It has really been 9 years

Well, it seems like it has been a while since I updated the blog and as I started to write this I had a flashback to one year ago when I wrote about our 8th anniversary and could not believe that it had all ready been a year since I wrote that. My how time flies. As they sing in primary, "One year older and wiser too." I am not sure about the wiser part but celebrating my 31st birthday made me realize that I am getting older.
This last year has flown by. It was so weird when Trevor headed off for his first day of 1st grade on July 20th. He has grown up so fast. The girls turned three and it seems like they aged overnight. Kolby is running everywhere. Whenever the front door opens it takes everything to get him before he is down the stairs. They are just growing up so fast.
This year for our anniversary we decided to go to a play at the Desert Star Theatre. Our back door neighbors, the Featherston's anniversary was on the 30th so we decided to invite them as well. We dropped the kids off at Brigitte's parents and then went to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. That was the first time that we had been there and the food was sooooooo good. We walked around the mall for a while and then went to the play. The play was James Blonde Agent 7-11 in Casino Real. It was hilarious. They always are. It you want to have a good time then i would suggest trying it. We have even contemplated about getting season tickets, but the budget has never allowed it. Anyway, it is hard to realize that nine years ago Brigitte and I got married. I just want Briggite to know that I love her very much and am grateful for everything she does for me.

SAN DIEGO WAS GREAT

Brigitte and I have never went on a vacation by ourselves and we decided that it was time. We decided that we would go to San Diego for a weekend. I had never been to Sea World and thought that it would be fun. We got some really great deals. Delta was having a special where you could use sky miles to pay for the entire flight, taxes included. We still had to pay the baggage fee. We Pricelined our hotel. I was scared that we would not get a good hotel but we got a great hotel right in along the harbor. The Manchester Grand Hyatt was were we stayed for $75 a night. I would priceline a hotel again anytime.

Our hotel was three blocks from Petco Stadium, home of the San Diego Padres. No we did not goto a game because we spent the day that they played at SeaWorld.

We had a great time at Sea World. We first went to see the Killer Whales and sat in the 4th row. We got absolutely soaked. From there we went to Journey to Atlantis and got even wetter. We were there from when they opened to 10:45. Then we had to catch the bus to the trolley. It was a late night.

Our hotel was right next to the Seaport Village. We spent the first night walking the pier and visited all the stores.

The last full day we were there we took a tour of San Diego. We visited the Hotel del Coronado. It was massive and beautiful. Also expensive. We spent $7 on a single peice of fudge.

We also stopped at Balbo Park and walked through a couple of gardens. The gardens were also beautiful.

The day we were to fly out I wanted to go to the Midway Museum, but breakfast was a little hard to find and we spent 45 minutes standing in line to have a delicious breakfast. We walked down the boardwalk to the ship to at least say get a picture. Overall it was a great trip. Look forward to doing it again next year.

April's Scrapbooking Pages

Brigitte is a Close to My Heart Consultant and she makes layouts every month. This month the layouts used were the That's Amore Paper. The first layout she put pictures of when the girls got their ears pierced. I thought that it turned out really cute.

The second layout was of Trevor's Valentines Day party at school. It shows him making his Valentine bag and where he sits. Trevor was really proud of his bag.

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY KOLBY

Kolby is really 1 year old. Man it does not seem like that long ago that he was born. He has all of a sudden decided that he does not want to eat baby food anymore and all he wants is to have what we are eating so tonight he had steak, broccoli, deviled eggs, and pineapple. He loved it and ate two whole pieces of pineapple.

Thursday night after decorating eggs we opened his presents from Grandma and Grandpa Gorton. He really got into the unwrapping until he tore off his first piece of wrapping paper and then that is all he wanted to play with.

Saturday we went down to Grandmother and Grandpa MacKay's for another birthday party. Kolby is to the age where if there are alot of people around he gets into that stranger danger stage and is really clingy. But once the presents came out he was all right.

Brigitte made a really cute birthday cake for him. The caterpillar was suppose to be upright but the cake was so soft that it would not stand up so instead she laid it down. I still think that it turned out really great. And it had my favorite frosting - Cream Cheese.

Kolby was once again clingy and did not want to sit in the high chair for his birthday cake. The whole time we were singing to him he was crying and screaming. He wanted to have nothing to do with the cake. He finally had a few bites but that was all. No big mess to clean up. Hallelujah!!!!!!