Jayda's First Day of Preschool

We were lucky enough to find a good preschool close by at Houston Park for Jayda to attend this year. Her first day she was extremely disappointed to learn that Miss Annette would no longer be her teacher, but she has since adapted. She loves learning her letters and numbers, craft time, and playing with her friends and cousin Brannon.

Skyler really misses his sister when she's gone!

A Day of Rest in Valley Forge

Ever since we first got to Philly, all we've ever heard about is how tough the second year is, and they weren't a'kiddin! It's a tough year and Glenn is gone studying much more than we're used to, so when we do get a day to ourselves, we take advantage as much as possible. So when Stake Conference came rolling around (may lightening strike me) we played hooky and took off to Valley Forge for some relaxing and walking. It was a great way to spend the day and here are the pictures!

Visit with Grandma and Grandpa Green

Only a few days after getting home from Idaho, Glenn's parents came to visit us after a two and a half year mission in the Trinidad Islands. We had such a good time with them, doing things like going to Zwahlen's, Longwood Gardens, Hershey Chocolate World, Kitchen Kettle Village and The Pop Shop in New Jersey. It was so good to see them and catch up after their amazing experience. Come back and visit us again soon Blaine and Irma!

Visiting Friends

The next best thing to visiting family when going home, is visiting our awesome Idaho friends. With the amount of time that we had at home, we were able to see quite a few of our friends too, which was a lot of fun, we sure miss them!

Suz and Gavin joined us for a trip to Cafe Rio, which had just been opened in Idaho Falls. Yes, it really is as good as they all say!

A bunch of HS friends came to my parents house for a fun patio lunch/birthday lunch for Janna. It was so fun to see everyone, and we missed the girls that couldn't make it. The craziest part was noticing how many kids there were among all of us. Who would have thought that all these years later we'd be getting our kids together to play!

We were able to spend quite a bit of time with Jacob and Suz going to breakfast, going to the park and the boys got to go to the movies. Suz was sick, so we weren't about to get our night out on that trip, but I'll get you this Christmas Suz!

My HS friends were also awesome enough to arrange babysitters for all of our kids so that we could all go to dinner for some very tasty Mexican food. Good times!



I got to have a very fun lunch with my friends Dirk and Kendra. Jeremy (Dirk) is what you would consider my adopted brother, and you wouldn't think any different if you saw us interact. Kendra is a friend from work and ironically is from PA, so we had a lot to talk about!

Time Well Spent in Idaho

After driving home from San Diego, we got to spend a blissful two weeks in Pocatello with my parents. I was laughing while going through the pictures of our time at home, as most of them are food pictures! I guess that about sums it up, we ate, and ate, a lot. Man, my mom can cook! But between the gorging, there was a spattering of activity as well.

The weather was nice and hot the whole two weeks, so water activities were very important.

I made Jayda go down this slide at Ross Park (evil laugh). She was scared, and screamed the whole way down. In looking back, it probably wasn't the nicest thing of me to do, but I really wanted to go down that slide gosh dang it!

My parents got these really cute mini trampolines for the kids, where they spent a lot of time bouncing!

San Diego 2009

We had such a good time in San Diego last year, that I think my family is going to try to make a tradition of it every year. This year was just as fun, if not more since the kids are just a bit older and less high maintenance! I could go on and on about everything we did, but I'll just go ahead and let the ten million unorganized pictures I posted do the talking, cheers!

We stopped to visit my Aunt Mardene and her son William and daughter Lauren in St. George on the way home.