Planes, planes and more planes!

So we have been keeping an eye on the cool planes that have been practicing their tricks, for some time now. Today we got to see them right here in town, not too far from our house! The kids were very excited to see them. There were so many planes, mostly small ones. There were one-person planes, bi-planes, ones with double propellers and even some from the Navy and Marines.

My favorite would have to be this one! We got to see it land and taxi right in front of us!










Second runner up, for my favorite, would be this yellow bi-plane, it just looks cool!










Adam was very nervous when the planes would start up and then taxi right in front of us.

Cory thought this was funny!

This was one of the bigger ones that had a jet engine instead of a propeller. The kids had fun ducking underneath the wings of some of the smaller planes.

Easter time

Well we had a wonderful Easter this year. Megan was baptized the day before and we had family all around us! My parents came to visit us on Friday the 10th and stayed until Easter Day, around noon. Maiya and Papa gave the kids fun buckets of Easter goodness! Megan also got a bunch of cool presents for her birthday from them. We all had such a great time, even Adam warmed up to them really fast!
















The kids got their Easter buckets on Saturday morning from Maiya and Papa and then on Sunday morning they got even more yummies from the Easter Bunny!









Megan and Jonny play "Littlest Pet Shop" game with Maiya and Papa. I think Papa came in first!

Later, after church, we drove over to Cory's parents house and had a wonderful ham dinner!! Thank you Pam for the delicious food! And of course afterward we had to play one of our favorite games... Hoopla!

Megan's Baptism

April 11th, 2009 1:00pm at the Chester Road building in Tracy, California...
Megan Nicole Patten was baptized by her father Cory Michael Patten. Megan's Grandpa (Papa) gave the opening prayer, her Grandma (Maiya) was the chorister and her Aunt Christy gave the talk on baptism. Cory's dad and mine were both witnesses to her baptism and were there to give her the gift of the Holy Ghost. We are all so very pleased with Megan and her choice to be baptized!

Those who were able to make it were: Grandma and Grandpa Patten, Aunt Christy, Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Kathy, Papa and Maiya Thelin. We had a wonderful luncheon afterwards at our house.









Megan got a set of new scriptures from Cory and me and a beautiful necklace from Grandpa's cousin Doug Patten.

Ethan is "Amish"

We were driving in the car to go pick the older two kids up from school. We drove onto an overpass that was high up and Ethan exclaimed "Amish"! I figured out that he was trying to say Awesome! So when anything is awesome, we all yell Amish!Another thing that is "Amish" is Ethan trying to potty train today! Last night he kept taking his diaper off and trying to pee in his little potty. So this morning I dug out some old undies of Jonny's (sorry if this grosses anyone out) and put a pair on him. We had more accidents in his undies than we had pee pee in the potty, although he did go pooh in the potty this morning. After I had started, there was no turning back, and I wondered what I had gotten myself into. I hope he is as easy as Megan and Jonny was when they potty trained. Jonny was the easiest, to my surprise, he didn't really even need to be trained, he was totally ready. Megan was the best at not wetting at night. I am a little worried tonight because Ethan kept trying to get his hands on more water to drink. I kept telling him that it was enough, I turned around and found him drinking more water from a cup that was in his room on top of the dresser! I'm gonna go and get some more underwear from the store in a few minutes so we'll have a ton on hand. Fingers crossed that this whole potty training thing takes on with Ethan, after all he is "Amish".











Ethan trying to pee last night and Ethan wearing big boy underwear today!