This year for vacation we went on a trip to California. We started on July 3 and drove to Salem and stopped for a visit to see Grandpa Hoisington we then headed down to my cousin Harmony's. We stayed the night and the next morning we rode horses. It was Bray's first time riding a horse he was so nervous at first but at the end was riding all by himself. Even telling us that he was doing tricks. The trick was to make the horse do what you want! We love Harmony and Dan and the Kids. I wish we could of stayed longer.
On the way home from our American Girl experience. I decided to drive up to the temple and walk around the grounds with Lydia. It was nice to feel the spirit there with her.
For Lydia's 8th Birthday I decided to tell her we were going somewhere that she had to dress up. So we woke up and got ready. We drove up to the Kingston ferry. We missed the first ferry I wanted to take. We made the next ferry and we arrived at the mall it was busy. She still wasn't sure where we were going until we walked into the mall. Then when we got to the store she was so excited. We looked at all the dolls. She knew the exact doll she wanted Caroline. I had a reservation for lunch but because we missed our first ferry we missed our reservation. I called right when it happened and got a new one for later that afternoon. So we decided to go shopping it was fun looking at clothes. We went to the Lego store that was so fun too. Claire's and she picked out some very cool magnetic earrings. She looked so grown up. We then went back to the store where we had a wonderful lunch. Caroline sat in a chair at our table. I would recommend the food it was actually good. We had a fun Birthday lunch.
Little Man decided he wanted to have a Monster truck Birthday! We made cars out of boxes and had a race. We ate tire donuts on strings from the ceiling. We colored monster truck pages and we ate a delicious Monster truck cake and watched a movie about different kinds of trucks. It was a fun filled afternoon. Happy Birthday Big Boy! We love you!!
Yesterday Lydia was sitting with Kyle and some how something about bad words came up. She said one of her sisters said, a bad word. So Kyle started going through a lot of the words trying to figure out what was said. She said, that it started with sw he was a little stumped. Then he says I can't think of any swear words like that and she says that's the word. He says, oh that is just how we describe those kinds of words. That is so cute. So swear words in her mind was a bad word. We say "don't say swear words."
