State Track

This year State Track was in Boise, Idaho. Me, Katie, Mom, and Jaydon decided to go and planned a few fun things to do while we were there because we knew Jaydon couldn't sit and watch kids run for 2 whole days. So, on Thursday we went to the Boise Zoo and Chuck E. Cheese's on Friday. (FYI if you ever go to the zoo in Boise, go on Thursday bc its half off.) It is not as big as the Hogal Zoo, but is was pretty cool. It was raining the first 20 min. but we just got wet. :) We saw lions, tigers, bears, (oh my!), girrafes, monkeys, birds, etc. Here are are pictures from the zoo.

That night, after track, we went to our hotel. Our room was so big and it had a jaccuzi! Here is a pic of us in the jaccuzi. On Friday, we went to Chuck E. Cheese. That was pretty fun. The pizza was good. Jay loved to ride the rides and play the Skee Ball. We had a lot of fun and got a lot of tickets to get prizes at the end. Here are some pics.

Then, when we were done with Chuck E. Cheese, we went to watch the track finals. That was cool because they had a parade of athletes and it was fun to watch kids we know run. They all did a great job. Here are some pics of the parade of athletes.

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Mother's Day

For Mother's Day we went to Shoshone Falls. It was so pretty! We had a picnic for lunch and took short hikes along the trails. Jaydon LOVED it! He liked the waterfall and the lizard he saw along the trail. It was also a really nice day. You could hear the falls a ways away! It was pretty loud and you could feel the mist. Here are some pics.

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Christmas Fun!

For Christmas, as a surprise, we got to go to Disneyland and Sea World, both in sunny California. We woke up on Christmas morning and opened our presents and my mom made us wait to open one big present last. When we opened it there was a note that said that our family, on my mom's side, (including my grandparents, both of my aunts, my uncle, my aunt's boyfriend, Pat, my four cousins, and our little family) were going on a very lond trip to? We had to go on a scavenger hunt to find out.

As soon as we got to the end of the scavenger hunt, there was a box full of stuff that we could do on our way to that secret place. There was also another box that had a chicken on it, by the way Katelyn asked if we were going to a farm! When we opened the box Katelyn screamed because inside were passes to Disneylad and Sea World. We were soo exctied!

That was a LONG trip to California, it took 2 days!!

When we got to California we checked into our condos. They were REALLY nice. They were pretty big too, and we had a big balcony. We had a lot of fun using the condos. That night we went to the beach, oh my GOSH that was B-E-A-U-TIFUL! Here are some pictures.

The next day we went to Disneyland, it was so much bigger than I excpected. Some of my favorite rides in Disneyland are #1: Splash Mt. #2: Big Thunder Railroad #3: Matterhorn #4: Pirates of the Carribean and #5: Space Mt. Every night there was a Fantasmic, which was a water show and a firework show. That was pretty awesome too. Here are some pictures of us on all of our days at Disneyland.

This is Splash Mt.


Disney Castle



Katie got to go dance in the High School Musical Parade

The day after our first day at Disneyland, we went to a place right next to Disneyland, California Adventure. That was totally fun. My favorite rides in Califoria Adventure are #1: California Screamin', DUH! #2: Soarin' Over California #3: GrizzlyBear River Run, I got SOAKED! #4: Tower of Terror, it wasn't as scary as i thought. #5: The Rocket. Here is a picture of our day in California Adventure.

After three days at Disneyland, we checked out of our condo and went to the beach again. Here are some more pictures.

After the beach, we checked into another condo closer to Sea World. We had three condos checked out, one for our little family, one for my cousin's little family, and one for our grandparents and my aunt, Kara, and Pat to share. So we had a party at my grandparents condo on New Years Eve.

On New Year's Day, we went to Sea World for the first time. That was SOO much fun seeing Shamu the Killer Whale, The dolphin Show, and the Clyde and Semmor show. Here are some pics of our first day at Sea World.

Shamu Show



Dolphin Show

A bat stingray

we are petting the bat rays!

Clyde and Semmor Show

We went to Sea World for two days and I had an absolute BLAST at both Sea World and Disneyland.

We were all sooo sad to leave. It was soo sad! :( We all had so much fun though.

Thanks mom and dad. We will never forget this trip!

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this is me picking seashells at bear lake.


This is jaydon having fun in the sand at Bear Lake.

This is nykell taking a picture with our sandcastle.

A picture of nykell's, nathen's and my sand castle

This is our family at the cabin on the deck at Bear lake.

This is Lily (our cousin) at bear lake. Look at the sand around her eyes.

This is Jaydon,Lily,and Angie.

Our cousins in the Lake.

This is me going into bear lake.

This is me and nykell and jaydon with our sand castle. Jaydon wasn't having fun.

This is us at the Temple.


This is jaydon picking the flowers at the temple.

This is Jaydon and me.


Nykell at the water fountain.

Katie wrote the captions for the previous pictures. She is pretty descriptive.

We went to Bear Lake for a family reunion a few weeks ago. We rented a cabin that overlooked Bear Lake (as you can see from the family pic). It was a lot of fun staying in one cabin with the whole fam dam. Food was good, view was spectacular and the hot tub was nice even though I think a few family members had ideas to rename it Bare Lake...but I'm not mentioning any names...(Braydon).

We went swimming in Bear Lake a couple of times and had a good time. As you can see, the girls built sandcastles (with help from their cousins). The water was nice and only about chest deep for a couple of hundred yards out. Lily, the little cousin with sand across her eyes in the above pic, would take a piece of licorice and dip it in the sand then take a bite. Yum. Good news though, she was pooping pearls for the next 10 days. I didn't put any pictures of me in my swimming suit because that would be a violation of my contract with Hot Jerome-ites.com.

Last week we went to the open house for the new Twin Falls temple. It was nice. There are some interesting details in and around it. I think the girls enjoyed it but not Jaydon. He just wanted to swim in the baptismal font and be loud in the quiet rooms. Not to mention he was picking flowers like a mad man all around the temple.