Happiness from a hat!

At Disneyland when larry got his birthday gift card, I knew what he was going to buy. To preface this a little for about 8 years everytime we would go to Disneyland, Larry wanted to buy an Indiana Jones hat. This isn’t a baseball hat type it looks just like Indy's hat in the movies and it was alot of money for a hat. Everytime we would go he would go try on the hat and look in the mirror, well this time he had money that he had to spend on souvenirs so on his birthday we go to the shop and he tries on the hats to get the right size and then gets the biggest smile you have seen just knowing that he is finally getting this hat. He goes and pays for it, the lady wishes him happy birthday and while there the lady hands him the phone from behind the desk and it is goofy, wishing him a happy birthday (so cute, the details that Disney puts in! Amazing!) Then he proudly walks out of the shop and this time he doesn’t have to take it off! Who would have thought that a hat could make someone so happy! Well he wears the hat proudly for 2 days and our last day in the park Larry and I go on splash mountain. Larry wanted to have his hat on for the picture that they take when you go down the big hill. (I think you can see where I am going with this) Anyway he wears it with his hand on top of it to keep it on but as we get down to the bottom he thought that we had slowed down enough to lift his hand and the second he did POOF the hat was gone. We got off the ride and told the castmembers that he had lost it and they told us to come back in 30 minutes because when something gets lost they usually will float through and they will catch it. 30 minutes had passed, Larry walked back to splash and no luck, an hour later he tried again, no luck, 3 more times that day he tried and still no luck. At this point we had to go fill out a form at the lost and found so that if it got turned in they would know it was his. When we got there they said that they drain the ride every night and walk through it and pick up any lost items so its likely that it would be there in the morning. We told them this was our last day in the park and they said that if it got turned in they could ship it to us. Larry was really sad, then mad at himself that he lost it and then sad again but was still hopeful that they would find it that night. The next day on our way to Costa Mesa we stopped in at Disneyland and Larry went to check and still, no luck. You could tell he was so sad because he really just wanted it to be there because this was our last chance in the Disneyland area. Well we traveled home and on Monday when he went back to work I decided to just call down there to see if by chance they had found it and guess what, they had!!! I was so excited that I could barely talk. Larry hadn’t opened his birthday gift yet so I put a card with it that that said happy birthday and that Disneyland had found his hat and they were shipping it that day. When he read that part his face was classic he looked at me and said "are you serious?" I jumped up and said YES!!! then he jumped up and down saying hooray they found my hat!! Well on Friday we got a knock on the door, Larry went to answer and no one was there, then he saw the UPS truck and then saw the box, he grabbed it ran in the house and said "my hat is here, my hat is here" He opened the box and put the hat on ran in the living room and jumped in the air and clicked his heels together several times, it was priceless! My sweet hubby finally had his hat, he was like a little kid! It was so great to see him so excited about it.

Kakaw monthly news!

Yes I think that I need to change the title of our blog,The new title is kakaw monthly news. It just seems that the time flys by and I am lucky if I get an update in! Well in the last month we have been able to do some great things. We got to go to the Draper Temple open house, it always amazes me at how beautiful that they are! It was neat to take cayman with us, even though she is still too small to remember, but as we walked though she noticed the chandeliers and she would say "Mom look, sparkly lights!! they are beautiful!!" It was adorable.
Also a few weekends ago all of larry's family was in town for his cousin, jeff's farewell. It was alot of fun to be able to spend a lot of time with them, (but poor cayman got thrown completely off because for 4 nights in a row we didnt get home before 12:30am.) Jeff is going to the stockholm sweden mission, he is very excited to be able to go and serve, I think that he is the most excited missionary that I have seen in a long time. He told us that there needs to be a trip to sweden to pick him up, if there is you can count us in! Good Luck Jeff!!!
Our big event was that on march 11th, larry turned 30!!! In the words of Jane Hatch he is now 20 10!!! I wanted to do something special for larry, I thought what would he want to do and of course he would say go to disneyland. We were going to go in april for spring break but alot of people from utah would be there, it is part of orange county's spring breaks and it is the week after easter (which is known to be busy at disneyland) so I thought I will take him to disneyland, we'll take one last trip on the annual passes before they expire and when you go to disneyland on your birthday they give you free entrance to the park, well larry already has a ticket so they give you a gift card for the cost of a ticket. That would be a nice bonus for him some spending money to buy whatever he wanted (I had a pretty good idea of what he was going to buy, this will be explained more later!) My parents, and two sisters families came on the trip with us. On the way down we spent the night in the booming metropolis of Primm Nevada at a place called buffalo bills, I was a little nervous because of a review from someone I know saying that their room was a crime scene but for $6 a night and you get in late and leave early I figured we would risk it, surprisingly it wasn't that bad (luckily!)
Disneyland is always so fun! they have it all decorated for a celebration, there are cute mickey balloons on the lights poles that are wrapped in ribbon and the mickey in front has on a birthday hat with balloons on each side so it was like they had decorated disneyland just for larry's birthday. He even got a button to wear that says happy birthday larry, so every castmember who saw it would wish larry a happy birthday. So to you my sweet hubby, I hope that you had a great 30th birthday!
The rest of the trip was great 3 days in disney and then on saturday we went to H&M and then to the costa mesa swap meet which was pretty good, we both got some great sunglasses for really cheap. Cayman got this little toy dog that barks and walks and as we walked out she sang "I got a puppy, I got a puppy" over and over to a little song that she had made up. I wish I would have had my camcorder there it was so funny!
This trip was one of the best, but I am so sad knowing that the passes will expire soon but the memories that we got from the 7 times we went we are grateful for and would not trade for anything! Watching cayman discover the magic of disneyland and enjoy the rides, sounds and smells will always be with me, another memory I will never forget was the chance for Kenzie to come with us, and for me to be an 11 year old again with Kenzie and Haley. Thanks girls for letting me be silly! We are sad that our trips to disney will be far far more spread apart. I guess all good things must come to an end. Maybe in a few more years we will do the annual pass thing again, I can't wait!


Cayman at the start of gadgets go coaster

And Cayman while on gadget's go coaster
When it was over she loved it!


Cayman and her puppy she named "ruff ruff"