back to get us and then ALL the way back! I didn't realize how far away from Disneyland it was! With traffic it can take an hour one way.

Conan O'Brien

Mitch had his wish come true on the vacation. We sent away for tickets to the Conan show, his favorite, and about a week before we left we found out that we got the tickets. he was SO excited and it was the highlight of his trip! They were even on camera, right behind Andy Richter. It was pretty cool! He was very excited to get the "golden ticket" that meant they had a confirmed seat. Thanks Conan for making Mitch's day!

Thanksgiving

We were so glad to be able to be at Grandma and Grandpa's in San Diego for Thanksgiving! It was really neat because it was the first time in over 30 years that Kevin and his brother and Dad were together for Thanksgiving. We had 6 and his brother Tim had three add Grandma and Grandpa and we had 11 people staying in one house! Crowded but fun! We hope we didn't drive them too crazy! It was a fabulous Thanksgiving.

Beach, Burgers and back home!

We spent a great day at the beach, Thomas and Jacob were boogie boarding in their swim trunks of course as all the locals were in their wet suits! the waves were crazy big and scary. The life guards had to tell Thomas to move over because he was heading for a rip tide. They all survived and then we went to one of our favorite places, Corvette Diner. Then off to Sea Port Village to do some souvenir shopping.
San Diego is the BEST city in the world!!! It is really weird to listen to Christmas music as you stroll along the bay in flip flops! Then we headed back to St. George to spend a tiny bit of time with Mema and Grandpa and have a second Thanksgiving and then back to home and the real world! It was fantastic while it lasted. A very FUN trip. We are SO glad we were able to do it!