One more fish in the family

We were swimming at moms house and Bryson was wearing his floaties that he always wears and after about 15 minutes of swimming, he asked me to take off his floaties. I was a little hesitant because I had no idea what he had planned! We have been working with him to take off his floaties but he would scream every time so I just decided that he will take them off when he's ready. Was today the day?! So I took off his floaties like he asked and he just jumped out and starting swimming!! I was so surprised and happy at the same time. YAY Bryson!!! 

Now we just need to work on keeping his feet up high to kick! Great job Bryson!!

5 months

Rolly Polly Olly! 1st time in the swing and LOVED it! 

We sure love having Carson in our family! It's hard to believe he's 5 months! Here's a few facts about the big guy:

*rolls from tummy to back and back to tummy
*sleeps AWFUL at night!

*loves his paci and blankie when going to sleep

*loves rice cereal
*happy boy(except when he's tired!)
*starting to sit up
*starting to scoot across floor on tummy
*loves to play with toys

Tried some rice cereal and he loved it! 

1st trip down the slide. wasn't too sure about it.

San Diego 2

On Sunday, we took a trip up to the San Diego Temple. This counted as our church meeting :) It is a very beautiful temple! Reagan kept saying how pretty it was and how it looked like a princess castle :) After we walked around temple grounds, we headed over to Coronado Island to go play at the beach. We went to the Navy Base because Brian's coworkers suggested we go there for their pretty beach. It was definitely a great beach! The kids didn't care for the water but they loved the sand and sea shells! We really enjoyed our trip as a family and can't wait to take our next family trip! 

Brian and the kids

Not sure how many times Bryson was told not to pick the flowers....

And Reagan....

love them!

some lady offered to take our family picture. That's us on the very center bottom, very tiny!

We found a park to play at before the beach and the kids LOVED it!

Beach Time!!!

They did not want to touch the water!

These kids could have played all day in the sand

Baby toes in the sand :)

and Carson screamed bloody murder when Brian put his toes in the water

Aw! Wish I could be here everyday

Reagan and Bryson walked the shore for every single shell they could find, even tiny little pieces.

So I tried to type more on this post and it just shows up as like a really weird code... I've tried to type it like 3 times now. We shall see if this all shows up!

San Diego

We had this trip planned for a few months and Reagan was more excited to sleep in a hotel than to go to the beach and Sea World! She seems to have this weird obsession with Hotel. Silly girl! As we were trying to find a place to stay(looking online), she would pick out her favorite hotels by what the pictures looked like and her favorite ones seemed to be about $300/night so needless to stay we didn't pick her favorite but she enjoyed where we stayed anyways!

We left Friday afternoon so that way Brian could work almost a full day of work. It's about a 6.5 hour drive and we knew with stops it would take us a little while longer but surprisingly it took us right about 6.5 hours! I guess that means Brian was going a bit fast since we stopped a few times :)

Saturday morning we got up early, got ready, had breakfast and headed off to Sea World! We spent the entire day there and then headed to Denny's for dinner. Reagan says her favorite was the Dolphin Show and Bryson's favorite part was the sharks. I really enjoyed the Circus show(sorry I don't remember the actual name) because it was super funny and kept you entertained!

Reagan was so excited to go to Sea World!

happy boy!

Carson didn't take his eyes off of the Dolphin Show. This is also where he got sun-burnt :( oops!

Reagan and Bryson got to feed the Seals

We got to the Shamu show early so we could get a great seat!

SHAMU!!

Proof I was there :) waiting for the Skyride

Circus Show

Bryson tried to nap during the day but we kept him too busy so once we were leaving our last show, he crashed! 

Reagan and I enjoying Elmo's Flying Fish while Daddy was watching the boys, who were both asleep.

More from our San Diego trip coming up on the next post :)

On Sunday, we took a trip up to the San Diego Temple. This counted as our church meeting :) It is a very beautiful temple! After walking around temple grounds, we headed over to Coronado Island to go play at the beach on the Navy Base. The kids were not a fan of the water, guess we need to be around waves more! They enjoyed playing in the sand and finding sea shells.