The joys of family.

In our married life, Ben and I have never had so many family members come visit us.  Really.  Living here has been awesome.  We never thought that having this career would bring us this close to family.  Most of our family lives in Utah, which is a 10-13 hour drive to Tijuana.  It has been awesome to be this close, and still maintain a distance far enough to miss them.  {love you, mean it.}
Sunday we were able to spend time with Ben's dad and his wife, Lani.  It was great to see them, and they brought us some yummy treats- homemade jams, juices, canned peaches and pears.  Have you ever had fresh grape juice?  With a little sparking water or sparkling apple juice?  It is AWESOME! 

And my mom and brother are going to come stay with the kids so we can go out of town.  I mean really-perhaps we should look into San Diego as our next assignment.  How would that be?

What would life be like without family?  Okay, maybe that question should remain unanswered...

P.S.  We really do love visitors.

Wild Week.

Last week, we were BUSY.  Ben's brother came down with his family, and we had a great time.  We went to Sea World, the beach, explored Baja California, and just spent some time together.  It was an adventure!

 

 

The Magical World of Disney!

We were able to go to Disneyland on Monday with Ben's dad and his wife, Lani.  It was awesome.  We had a great time.  The day was filled with fun rides, fun snacks, walking, waiting in line, calming tantrums, yelling at line cutters, you know, a typical magical day at Disney.  I took A LOT of pictures, and these are some of the highlights. 

I don't think we will be going back anytime soon, (if we do, I don't think we will be able to afford college for the kids) but we have some great memories.  Well, at least Ben and I will remember, Jack and Thomas will have to remember through pictures until they can afford to pay their own way. 

 

 

 

 

The End.

Spending time together.

Grandpa Whitaker and Lani came to visit us this weekend.  It was so good to see them.  We did a lot fun things.  We went shopping.

We had our picture taken with the donkey. 

Awesome.

Of course we had to stop at our favorite taco place.

We also celebrated the boys birthdays a little early. 

It was wonderful to spend time with them and show them our home.

We went up across the border and stayed the night so that we could be ready to go to Disneyland...

Utah -Whitakers

We were able to spend time with Ben's family when we were in Utah.  We spent one day with Chris, Monica, Dylan, River, Ben's mom, and Annie.

Then before we left we went to the Discovery Gateway with Monica and the boys.  We had so much fun together.  The boys loved every moment, especially the helicopter. 

When Jack saw the helicopter, he ran up and yelled to me, mom, helicopter go to sky.  He fully intended on a helicopter ride, and sat waiting for a good five minutes.  He still had fun, even if he didn't go into the sky.