Saturday, March 21, 2009

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"

4 comments:

Laurie said...

She is soooo cute!! You guys are so smart going to disneyland all the time, we just took a trip to vegas...our kids were awful! I think it will be awhile before we go anywhere else!

Jason K said...

What a happy old couple with such a cute little grandchild. Disneyland sure gets a lot of spoiled kids. Aren't old people the best!

amanda said...

7 times!! Holy cow--what a dream. I'd love that. I think I just might have to do that sometime. Just think, a whole year of happiness. I need that.
And HAPPY BIRTHDAY LARRY!!! Join the club of 30:) I will be leaving it soon. It's not too bad. Especially when you get to spend it at Disney with a badge on:)
We miss you guys:( We'll be "home" in May and we can't wait. Save a spot at Sunday Circle.

Ben and Jen Clark said...

What a fun trip! I can't believe how many times Caymen has been to Disneyland in her short life, she's a very lucky girl! And HAPPY BIRTHDAY CUZ!