BYU-Idaho

We made the quickest trip up to Idaho on Labor Day. Ryan's parents and sister Aly came up to go see the BYU-Idaho campus before it is snow covered when she starts there in January. Our little family decided to tag along. I haven't been back since it was at Ricks College. The new Rexburg Temple is a beautiful addition. Ryan was excited to go on a behind the scenes tour of the huge new conference center that his company built. It won't be open for a couple more months. A ton has changed, but still a million memories came back!

Bear Lake 2010

Bear Lake is a favorite annual trip for Ryan's Davis family. We got to spend 2 days boating, playing on the beach, playing games, golfing, cutting both boys hair (yeah!) and of course lots of eating!

We went down to the lake the night we drove in.

Tate showing Nana Davis some treasures he found

Sea shell hunting with cousin Melanie

This boy can't stay clean with that much sand and water around

The main cabin

Ryan took the car for a drive to the lake.

He may have gone for a drive IN the lake too!

I never took my camera out on the boat. Ruthie loved tubing, even after being submarined by a wave! Ryan tried wake surfing this trip.

Thanks for another year of Bear Lake memories!

Camping

We went camping for a night in the Uintas with some friends of ours. It was beautiful, and we had the whole place to ourselves. In other words, it was just us and the mountains, no potty! :)

The roast masters
The kids loved roaming free

On our way home we took a drive and found some amazing wild flowers. Too bad we were not exactly dressed for portraits!

Summer project

There always has to be one or two projects going on at our house. The big one for this summer was our back patio. Ryan worked hard to clear the weeds, rocks, and grass to prep it all.

Some guys from work helped him frame it.
Other guys from work helped finish it and stamp it.

Pre-sealant
The finished product! Now we can add patio furniture to "the list"!

Beach and Baseball

We spent the day after Disneyland playing at a beach right by Laguna called Salt Creek. It was a nice hot day, perfect for splashing around.

Ryan and Fred did some boogie boarding

Ruthie thought she should try it too

I hope these two are friends for a long time. They have so much fun together!

A little beach pow wow with the kids That night we went to the Angels/Mariners game. Ryan thought it was high time Tate went to his first MLB game!

The night ended with an Angels win and even fireworks!

Disneyland!

The kids just had their first Disneyland experience and LOVED it!! We went with some fabulous friends of ours from Arizona and their 3 kids. It was a whirlwind trip and fun, fun, fun!
We were at the parks from 8am to midnight. Just wanted to get our money's worth!

Tate was so excited to see Woody and Jessie he gave them both hugs and kisses!

This is It's a Small World, but Ruthie rode all of the big rides too. Her very favorite was Splash Mountain. She went twice and rode on the very front, arms up in the air!

We all loved Astro Blasters with Buzz.

My 'R'uthie

Of course the princess in front of the castle

Tate took a good snooze while I took Ruthie to the Princess lunch

The 2 princesses off to the lunch. Ruthie had to wear her Cinderella costume and have her hair done like Cinderella for the lunch. Too bad the only princess not there was Cinderella!

Ariel

Aurora


Snow White

Jasmine

Belle

Our princess group-plus one little prince! We had a great lunch date and the girls just soaked in all of the princess fun!

Tate of course loved Lightening

and Mater

We had to keep an eye on these 2 holding hands all day! What is this a date!? :)

Winnie the Pooh for the littles while the bigs went on Splash Mountain

We ended the night watching the new World of Color at California Adventure. It was very worth keeping the kids up so late to see. I forgot to take pictures of it, just some video. Trust me it is amazing!