Vegas, Baby!

The last day of our anniversay vacation, we stayed a night in Vegas at the Monte Carlo. We spent the whole day walking the strip, shopping, people watching, and enjoying the shows. We met up with Kyle, Emily, Tom, Derick, and Monique around dinner time. We all sat and shared a great big pizza from the pizzeria in Treasure Island and watched the show, sirens of T.I. We had a lot of fun.

Christy's favorite hotel, "The Bellagio"
Nike store in the Ceasar's Palace Forum Shops

Sirens of T.I.

San Digeo Temple

Saturday afternoon, Christy and I were invited to attend our friend's sealing at the San Diego Temple. We were both reallly excited because neither of us had ever been to the San Diego Temple. It was even more beautiful and incredible than we could have imagined. What an awesome temple. We met a bunch of family and friends that were also there to see Sara, Evan, and Braxton get sealed. The Sealing ceremony was awesome. The sealing room was beautiful and the whole experience was just plain amazing. Thanks Sara and Evan for letting us share your special day with you. After the ceremony and all the pictures outside, we all went over across from the temple and ate at a place called island burger. The food was amazing and we all had fun together.

Sara, Evan, and Braxton

Me, Christy, Emily, and Kyle

outside the temple at sunset

Day at the beach in San Diego

Saturday we spent the day at the beach down in San Diego. We started at Belmont park and walked all the way down to the pier. We had fun people watching and watching the waves roll in. We hung out on the pier for a little while watching the surfers and fisherman catch fish. It was very entertaining. We stopped to eat at fat-burger and did some shopping. On the way back, we walked on the beach and collected a lot of neat sea-shells for our kids. We didn't do any swimming, but we did walk out into the ocean and get our feet and legs wet. When we got back to belmont park, we did some shopping in some really cool stores. It was a very fun and relaxing day.

out on the pier

collecting sea-shells for our kids

Christy's "windy hair" shot

Anniversary in Disneyland

This year we celebrated our anniversary in Disneyland. (just the two of us, no kids) The weather was perfect, the park wasn't too crowded, and we had a blast. There were a few times when we missed our kids, but for the most part, it was nice to just be us and do what what we wanted to do.

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Carter's Baptism Day!

What an awesome weekend! I remember when Carter was just a baby and thinking that 8 years was such a long time away. Well, it sure came pretty fast. Carter has been excited to be baptized for a long time. He has always loved primary and he has always talked about being baptized. Well, Saturday he was finally baptized. Carter had lots of family and friends that came to be with him on his big day. He is one loved little boy! We are so proud of him and love him so much. We really couldn't ask for a more loving, caring, and tender-hearted little boy. He has always been such a good big brother to his two little sisters, and such a good example to all of us.

Carter & the girls being silly

Our handsome "Baptism" boy

Dressed in white

The whole Call Family

Carter and his "awesome" Baptism Cake

Carter and his Great-Grandpa Dube'

When Carter grows up

I take Carter to school every morning and usually he wants to talk about hunting. The other morning he says to me. "Dad, I'm having a hard time deciding what to be when I grow up." I say, "Well, what do you want to be?". He says, "A professional hunter, or a professional skateboarder, and a firefighter." I say to him, "Well, it is hard to make money as a professional hunter." He says, "Well, I guess I will just be a professional skateboarder and a firefighter." I just laugh, and say ok Carter. You can be whatever you want to be. I tell him if he wants to be a professional skateboarder, though, he better get practicing. I love having the opportunity to take him to school in the mornings. He says some of the funniest things, and starts my day off right.

I love my girls!

I took this cute picture of my girls yesterday. I feel pretty lucky to have them in my life. I love my wife and kids sooooooo much.

Calee and her new panties!

We have started talking to Calee about going "big girl potty" We bought her a cute potty book at Deseret Book. We are going to let her pick out a girlie potty seat. The other night we were at Gymboree and she picked out a bunch of cute big girl panties. When we came home she wanted to put all 5 pairs on over her diaper. She wouldn't let us take them off. Last night she was wearing all of them over her pajamas. She doesn't quite get it yet, but at least she is getting excited about it.

Carter the Cub Scout!

Carter has always been excited about becoming a scout. He has enjoyed helping Christy's dad in scouts and going on campouts with me and our boy scouts from our ward. Well, this month he turned 8 and became a cub scout. He is lucky to have his mom and our neighbor Amanda for leaders. He has already earned his bobcat award. This thursday night was the blue and gold banquet and he was given his bobcat award. It is fun to see him get so excited about scouts. I loved scouts as a kid and I look forward to doing scouting with Carter.

Happy Valentines Day!

We had a fun Valentines Weekend together as a family. We gave the kids each a new webkinz and each a bag of their favorite candy. They each wore something red for Valentines. You can't read the whole thing, but Carter's shirt says, "The Ladies love me! We bought it at Old Navy and at first he was embarasssed to wear it, but after awhile he thought it was cool.

My Valentine Girls!

Nerf Gun Wars

This weekend Carter and I decided to play a game of Nerf tag. Well, in the mean time, Christy and Cambree had gone downstairs and loaded up on Nerf guns and ammo. They came up blasting and before we knew it, we were having an all out Nerf gun war. Darts were flying every which way. The girls thought they could beat us, but it didn't take too long for them to give up. We had a lot of fun running around the house shooting each other. Our house was covered with Nerf darts by the time we were through.

Calee and her binky

So, the funniest thing happened today. Calee has been binky free for a couple of weeks now. Yeah, the first few days and nights without it was a little rough, but it has been smooth sailing ever since. Well, today we all pile in the car to go to church, and we are backing out of the garage when we hear calee say, "Look, mom a binky!" We turn around to see Calee sucking on one of her old binkys. We both shouted in out in complete horror.... Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Christy quickly plucked it from her mouth and hid it. Apparently not all the binkys got thrown away. Calee was completely heart broken all over again. She was still sobbing when we walked into Sacrament meeting. I quickly handed her my I-touch to play with and that made her happy again. That was a close one! Hopefully she doesn't keep finding them as time goes on.

Happy Birthday Carter!

Carter turned 8 years old this weekend. Friday, February 5th was his birthday. He was up bright and early wanting to open birthday presents. This year all Carter wanted was Nerf guns, airsoft guns, and any other toy that was a gun. Oh, yeah, he also wanted more Legos and Bakugans. He was a happy boy when he opened up his presents and discovered that we had given him a new fully automatic Nerf gun and buckets of ammo to go with it. He wasn't as excited about all the new clothes, although he did like all his new fox racing t-shirts. I asked Carter where he wanted to eat for his birthday dinner, and he chose his favorite restaurant, Bellas mexican restaurant. So we had a fun birthday dinner party for him that night at Bellas. Between lots of family parties and a fun superbowl party yesterday it was a very fun weekend, and Carter told me that he had a good birthday. It is hard for me to believe that he is 8 years old. He is so excited to be baptized next month. He is such a good boy, and we just love him so much! Happy Birthday Carter bub!