Disneyland

Kenny and Melodie invited us to go to Disneyland with them.  They had never taken their kids and were planning a trip.  We ended up going and my parents came also.  We stayed in some condos just a couple of blocks from Disneyland.  Me and Noah stayed in a condo with my parents and Kenny and Melodie and their kids stayed in another room just down the hall from ours.  We went to Disneyland 2 days, Universal Studios and the beach.  It was nice and the weather was perfect.  Tara and her boys met us down there and stayed for a couple of days.  They went to the beach with us.  We went to Huntington Beach.  Noah and I flew down on Monday night and went home Saturday morning.  It was a nice little vacation.  I'm glad we decided to go.

They have a new place in California Adventure called Cars Land.  They have a really fun Cars ride.  It was probably one of our favorite rides.

Noah riding Dumbo with Jaxon

Me and Noah in front of It's a Small World

Cool Lego store in Downtown Disney

View from Universal Studios

Transformers

Having dinner at Red Robin

Cousins-Jaxon, Drew, Noah, Luke and Abi

Ken and Melodie and their kids

My parents

Kenny buried in the sand

Noah buried in the sand

Soaring over California ride

Monsters Inc ride

Disney parade

Getting on the plane to go home

Easter and Spring Break

I'm trying to keep up with this blog but time goes so fast.  We had Easter dinner with my parents and it was good as usual.  I still talked Noah into dying Easter eggs but he didn't do any Easter egg hunts.  I guess he is too old for that now.  I love all the traditional things that go along with the holidays but sometimes it makes me sad to think that Noah is getting to old to do some of the kiddie stuff.  Oh well, I need to try and focus more on the spiritual meaning of the holidays more than the commercialism anyway.  I guess I didn't take any photos either.  Oh well.  It was a nice holiday.

Snowmobiling

We went to Yellowstone this past weekend with Ronalee and her kids and went snowmobiling.  It was a lot of fun.  At first I didn't really know if I wanted to go.  I hate being cold so it didn't so like a lot of fun but we got a really good deal.  It was 400 dollars for 2 nights in the hotel, snowmobiles for a whole day and gas for the snowmobiles.  We had a lot of fun.  They gave us all the warm suits and boots to wear so we stayed warm.  They were a lot of fun to drive.  Noah couldn't drive because you have to be 16 so he just always rode on the back with me.

Swimming at the hotel pool-always seems to be the highlight of any trip

All dressed in the gear, ready to go

On the way home, we stopped in Rexburg.  I showed Noah where I went to college.  It's now called BYU Idaho but was called Ricks College in my day.  It was so weird being back there.  It was very nostalgic.

They have a temple there now.  There wasn't one when I was there going to school.  There was a lot of different things.

January and Jazz Game

So, I entered a drawing a couple of months ago for Noah to be a captain of a Jazz game.  Who knew that we would actually win but they called us a couple of weeks ago telling us that we had.  It was the game against Houston on the 28th.  It was a very pathetic loss (45points) and apparently the worst loss in history at the Energy Solutions Arena.  But before the game, Noah got to go do rebounding for the team, go out on the floor during the pledge and the tunnel.  Plus he got an autographed jersey.  He was in heaven.  Our seats were in the lower bowl and were great.  It was a lot of fun.  January has been going fast and has been very cold with lots of snow.  Can't wait for Spring.

Noah out on the court before the game

Standing in the line with the players during the national anthem

High giving the players as they came thru the tunnel

Noah with Al Jefferson and Chandler Parsons

Noah shaking hands with Alec Burks

Fist bumping with Derrick Favors

Noah with Kevin Murphey