Fun in the Sun at Donna's house. And a little shake 'n' bake.

We are staying at Donna's house, our sweet neighbor/auntie. The girls spent a good portion of the day today swimming in her pool. The flowers in bloom are jasmine. I LOVE the smell of jasmine!

Whitney's "it" playing Marco Polo.


Lulu

Brianna

Tessy Doodle

Ellie playing Marco Polo

Tonight I made Mexican Ceviche. It's a spicy shrimp cocktail. I also cooked some beans wich we refried and ate with corn tortillas. Mm mm good. We also felt a 5.7 magnitude earthquake tonight less than an hour ago! It shook the whole house for about 3 seconds. What a wild ride (the shake n bake)!

Church in our San Diego PQ 3 Ward

It was so fun to go to church in our old ward today and see our old ward family. Gotta love those huge date palms!!

Tessy's 5th Birthday

Look at that cute 5-year-old! She is celebrating with breakfast from PQ donuts at Kooyman's in San Diego. She LOVES spongebob squarepants.

The girls are excited to help celebrate.... especially Laurel, right!

Halfway through the day we moved from Kooyman's to Donna and Bradley's house. Tessy's showing off her new doggy that barks and some gross liquid candy garbage Whitney bought for her.

Happy birthday Tessy!

Lisa, Alex and Sarah Leavitt came and celebrated with us. I couldn't pass up this shot of Sarah and Ellie. Cute!

Mahonry and Alex celebrate by watching the Lakers and Celtics game.

Tessy and Ellie with thier Kooyman counterparts

We are spending 3 nights with our friends, Kooyman's, in San Diego. They have 4 girls the same ages as our youngest 4.

Elle and Ellie on top bunk, Tessy and Olivia on bottom bunk. Too fun!
Elle and Ellie. So happy together!!

Olivia and Tessy. What are they gonna do with that water?

Elle and Ellie are the bouncing pink princesses.

In Ivins (St. George) en route to San Diego

On our way to San Diego we stopped in Ivins, which is just west of St. George. Mom and Dad bought a cute little vacation home there in March. It sure was handy for us to break our trip up and stay there 1 night. Tessy likes the furniture Gompy picked out for their new house.
Having breakfast the next morning.

Utah Spring

"If all the snowflakes were marshmallows and cupcakes, oh! What a snow this would be!"

A blizzard suddenly hit and Tessy wanted to run out and play in it. She's standing there by our tulips that are trying their hardest to open up!