the take down!

Ella and Brandon were playing with josh in Ella's room. They were taking turns getting on daddies shoulders. Brandon got a little anxious on his turn and helped Ella off of daddies shoulders.

After Brandon got on....Ella reached up and yanked him off of Josh's shoulders right as he stood straight up. Brandon flew off toward the bed but hit his cheek bone on the window frame.

It looks far worse in the green blue faze but it went from his cheek up and gave him a black eye. It was right before we were getting ready to go to church so Brandon got to go to church with this new massive bruise...my poor son looks abused so often!

old friends and New animals..

On Saturday we got a fun Visit from Josh's best friend from Utah and his family.

We only got 1 day with them so we made it count.

we went to the Sacramento Zoo.Above is Jason holding Ella and their son Jordan.

they look like they are siblings with their hair so blond and curly!

these are my cute kangaroos!

We got to see them while we were in Utah and the kids just love to play together. In fact I am not sure I have seen the kids get along with another kid for the long amount of time they had together. Well except Shanda's!


Flamingos

all our Blondie's!

my camera was really good and I got some fun shots of the animals...


By 5 the kids were done and we packed up and headed for the cars. we went to the Elephant Bar for dinner because there were so many types of food to try we thought it would please every one.

That night we had a fun game of phase ten with a little snack talk and a lot of fun. It was good to see them again. I hope it happens more often. it was a good time. they got up really early the next morning and slipped out while we slept. They were off to more adventures in Cali!

our son...

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

learning how to digital scrap!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

we found it!!! we found it!!!

So we lost ( Brandon played with) the SD card that we had while we were in Utah...well I prayed that we would find it. I knew we would and even though it wasn't an instant thing....I just had this calm feeling that we would find it. I mean I know that prayer works and I had faith...No I knew that he answers prayers. As time passed my husband grew ever frustrate and I wished i had it but some how I knew it would turn up. Eventually I kept having promptings that the SD card was in the computer near the card reader. I kept telling my hubby that. He looked on top of it just in case he slid it in there...but no it wasn't there. Josh then was moving the computer around and had his flash light with him. He all the sudden saw a glimmer of something inside the largest card slot. so he looked again and he saw not 1 card but 3 SD cards we had lost and given up on ever seeing again!! Brandon slid them in ...being that they were so much smaller they fell through to the bottom of the tray...WOO hooo.

On a sad not some how the camera lost all the pictures of the kids playing in the snow and we don't have any of them....Much to my disappointment!