April 23rd, 2009
Hello everyone we are still alive. I have gotten really bad at keeping our blog updated. I will try to give you a quick run down of the last two months happenings. Let see, I fell and broke my tail bone the end of Feb. ouch …..It still hurts if I sit to long in one spot, so I have to rearrange my hinny off and on. I am a bad friend and forgot to call my friend Jamie on her birthday. I really did think about you on your birthday. The phone and I just didn’t do it at the same time. I‘m sorry, Happy very belated birthday. It is Mike's brother Scott's birthday on Saturday the 25th. Happy birthday!! My Dad, Mom, Angie, Nick, Britt and Aiden came up the first part of March. Angie had entered her body sculpture project in the state art competition and had won an award and $400. WOW!! If anyone wants to see it, it is on display at Gateway until the end of June, it is pretty amazing. Way to go Angie! It was really nice to have them up here for a visit. We got to go to DISNEYLAND in March with the kids, Grandma Jan and Papa Stringham. Craig got to spend the time in St. George being spoiled by Aunt Nat and Grandma Jean. We had a great time. It’s even better because with Grant disability, we got a special pass, we didn’t have to wait in the regular lines, we got to go in through the wheelchair entrance or the fast pass line which was way cool and a lot more fun. Some people looked at us funny because Grant looks normal, but I didn’t care. I guess I have gotten use to it. LOL! We would get there as the park opened and just for those of you who didn’t know, if you have a Disneyland credit card just show it to them when you rent your strollers and you get two free stroller rentals a day, pretty sweet. The strollers really were a life saver. I don’t think we would have seen half as much if the kids had to walk. Also thanks to my Aunt Kay who gave us these great arm leashs for Grant. If we didn’t have it we would of lost him with in the first 10 min. Not to mention the whole trip would not have been as enjoyable, so thank you, thank you. Mom and Dad where a big help in more then one way we couldn’t of done everything with out their help. Thank you and we love you. We stayed at the Carousel Inn across from Disney so we could come back and eat and give the kids and us a break. We went swimming one day and let the kids unwind the next it was great. Grant had his heart set on a Maleficent dragon (black baby dragon as he would of put it) but they didn’t have a Maleficent dragon. This little obsession he had went on for two days. It was driving me and I’m sure everyone else nuts. When he has his mind set on something it is all he can think and talk about. We did find a purple Webkinz dragon that worked for the most part. Brookie’s favorite ride was Star Tours, her and daddy had to ride it twice. Brinlee’s favorite ride was Dumbo she would of road that 20 times if we let her. Mike's favorite ride is Buzz Light-year, mine is Souring over California (this was one of Papa’s favorites too) and Splash Mountain. They were great troopers. We were really worried about flying especially with Grant because you never now how his little body will react to change. But he did awesome! He only had a little bit of trouble with his ears, the girls did great as well. All and all it was a super fun trip. Easter was fun. The Friday before Easter we went to Kangaroo Zoo (I have talked about it in my past blogs, it has a lot of bounce houses and slides) with all the Stringham grandkids, their mommy’s and Grandma Jan. Then we went back to Grandma Jan and Papa’s to dye Easter eggs and eat pizza. The kids always have fun with their cousins, it was great. Sunday we had dinner and a fun Easter egg hunt. We celebrated Steve and Courtney birthdays we had a great time. This past Saturday Mike, Steve, Dad and Grandpa Jack all went fishing for the day. They didn’t have much luck with the fish but from what Mike said they had a great time. We also planted our own seeds for are garden this year and they are growing, well not all of them but some, wish us luck. We are also extending our garden. It is going to be twice as big, hopefully for twice as much fruits and veggies. Wish us luck with that too. Well that is it for now, love ya all. I will try to do better with my updates. Love Janie

P.S. If you have time check out some of our new pictures below. Thanks

Easter Morning Our House 2009

Prof the Easter Bunny came!

Craig's basket.

More prof!

Brinlee's baskey.

Grant's Basket

More prof!!

Brinlee's basket.

Here we come!!

I found my robe.

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I found my light.

Poor Emmie, did we wake you up !!

I found my book.

I found my art set.

Craig found his basket.

Brookie found her basket.

Grant found his basket.

Brinlee found her basket.

Look at our fun stuff.

Yummy!

Easter Sunday at Papa and Grandmas House 2009

The Easter Egg hunt

Craig making pancakes!!

The pan was unplugged (it was cool) and I hadn't put the pancakes away yet. Craig had climb up on the counter and put the pancakes back on the pan so he could cook them himself.

He was very proud of himself.

Our Trip to Disneyland 3/25 to 3/28/2009 Waiting for the airplane really early in the morning.

We are in California. Ya!!

Waiting for the shuttle to take us to our Hotel.

After we dropped off out bags at the Hotel we came to right to Disneyland!

I'm so excited.

So are we!!!

The kids loved the Lego store.

The boys all bought matching red hats.

We took a break from Disneyland to check into our rooms and get our stuff.

Back to Disneyland.

Are you scared Grant?

Toon Town

They let us out because I have such cute kids!

It's Goofy!

Minnie's House

Its Bear Country.

Zip line

High School Musical Show

Grant got to be a part of it. Cool!!

Bugs Life
Making friends with Hopper.

OH NO!!! We are all turning into BUGS.

Surfs up dude!!

Our Hotel

Its time to say good by to our vacation.

We sure had a great time!!

Planting seeds for the Garden.

Time to water.

Craig giving Nala love.