Disneyland 2012

Michelle's 8th Birthday

With four kids, it's not very often we get one on one time with our children together. Thanks to Grandma Matsumori watching our 3 younger kids, we took Michelle for an overnighter to Salt Lake City for her 8th Birthday. We visited Temple Square and bought Michelle's first set of scriptures. We enjoyed dinner at California Pizza Kitchen and swimming at the pool in the hotel. But mostly, we just enjoyed being together. It was a fun night. Hard to believe it was just Michelle and us when she was born 8 years ago. I remember having mixed feelings when Brooke was about to be born because I knew our relationship with Michelle would change. Our love for her hasn't diminished! It's amazing how we feel the same way about all of our children.

Brooke's in Kindergarten!

Brooke has had some new FIRST's. As pictured, her FIRST day of kindergarten and her FIRST lost tooth (and consequently, her FIRST visit by the Tooth Fairy). Can't believe how fast she's growing?!

Fun in the Country

Lagoon 2011

Thomas & Tillman's 2nd Birthday

Brooke's 5th Birthday!

We're still in shock that Brooke is now 5 and will be going to kindergarten this fall. We celebrated her birthday all week and felt blessed to have Grandma Oliver staying with us on Brooke's birthday. Unfortunately grandma had to leave before the rest of the week's festivities.

Chuckie Cheese has quickly become our families favorite birthday place. All of us had a blast, especially Brooke and Maurie in the ticket blaster!

With the recent release of "Tangled", Brooke chose a Rapunzel Birthday Party theme. The Pinata was a BIG hit. Fortunately, Maurie was brave enough to hold it.

Thank you to our friend Michelle, who helped make the party fun

and to the boys for helping clean-up :-)