Goggles and Paper Hats

These are just a few pictures from our trip to Mesa. The kids had a fun time in the hot tub. Brooklyn could use some help getting her goggles on right and Cade is totally posing for the camera. They had a fun time hanging out with Maya and all of their other cousins. I'll have to find some pictures of the rest of them because they are all so cute. Brooklyn and Cade already miss playing with them all. Thanks for the fun time everyone!

Isabel and Cade both fell in the pool that week. Luckily, Ondria was close by to grab Isabel and Chris sacrificed getting his clothes and shoes wet to grab Cade. Thank you Chris!

Heath will probably roll his eyes when he sees that I decided to post these pictures of Cade. I thought his "outfit" was too funny. Katie Snell helped the girls (granddaughters) make these hats in Mesa. She is extremely creative and the kids love her. Cade was rather attached to the hat as you can see. The goggles seemed to help him navigate the stroller around. He wears these goggles often and they immediately get foggy but it doesn't seem to bother him.

Soccer

We have had fun watching Brooklyn play soccer this fall. She was so excited the day we bought her cleats, shin guards and a soccer ball. As soon as we got home from the store she put all of her soccer stuff on and didn't take it off until bedtime.
Her team name is the Rockets and she is playing with her friend, Bryson Simonton, which she was so excited about.
Cade loves to go on the field at half time and kick the ball around with Heath. He's actually pretty good. He loves to show his support for Brooklyn by drinking all of her water when she's not looking.
It's so fun to see Brooklyn's face when she kicks the ball. She really enjoys playing and we've had so much fun watching her.

Whitney's Wedding

Well we finally made it back home. This last weekend we were out in Arizona for my little sister's sealing. It was so fun to be together with all the family and it was great to have extended family drive in from Utah and Colorado for the big event. The best thing of the whole trip was being able to sit in the sealing room of the temple with our entire family for the first time ever. Our family is so blessed and I am so grateful to wonderful parents who raised us so well. We are so lucky to have the gospel in our lives. The whole weekend was very fun, from the sealing, to the reception, to the wonderful (and famous) family "discussions". The only thing that would have made it better was if our drive home wasn't 15 hours long! Gotta love the road trips (that is a whole other post in and of itself!) Congrats Whitney and Juan.

10 year reunion

So I just got back home to San Antonio from attending my 10 year high school reunion back in Mesa, Arizona. I have to say, I was excited about reuniting with old friends and to catch up on the current happenings. While the 15 hour drive over there from San Antonio wasn't the most fun thing in the world, I am very glad that I made the effort to get to the reunion. It was fun to see old high school friends and see how everyone was doing. I'm not sure what I expected out of the whole ordeal, but one thing that was surprising to me was how much people....stayed the same! I guess 10 years isn't all that long of time in the grand scheme of things, but I had just thought that more people would have changed more. Thanks to everyone who traveled to such great lengths to make it to the reunion, it was fun to see everyone. A big thanks goes out to my wife, Chelsea, for putting up first, with a 15 hour straight-through car drive with 2 kids and one on the way, and second, for staying by my side the entire night at the reunion. Sorry, I don' t have any pictures to post, but I'm sure there are several other's blogs where you can find all sorts of pictures from the event.

What's the deal?

I was recently reading someone's blog who mentioned that they are gong to join the new custom to make her family's blog "private." Now, I may be the only male who follows this blogging stuff and maybe because of that my view is different than many of yours, but I just don't understand the whole "private" blog. I like blogging for the fact that it is fun to see how other people are doing and what they are up to. I have, on several occasions, stumbled on to other friends' blogs through others blogs and it is always interesting to see how they are doing. If everyone makes their blogs "private" then this will stop that real quickly and you will only be able to read about those whom you already know about. Thus canceling out the fun of happening upon old friend's blogs because you weren't personally "invited" by them. And for this reason I am resisting the "private blogging" movement and staying public!

Fun with the Farnsworth's

So even though it has been a week since we went, I thought it is better late than never to post our activities. Many of you probably already read of our adventure on the Farnsworth family page, but I thought I would post our pictures as well.

