Well...it is a bitter sweet time for me right now. Mom and Dad have decided to FINALLY move to Utah! I am so excited to have them here with us, as well as Heather and Nickolas. They have bought a beautiful home in Draper and will only be about 10-15 minutes away now! So, I had to use this as an excuse to travel to Cali to have one last good look and stay in the home I spent most of my childhood in. We moved to La Palma when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I spent many long homework nights there, had many friends over to visit and stay the night, my 16th birthday party was there...you get the picture. Anyways, I know I am sappy, but I had to have some closure. It was a relatively short trip compared to the ones I usually take when going home. We were so lucky to have Josh be able to come home with us this time, but it limited us to only 8 days. So, as usual we spent our time running around visiting family and friends. We were able to overlap with Paul and Karla's trip home and spend a day with them as well. It was fun to have everyone under the same roof. Braxton had his first experience in a swimming pool...how appropriate for it to be the one I grew up with! He loved it. We met Grandma and Grandpa Crawford at the beach and walked the pier to get some chili fries and a malt at Ruby's. This too was a first for Braxton, I'm so glad he got to experience a little bit of the beach. We of course had to spend a couple of days doing some "tourist" things, so we spent two days in San Diego and hit both the zoo and sea world. The boys loved it, and it was fun being outside and spending time together. Enjoy the pictures of our fun little vacation!
Braxton loves to get his brother. His giggle is so funny whenever Trenton is around!
Daddy helping Trenton touch the bat rays.
I love to watch little hands at work.
Classic Shamu picture!
Trenton and Nickolas had a great time in the water fountains!
Trenton dancing to the Sesame Street show!
We took a ride on the sky cab at the zoo and when we got off Trenton came running down the ramp screaming "That was awesome", "Totally wicked man". Needless to say, we had to get on again!
Nickolas got pooped on as we walked thru the Aviary. It was really kind of funny...but he didn't think so!
My sweet little boy in his silly little hat. Whatever works to keep him protected right!
While we were there we watched Miss Brenda play silly tricks on Miss Catherine.
Miss Catherine played jump rope, and Miss Eleni tried to do the hool a hoop! The kids each got a turn to walk the tight rope. 
They then sang some songs and danced as they sang.
Trenton was pretty sad when it was time to leave because he loves going to school and seeing all his friends. Plus, he knew he would not be attending this Challenger campus again next year due to our move. 
But, he perked right up when we went on our last "date" after school and he got to feed Braxton his lunch! Braxton enjoyed what he actually got in his mouth, and of course, Trenton had to see what it tasted like too!
My cute cousin Jenn is having a baby!
So, Hollie and I threw her a baby shower. I love to see the two of them pregnant. Last time we took a picture together was at Jenn's wedding and I was the prego one!
We had a nice get together, the food was yummy and it is always fun to see cute baby girl things!
We are so excited to have Violet Ione join our family!
We have been very busy getting our new home ready for us to move into. My last entry told the story of how we ended up in our new home. We are so grateful to have a bigger place for our family and are so excited to get into it. The front flower bed needed some much needed help, it just had ugly red ground covering on it with a very cut back, none blooming rose bush. So, we tried our hand at a little planting and put some flowers and plants in. We have had comments from the neighbors that it looks the best than it ever has before...not that it was hard to make it look better than the red cover!
In the back I am so excited to have a garden area. A little late in the season, I still wanted to try and get some things planted just to see what happens! So, we have a couple of tomato plants, watermelon, basil, zucinni, oregano, and maybe some pumpkins. To be honest, it looks kind of pathetic when you look at it...but it was a rushed deal trying to just get some things in. Trenton even got in on the garden thing and we got him his own gardening bag with tools. He likes to fill up his water bottle and go out and water the plants for me! This entire planter was just filled with weeds and other odd things. It took us a whole day to get it cleaned out, but we are glad we did it.
Josh has been very busy on his garage. He is so excited to have all of his millions of tools in one place and to be able to come home and work on his hobby of wood work. He has built himself some shelving to help get himself organized and built a workbench for himself as well. He is giving his side of the garage up for this and will have to continue to clean the snow off his car in the winter. Me on the other hand...don't touch my side of the garage...I HATE the snow!
We decided to two tone the entire home, so we have been very busy painting. It has not been an easy task and we will be very happy when it is done. Mom and I picked out paint while she was here and when it went on it was really dark. So, Josh threw some white in it to tone it down a bit and we went to work. It is still a little darker than what a normal two tone would be, but we like it. It feels warm and cozy. Trenton has enjoyed helping the process move along. Braxton has not enjoyed being there everyday, but he does like to get into trouble and tear up the paint tape and rip up the newspaper!
Trenton helped Daddy paint the kitchen and wanted to make sure he didn't get paint on his clothes!
He then wanted to make sure he got a turn to help in his room! 
Trenton also had a good time decorating his bathroom. We went to Target to pick up some things and saw they had some cute bathroom decor. So, he went with the Monkey theme and got a cute toothbrush holder, soap dispenser, trash can and bath mat. He loves that he can get up to his sink all on his own.
