August 2008

August started with a trip to New York with Jeff's family. We left the kids with my parents and took off for a busy weekend. We had so much fun in spite of missing flights and running from terminal to terminal trying to catch any flight we could. Seriously! Well it's because we fly standby. We went to LAX on a Thursday night and missed 2 flights so we crashed at a nearby hotel and got up early the next morning to try again. We were going to try one flight and at the last second changed our minds and tried a different one and thank goodness we made it. Our flight was long especially since we didn't even get to sit next to each other. So all there really was to do was play the in flight trivia game which as you can see by the pictures I was the ultimate winner for the day!!! I am very proud that I know a lot of random junk. Just kidding, I don't really know anything, it's all about the guessing. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. What was not fun was sitting on the plane for an hour and a half or so after we landed. Ugh! Like sitting on the plane for 5 hours while in the air isn't bad enough, we had to sit there and wait for a people mover to come get us because they didn't have a gate for us to go to. We were stuck on board with a bunch of stressed out people that had to make connecting flights. Any way, we made it and saw Mary Poppins that night. Then Saturday we went to the Angels game at Yankee Stadium. This was really the purpose of the trip, to go to Yankee Stadium before it is demolished. Boy did we ever get the full Yankee experience with the constant badgering from the fans and the foul language. Oh and on the subway too, we almost saw a brawl between a girl who wouldn't let this guy cut her off in line. It was hilarious. We did a lot of walking around Saturday and just tried to see all that we could in our short visit. We came home on Sunday and actually spent many hours at JFK trying to make flights. Oh and then we finally make one and sit on the plane for like 2 hours before taking off. Just a tip, don't fly into and out of JFK it's awful. I'm sure LaGuardia is way better. It just has to be.
Cameron turned the big 1 on the 9th. We spent the day at the beach, which he mostly slept through. He got 2 parties this year. One at my parents house and one at Jeff's parents house the following weekend. Jeff's cousin got married up in Salt Lake so he and Cameron went for the weekend. He's walking all over and starting to run now. He's a lot of fun.
We had another big weekend toward the end of the month with my family. My niece Ashlen was baptized on Saturday the 20th and then Sunday my nephew Zachary was blessed. It was a fun weekend and Emmalyn loved playing with her cousins.