St George

We went to St George for Memorial weekend. My grandparents have a condo there and we go down there at least once a year. We love it there. We were so upset when we got there and found out that our favorite pool in the complex is now private and you have to have a membership. Our condo decided not to buy a membership. They have two smaller pools that we played in. The second one we went to was fun because it has a 1 foot shallow area that Alyssa could practice swimming in. At first Kate wouldn't even walk in the water but by the end of the day she was swimming with her floaties by her self. We spent all day at the pool and it was fantastic!

Alyssa soccer

Alyssa decided that she wanted to try soccer again this year. She is 5 and is playing on Tot Soccer for cedar hills which is for 3-4 year olds. But she just turned 5 so there was no other team for her to play on. It happened to be that all her friends in our neighborhood are on the same team as her. It is a lot of  fun to see them play. They are all almost 5 and their team dominates every game. It is pretty fun compared to last time she played all she did was twirl and fall down.

Alyssa and one of her good friends (Mylie)

Family Easter pictures

Easter weekend

On Easter weekend we had all my siblings in town. Noelle and I ran the SLC half marathon. I was going to try and PR but after the first 3 miles were up hill I realized that might not happen. It was a hard course. I am use to canyon half marathons where the majority of the course is down hill. This course had a lot of up hill. On sections was over a mile gradual up hill from mile 7-8. That was killer. Noelle was nice and ran with me the whole time (she is a lot faster than I am). Noelle finished in about 1:55 and I finished 1:57. Noelle started having back spasms at mile 11. She had to book it to the finish other wise she didn't know if she could keep going. I felt so bad for her. She had carried Miles all the way from Maine on the plane a few days prior and I think that is what triggered it. It was fun to do a race with her. I miss running with her on a weekly basis so much!
After the race we went to Hoggle Zoo for their Easter activity. Of course the line for the Easter hunt was huge. Noelle and my mom took turns standing in line. Noelle made it to the front and her phone died. We didn't know and didn't make it back to the line before she gave up and got out of line. Alyssa was disappointed but when I told her we would have an Easter egg hunt at home she was fine. The kids loved seeing the animals.

Disneyland

We had such a fun time a disneyland. The weather was perfect. The crowds were a bit more than I wanted but still not bad.

California

We bought season passes to Disneyland this year because we already had a few trips to California planned and we thought it would be fun. We went this time for my mom's Bday. We spent the first two days at the pool and beach then went over the Disneyland.  We normally go to Hungtington beach but we decided to try out Newport beach to walk around, find seashells and have dinner. When we were there we remember why we like Huntington Beach so much. The crowd at Newport is different a little more rough, the sand area is steep to the ocean. It was still a lot of fun to enjoy the nice weather. Alyssa collected 100+ little sea shells. I really need to do a craft with her with all the sea shells we have saved from the past 4 years. Kate is timid of the water but once she realized she could stay far enough away she loved running around finding sea shells with Alyssa. The beach brings me so much peace and joy. Just stepping on the the sand and feeling the ocean breeze is wonderful to me. Here are the beach pictures. I'll post Disneyland pictures later.