Another call from Vegas...

Zach got another call from Vegas! He passed his Crazy test, and now he has an interview with the Fire Dept Chief on July 1st! Hopefully this is the last step in the hiring process and if all works out well and the chief likes him, Zach will finally be a fire fighter Paramedic! Woo HOO!! We will keep you all posted!

DISNEYLAND!!!

This was the California Screamin ride. It didn't even phase him. He loved it! My son is more brave than I am!

I think this was the Pirates of the Carribean ride. Jocy and Rai were scared to death the whole time.
My cute cousin Katie that got us in to Disneyland!!!

So our family was finally able to go on our much needed and VERY late family vacation to Disneyland! My cousin works at the Disneyland hotels and she was nice enough to get my entire family in for free!!! Park Hopper passes and all!!! Free vacation!! That is the best kind! We left on monday and stayed with David and Melissa ( Thanks Guys!) in Buckeye so that we could leave very early the next morning and go to Disneyland. Our plan was to leave at 3 am and get to Disneyland early Tuesday, stay at a hotel Tuesday night and head home on Wed morning. Of course things didn't work out quite as planned.... We left as scheduled at got to Disneyland about 9:30 but my cousin forgot we were coming, so we went to the beach instead and planned for Disneyland the next day and a long drive home afterwards. No big deal. I didnt bring swim suits because we weren't planning on going to the beach, so we went in clothes and got soaking wet. Logan had a blast, Railynn screamed and hated it( the water was way to cold for a foof like Rai), and Jocy ate the sand. We stayed for a while and went back to the hotel. The next morning we checked out, I put the bags in the car, and of course the car wont' start. Nice. Zach had the car towed to a shop, and we headed out for Disneyland. Luckily we had something to do while we waited! We had so much fun...Logan was tall enough for every ride he wanted to go on...including tower of terror and California Screamin in California Adventure. Railynns favorite was probably Its a Small World ( BORING!!) she only wanted to go on it because it was in a castle. Again...she is such a foof. Meanwhile, both of our cell phones died so we had to find and buy chargers and sit at a little shop while our phones charged so we could figure out the car situation. The shop couldnt figure out what was wrong with our car, so we had it towed again, this time to a Chrystler Dealership. Now of course, it was to late in the day for them to fix our car, so now we had to stay in a hotel for another night. All of our bags were in our car at the shop, so we slept in our dirty clothes, wore our dirty clothes the next day, and drove home in our dirty clothes because that is all we had. We ended up paying about $550 for the car. So much for a free vacation! Now...on the bright side. I do feel blessed. If my cousin would have remembered to get us in to Disney on the first day, what would we have done if our car broke down on the way home in a dinky town? At least we had somewhere to go while our car was being worked on. And we got to go to the beach!

Fun Family Moments...

So...I have been a total slacker with blogging.  I have been spending all of my time watching the Batchelorette and reading Eragon.  I decided to catch up today so you would all know how we   are doing!  I posted a lot of pictures...sorry for the over load!  

To give you a family update,  Zach started his job with Southwest Ambulance (as most of you know) and he LOVES it.  We are finally able to spend more time as a family and hopefully we will be able to go on our long awaited Disney Land trip in the next few weeks. Jocy finally had some teeth come in.  She has 4 right now, but they aren't in all the way.  She is really starting to show her personality, and she loves loves loves Logan and Railynn!!! Logan and Rai are as good as ever.  Logan starts kindergarten in a few months and Rai will be in pre- school.  I cant believe how old they are!  I love my family!

Hunters( Logans cousin) birthday was Saturday and we got to go celebrate with him!!  Happy birthday Hunter!

We went to my cousins house on Saturday for another birthday party...the kids got to swim which is always fun!!  I love this picture of Jocy...
Logan and his goggles...
Rai and the Allens!
Apparently we have another piano player in the family...
Dave, mom, and Charai at our Memorial Day Dinner!
Rai and Davis.

The cousins...


I put make up on Railynn a few weeks ago...she is so darn pretty!  If you notice, she has a crooked smile.  Just like her Daddy!! :)
I let the kids run through the sprinklers in their clothes.  Definately not as fun as with swim suits.  Rai didn't like it that much.  Can you tell??

Pretty hair...I put Rais hair in a bunch of mini braids and this is how her hair turned out.  She looks so grown up!
We did the sprinkler thing again but this time with swimsuits and the cousins!  Much Better!