Family Vacation

Our whole family came to visit us in California for Porter's baby blessing. I thought it would be fun to update everyone on what is going on with the Barker/Stanger/Loveless/Smith family. Steve and BreeAnne still live in Chicago. Bree is an ICU nurse and is working on receiving her bachelors. Steve is working for Blue Cross Blue Shield and is also working on his Masters. They still have their dog Guss and their cat Mino and they have added a new addition another cat named Newt. Bronson and Megan got married in March. Bronson works for my dad and Megan does home health care. They are living in the house that Ty and I use to live in. Cortney, Brooke, and Kenzi are all doing well. Cortney works for the city and Brooke works for Wells Cargo. Kenzi will be 2 in just 2 months. Brigette is going to be in Jr. High this year and Braxton will be in 3rd grade. My parents are very busy people. My dad is still building houses and my mom is still doing hair. So that is just a brief update on everyone.

Gilroy Gardens

On Saturday we went to Gilroy Gardens. It is an amusement park that also has some gardens and it is in Gilroy. Thus the reason its called Gilroy Gardens. Most of the rides are made for little kids, so Landen had a blast there. To be honest we all had a blast there. We went with our friends that also have 2 boys that are the same age as our 2 boys. I think Landens favorite thing to do their was driving the cars around. He took Ty on a ride then he came back and took Brigette and me on a ride. While he was driving Brigette and I around their was another kid driving a car coming for us and Landen looked at me and said those are crazy drivers. It was so funny! Gilroy was really hot compared to Monterey. When we left Monterey the fog was still in and it was probably only 60 degrees. Once we got out of the fog and into Gilroy it was 75 degrees. By the end of the day it had hit 90 degrees. (I know we shouldn't complain about that weather compared to what the weather has been like in Utah, but it was so hot compared to what we are use to.) To cool down we went and splashed around in their water park area. It was really just an area the size of a church gym with a slide, (not a water slide, just a plain old slide) some water guns that were attached to a fence, some buckets that when they filled up with water tipped over, and some water that shot out of the ground. We all had a lot of fun there!

Landen and his friends

Yesterday we had both of Landens friends over. They had a lot of fun together. He is really going to miss them. In the picture it goes Landen, Christian, then Kaeson. The other picture is of Aiden and Porter. Aiden is Christians new baby brother who is 6 weeks old. Landen gets really excited when Aiden comes over. He tells Porter that Aiden came over to play.