The Anderson Family

They day that we got home from California, my cousin, Brandt, and his family came to visit us. They have 4 kids that are similar ages to my kids. My kids absolutely love having them come to visit. We had such a great time and it was so good to catch up with them and spend time with them. Since we saw them last they have adopted a little girl named, Meron. She was about 8 months old when they picked her up in Ethiopia. She was an absolute doll. My kids loved her so much and each of them have separately come to me and told me that we need to have another baby, just because they loved playing with her so much. Ty and Lane got along with Taylor and Brenden so well. Shelby is just a few months older that Josie and they were instantly friends. Shelby even said on the 2nd day that they were here that at first her and Josie were like cousins, but not they are more like sisters. I thought that was so cute. They were exactly alike. It was so fun.



We took them up to Park City and went on the Alpine Slide. It was alot of fun. My kids haven't done that since they came out to visit about 7 years ago.

Get ready for Disneyland picture overload. Sorry, I really did pick the best ones from a ton of pictures. As you will see, there are very few pictures of Taylor and his friends. They went off on their own most of the time so I didn't get very many pictures of them. They had a blast together!

We couldn't be in San Diego and not go and see the temple there. It is so amazing. At first the kids didn't want to leave their friends who were swimming and go to the temple, but once we got there I think they were really glad that they went. It is so beautiful.

We had a blast eating out at some fun restaurants. The kids loved eating with their friends and trying new food. We ate at the Outback, Dave and Busters, Rain Forest Cafe, Tortilla Joes, ESPN Zone and other fun places. Most of the food was pretty good.

The baseball part of our trip was alot of fun. We played some really good teams that were way bigger that our boys and they looked like they were at least 14. We got killed in the first game and we lost the 2nd and 3rd games by only 1 run, so we had a good tournament. The teams were really talented. We played at a baseball park in Bonita, California which I think is within minutes of the Mexican border. I didn't take alot of pictures at the games, I think I was too worried about where all of my kids were all of the time. California is definitely not like Spanish Fork, Utah. I had to watch them a lot better than I do at the games at home.


We all wore our Blaze t-shirts. Josie totally loves her shirt and wants to wear it all the time. It was really fun.

A part of our trip that Taylor was really looking forward to was watching a MLB game at Angels Stadium. It was his first MLB game that he has ever been to and it was a lot of fun. I think that we all enjoyed it alot.