Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Ringing in the New Year

Time for a new year! 
January and February of 2023 were very busy with Shrek rehearsals, recitals, Tanner's ordination to the preisthood, and more!

Playing in the canyon with Owen...
More activities at the family search center...
Shepherd's pie in the skillet...
BYU basketball game at San Diego State...
Taking pictures of meals so my kids and I would remember the meal plans...
Church basketball for Tanner (number 22 in red)...
Mini recital at my home...
First time Tanner ever played drums for other people sitting and listening to him as an audience and he was pretty nervous and didn't want to do it, but did a great job!...
Buying new shoes...
Eating out with grandpa Papa...
GOlfing with grandpa Papa...
Tanner's ordination day! Both grandpa Zavoral and Grandpa Papa were there!
Right after that, I hosted a big recital at the church...
Tanner playing drums for the grandpas.
Sarahlynn and her dad...
Seeing Padres field with Grampa Z...
More shoe shopping?? Tanner really likes new shoes...
Jeremy went to a food show. It's a whole cultural thing in the grocery food industrty and really cool taht he gets to do these as part of his job...
Working on make-up for Shrek. Dallin got to be the practice dummy for the kids to learn how to do reindeers...
Tanner got to do temple baptisms for the first time! It was at the San Diego Temple at night time, with me and Jeremy, doing family names. Such a special time.
More new shoes!?
Church linger longer...
Sharing a school project/presentation...
Students learning to read and write music notes at school...
Jeremy helping hang up sets for Shrek...
Look at our huge sunbeam class with 10 kids...
Dallin and I watching some video...
Eating at de Luka's on a Saturday. We were doing a "build day" for the play sets and costumes, and then ate out...
After school rehearsal, all these kids came even though it was optional for them! 
Dallin had fun taking random pictures around the house while Jeremy took on all the house work, cooking, and parenting while I was doing Shrek...
Pillow silly boy...
February arrrived with lots of pressure. Tech week and show week and major time crunches!!
All the grandparents came to see the show! My parents loved it so much, they came back on Sunday to watch the matinee even though they had a plane to catch. Here they are playing a game with the boys...
Here we are on opening night!!! 
As soon as the show was over, I tried to chill. It was a huge recovery process. Luckily, I could take the boys to the zoo. 
Who is this cool kid at the zoo? Dallin...
More splash pad fun at the zoo with our friend...
The red panda was so big and beautiful...
Boys jamming out. Dallin loves playing Dr Dre...
Primary lesson with a craft. I think it was teacher council meeting, and my presidency taught the kids an extra lesson while the teachers got some trainging...
I don't know why all these boys were at our house, but a lot of them were Shrek kids. Now that we didn't have rehearsals, they could all chill...
Trip to Tijuana...
A great way to spend your vacation...
Very fancy Air BnB room, and also very cold!...
Really fun brazillian restaraunt in Tijuana...
History museum...
Ajilote at the aquarium!! (aka axilotl)
Street fair...
More kids hanging out at our house made us feel pretty cool...