adventures with christine

My sister Christine is home from the summer and so we have decided that we needed to go on alot of adventures while she is in town. She is home for the sumer working at the Napa Valley Opera House. The NVOP put on a concert at Mondavi, a winery, featuring Smokey Robinson . It was wonderful. Its just in this big court yard and everyone brings yummie food and lawn chairs. So to sum it up I ate cheese, bread, grapes, cookies, and other yummies, while sitting in a beautiful vinyard, chatting with my sister, and listened to Smokey live. I have such a good life. It was a blast and i'm sad that the summer concerts are over for the season. Thanks christine!! You have the best job ever :)

The next adventure was going to San Fran to ride public transportation. We rode the ferry in.
Christine knew the caption and he let Noah help him drive the boat.
And blow the big horn. He thought that was fun.
After we road the ferry we went on the metro and our adventure turned into a food odyssey. We took the BART into the mission district to find ice-cream. We have no pictures of BART, because well its BART and its yuckie and the stop that we took was probably not the best part of San Fran and I already felt like we were a walking target. Two girls, two kids, pushing a stroller and holding a baby.

Back to the ice cream. We went to this place called BI-Rite. I had heard about it on the food network. It has all these crazy flavors like salted carmel, and honey lavender, ginger, ect.. see below. Well they are very nice and let you try all the flavors. We told the lady we were on a food odyssey and she was so excited that she was making us try all these fun flavors. It's in the hippy district so you get to try all the ice cream on real spoons, but they are very eclectic. Anyways we ended up getting a Sam's Sunday. It's chocolate ice cream, with olive oil, sea salt, and whip cream. SOUNDS WIERD- but oh so good. We ended up walking over to a park and eating it while enjoying the SAN Fran sun. What a wonderful day in the city. We are going to make the adventure again :)

Kevin's birthday 28 on 28th

Since it was kevin's golden birthday I (Alix) decided to through him a surprise birthday party. We invited a bunch of people from the ward and my family came up. He was almost suprised. Thats a bummer. It was fun. We had cake, ice cream and even a Pinata. My two sisters came up early to decorate. We had balloons everywhere and Sarah made 28 signs that said happy 28th on the 28th.

I wanted to have the movie Up from Disney be there theme of the party, but it is still to recent and they didn't have any decoration. I am still on the look out for a kevin bird from the movie.

That is kevin's present from me.

We also got a pinata. Here is a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0EBwGzGVpM

more videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/wil99081#play/all/uploads-all/2/2zofBGFbuSY

http://www.youtube.com/user/wil99081#play/all/uploads-all/1/zrAlZkndn-0

http://www.youtube.com/user/wil99081#play/all/uploads-all/0/hIFEURlnCfU

lake Powell

We once again made the 990 mile adventure to Lake Powell, which is in southern Utah. We had a blast!! The week is all about swimming, boat, and bonding with the family. This is a Frye Family (Alix's family) tradition.

Enjoy the pictures and movies. They are in a funky order- but you will get the idea.

This is the definace house which we walked up to. Its a old native american home. We told noah we were going to an indian house and when we got there he asked where is the indian home and we said this is it. He was not impressed.

inside the house boat

John and Noah on the boat. Noah was not a big fan of the boat at first and would always complain that it was too bumpy or that we were going to fast. He would say " slow it down" then my siblings thought it would be funny to have him say "slow it down for all you lovers out there". He liked it at the end and would help drive even.

This was just a pretty picture. The colors didn't turn out quite right. The sky was so blue it almost looked purple. Just the family swimming. We did a lot of swimming, it was HOT!!
Baby Preston in his boat coat and ready to go swimming.

Sarah and Grandpa Kevin on the wave runners. LOVE the hat dad!!
Noah's fish that he caught. He was very excited and not scared at all. He wanted to go swimming with the fishes.

The house boat had a slide. Noah loved the slide.
What a bunch of studs.


Noah is helping grandpa Kevin drive the big house boat.
It was 112* one day and we spent the entire day in the water, Preston included. His uncle John was playing with him.

Fish On!!! Thats what you say when you catch a fish. Noah was so excited to go fishing. He even caught a "kitty" cat fish.

That is the view from our boat.
At this is our boat. Summer Haven
Some video's.

Washing DC

Fathers and Sons

It is a tradition to go on Father's and Son's and Kevin got to take Noah this year. They went with Alix's family because Kevin was going to be gone the weekend of our ward's. The boys had a blast. Noah loved sleeping in a tent and using the outside restroom. Oh the joys of a two year old boy!!No Preston didn't get to go to fathers and Son's this year but i thought it was a cute picture of two studly boys

What a good group.

At the Lagoon

Alix and Noah went off to the Lagoon one day and decided I should come as well some evening, so last week we went. It was crazy. We got out of the car and about 200 ducks and geese came over. I have never seen so many and not scared at all. I mean right in your face trying to get food. I tried to throw some food so they would go after it, but they just waited for me to give it right to them. Eventually, we had to escape and they chased us. In the process of throwing them bread as they chased us, I chucked my phone, so I had to go in the middle of them and get it. We finally got far enough away that Noah could play on the truck they have, but he wanted to feed them, so the second we fed one, about 20 came over, but at least the whole group didnt as they couldnt see us. Noah had fun and they are very aggressive, so it was good he could be in the back of the truck as they will fight to get the food. Even the little birds showed up, it was crazy. There are well over a thousand geese and ducks and if you go any where near them with food, they will attack you for it! It was fun though and Noah liked it although he does get scared when they charge him. Here are a couple of videos as well on you tube.

Noah Jumping

Feeding the Geese

Preston Swimming, well Kinda!

For Family Night, we were invited to go swimming with friends. It had been very hot for a few days, but of course it cooled down to like 95 on Monday. By the time we got there that evening, it was down to like 70 because of the shade, but the pool was very warm so Noah and I had a blast. Preston of course decided sleeping was more fun then getting in the pool with his brother and dad, kind of like his mom. She just decided to chat with all her friends and never got in even though it was warmer in the pool then out on the chairs. So, Noah and I jumped off the diving board over and over again. I drenched all the kids with large splashes which unfortunately they enjoyed and wanted me to continually do it again. I guess my fat body comes in good for something!

The photos are of a toy Preston got so he can lay down and do something. As you can see Noah likes to help! The other pictures are of Preston ready to go swimming with a hat. I believe someone gave us the swim outfit, so Alix made sure to get it all on. He always smiles now, but I never had the camera, so for most of you this would be the first time to see him smile. He is a happy baby although he does like to be held quite a bit. Sometimes he wont care for hours and then sometimes he wont sleep and just wants to be held all day long, so thats life. As I take more pics of him smiling I will get him on. If we can get a video of him laughing as he does that as well, I'll put it on for you!

Life

As now life as settled down a little bit I (Alix) thought I would post a few pictures of what we have been up to. Kevin and Noah went to Father's and Son's camp out and had a blast. Noah thought that camping was a blast. When he woke up he said "did we have a sleep over". He has been asking to go on more camp-outs. Besides running around, Noah spends time with his trains. He has also picked up the joy of reading. I am so proud of my little boy . Enjoy!! 

Dont forget to watch Noah reading

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0_fgsQfSRc