Our Big Birthday Month

 I have to apologize for the lack of pictures.  I was kind of going through the motions at this point.  I didn't want my sons to suffer because my heart wasn't in it.  

So for Sam's Birthday I took him to lunch for his birthday at Chick Fil A.  We, at our house, call it Chick a fil a.  It comes from my grandma so it goes way way back and it isn't going to stop.  He wanted his cousin's Colin and Andra to come along so we brought grandma along and made a day of it. 

 Here are their cakes.  Sam of course wanted Cars 2 and Owen loves Pirates

 Here we are singing Happy birthday.  You would think that with a family full of singers that we would sound so beautiful and harmonize while singing happy birthday but alas no.  We have a tradition that we borrowed from the other Frosts of singing at the top of our lungs in the worst possible way.  It is super fun!  First time we all laughed for fun in a while.

 This is Owen trying to block out the noise.

 And Sam too.

 This is all the birthday's at the Beardall family birthday party. 

I hope someday they will forgive me for kind of half way doing their birthday's this year.  I love them and only want the best for them.  I promise I will do it better next year.

Paying Tribute to My Daddy

 I don't really want to blog about this but I think it will be good for me.  These are the pictures of my daddy's service.  It was a really neat service.  The theme was that my dad loved my mom which I think is the greatest thing to be remembered for.  These are all the pictures and memento's of my dad.  Yes those things you see are in fact records because my dad was in a band!  If you want ask me and I will play you his song.

 These are golf balls.  My dad's favorite thing to do was play golf so we had all the grandkids write on a ball their favorite thing about their "papa"  Sam's said " He likes to push us down"  Morgan's said " He licked our noses".  It was really really cool. 

 I love this picture cause this is what we did for a week or so.  I am so grateful for my family.  I can't imagine not being able to have them close to me.

 The "David Bearers"  I will tell you the story behind this.  When my dad went to his uncle Dale's funeral he was asked to be a pall bearer and he leaned over to his brother and said "Why are they calling us "paul bearers"?  We are Dale Bearers.  So we made sure that these sweet men were known as "David bearers"

 The flowers were beautiful!

 All the Grandkids.  They sang a song at the service.  Ok they cried through a song at the service.

 My Dad's brother.  He has been so amazing!  He has been there for my mom when we couldn't be.  We have been extremely grateful for him.  We are also grateful for my Aunt for letting him take the time away to help us.

 The florist told us before she left the church that when the sevice was done to make sure that we took as many flowers from the arrangements as we could.  So we did!  This is us getting our flowers and stuff.

 We then let the kids get some too.

 This is my cousin Corbin who had been to Disneyland with us.  We let him have some too.  We are nice like that.  :-]

 That night after a long nap we got all the family together and went to my dads favorite restaurant,  The Brick Oven. 

 The Frost's, Corbin, Andrew, and Victoria.  And Miss Mikayla

 More Frost's,  Alicia and Aunt Rosemary and cute little Frost's in the middle.

 My mom's family.  Aunt Shelley, Aunt Susan and Annie, oh and Evan there in the back ground.

 More Frost's, Jamie and Uncle Bif

 My mom's Brother Rusty and sister Gayle and her husband Burt.

 My cousins Holly and Kristy

 Kaci's husband Brad and his Brother (whom we have adopted) Todd and Todd's wife Randy Oh and that's Morgan's back of the head.

Kaci, and Mr. Wy  next to Kara's husband Ryan and the crazy boy's Owen and Stu.  It was so nice to see everyone.  We got to see people we haven't seen in many many years!!!  Thanks again to all who helped, Thanks to my mom's ward for the wonderful lunch and to Aspen Funeral Services for being so amazing and taking such great care of my dad. 

Disneyland Trip

 Well here it is.  My Disneyland post.  When I was thinking about blogging about this before we left I pictured myself feeling a whole lot differently about it then I actually do.  Oh well here goes.  So like I said We started out at Knottsberry Farm.  This is the picture I was talking about where my dad is super pissed off at me.  Not the best start to a vacation.
We mostly have pictures of Sam at Knottsberry because the other rides that the older kids were on were just too too fast!

 We loved Disneyland.  We missed my mom and dad but we still tried to have fun.  The kids on the tea cups.  We have a picture just like this from each year we have been there. 

 We were joined by my cousin Corbin half way through the day.  He was so much fun to have along.  We laughed and just had a blast. This is waiting for the tiki room to start.

 We also have this same picture of the kids saying good bye to Disneyland on our last day.  It always makes me sad that it has come to an end.  

California Adventure.

We also love California Adventure.  Our favorite ride is the Toy Story Mania!  This is us in line.  You can see we were supposed to move.  The lines in January are short so we didn't have a lot of time to take pictures.

 Our second favorite ride is California Screamin'.  Sam was still too small so we took pictures of everyone as they were just about to take off. 

 Sam's favorite thing was meeting Lightning and Mater!

 The kids got to see what it was like to be packaged and sold.  Its a good thing we were in the market for some kids!  They might have stayed on the shelf for years.

 Lego Land 

(Again I have to say totally not worth it!)

 They had tons of huge life sized things made totally out of legos!  These were Owen and Sam's Favorite.

The kids got a little too close to this Lego shark!

 This was our favorite ride here at Lego Land (thats right the super slow boat ride was the favorite)

The kids got to drive their own boats and they drove just like a big boat so there were lots of getting stuck going on.  Which is probably what made it fun, was laughing at the kids trying to get unstuck

 Morgan is scowling because she started off in first and ended up in last.  Not super great at driving this particular race!

 Owen and Morgan got to practice driving!  They stink!!!  They were supposed to follow traffic laws and traffic lights and stop signs.  They all treated it just like an open course.  There were several close calls but thankfully no accidents.

All in all a good time.  I am excited to go back and make new memories.  Next time we are hoping to take the whole Frost family with us!

Going Private

 I have wanted to go private for a while now and things that were keeping me from doing it are no longer a problem.  I will be going private in about a week or so, so if you want an invite to view my blog please leave a comment with your email address.  That includes you Mikayla and Morgan!

I think Im ready

I have decided that I am ready to move out of my winter slump. As you can see I have changed my background to a bright springy background because I think I am ready to move myself into spring.  I have decided to post about our trip to Disneyland and Owens baptism and maybe even my dads funeral.  I feel like I am ready to move on and stop avoiding the happy things that led up to the sad things, and also the happy things that came after.  We will see how it goes so please bare with me.