Spy Training School

This weekend we had a Spy Training School Sleepover Party with our nieces and nephews here in Illinois. The fun started a week earlier when we gave them special invitations.

When they arrived at our house, they each got to choose a spy name. Then we learned how to be spies! We had a balance beam, bombs, lasers, observation and a final test. The final test was a set of clues that guided the spies back through all of the fun things we had already done. At the end of the test, they became agents.

Next we watched Spy Kids and ate spy candy. Then it was lights out! The next morning we ate waffles for breakfast then watched Spy Kids 2. It was a fun party!


I must give credit to the internet. It gave me ideas and I adapted them to fit our party.

Twice the News!

We are very excited to announce that we're pregnant!!

From 2012-02-05 Pregnancy Announcement

With TWINS!!!

The twins are currently 14 weeks old and are due on August 2, 2013. We are officially 1/3 of the way through the pregnancy! Because we're having twins, the pregnancy is considered high-risk, meaning that the doctor keeps a closer eye on us. For us, that means monthly ultrasounds! Here's a few of them:

7 weeks

From 2012-12-17

10 weeks

From 2013-01-07

14 weeks
This ultrasound was particularly fun because the babies were moving around. They're positioned side by side with their heads next to each other. They must already be having a good time!


Our 14 week ultrasound was a little early to be able to tell genders. We'll have to wait until our next appointment at the beginning of March. We are so very excited and feel so blessed to be growing our family and become parents!

California to Illinois

Oh Man! It's been a long time! Since the Air Show at Miramar, we had a wonderful Christmas with the Eggett Family. Dad, Mom and Kimberly drove down from Utah, and we all met at the Johnson's house. It was SO much fun watching Elise's kids play with all of their new toys!

From 2012-12-25 Christmas

Just days after Christmas, we had movers at our house packing up all of our belongings and both cars - starting our yearly move. This time, to Illinois. We had such a wonderful year in San Diego! We miss our friends, the weather and all the fun things (definitely including the beach) to do there!

Although we were very sad to leave beautiful San Diego, we were/are excited for our next adventure. It's true, the weather here does NOT compare to California at all, but we are lucky to be living close to a lot of family! It has taken us some time to get settled in and unpack all of our boxes, but we're finally ready for the debut of our new home! Enjoy the slide show!

San Diego Scene 8

This past weekend we got to experience a really awesome Air Show. It is the largest air show in the USA, and it's here in San Diego! The Miramar Base puts it on, and it is amazing! We planned on taking our own chairs and sitting in the free section for the afternoon and evening shows. But it didn't take long in the afternoon show for us to realize that we were missing out on a lot because we couldn't see the "main stage." So we purchased tickets for a seat in the stadium for the evening show. The night show ended with fireworks and the wall of fire. They did a wonderful job on the fireworks, it was a very good show! Much better than the firework shows that San Diego City put on for the 4th of July!!!

The Hunger Games Party

We never went to the movie theaters to see The Hunger Games movie. It's just to dang expensive! We decided we'd wait for it to come to Red Box. But then we found out that our good friends, Gabe and Leslie had pre-ordered it! So we started planning a Hunger Games party! After they put Brooklynn to bed, we broke out the Hunger Games themed treats that I had made and were about to start the movie when there was a knock on the door. It was the missionaries. Needless to say, they were jealous! We all chatted for a bit, then they headed on their way and we started our party!

We discovered that a lot of this food wasn't shown in the movie. You had to read the book to know about this food :)

We took some of the pictures at our house before we left, but we had to put some of the food together once we got to the Smith's house.

San Diego Scene 7

We have often driven by Torrey Pines. The area where Torrey Pines turns into Del Mar is one of our favorite beaches to take a walk on because of its beautiful cliffs. But today we decided to do some hiking in Torrey Pines. As we drove in, around 10am, we noticed the most beautiful boogie boarding waves we have ever seen! We wished we had our swimming suits and board with us and we would have ran out to them! But since we didn't, we just decided that we need to check out the websites telling you about the size of waves before we go out boogie boarding next. Hopefully that will help us pick the ideal beach for that day and time that we're going out!

Anyways, we took a hike through Torrey Pines. Although there was slight ups and downs, it was a fairly level hike. But because we're in the middle of a heat wave (we're in the 90's!) it was more than a leisurely stroll; plus, I tried to keep our pace up so that it was a little more difficult :)

When we first started hiking I kept telling Ammon, "This is just so beautiful! The colors! Look at the red rock and the blue-blue ocean! Wow!" Ammon didn't have as much enthusiasm as I did for the beauty of it all. I couldn't figure out why he wasn't taking more picutres and "ooo-awww"ing like I was. Then, I took off my sunglasses and realized my sunglasses must have some kind of tint in them. It was still all beautiful, the colors just weren't as vividly beautiful. I laughed and told Ammon how my sunglasses were making it more beautiful.

Kimberly, the last picture is for you!

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