Tuesday April 14th – Pleasant Grove UT

Can we get some summer weather around here? It was snowing before this.

Benji and Packer Enjoying the Rain

Wednesday April 15th – Pittsburgh PA

Ben had a one day event honoring their one millionth customer to sign up for Mozy Home. (this is the same day that I backed into my own car :()

Ben in Pitt with the Mozy Crew

Friday April 17th – St. George UT

We spent the day with the Utah Nettesheim cousins and went to Snow Canyon, the pool, and ordered Thai Food that night.

 

Mom and Packer in Snow Canyon. And Benji and Packer in a small cave. Packer tried to climb as high as all of the cousins but his parents wouldn’t let him.

These Pictures are at “Pioneer Names” in Snow Canyon. We were surprised that Benji had the guts to go up there – he was very brave.

Cousins w/ the pioneer names

Benji and Dad Climbing Down

While most of the gang went and did this… 

Snow Canyon

My Brother in law John Climbed up this rock and did all of the “lead work” so that Tracie and I could rock climb a little. I hadn’t been climbing in about 10 years so it was fun to be up there.

John Lewis setting our ropes

Here I am ready to go

I was slow, it took me a while and one major cheat but I made it to the top!

I think coming down is the best part - maybe I should just look into repelling.

And here is Tracie making it to the top in a quarter of the time that it took me - NOt FaIR!

 Still Friday the 17th – Back at the Condo Swimming Pool

Benji loves his Bobble Goggles

Packer getting used to the water

This was Cali's first time swimming! She was very content.

Kite Festival in St George

Kite Festival

 I laid on the coach letting the antibiotics work their magic while everyone else went to IN and Out and to the park.

Baseball at the Park

All the cousins took turns hitting the baseball...

and this is my son - no athletic desire - yet...

 Sunday April 19th – St. George to Hollister CA

We drove 10 hours on Sunday to get to my sisters house.

Packer, Carter and Benji hanging out on the balcony

 Monday April 20th – Hollister CA

Ben locked himself in the office and worked all day. I refused to drive any more and had a great time visiting with Christy all day and getting a glimpse of life with older children and busy schedules. The boys played in the glory of the toy room, jumped on the trampoline and swam in the cold Hot Tub. And Cali finally got over her neck rash and we discovered new armpit ones so she was happy to let mom hold her all day. I didn’t get the camera out much so this is all we have to prove that we were there.

Benji thought this "secret window" was pretty cool

Monday April 20th – PM - San Francisco CA

We drove to the Hyatt in down town San Fran and checked in for the night. We were the only mini van within miles – very strange coming from Happy Valley. And the hotel “helpers” thought we needed lots of help. Lets just say that they double flipped out when I came down the next morning with my 3 kids, a car seat, cooler, suitcase and Back Pack and no Ben since he was already at his work conference. I was handling it very well but they could not handle it. I tried to hand them my slip to go get the Van but they wouldn’t even listen until they had taken everything but the kids off my hands. So that was fun and me getting lost on the way out because our GPS doubles as Ben’s Cell phone and I didn’t want him to be without a phone, and so I’m not finding my way to the 560 and Benji is begging for a PB and J at 10am – I almost couldn’t handle that one!

a nice comfy bed - they were impressed with the view

But I did handle it and after a slight detour close to the old Candle Stick Park I did get on the right road and we made it to my brother Josh’s house.

Tuesday April 21st – Lathrop CA

We hung out with Josh and Mal for a few hours. Long enough to see the new and improved GI Joe Collection, the new lawn, eat my first Turkey Burger and long enough for Payton and Packer to fight over most of the toys 🙂

Payton and Cali snuggling in the blanky

Still Tuesday the 21st – Oroville CA

We got in the car and drove up to Oroville to my parents place. It would have been an uneventful drive except that I had to use the restroom and I had 3 kids with me and no help – so Myself and 3 kids in a gas station restroom, crammed in to 1 stall, Packer laying on the floor and saying ” I Flush” the whole time. Not an ideal situation! I think I’ll just use the side of the road next time so that I don’t have to unbuckle and wake up the rest of the car! 

   

Baby Chicken Fights!

one of these babies is not like the others

Don't let Angelee tell you that Joshie is not affected by this new baby!

 Thursday April 23rd – Oroville to SF and back

I got to drive down to San Fran and get Ben from his conference on Thursday. It actually wasn’t too bad because my sister in law Liz took Benji and Packer for me and Shannon took Cali! So I cruised on down (of course I didn’t need any bathrooms on this trip) and hurried back to Oroville.

my bearded husband

And that night Jaydn and Maddy had a sleep over with Benj and Pack and Grandma told them stories for bedtime!

Bedtime Stories with Grandma Robertson

Friday April 24th – Oroville CA

We decided that Cali and her cousin Gabriella ( one month younger) would be twins for the day. We also decided that we would celebrate Packer’s birthday since we would be in the car all day on his real b-day.

Grandma and twins

twinners at the park

soo cute

We made Funny Face CupCakes for the birthday Party

Funny Face Cupcakes

Hold On Tight

 Most adults at a park wouldn’t migrate to the play ground – not my family. They were all over on the twirlies trying to spin each other off.

Packers Party at the Park

Earlier in the day we all saw the mail man drive down the road so we sent Sean to check the mail for his mission call and we were all waiting when he came Running back with the Big White Envelope in hand!! It was super exciting. So he opened it that afternoon and he is going to the Texas Houston South Mission, Spanish speaking and leaving on July 22nd! It was neat to watch him open it and i think he’ll be a really great missionary. He just has that hard working and loveable personality. Congrats Sean!

A Happy Birthday Boy

Saturday April 25th – Somewhere in Nevada most of the day 🙁

This was Packers real birthday and he started it off by throwing up in the car about a half of an hour into the trip! He threw up a few more times and slept the entire 11 hours. Cali was a much better traveler than we anticipated and by the time we came home she was pretty good at crying herself to sleep in the car. She tricked everyone in California by being a very happy and content baby – I’m hoping that is her new style since she is almost 5 months old now – but the last 2 nights have been rough so we will see. And Benji was a good traveler – he always has been and still does a good job just sitting there all day. I slept and cleaned up throw up and slept and fed the baby and I think you get the picture. And Ben listened to talk radio the entire trip so I am well informed about the miss USA pageant. And the NFL draft was on the radio so that was fun. This is now the LOOOOOOOOngest post EEEEEEEver but I have a few more pictures. When we got home Saturday we had a Soccer game at 10:40pm so that was fun to go to.

Sunday April 26th – Pleasant Grove UT

Another Birthday party – Packer and Amanda. We had fun catching up with the family and playing the name game.

The 2nd time around he had the present thing down

ready to light the candles

 If anyone remembers a year ago on Packers first birthday he managed to grab the candle and burn his hand. Well this year his older brother was not about to let that happen again. Benji was very concerned and kept telling Pac to be very careful.

"Be Careful Packer"

A champion candle Blower

I was very proud of the cake I made. The black was a little gray but it really looked like Mickey!! 

Mickey Mouse by Jana

 I think that wraps up the day by day update. Except that was through Sunday and Now we are going on Wednesday. The last 2 days have consisted of unpacking, a nice day at the park. A much needed WalMart run. Mikila spending the night. 2 sweet goals in my soccer game last night – 1 on the kick off and the other just me and the goalie and I actually put a move on and sent it in with my left foot. Calling to get MOtorcycle Insurance quotes, and how much to fix our car mirror quotes. Catching up on our shows that we missed last week and trying to get the Laundry/House back under control. Never let me blog about 2 weeks of my life at once again – this was insane!