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So apparently May hasn't been a great month for Mommy, me, and blogging. We only have a pithy 6 entries..okay now 7...and I think we had 10 one other month! Sorry. We'll try better in June.

We just got back from a trip up north SLC over Memorial Day. We went for the weather. HAHAHAHA! Sniff. Sorry. Just a little joke. Unfortunately, the camera battery died the moment Mommy turned it on so we don't have any pictures. Although it just occurred to Mommy that Aunt Rachel took some fun ones at the zoo. Of course we went to the zoo! We went twice! Despite the rainy, cold weather. Saturday was great because Romney and Chase and Emma got to join us (Mommy and Aunt Rachel kept having flash back of Disneyland). Monday it was just Mommy and us girls. It snowed on Sunday night at the zoo so it was pretty dang cold. However it was a very fun trip full of cousins and down time. Mommy and Daddy even went for a run together with us in the bike trailer/stroller. That's a first.

I really loved the zoo except for one thing. They had dinosaurs. Life size dinosaurs that moved and made noise and two that even sprayed. I hated them. We worked on saying "poo poo dinosaur I'm not afraid of you" but I still didn't want anything to do with them. Except the one you could sit on and take pictures of. I was okay with that. Go figure.

We will not let this post go without pictures however. Here are pictures that Mommy got from Aunt Rachel from our Disneyland trip. The group shot at night in front of the castle which I think is beautiful, me in my bell dress, the little girlies (or ducklings it felt like), and us with our silly parents. Oh and the cute Mommas who took us. Aren't they beautiful?

The Boys

Hey that's a title we don't get to do very often! We're all about girls at our house but last weekend Daddy's friends came down for a visit! They even brought friends for Mommy too.

Uncle Greg and his wife, Marcela, came and Uncle Braden and his wife, Steph, came. Mommy and Daddy seemed to enjoy their company very much. Daddy went on a bike ride with "the boys" and very much appreciated the increase in testosterone around the house. Funny enough, they looked like triplets though.



Mommy and Daddy even took them over and let them hang out in Grandma and Grandpa's big jacuzzi.


(Mommy is very proud that she actually got a shot of everybody looking at the camera and not involving food. That's a favorite activity of "the boys". Cooking. 99% of the time outdoors.)

Thanks for a great weekend everyone. I wasn't scared a bit. I even sat on Steph's lap and talked to Greg and Braden!

Disneyland Romney Style

Mommy would like to start this post by taking a quick minute to say that she needed this dang vacation to her happy place. Things have not perked up after her birthday at all! Daddy needed a root canal and a crown, we found out our a/c might need to be replaced and then the next morning our garage door broke and wouldn't let us out. Disneyland was soooooo much appreciated. She also wants to thank Aunt Whitley and Aunt Rachel for EVERYTHING!

Now just as a warning, we downloaded 125 images from our camera. We've cut it down to 109 but Aunt Rachel and Aunt Whitley both have pictures that we don't have yet that we really want to post (i.e. a big group shot and pictures of all the cousins in a row). Yeeeaaaah....Mommy is currently trying to figure out how to do one of those mosaic things so you don't just freak out from photo overload. Maybe 3 posts will be warranted.

We started out a Disney journey by leaving our house at 5:45 am Saturday morning. We were the tagalongs on this trip. Aunt Rachel and Uncle Troy planned it and then Mommy just jumped on board! Uncle Troy had only one day at Disneyland and that was Saturday so we were hoping to get to the park at around noon. Which we accomplished! It being a Saturday the park was busy and the lines tended to be a little long but I think we all had fun. Our first ride was Astro Orbitors (which are MY favorite) and then Buzz. A few of us got to meet the Fairies while the bigger kids went on the Matterhorn (Mommy decided not to force me into it on our first day at the park...wasn't that nice of her?)

Okay I just thought of a good way to do this. Highlights instead of play by play! Words and photos in one epic post! (We might just even give you a break after this and not post for a whole week!)

Saturday:
Word Highlights: Watching Mommy start to hyperventilate as she could almost smell Disneyland from the freeway. Meeting the Fairies. Cara being excited about the rides and begging to go on them. Uncle Troy and Aunt Rachel's faces as Mommy and Daddy took them on California Screamin' for the first time (don't worry they did it two adults at a time and always had adult supervision for us kids!) That first water fall on the first ride of Pirates (that's Mommy's!) Head hitting the pillow after a 20 hour day.

