Vacation in San Diego

I was so glad we were able to make it to San Diego this year Espeically after just being there for my girls weekend in July. It's so fun to see the kids playing on the beach and chasing seagulls. We went over the first week of August with as many of the Bingham Clan that could make it. It was such a fun time hanging out on the beach everyday. The kids loved playing with their cousins.

At night we would come back and play foosball or pool. Or there were four of us who brought over "Breaking Dawn" to read. Wish i would have gotten a picture of us four girls with our books. Caden thought I had his aunt Holly's book half the time. Nothing like a good book on vacation.

On our way out of town we stopped and walked around a little in downtown San Diego. It was fun but not the beach. After we had lunch Taylor said " I wan go beach dad." We love coming to San Diego as a family.

Caden loved boogie boarding with his cousins as well as body surfing.

I had to add these two. we went to Disneyland in April and stopped at the beach before we went home. It was freezing water but Ella and Caden still played in the waves, Taylor got caught in a wave and was soaking wet. He didn't like that at all but I didn't' want to walk back and get him dry clothes so he wore Ella's pink jacket with no diaper and sat on my lap the rest of the time.


Taylor wouldn't get in the water at all the first day but once he did he couldn't get enough. Jordan took him out in some bigger waves and he loved it.

I Can't Believe It's Already Been Ten Years

Today Jeremy and I have been married for ten years. It doesn't seem like it has even been close to that long and sometimes it seems like we've always been together. I absolutely love being married to my best friend. I can't wait to see what unfolds in the next ten years of our life together.

Ten things I love about being married to Jeremy:
1. Family is always first we love having him here and home is where he loves to be.
2. He is hilarious, he is always making us laugh and taking advantage of funny situations so we all laugh even harder.
3. He loves me so much, he knows I need a little girls only time, so he encouraged me to go on my girls trip last weekend and he took tremendous care of the kids while I was gone. They love a little daddy time too.
4.He is such a good Daddy and wants the best for our kids, while still wanting them to be well rounded ,hard workers and respectful, which has kind of become our motto.
5. He supports what I do at home as a stay at home mom. He comes home and helps me with cleaning and even cooking sometimes but most especially time with the kids.
6. I especially love that he takes time out for just us. Spring and summer before our first anniversary Jeremy took on a second job delivering pizza,on top of school and our cleaning gig. The money from that job was specifically set aside for a trip to Hawaii celebrating our first anniversary. It was so fun being able to look forward to that trip and plan for it. Since then we take advantage of opportunities to go on vacation and do things for just us whenever we can.
7. He has always been a good example, to me, our kids, and siblings. He is so strong spiritually, smart economically and so many other qualities.

8. I love that we both have common goals for short term and long term. We ultimately want to live good lives as well as those who we love so we can always be together.
9. I love that after he graduated with a degree in a education, he realized he wanted more and wasn't afraid to go back to school and do medicine. Last night he pointed out that five of our married years have been in medical school and then internship. It can only get better from there.
10. I love that Jeremy makes me feel good about what I do and He makes me want to do and be better and continue to grow and learn.
I love this wonderful man that I married ten years ago. I love being with you and knowing you are always there for us Jeremy.





I am so grateful for these last ten years and feel we have definitely made the best of it and enjoyed life as our beautiful family continues to grow. Love you Jeremy, Happy Anniversary!!

Summer Update

Performance day for Ella's little dance class all these girls were so fun and cute to have over everyday the last couple of weeks.

Deer Valley girls up at Camp Lo Mia and us cabin moms

This summer has seemed to fly. There was only a couple of days at the beginning before summer classes started that kind of dragged on. Once June hit we have been busy. Jeremy started out June with a week off we just stayed home and tried to do something fun each day. It was just nice having a little down time with Daddy at home with us. His schedule has been pretty good since vacation week so we are just enjoying it while it lasts.
I went up to girls camp mid June. Jeremy and my sister Valerie and my brother Morgan all watched the kids while I was away. Thankyou so much you guys. I had a lot of fun with the girls and other leaders up there.

During the week I was gone Ella took a Broadway musical dance class out in Mesa. She stayed with her Aunt and unlce Ryan and Julie. Julie took such good care of her while she was out there and Ella had a fun time staying with her cousins, even if she did get a little homesick in the end. Also while in Mesa a little girl down the street from Ryan and Julie was teaching a gymnastics class to little girls. Ella realized she could do the same thing and teach her own class with something that she knew how to do. She finally talked me into a class after I thought about it and realized it could be a really good experience for her. Of course she was excited at the propect of earning money. Ella handed out fliers to kids in Caden's preschool and girls at church. Today was the last day of her two week class and the girls performed for an audience, parents and some grandparents, today. It was so cute they did such a good job. I am going to try to upload some video sometime next week from both Ella's performance and Ella's class. They all seemed to have a lot of fun.

