Here are some random pictures of the kids

Me and the boys at the temple in SLC



The famous mullet! I was at work and Jacob and Eric thought it would be funny to shave a mullet into Jacobs hair. I was so mad when I got home. They were both on the floor laughing! I made Eric shave it off the next day. For some reason Jacob had been asking for a mullet for over a week prior to this. I told him the kids at school would make fun of him and he didn't care. The joys of having boys!

My niece Alex made these balloons for Jacobs birthday. Aren't they cool?!

Benjamin

Ethan

Nicolas

Benjamin (love his eyes)

Jacob

A babysitter that my kids just love took these pictures and I thought they were cool. The pictures show their personalities

My Children the Actors

My kids loved playing with the video feature on my camera when we were on vacation in Utah. I didn't look at them til today and they are pretty funny. I didn't know they had so many on there. My favorite part is when, at random Nicolas asks Ben if he wants to see his armpit. Then he lifts his shirt up and Ben films his armpit! I picked a few of my favorites for you to enjoy. I can tell I am in for some trouble when they are older! :)

San Francisco Trip

Here are the pictures from our Aniversary trip to San Francisco. It was 11 years for us so we wanted to go some where fun. Neither of us had been so off we went. It was just the two of us for 4 days! It was nice we slept in, stayed up late and did whatever we wanted. Nobody to take care of other than ourselves. For any of you who know me I don't like taking pictures (sorry kids) so we didn't have alot (and Eric took them all) but here is what we had. They aren't in any sort of order because I don't know how to load them that way, sorry. Enjoy!

So we saw this guy on the street in fisherman's wharf the whole time we were there and I had to take a picture with him. He sits behind these branches and scares people. Then he asks for money. It was really funny to watch.
Here he is waiting for his next victim!
Here are the seals that live in the bay. They came after the 1989 earthquake and haven't left. At times there can be up to 600 of them hanging around. Reminded me of where I grew up in Washington.

Just a cool picture! San Francisco has some cool Architecture.

This is the Golden Gate brindge from our ferry that took us to Alcatraz. We did drive across the bridge but for some reason I don't have any up close pictures. It is very windy and cold on the bridge. It is also a toll bridge and you have to pay $6 dollars to cross! When it was frist built it was only 75 cents. Oh how things have changed.

Here is Eric eating Crab. I am sure he wont be happy that I posted this picture:)

Another cool building. I want to say this is in the Italian disctrict.

Downtown San Francisco. We took one of those double decker bus tours. I would like to say I learned a lot but our guide was an idiot and had a weird laugh. We did see alot and took lots of pictures.

Here we are in China town. Each store had a lot of the same stuff. It was fun to look around but not alot I would buy. We didn't eat there either (I know leslie I am sorry). Not my cup of tea. We did manage to find the kids some numb chucks which they loved. Go figure!

Entrance to China Town

Here is Union Square at night. We are at the top of the Macys building waiting to eat dinner. Does anyone know why it is called Union square? Back during the cival war there was a pro-union rally so the name stuck. (sorry thats all Iknow remember we had a lame tour guide)

Here we are taking the trolley to downtown! I was cool but it was $5 each person one way. It only goes about 1.5miles then you have to get off and take a shuttle the rest of the way. We did it once for the experience. We ended up walking back to fisherman's wharf that night at 11pm! It was like 2miles and took us 25 mins or so but I was scared. Some parts of San Francisco don't look so safe. Eric laughed at me when I was scared! Whatever we could have been mugged!

Here I am using one of the toliets in the cells at Alcatraz!

Alcatraz was in the season for baby birds! They were all over the island we had to take a picture.

Here is Eric in one of the Jail cells tyring to look mean. Its not working! I wanna say the cells were 5 feet by 9 feet, Small!

Standing in the courtyard in front of Alcatraz with the city behind us. Windy!! The rubble behind us used to be apartements. The gaurds that worked here also lived on the island with there familys. Below was also a playground for all the children. The kids would take a boat to the city daily for school.

The Jail cells

Here me inside. I tried to look mean but I could only smile:)

Here is the recreational yard with the jail behind it. The prisoners only got like 2 hours a day to be out and they spent it here playing hand ball or dominos.

Don't I look sexy:)

The Rock!

Here we are on the Ferry to Alcatraz!

The pier

Lots of head shots! Sorry we couldn't find people to tak our pictures!

Family Pictures

Eric and Tracy

The Family!

Ethan 3 Years Old

Nicolas 5 Years Old

Benjamin 7 Years Old

Jacob 9 Years Old

All my boys together!

My Baby is growing up!

He asked me to take a picture of him with all his "Guys". That's what he calls his toys. He goes every where with them....to bed...in the car...holding them while he goes poop!
He is finally potty trained!! Yea! My last one! I should get a metal for getting 4 boys to poop and pee in the toilet! I will say the reading material his dad gave him is not age appropriate but he sat and did his business! I am proud of myself he wont be 3 til May!

Isn't he cute?! The only draw back is that he will never tell you he has to go to the bathroom. I just have to remember to take him every 2-3 hours or else he has an accident. Does anyone have any ideas to break him of this? How do I get him to tell me he has to go?

Dolls!

When Ethan is at my mothers house he loves to play with Dolls. His dad hates it. He asked his Grandma if he could bring one home and she said yes that it was his baby boy. So for the past couple of weeks he has been carrying the doll around and calling it his"baby boy". I had to take a picture of him when he fell asleep the other night because he was so cute. Eric hates this picture and the doll. I guess I finally got wish for a girl!

Nicolas Birthday and Thanksgiving

Here is my brother Jon and his wife Heather.

Here is Nicolas opening his presents. He was so excited!

Here is my little sisters daughter Sydney. Her and Ethan are great friends.

This is my siser Kelly (in the wheelchair) and my neice Jessilyn. You know you are getting old when your neices and nephews are starting to drive. :(

The kids had lots of fun dancing with each other. I will have to teach my boys that they are supposed to dance with girls!

Isnt he cute!! I think he looks like me no matter what anybody say! Doesnt 5 look good on him?

This is what Eric and I got him for his Birthday, a bat mobile. By the way, When did toys get so expensive? I think I had heart palpitations when I paid for it!

Here is my cake! I think I did a really good job. He wanted green frosting but I didnt want to dye it so we settled on green sprinkles.

Here is the set up for Thanksgiving. My brother told me to plan for 30 people so I did and there was so much food left over. We had probally half that.

So you cant have a party with my brother Daniel without a karaoke machine. He sang the whole time whether we wanted him to or not.

Nicolas with his favorite cousin Jayden. He loves her. They danced together the whole time. He wanted to marry her when he grew up but I had to explain to him why that probally wasnt a good idea.

Nicolas with cousins Jayden and Alana.

Dancing!

Told you he always danced with Jayden!

Isnt he cute! You just want to pick him up and give he lots of kisses. This is my baby Ethan.