So the day before Mother's day, our aunt Anna Hall came down from California with Linc, Hari, and new baby Marle. (See here for Anna's blog post about Utah...) We spent Saturday with them, and then they came to church with us... Hari is like the perfect little angel! He just sat there on the bench with his Book of Mormon in his little lap, looking cute and perfect. He showed Robby up in terms of reverence. (Here's the cool part... I think he rubbed off on Robby!) Then Mom held Marle for the whole time, and it was very interesting... A couple of people did double takes at her, others were fawning over the cute little baby, and Mom was loving the attention. :D

After that we drove up to Brigham City, where we spent the day with Grandma Hall. Also there were Megan and Bobby Porter, and JoElle and Josh Derieg. We had fun, we ate lasagna, we rolled pigs... (Pig Rolling post on Megan's blog) Megan is due to have her baby boy pretty soon... That should be exciting.

I got Mom and Grandma little ornaments with phrases on them. They really liked them. I like these moments when I can show my mom how much I love her, even if sometimes I don't feel it on a day-to-day basis. I still really appreciate her.

The second.

Sorry I haven't been posting, I've been doing homework.

Just thought I'd make an announcement- My Uncle Geoff and Aunt Anna just had their new baby last night. Her name is Marlene Hall, named after my grandmother. (Geoff and my Mom's mom.)

As my mom says, they're not as cute when their brand new...

Congradulations! One of my mom's (and Geoff's) sisters, Megan, is also pregnant, and I believe she's due in the next few months. So new cousins! Yays!

I'm Finally back from California. I had a blast! Before I start telling what happened, I want to say THANK YOU to Grandma, Grandpa, Tami, Traci, and everyone else who helped make this happen.

Okay, so day one, Friday, we drove up all day. Boring. Tedious. I did finish my Ender's Game homework though. And I played Gameboy a bit. And that's about it. We got to Tami's late that night and talked about what we would do, and Connor showed me all his stuff and the house and all, and that's about it.

Here's Connor's Office. Don't we all wich we had a space like that?

Here's their Dog, Teddy. Named like the Teddy from the Magic Tree House series

Day two, Saturday, we went to Sea World. It was awesome, and we went and saw all the shows, including the Pet's Rule show and the Sea Lions Tonite show, which made fun of all the other shows, but I didn't get pictures of those ones.

We saw the Sea Lions beg for food.

They were really funny.

And we saw the Dolphins

(It's looking right at me...)

And then we saw the Dolphin show.And the Polar Bears.And the Beluga Whales

(He's Glowing!)

And we saw the Shamu Believe Show. That was cool.

We went on some rides.

And to top it all off, we saw Shamu Rocks. It was this big light show with music and Killer Whales!

Next Day, Sunday, we just hung out most of the day, went to church, all that good stuff. After dinner I went to see Geoff and Anna and Lincoln and Hari.

It was hard to get good pictures of the two.

Big Happy Family!

Next Day, Monday, we went to the Zoo! You already saw most of the good pictures from that, but here's a few I wanted to add:

The Cool Hedge out front Tami and Connor

I call this one "A Long Days Work"

And aren't these the cutest?

I'm just weird like that.

This is funny
Tami's ward does every other FHE at the beach, so we were able to go and do that.And I got pictures of the beautiful San Diego Temple.

And I'm going to end this post right here because it's getting to hard to manage the whole thing with all the pictures.

It's official- I'm going to California! I'm so excited. I'm going to visit my family in San Diego with Grandma and Grandpa Norris. We leave Friday Morning, but I think I'm going to their house Thursday Afternoon. So I might not get to blog for 2 weeks, but I'm hoping I might be able to once or twice from California. I'm going to see Tami and Traci and Connor and Ian and Colin and maybe if I'm lucky Anna and Geoffry and Linc and Hari! Yay! Sorry, I'm rambling....