So little time . . .

I have so much to do and so little time to do it in! I am so sorry I haven't posted for soooo long. My family was here for a week and a half, and I don't think I got online once while they were here. It was so busy and fun, and I am just barely recovering from all the excitement! It was funny too because on Friday after my parents left Kira (my sister-in-law) and her sister, Megan, showed up. It was a total surprise! I still cannot believe she did that.
So, needless to say, between Wes' parents visit a few weeks ago and my family's visit, I haven't had much time to blog. I got a CD from Wes' parents with a bunch more cute pictures from their visit, and I have about 300 pictures to go through from the past two weeks.
Well, so, ummm . . as far as TIME goes, I don't really have any. For right now, you can look at my sister, Cristi's, blog. She is amazing and always on top of anything having to do with pictures. She has a bunch of the cutest pictures from their visit out on her blog. Her link is here on my blog.
We had so much fun with my family. We went to the beach and swimming at the hotel and to fun parks and to the aquarium.
I have so many thing I want to write about. Bradley is starting preschool in a couple weeks, and I am having all sorts of mixed emotions about that. Connor has learned his ABC's. He loves to sing the song to us.
Oh, I have the funniest story about Connor. Usually when I take a shower I let the boys watch TV or a movie or something. The past few weeks Connor has been telling me, rather frequently, that I stink. :) He'll come up to me and say, "Mommy, you stink," and then promplty after say, "Can I watch a movie?" It's so funny. I guess it doesn't sound as funny on here, but it is. He knows that me being stinky means I need a shower which means he gets to watch TV. He is so hilarious.
Halley is growing so fast! I cannot beleive she is 3 1/2 months old already. Her favorite thing to do is watch people's faces. She is especially fascinated by the boys.
Wes is doing really well in his classes. He has been getting up early to study a lot, and he studies during his breaks too. Chinese is a hard language!
I am having so much fun out here. It is hard to adjust to the fact that we won't have family out here again for awhile, but it's all good. We went to a bar-b-que at a friend from the ward's house on Monday, and we have one planned at our house this Saturday with all of Wes' friends from when he first got here. Oh, and on Sunday we are having dinner with a family that is from Utah. Marc is in the Utah National Guard too. He is here learning Russian. Wes met him in his unit before he left for basic.
Yikes! So, sorry, not many pictures. GO TO CRISTI'S BLOG! :) I promise I will keep working on everying and post more soon. Soon, of course, could mean in the next few weeks, but I will get on it!
I think I'll just post a couple cute pictures from the aquarium since Cristi wasn't here then, and she posted a lot of the other cute ones. :)
Goodnight! (Sorry this is soooo long.)

So Precious

Halley has started doing this way cute thing, especially when it's close to bedtime. We put her binky in because she's all upset. She'll sit there for a minute to calm down, and then she gets all happy and smiley and spits in out. She'll ooo and ahhh and smile for a minute, and then she cries again, and we start all over. I caught this cute video tonight while the boys were in the tub.
I am all alone tonight because Wes has to do CQ. I asked him what that stands for, and he didn't know. I decided to use this amazing thing - the internet - and found out it means "charge of quarters." Basically, he has to sit up, awake, all night with the sergeant on duty. Luckily he gets tomorrow off to sleep a little. However, that means he misses his classes. The military is so weird. I guess they gotta do what they gotta do though, right?
I guess I am just lonely. :) I can't believe I made it for so long without him. He is so wonderful!
Hey, at least it gave me time to do the blog. Cool!

A Special Visit

Sorry I haven't posted for awhile. We had Wes' parents here last weekend, and we were busy having fun! It was so nice to have family here again. I have really missed everyone, and it was so nice to be with Dave and Rhenda again. We got really close to them while we lived there, especially while Wes was at basic training. They really helped me get through that whole thing.
Anyway, so on to the pictures and videos! The sad story is that we took a lot of the pictures from the weekend on Dave and Rhenda's camera so I don't have as many as I'd like, but, they are sending me a CD with all the pictures from their camera so maybe in a week or so I'll post some more.
First of all, the weather - man was it crazy! We had a huge warm spell this past weekend. It was up in the 90s which very rarely happens here. Then, on Sunday and Monday we were back down in the 60s with a freezing cold breeze. Crazy, huh? Anyway, so we got this way cute little shorts outfit for Halley that I was afraid she'd never be able to wear because it's never quite warm enough. Well, we put it on her when it was so hot, and she looked so cute.
One of the days it was so warm we headed out to what we call the "rock beach." We were hoping to find some hermit crabs and sea stars. We found THOUSANDS of hermit crabs (that's what all the boys are looking at), but no sea stars. Rhenda also found this wierd shell thing. We aren't quite sure what it's called, but it was alive.

It was low tide so the boys, Wes, and Rhenda all hiked out to this, well, let's see, I guess you'd call it a rock beach. Wes got this cute video of the boys out there, and a cute picture of Bradley doing "thumbs up."
Later that night I looked outside as we were putting the boys to bed and saw a beautiful sunset over the ocean. I see those quite often, and have meant to take pictures so many times, but this time I finally did. Can you believe that is the view from our house?
The boys had so much fun with Mamo and Grumpy here. It was so good for them. They miss everyone in Utah a lot. I really enjoyed the visit too. I could actually take a shower without worrying about the kids! :) We are looking forward to my family coming next week for the 4th.

A Few Pictures

Here is a cute picture of Halley. She loves to sleep. She is so good about falling asleep when she's tired - as long as she isn't in her crib. She'll sleep for hours in her car seat or on the couch, but she seems to wake up every half hour or so in her crib. Grrr . . . By the way, this outfit is size 6 mos. Crazy, huh?
This is one of Bradley giving Halley a bottle.
He loves to be a big brother, and he is really good at it.:) This was a cute moment. Wes and I were sitting and talking and realized the boys were being kind of quiet. We looked around the corner, and they were both sitting reading books together. I love it when they do that!!

California Definitely Stinks

Ha ha ha . . . Wes is funny! He wanted me to put that for the title of this post. This is a video of one of our furry little friends that comes at night to visit our garbage can and recycling bin. You can see it running up the hill in front of our house. Wes wanted to get a closer shot, but he didn't want to take a tomato juice bath.
Tonight he was standing at the kitchen sink doing dishes, and a raccoon came and was opening our garbage can! There are so many little animals running around at night here. And on post, there are tons of deer just standing around all the time. Crazy!

Cute Smiles

This is the cutest video of Halley smiling that we have so far. This doesn't nearly do her "cuteness" justice though. It's hard to capture the feeling of how adorable and happy she is with a video. We were trying to get her to make some noise too. She does her cute "oooohhh" face and coos and gurgles. It's so precious. She just melts my heart. I told Wes I didn't want to post this one because she has yellow on, not pink, and she's wearing old pajamas that Connor wore so I don't think she looks "girlie" enough, but you get the idea. She is dang cute!

Sorry.

Ok, so I am completely exhausted tonight. I took a couple videos of Halley this week, and we also took a way cute video of the boys dancing to "Funky Town," but I am too lazy to wait for them to download and do an extensive post. So, any of you who are checking this regularly will have to wait. Sorry! I will try to get it done tomorrow.
Love to all!