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Sunday:
Word Highlights: Spending lazy time with the Adam Romney clan and the Rachel (Romney) Preslar clan at the same time in Uncle Adam and Aunt Whitley's beautiful house. Three separate walks in their gorgeous neighborhood (twice to the beautiful cemetery...this one is Mommy's highlight!) Lots of dress ups and squeals and romping on the part of all the kids. Well no dress ups for the boys. Aunt Whitley's DELICIOUS food. DELICIOUS. Oh and naps for the adults. That was heavenly. The wonderful red puffy air ball that I could get inside and be pushed around.

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Monday:
Word Highlights: Having all six little girls at the park...(this might not be so much of a highlight for the three Mommys). Our first time playing on Tom Sawyer's island which is now "The Pirates Lair". Getting to drive the cars on Autopia, twice! First ride on Dumbo ever and first ride on Alice in Wonderland and the teacups (my new favorite) and then getting our picture taken in front of the castle. Oh and riding the Matterhorn with Lainie and Romney. Even though Lainie and I were WAY more nervous than the veteran, Romney. Oh and dinner at the Pizza Port. We were STARVING. We also met the princesses this morning!

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Tuesday:
Word Highlights: This isn't so much as a "high"light as a "low"light: Freezing misty rain all morning...it was really bad. Luckily it stopped at around 12:30pm. Ticking Peter Pan, the carousels at both parks, and Finding Nemo off our ride list. Mommy taking Aunt Rachel on Tower of Terror (Mommy's favorite ride) for the first time. The Pixar Animation Studio experience. Doing Midway Mania (the Toy Story ride in California Adventure) for the first time. We did this TWICE and loved it. The World of Color show. (Okay I put my hands over my ears and slept through it and Cara just slept through it but everyone else says it was awesome.)

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We left on Wednesday morning and said goodbye. There are awesome pictures of all us little cousins but those are the ones on Aunt Whitley's camera. You'll have to wait for another post for those. :) We had a fantastic time. Oh we were pretty warn out. Mommy wants to show you one more mosaic collage (can you tell she's excited about this new feature she's discovered?) It's all the cute sleeping pictures!

Where are we going and are you excited?

DISNEYLAND AND YES!!!

Here I am in my new pretty Belle dress. I earned this dress sticker by sticker for being good and no pee pee in my underwear (excuse us that was a little crude!) I was so excited. That was the one thing I requested for this Disneyland trip. Cara has also been pretty good so Mommy got her a pretty dress up dress too.





We leave tomorrow morning at 5:30 A.M. Aunt Rachel and Mommy are a little bit looney and very very very excited.

Potty Time?

Probably not. But Cara sure is acting interested. She likes to sit on the potty (but only if she still has her diaper on.) And she has also started telling Mommy when she goes peepee and poopoo in her diaper. So we're going to call it minor interest. I'm noticing that Mommy isn't pushing Cara nearly as hard as she pushed me to be potty trained. Must be because there isn't another baby on the way. A little unfair. Then again, I was at least willing to sit on the potty for hours and watch TV. Cara sits for two seconds and says "All Done!" and jumps off.

Actually Cara is really turning into a little girl lately. She tries to talk in sentences and is getting very good at her new signs. Actually she keeps trying to teach the little day care ladies at the gym signs. Whenever Mommy comes to get us, the ladies always tell her about the signs Cara showed them. She helps say prayers and put on her clothes. She is IN LOVE with chicken nuggets and almonds. She will eat chicken nuggets for any meal of the day (and yes Mommy lets her have them in the morning!) and can eat like 10! Mommy has also really enjoyed that our play has changed and we're doing lots more pretend games together. We spend time entertaining ourselves and each other without the TV being involved! I'm putting Mommy on notice that she needs to write down more of our cute encounters because she'll miss them when we're 13 and 15!

Lake Time

Probably my favorite part of the lake this time (and I bet Cara's) was that Grandpa left us on the beach with Mommy and let us play for a long time in the sand and the warm shallow water.

May Day

On Sunday, Mommy agreed to go on a quick hike with Grandpa. (If you look back on our blog, we go on hikes on Sundays with Grandpa a lot.) However, we came under dressed and so we made a quick stop at our house and grabbed hiking shoes and the backpack for Cara. We went in to Snow Canyon State Park and had a great time. I tried to follow Grandpa up some little bouldering stuff but was quite unsuccessful.



I did get to hike almost all the way up to where the pioneer names are written on the rock. And we saw a lizard. A big fat lizard!




This is a beautiful time of year in St. George. We love it.