Hopefully I can get video and more pictures up soon. We have had lots of fun this summer so far and more to come.

Baby News

I believe most everyone knows that Jeremy and I are expecting our fourth baby. Last week I had the ultrasound appointment to find out what the baby was. There was a lot of anticipation leading up to the appt. I brought Ella with me so she could see the ultrasound. She was standing next to me most of the time so she could see the screen better, until we found out what the baby is. She was very disappointed to find out that she is going to have another brother. We are still excited for a baby no matter what, although I was getting a little excited about the prospect of buying little girl clothes again. Maybe next time.

Disneyland April 2008

April was a pretty fun and busy month. Jeremy had a good schedule with his rotation plus a week of vacation. Jeremy and I had been planning a trip to California and told the kids we were going to go visit our friends Marc and Katya and go to the beach.

They loved getting reacquainted with the Parker kids and had a ton of fun playing in their backyard. We always love getting together with you guys, we had a great Sunday afternoon at your beautiful home.
After leaving the Parker's and heading to the hotel, Ella noticed quite a few Disney land signs. while Jeremy was checking in she asked "Why are there all these Disneyland signs?" She knew it was close and started begging to go there while we were here. We finally told them once unpacked that this was a Disneyland trip. They were so excited, they of course had a hard time getting to sleep.
Taylor fell asleep each day, but this ride he stayed dead asleep the entire time and once back into the stroller continued his nap.
Caden loved feeling some control over the rocket being able to make the rocket go up and down.

Our first visit to California Adventures.
We met the lovely Snow White and a very cute little dwarf in the window.
You would never believe it, but California Screamin' was Ella's favorite ride between the two parks. She must have been able to go on it at least 7 or 8 times between Jeremy and I using fast passes and the rider switch pass. She even went on the Hollywood tower of Terror. She didn't love it like a Roller Coaster, I didn't even end up doing that one. She wanted to try everything.
Taking a little lunch break.
Caden and Taylor loved the Bug's life kids area. Caden even met Flik and got his autograph while we were there.

Taylor finally stood on his toes so that he was tall enough to go on these little bumper cars. He loved helping daddy drive.
Ella and I waited a long time in line to meet the princesses. The boys caught up to us just before it was our turn. Good timing. Taylor was way cute for the pics. We met Ariel first, and he wouldn't get in any of the pictures with her. After Ella and Caden walked away from their pics, he went up to Ariel and took off his hat for the picture. What a little gentleman.

Disneyland really does have something magical about it that California Adventures just doesn't have, maybe the next generation will feel differently.We loved surprising the kids and spending a few days at the theme parks. Ella of course loved all the roller coasters, and Jeremy and I loved having a partner to ride with. Caden's favorite was Star Tours, he told everyone about it once back home. Taylor, can't tell what his favorite was, he didn't like Pirates of the Caribbean. He started crying when the skull started talking, poor little guy.

We had so much fun on our vacation.

Easter

Easter after church before the hunt.
We celebrated Easter Sunday with my Dad's side of the fam. It was fun getting together with everyone. My Aunt Julie told the kids she would race them. They loved it, and she lasted for quite a while. looking forward to next years race.
This was our egg hunt at my dad and step mom's house. The kids had a lot of fun, and didn't want to eat dinner after finding eggs.

Taylor took a break and did some putting.

This was the hunt back at our house after hunting at Nana and Papa's. Daddy was post call so we didn't wake him up until around 5:00 or so, then he joined us for the final hunt of the day.

Cute Spring Break pics

this one's from easter, but the rest we took over spring break for fun ,these are some of the cutest ones.

Jeremy and his brothers and couple of brother in laws(one not pictured)played in a basketball league and won the tournament. Jeremy played when he could and made the trek out to Mesa, it was a fun time.

THis is Taylor with my youngest sister Becca, we had a fun time with her over the break. Ella loves to hang out with her aunt Becca.

Taylor wa kept happy with lots of jellybeans, he of course wanted to take off the tux jacket, but I just had to take some photos of him in it before he totally outgrows it. I couldn't find the pants that go with it.