"LA Dodger's Mormon Night"

This past Friday, we went to the LA Dodger's Mormon Night. It was a lot of fun. There were a ton of stakes represented there that night, here was ours!

A Mormon musical group sang the national anthem and they also had a few Mormon guests they welcomed. Our favorite was Elder Quentin L. Cook of the 12 apostles.

Elder Cook threw out the first pitch!

Coulson kept asking me all day when it was time to go to the baseball game, he fell asleep on the way there, poor boy. He was so excited!

We went with our good friends the Christensens.

The boys... enjoying the game!

We were so impressed, he sat there the whole time and watched the game.

After the game, they had fireworks we stayed and watched.

My biggest baseball fans!

They let the fans go out on the field and watch the fireworks. It was pretty cool to go out on the field.

Brownie Batter!!

Someone likes brownie batter like his Mom!

Yummy!

LA ZOO!

My awesome friend Stacy and her little girl, Shylie have a LA Zoo pass. With their Zoo pass, they can get in one friend every time they go. They are so kind to let Coulson and I come along with them. We usually try to make it to the Zoo once a month. Coulson loves it every time we go! We have gone 3-4 times and so I thought I would post some of my pictures from our different visits.

On certain days, they have a petting zoo open. He loves that!

These two kiddos are best friends and love going to the Zoo together!

Huntington Beach

A couple weeks ago we went to the beach with a couple of our good friends, The Thomas' and The Christensens. We had so much fun and can't wait to go back!

Shylie and Coulson diggin in the sand!

Both families that we went with were both born and raised here in California so it was nice, because they taught us all the cool things to do at the beach. For example; to dig in the sand and find sand crabs! I love that all the boys were diggin for them. Boys will be boys!

Coulson loved them. I was surprised that he held them!

My little beach baby!

Coulson asks everyday when we can go back to the beach. He always says, "remember the beach and the sand, water, and crabs."
I have a feeling we will become regular beach-goers!

Independence Day 2011!!

We had a really fun Fourth of July this year. It was filled with of lots of enjoyable activities and friends! It is always fun to experience the Fourth of July in a new town!

We started out the day with a local hometown parade...

Shylie and Coulson-best friends!

We watched the parade with our good friends the Thomas'.

My favorite part of the parade, I felt like I was back in Rupert for a minute!

Coulson loved the little Shriner's cars!

After we watched the parade, we had lunch with all our friends and then hit the pool, since it was 100 degrees that day, literally!

That night we went to dinner with all our friends and then went to the park to watch the local firework show.

Coulson was in total awe!

It was a really good show, they had lots of fireworks I had never seen before.

We had a palm tree in our view the whole time to remind us we were watching fireworks this year in California!!

We hope you all had a wonderful Fourth of July like we did! We are so grateful to be living in such a beautiful and choice land.