4th of July Weekend

We went up north for the 4th weekend. Thursday night we headed up to Salt Lake and stayed the night there. Friday morning we got up early went to Hogle Zoo. We took my two nephews Tyus and Peyton with us. All the boys had a Great time and Caden and Chase were so excited to go with their cousins.

Caden, Peyton, Tyus and Chase

Caden, Tyus and Peyton in front of the Dinosaur. Chase was scared of the Dinosaurs and wouldn't get by them.

The nations bird the Bald Eagle. What a beautiful animal.

Peyton and Caden with a monkey statue

Four Little Monkeys!!

After the zoo we headed to Evanston for the rest of the weekend. Saturday Chad, my Dad, my brother Ryan and brother-in-law Chad went golfing and the girls and kids went to the train park and played most of the day.

This is my cute niece Ruby chewing a chicken bone from KFC.

Saturday July 2nd we went to the firework store in Evanston to buy fireworks for Sunday night. Everyone knows Evanston is known for there fireworks and they didn't disappoint this year. There are so many firework stores and they were all packed.

Caden picking out fireworks.

Chase getting his!

Sunday July 3rd we went for a walk on the bear river trail and saw the extremely high river, a beaver, buffalo, and elk. The boys loved seeing all that wildlife and it made Chad miss living in WY. Sunday night my brother Ryan and his family came over to my parents house to do fireworks.

Chase with his sparkler.

Monday July 4th we headed to Woodruff for the traditional parade and dinner.

Jackson, Mayson and Caden at the parade.

This was my favorite float. Chuck Huffaker was driving this tractor decorated in trees, smokey the bear and stuffed animals. This screams Woodruff!!

Cadens favoriate float was Matter the tow truck.

Ryan, Susie and my cute niece Ruby.

The boys with Smoky the Bear

My nieces Megan, Jessica and Machesney are in 4-H horse riding and rode their horses in the parade.

Megan
Jessica walking her colt that she is training

Machesney

Chase at the parade getting lots of candy.

We headed back to St. George after the Woodruff celebration and got home just in time for the fire work show here. We had a great weekend and got to see a lot of family and friends. Caden and Chase loved seeing and playing with their cousins.

DISNEYLAND 2011

We made a quick trip to Disneyland last weekend. We left on Friday and came back on Monday. We had a FUN time!!! We went with Grandpa and Grandma Nelson and Kim (Chad's sister) and her friend Sean.

The boys ready for take off. They are in there PJ's because we had an early flight and just scooped them out of bed to go to the airport.

Me and the boys with Geppetto!

Caden, the huge Star Wars fan he is, had been looking forward to the new Jedi training at Disneyland for the past week. He was lucky enough to be picked out of the audience to participate. They taught about 15 kids how be a Jedi and fight with a light saber, then they got to fight Darth Vader and Darth Mall. Caden was in heaven!!

Caden fighting Darth Vader.

Darth Vader trying to get the kids to go with him to the dark side. Luckily no one went with him!!
Darth Mall and some Storm Troopers!

Caden learning how to fight like a Jedi!

Caden, Grandma Nelson and Me in front of Mickey's gate.

Chad, Chase, grandpa Nelson, and Caden

We were at Disneyland on Fathers day. I hope Chad, Gary and my Dad had a Happy Fathers Day!!

Caden watching the monsters inc parade.

Waiting for dinner.

The boys and I in the Buzz Light year ride.

Chad and Caden in front of C3PO!

The new Star Tours ride just opened the end of May, Chad and Caden where so excited to ride it. We waited in line for 1 1/2 hours the first time. Caden loved the ride and wanted to keep going back, so we got smart and got switch passes coz Chase was to small to ride. They ended up riding it 4 times.

Chad and Caden in front of R2D2!

Caden in front of the Star Wars ride door.

Chase as Indiana Jones.

Chase stabbing the snakes.

Grandma and Chase on the Safari ride.

Goofy!!

SAFETY TOWN

Caden is a Safety Kid. He has been going to safety town every morning for the past two weeks learning about safety. Caden loved going and learned so much, he came home one day and climbed up on the washer where I keep all of the cleaners and put frowny face stickers on the cleaners. I said "Caden what are you doing" and he said "putting sticker on all the poison mom." They learned about bike safety, poison, stranger danger, fire safety, seat belts, gun, phone and Internet safety. Some of Caden's favorite things were learning about the Police Officers and Firemen. He also liked that Ronald McDonald came to their graduation and did some magic and gave all the kids free happy meals.

Caden with his Safety Town certificate.

Officer Friendly, Ronald McDonald, and Caden's Safety Group.

Caden receiving his safety certificate from officer friendly.

All the Safety Kids!!

Singing songs.
Caden now wants to be a Police Officer when he grows up.

Camping

We went camping up at Red Clifs this past weekend with some friends, Cresten and Jen Iverson and their two kids Emma and Thayne, and Devin and Janilee Romrell and their two kids Brennon and Keaton. We had a great time and the kids loved every minute of it.

Thayne and Chase enjoying the red rocks.

Chase and Chad going for a swim in one of the big pond we hiked up to.

Brennon (age 7) getting ready to jump off the rock into the water.

Me getting ready to jump. The water was freezing!!! All the adults and Brennon jumped.

It was a lot scarier once you were up there then it looks.

Chase checking out the frog Chad caught.

Thayne checking out the frog!

Caden and Brennon being MONKEYS!

Brennon, Caden, Keaton, and Chase, The Lizard Catchers!!

Chase and Keaton sitting by the fire trying to dry out from playing in the river.

Tag-A-Long

We got this tag-a-long bike for Chase a couple of weeks ago. It is so nice because we can now ride bikes as a family farther than just the neighborhood. We have gone on rides that are 4 and 5 miles long and Chase loves it. He holds on and enjoys the ride.