Last Saturday we were able to hit up Sea World again, but this time we were fortunate enough to have fun with Dave and Stephanie and their 3 boys (such a cute family). It was so fun to introduce Chelsea and the kids and go watch the show with them. Thanks Dave and Stephanie for making the trip down here just to hang out with us!! Okay, so maybe we weren't the only reason you came down, but it was a fun morning.

Fun at the Park

This last weekend we went to a little open house at Raymond Rimkus Park. The kids had so much fun. There was a magician there and I don't quite think the kids got what he was doing but they loved the balloon animals he gave out.
There was even free face painting. Brooklyn knew exactly what she wanted painted on her face and Heath and I couldn't believe how still she sat the entire time! Cade wanted a football but he got the closest thing to it I guess. Once we got home from the park, Brooklyn would go and look at herself in the mirror every couple of minutes and come back saying how cute she looked.

They love playing on this little merry-go-round thing.

This is just a random picture of the kids when we go on our walk. To be honest, our walks are few and far between. It's a little too humid for me. Not to mention this stroller is an absolute BEAST! And to help matters, the other back wheel broke this morning. I think that's supposed to make my walk more challenging and thus more beneficial. Yeah, I think I'll just go by myself next time.

The best wife? I have her!

Chelsea is the best wife out there. She lets me sleep in every weekend and gets up early with the kids. Then to top it off, this morning, I was fast asleep and all of a sudden the kids come in and jump on me and say "daddy wake up. Mom has breakfast for you." Then Chelsea walks in with a hot waffle and an Orange Julius on a tray! So not only does she get up early with the kids and let me sleep, but then she brings me breakfast in bed! I'm not sure what I did to deserve such an incredible person, but whatever it was I sure am glad I did it. I got so lucky, and somehow tricked Chelsea into taking a chance on me. Thanks Chelsea, I love you.

Do you want to dance?

I know I have mentioned before that I have the most prototypical "girl" and "boy" for kids. Brooklyn loves dressing up and looking in the mirror and asking how cute she looks, and Caden loves throwing balls, swinging sticks, and watching football. So to further add to why I think this of my kids I have to relate the following story that took place this morning before church.

Brooklyn had just got her dress on with her new shoes and was swishing it in front of the mirror and was all smiles. She came up to me and asked me if she looked cute, and of course she did so I grabbed her and gave her a big hug and told her she looked beautiful. She then walked out of the bedroom and into the living room where Cade was watching TV. Chelsea and I were still in the bedroom and we heard Brooklyn ask Cade in this sweet little voice, "Hey Cade, do you want to dance with me?" To which Cade immediately responds very curtly and matter of fact, "No. Watching TV."
Chelsea and I just started laughing because it was your typical girl just wanting to impress the boy and the boy not even noticing the attention the girl is seeking! It was pretty cute.

Born to play

This time of year is great. The weather is cooling off, the leaves on the trees are changing, baseball is coming to an end, and football has begun! For those of you that don't know, I LOVE football and there is just something about the fall season that does it for me. Of course I have been watching the games the past few Saturdays (enjoying watching Notre Dame be 0-4 and all the other upsets that are happening), but one thing that has made this year that much more fun is because I have my little boy to watch the games with me. Caden will sit down on the couch with me and stay enthralled with the game for a good amount of time and he loves watching the guys get tackled as well as watching the quarterbacks throw the ball. I must confess, when we are both there on the couch watching the game, it is such a proud moment for me! Who knows what our kids will end up liking to do, but I won't be complaining if it involves a brown oval shaped ball, a helmet, and pads.

Just to show you that I am not exaggerating Caden's love for the best game on earth, this is a picture from Chelsea's cell phone from when we were at the sports store last week getting Brooklyn her soccer outfit. These shoulder pads were at the front of the store, and so I had to put them on Cade. When I went to take them off, he started freaking out so we just left them on and he wore them around the store the entire time we were there, which was about 20-30 minutes. I tried getting the helmet on him too, but he only kept that on long enough to get the picture.

What a great time of year this is!