Monday, June 30, 2008

Newport Beach!




Little, old men relaxing at the beach (:


Little Owey!!

Girls Night Out! Our Last time all together, LoLo leaves on her Mission to Copenhagen on Wednesday!!!!! We Love her!

LoLo...we are going to miss this fun, sweet girl...I mean Sister Brown.

Happy 28th Jeff!! Lauren Made this adorable motorcycle cake for him...so nice of her!

The little boys were so excited to give Jeff Candy...mostly just so they could eat it!


WALLE!! They were so excited to see this cute movie


Every year my family meets up for our family vacation in Newport Beach. We had so much fun going to the pool, beach, hanging out together, eating good food, and just relaxing. My parents are so generous to provide such a fun vacation! Thanks so much MOM and DAD!! We loved being there with you! It was also Jeffs Birthday while we were there. We had a fund day having a yummy breakfast at RUBY's DINER, seeing WALLE, hanging out at the pool, and then having yummy steaks and a cute cake made by Lauren. Happy Birthday Jeff! YOu are such a great brother and friend. I love ya tons! This is also a bitter sweet time cause it was our last time being together as a whole family. My sister Lauren (LoLo) is leaving on her Mission to Copenhagen, Denmark on Wednesday! We are going to miss her so much but we know that she is going to be a wonderful sister missionary. She has such a strong testimony and has such a go getter attitude. The people will love her bubbly, loving, caring, friendly personality. We Love you so much Lauren!! We will be thinking of you on Wednesday when you go into the MTC!! WAHOO for SISTER BROWN!!!

10 comments:

Elizabeth said...

I love your family! You guys are soo cute!

Kristi Kleisler said...

Such cute pics of your adorable family!! And so exciting for your sister. My brother just left the MTC this morning for Denmark!! It is so cool that your sis and my bro are in the same mission! :) My bro has loved learning the Danish language and from his phone call today I can tell he has already gotten a good understanding of it and speaks it quite well for only spending 9 weeks learning it! Yay for Denmark!!! :)

Matt and Jennae Porter said...

How is little Lauren possibly old enough to be going on a mission?!! I can't believe it. Love the picture of you 4 girls... you are all GORGEOUS.

Dani said...

SHELLY! Your family is so cute! I love looking at your blog. You seam to have such fun adventures and I know that just means you must work extra hard. Good job! I have a hard time getting just myself and my ONE boy out the door to do stuff.

Mark and Meghan said...

sounds like a fun vacation! my family needs to start doing that :) i saw on jeff's blog the cute cake and that lauren is going on a mission? crazy!

i love that picture of the two little boys in their beach chairs!

courtni said...

THAT sounds like the fam. reunion we need to go on...if my family ends of reading this comment...NOT 14 hours into the pit of nonexistence!!! No really it'll be ok. Shaun's still looking for a hotel nearby...AHH. Your boys - RIDICULOUS! I just got the report from my mother, she saw them...IN REAL LIFE!!! She's in love. I'm jealous. AND I want to live in your ward. I love Elkie & Shjerstein! & your adorable fam. JEALOUS!!

Mema and PaPa said...

Great Pictures Shelly. Families and the beach are a great combination. I'm so excited for Lauren. She is going to be a great missionary. WooHoo Missionaries. They are the best people ever!!! I hear your husband is heading up the Collins Family Beach Trip this year. Go Jonathan! I love seeing your cute family so keep those pictures coming. ILYT oxoxo

lisset said...

sawyer's face makes me want to die! he is so cute with all of his little expressions! and congrats to lauren- she will be fantastic!!

Kjerstin said...

LOVE these pics! How fun! My family used to do that same trip every year too..whatever happened to that!?! I'm so getting jipped!

Kendyl said...

Cute pictures, I heard you met Kelly Plewe...where did you run into each other?