Trip to LA - New Car - The Past 2 Months

So, first we had an awesome trip to LA, well Valencia, California. We got to spend a week visiting with cousins and aunts and uncles, going to bouncy fun-lands, and Magic Mountain. We celebrated Easter and went swimming. With the exception of some tricky bedtimes and a middle of the night child throwing up in someone else's house, crap I don't know where anything is episode, it was such a fun trip.

So, the day we left we finalized buying a new car. Silly timing, I know, but it just happened to all fit into place right then. We ended up getting a Saturn VUE. It is everything I never knew I wanted. We took it on our trip and LOVED it. Lots of room, but not a boat, and I don't have to bend over to put Livvy in her car seat!

Here are a couple other picutres from our week there.

So, we drove to LA, which wasn't as bad as I was expecting. I think I've said it before, but that Heavens for portable DVD players! Aunt Kari and Uncle Scott got to come for a few days too and go to Six Flags with us. Here are some pictures from Magic Mountain. In some of the pictures she looks terrified, but she actually loved the rides. It was fun for her to have other kids to go on them with too.

So a couple days after we got back we went to the Kite Festival here in St George. Winder Farms had a vendor booth there so we went with Marcus and hit up some rides after. Livvy loved the little train they had.

















Last month we went and visited my cousin, her husband and their baby boy, Jack. We took Livvy and Jack to the Springs Preserve in Vegas and then hung out at their house for a while.













Here are just a couple other random pictures. A few pictures of Livvy being cute. This bag is one I made because I got called to the Primary Presidency and couldn't find a bag that would work well, so I made one. I am just proud you can tell it is a bag!

Why Costco Is GREAT!

Ok, I know I need to post a real post, and I'm going to, I promise. However, I was headed to Costco today so I looked through the coupon book they send each month. They had a coupon in there for Buy One Get One Free seasons of X-Files and Stargate: SG1. We aren't so much for X-Files, but Marcus LOVES Stargate (I will admit it is growing on me to where I will actually suggest watching it.) I figured that since it was a B1G1F coupon the seasons would probably be close to suggested retail of around $50/season. That adds up when you still need seasons 3 - 10. I figured if it was a decent price I would get 3 and 4 for him. So I get there and look at the price. Imagine my surprise when I see they are $24.99 per season. With the B1G1F coupon it made them $12.50! $12.50 for a full season of anything is awesome. So we bought all 8 of the seasons we didn't have. 8 full seasons cost us $100.00 - at the Amazon price, which I usually consider pretty good, those 8 seasons would have cost us $240. Those are the visits that remind me why I like Costco!