And then we went to Disneyland...

I know, I'm taking way too long to update our vacation. But here's our trip to Disneyland. It was so fun to see the girls' faces on the rides and to be with my parents and sister. We all had such a great time and the girls are still asking when we are going back to Disneyland. My mom made the girls these cute matching jumpers to commemorate their first trip to Disneyland, and then they each got a button for being a first time visitor.

First ride of the day was Peter Pan. Adelynne says it was her favorite ride



My Dad and sister, Amy, also excited about the magic of Peter Pan:



Dumbo ride! The girls had the happiest faces throughout this ride as you can see by their faces:







Casey Junior train ride:



After a bunch of rides in fairy tale land, we waited in line for over an hour so the girls could meet some princesses. Amy fell asleep in Aunt Amy's arms. It was a good nap for her, but not quite long enough. We had to wake her up, and I don't think she was quite aware of what was going on at first.

My Dad sporting Adelynne's sunglasses:

Meeting Aurora:

You can see that Amy is not quite awake yet:

Belle was so sweet

This one is blurry, but she was so sweet to Amy and gave her a hug and just kept talking to her. She was the best one of the three the girls met.

Jasmin was a bit of a snob (the girl who played her). But the girls were still excited to see her

Amy is smiling just a bit.

Then we let the girls get their faces painted:

Amy was so still for the process, we thought she went back to sleep!

Amy picked the "mermaid crown" for her face, so happy!

Adelynne picked the "unicorn mask" She had pink eyebrows for days after this



Dustin with sword and shield, my prince! So the most heartbreaking time of the day was when we left the princess area because we saw Ariel come out and Amy wanted to go see her so bad! When she saw Ariel she said with outstretched arms: "Let's go get her!" And then she started sobbing, and her blue and green paint started dripping down her cheeks. Luckily it didn't ruin the face paint. Oh, I wish we could have taken her to see Ariel, it really would have made her day, but waiting in line again would have done us no good.

The girls got to meet Minnie:

And Mickie! When they went into the room to meet Mickie, they both greeted him with big hugs! There is something magical about Mickie Mouse!



And while Adelynne got to ride on the bigger roller coasters, Amy got to meet Woody and Jesse. Woody even blew Amy a kiss!

Monkey's in a cage

Okay, not really, but for some reason these kids loved closing themselves up in this broken trampoline to eat their popsicles. Crazy kids! (Left to Right: Owen, Amy, Ethan, Adelynne).

Playing with the Patty's

We spent a day with our good friends Aaron, Niki, Ethan, Owen, and Randin Patty. They also live in Las Vegas. I was quite amazed that during our time in Las Vegas the weather was actually quite nice. This day at the park was even a little too breezy, but we had fun anyway. We love the time we have with the Patty family, and we are always wishing to have more time with them.






Niki and Randin:


Dustin and Owen:

Playing with Belt cousins

May 21, 2010:

Well, we couldn't go to Vegas and not see our cousins! Adelynne and Amy spent a day playing with Ellie and Lauryn, (Dustin's brother Chris' girls), and they had a blast. They both are still talking about these girls and all the fun they had. Ellie and Adelynne are about 1 and 1/2 years apart in age, with Ellie just finishing up Kindergarten this last June, and Adelynne starting it this fall. Now, Amy and Lauryn are only 2 months apart in age, Lauryn being the older of the two. A lot of people will tell us how tall Amy is, and yes, she is, but when you put her up to Lauryn, you can see which one of them really is tall! Perhaps Amy will catch up to her someday.

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Hugs! So Ellie and Lauryn's mom, Melissa, is expecting a baby boy at the beginning of August, and we are expecting our baby at the end of August. We seem to be decreasing the amount of age between our children, and it sure is fun when they all get to play together!


Ellie and Adelynne- please excuse my lack of editing- I still think it is a cute picture.


After visiting with Dusitn's brother, we went over for an all too short visit with his sister Donna and her family. Donna and her family welcomed their newest edition Charles David on May 2nd. We brought him a little monkey for a present. Charles was just as sweet as can be and so fun to hold and cuddle. I can't wait until my own baby arrives!


Sarah was showing Dustin all of her high scores from school, we were quite impressed with Sarah!


Me snuggling with Charles:


Dustin's turn. I figured he should have a picture with Charles since it is his nephew


I was so excited to capture this picture of Charles smiling in his sleep. So precious!


Tesa, Sarah, Amy and Adelynne. What fun!

May 20, 2010 And this is what we do at Cold Creek

We see the fish:


Then we get ready to scare the fish:


Step 1: Gather rocks of various sizes, but the bigger the better:


Step 2: Place rocks on bench and examine rocks for special shapes and other identifiable marks:


Step 3: Throw the rocks!:


The wind up:


The release:


The splash:


Adelynne caught a lady bug and I told her to put it on her nose, and this was the result:


My goodness she is beautiful!




Catching the lady bug with Daddy:


When Amy got tired of carrying the rocks in her arms, she started gathering them in her dress. She seriously gathered rocks and threw them in the creek over and over and over again. I think she raised the water level of the creek!

Cold Creek, Nevada

This is Cold Creek, Nevada, where Dustin grew up. It is a beautiful little mountain community set in the mountains of Southern Nevada off highway 95. When we are there visiting with Grandpa and Grandma Belt some of our favorite things to do our take walks/hikes, mostly to the creek itself. Here are a few pictures of the views we enjoy when we are there:

Cold Creek:


I believe this is a view looking down into the desert valley just south of Area 51:

A few more pictures from Utah

These are the last two pictures from our time in Utah:
At Red Robin restaurant. The girls aren't really posing, they are just trying to reach the balloons.


In the car with Aunt Amy