Disneyland October 2010

We had a wonderful time in Disneyland with the Miles family. How many 3-year-olds get to spend their birthday at Disneyland. We had a great time. I am glad that we went in the middle of the week since it was still pretty crowded & it got more so by Thursday since it was UEA. As my sister-in-law Karen said, "You know what UEA stands for... Utah Enters Anaheim". We saw so many fellow Utahns there that we started making a game of it to see if you could guess who was from Utah. Overall, it was such a fun trip & my Mikey definitely would live there if we let him.

Plane ride.

Dumbo

Karen, Max, Teresa, & Camie waiting in line for Peter Pan.
It was the first ride we went on & Michael hated it. I was nervous that the whole trip might be that way, but this was the only ride that he did not like- go figure.

Mikey's second favorite ride was the Matterhorn.

Our race car drivers

The Parade

The boys at the train station.

Splash Mountain
(Sorry it didn't turn out too well taking a picture of the screen)
Grandma brought ponchos for us, but I ended up walking around in squishy wet shoes for the rest of the day.

Mikey's favorite: Buzz Lightyear
We went on this one so many times, good thing it is fun for adults too.

It's a Small World

Screamin'
(Yes another of me taking a picture of a picture.)

Seigers

Good Ol' Jungle Cruise

World of Color
We watched this 2 nights, Mikey slept through both because he was too worn out by that time, but Johnn filmed it and Mikey now loves to watch it on our computer.

Guess Who's Three!

We were in Disneyland on Michael's actual birthday, but he has a month full of birthday celebrations.
He saw his cake when he woke up in the morning & I don't know if it makes me a horrible Mom or a really cool Mom that I let him blow out the candles and eat one of the cupcakes for breakfast. I made him have a banana too.

Mikey is all about trains. Our basement is halfway covered with tracks now. Thanks to generous family he is in three year old heaven.

The Miller side October birthday crew.

He even got a Thomas the Train scooter. I sometimes wake up to him now riding it around our hardwood floors.

Baby Luke & Baby Isabelle

I had some fun snapping a few picture of the new babies at Luke's blessing last month.
Luke just loves when his Nanny talks to him.

Luke Fredrick & Isabelle Whitmore

Sports Court Opening Party

Matt & Becky have been working so hard on their yard this year & we all went over to celebrate the opening of their new sports court.

Gotta love the U logo. That's a rare thing down in Utah County.

We had a ball (literally) breaking in the new court. The boys started out with tennis, then moved on to basketball, then volleyball. Got to love family style volleyball where you have about 10 adults/little kids on each side & just about anything goes. We had so much fun.

We also celebrated Caden's 1 year birthday while we were there. Isn't his Mickey cake so cute, good job Lisa.

Tending the Fredricks

I had the fun opportunity to watch Jane, Ty, Kate, & Meg while Andrea & Paul headed down for a few days at the beach. I will say that it is quite the adjustment going from 1 kid to 5, but we loved every minute of it. Here are a few pictures.

Kate, Meg & Mikey

I was lucky enough to have the kids over Jane's 9th birthday so we made a party of it at Nanny's with some of the cousins. They loved the magic candles that keep relighting.

Tub time

Funny Meggers cracked me up. She insisted on putting on her dress ups over here pj's.
What a ham!

Mikey had such a blast spending time with his cousins. It was great for me because he would go to bed when all the other kids did, which was earlier than his usual time (& no they did not all sleep like this, although they would have liked to). He loves his cousin's new house and all their fun toys & having cousins around to play with. Mikey & Meg also worked on their animal sounds & to Mikey a sheep now says "mmmmeeegggg"! I love it.

Midway

Michael loved Jaxson's tractor.

What good buddies.

We had a fun night up in Midway Josh, Amy & Jaxson up at their property in Midway. It was a short trip since Johnn left to go elk hunting early the next morning. Michael & Jaxson had a blast playing together & we ate delicious Navajo tacos and had a few intense rounds of boys vs. girls Sequence.

Labor Day in McCall @ the Banks' Cabin

We were lucky to get to go back up to McCall over Labor Day weekend with Andrew and Lindsay & stay at her beautiful cabin. It was a fabulous trip. We each skied once in pretty choppy water, but we had fun trying to find good water and boating over to Ice Cream Alley. I loved waking up and getting to go for a nice run, spend some time on the lake and beach, eat some great food, curl up with a good book, and watch movies (such as Jaws). Thanks Linds for a great, relaxing weekend.

Lindsay's huge birthday cookie

My boys

Mikey still isn't sure he likes boats all the time, but he always likes playing in the sand.

Andrew & Linds

Zoo Days

Miles Family Zoo Day

Baby Maggie's first trip to the zoo.
Love that she's sporting her giraffe binkie clip just for the outing.

When I was tending Hailey & Noah one day we headed up to the zoo and ran into Andrea and the kids. It was so fun & these little cousins have a blast together.

I love my zoo pass & we try to go once a week, so we definitely get our money's worth.
I tend Hailey every Wednesday so we often head up to the zoo on those days to get us out of the house. Michael loves his Hailey & I love that he can run out all his wiggles and extra energy.
I wish I had his energy.