Family Update...It's about time

It has been a busy, fun-filled Summer at the Button home. And the fun isn't ending anytime soon, or the busy for that matter! Here is a little of what is happening in our neck of the woods.



Dave stays busy with work and his church calling. He has helped to move about a hundred families in or out of our ward this summer. Good practice since he gets to move our family next week!

I am busy with children and playing in the sunshine. I love the lazy days of summer and am a little sad to see them end. Summer goes by faster every year! I am preparing to start teaching a preschool in the fall and am very excited for that. I also get to work with the 12&13 year old girls at church and I love them!! I got to see many great friends this summer also.


Kelsi is starting 4th grade soon. How did she get so old?? She kept busy this summer swimming and playing with friends and cousins. She is too smart for her own good, loves to read and never stops eating. She is also the greatest big sister ever!


Our sweet Andrew bug is starting Kindergarten soon. We just found out today that he gets to have the same teacher that Dave had...she is just a few years older now. He is our thinker and LOVES anything having to do with Mario or Luigi. He spends his days completing levels by doing different tasks. He is also the greatest brother ever to his sisters!


Kayli has entered nursery at church and is almost to the point she doesn't scream for an hour when we drop her off. She is learning to talk and we all spend our days trying to figure out what she is saying to us. She is in love with her blankie and her thumb- which was cute when she was a tiny baby, but is not so much anymore. Any advice on how to stop a thumb sucker? She loves her big brother and sister and spends her time trying to do whatever they are doing.


We are a happy (and busy) family!!

MEXICO...Part Cinco!

Here are some random pics of our fun times on the ship.

Have a mentioned how much I adore this man?? I do! Isn't he handsome?

Here is all of us with our trivia medals and trophies. We dominated.

If you have been on a cruise before you know that at dinner you are assigned a table and eat there each night and have the same wait staff. Our ladies are both from Indonesia and they were awesome.

Yes, we are TP'ing a door. When you don't drink, sometimes you need to make your own fun. And we did know the people!

SCUM. Need not say more. Except maybe that when we ended the ladies were in first and second!!

Dave on the waterslide. It was so windy, it made it very cold up there!

Second Formal Night

Our old husbands playing shuffleboard

Beautiful Mandy. Thank you for making us go on this trip!!!!

Have you ever played miniature golf in the middle of the ocean? We did! It was very windy and I thought maybe it would help me out but I was still horrible.


Every second of this trip was awesome and Mexico is eagerly anticipating our return. Soon, hopefully very soon. I heart you Mexico and Carnival Cruise Lines!!

MEXICO...Part Cuatro

La Paz!

We had to ride on a little boat for 90 minutes to get to our SCUBA spot...Los Islotes, where we were going to swim with sea lions. See the smile on my face? I was so excited.

And then I got in the water. It was so cold! Even with a wet suit I was shivering so bad and I couldn't get my buoyancy right. It had been almost 4 years since the last time we did SCUBA and that was in a hot spring. Way different than the ocean. Do I look terrified in this picture? I made Dave hold my hand the whole time, cause I am a big baby. But I did it. And he still loves me :)That is a sea lion in the corner, swimming by us. They were very friendly. Crazy Mandy was playing with them.

This is the beautiful beach we ate lunch at after the dive. Umm, can we just stay here forever?? It was so beautiful! After we ate the boys went on another dive while us girls stayed up in the warm sun.

Heading into La Paz on a bus. The town was about a 20 minute ride from where the boat docked so they had complimentary shuttles for us. The town wasn't that fabulous...or we just didn't walk far enough. The beaches are beautiful there, though.

A beautiful cactus at the Port of Pichilingue.

MEXICO...Part tres

Mazatlan!

This town was not as pretty as Cabo, at least the parts where we went. The men made us walk through yucky parts but we finally found the market. I was on a mission to find some real authentic mexican vanilla. It took some searching to find some and get a good price, but mission accomplished!

On the way to the beach

The beach in Mazatlan. We got there at about 3:30 and people were all packing up and heading home.

We all got some pretty necklaces on the beach.

This little old man drove us back to the boat. We got there just in time, we were the last ones on the boat! I can't believe that there aren't more car accidents, drivers are crazy in Mazatlan!

MEXICO...Part Dos

Cabo!! This was probably my favorite place and I am already trying to talk Dave into returning as soon as we can.

This is the beautiful sunrise outside of Cabo. We are beautiful, too!

We survived the zip lines and had an awesome time. I did run into Mandy and almost killed her...but she is okay now. They also served the best nachos ever. Seriously. I am going to return there just for the nachos!

These are some of my favorite people! After spending the whole week together I think we are still good friends :) This is them riding on a boat because one of them did not want to do something very fun.

And that fun thing is...Parasailing!!!

Back on the boat after sailing through the air. Can you tell we loved it? While up in the air we saw the resort we want to go back to!

MEXICO!!!

Our wonderful friends, Aaron and Mandy, talked us into going on a cruise with them. We planned for months, thinking the week would never come. When it did, we had the greatest week ever! Thanks to our fabulous parents for watching the kiddos at home, you guys are awesome.


This is what we drove through to get to the airport. We were not going to miss that crazy weather! Hello, Mother Nature- it's April! Enough with the snow already!

Here we are boarding the Carnival Spirit in San Diego. Sooo excited!!

We got on the boat as soon as we could so we had time to explore and of course, start eating. Here we are on deck overlooking San Diego.

We won a digital scavenger hunt...but not only did we win, we got the highest score ever! We rock. We also won a trivia contest and were awarded ONE ship on a stick trophy. Great, right? Umm, no. All four of us were on a team and we did not want to share that trophy. So, we spent the rest of the week trying to win trivia again, except our luck ran out after that first day. Finally one of the ladies told us if we looked over her new scavenger hunt she was doing we could get another one. Yay!

This is the first formal night. We had lots of fun dressing up!! Isn't Dave hot?

Out of the Mouth of Andrew...

We have been working with our children on learning the Articles of Faith. (These are short little statements that help us share what we believe with others.) It is important to Dave that the children learn what they mean when they say things like this, instead of just memorizing words that mean nothing to them. I think it's working because this happened in our house the other day:

Kelsi was told to put her folded clothes away but she didn't want to so she pretended not to hear me. I told her that she was in trouble and then I told Andrew that he was also in trouble because he was her sister and if she was in trouble he would be too.

He looked at me in complete shock and said "But it says that men will be punished for his own sins, not his sisters!"

I almost died laughing when that came out of my little boys mouth.

FYI- The 2nd Article of Faith reads: We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.

Maybe our children are actually learning something from us!!