Monster Movie Night

Grandpa started a new tradition in our house called Monster Movie Night. What we do is tell mom and dad to leave, and then we spend the evening with Grandpa Cavanagh. He finds a really scary movie for us to watch. We eat lots of junk food, candy, and soda. We love it. We look forward to having monster movie night with Grandpa. He has found a lot of scary movies in the past year. Austin didn't like the black and white ones. Ok, it's hard to find scary movies that aren't rated R. Sometimes Grandpa falls asleep during the movie. Then he starts to snore really loud. Payton has to nudge him every once in a while to wake up. We love you Grandpa!

Riverwalk Park

We discovered a cool bike trail only two miles from our house. It follows the river and is connected to two parks. We drove to the bike trail and then rode our bikes the rest of the way. It was beautiful. I'm sad that we hadn't discovered it sooner. Eastvale has so many new parks popping up all the time. We had a really fun time just casually riding our bikes. Well, I had a casual ride. The boys continued to fight over who was in the lead.


Riverwalk bike trail leads into the park. Behind all the brush is the river.


The saucer swing was a big hit! We played on it forever.


Austin climbing the rock structures.


This is Payton on our second bike ride. He was so tired. We rode two miles to the park and two miles back. His little legs were giving out on him. It was really windy and the wind was blowing against us on the way home. Besides that, we were going uphill. This sounds like a story my parents would tell. Payton's chain also fell off two times. His brothers kept telling him he was too slow. I think it's amazing that he could go so far. He's only 6! Way to go Payton. You're my tough little boy.

We Love Babies!

We have an obsession with babies. We are surrounded by them everywhere we go. There are tons of babies at church. And we have a lot of little cousins being born every year. In the past year we just can't stand to be away from our favorite babies. So I decided to show our top eight choices(in no particular order)! The kids even told Tom and I that they wanted a baby sister. Wow! Don't girls have cooties? Well, we'll just have to enjoy the babies around us because I don't think the Cavanagh's will be having anymore babies!


Keilani-We were first mesmerized with you. We kept asking mom when we could go to your house and play with you. You are so adorable. We love to follow you around, and sing the Wiggles songs. You have us wrapped around your little pinky.


Lucas- Your smile melts our hearts. Everytime you smile it makes our hearts full. Maybe someday you'll let us hold you without crying.


Stone- Austin and you had a bond the instant you met. He couldn't believe how smart you were. You were speaking in complete sentences when you were a baby! We're glad you're in our family. Now we have something to look forward to at the family parties.

Our Favorite Babies (continued)

Ezzie Hunsaker- We loved seeing you at the family reunion. Your little sound effects were adorable. We tried to decipher the codes.


Sawyer Simpson- We love to follow you around the house. You run so fast! We enjoy watching Elmo with you and only you.


Shae Hunsaker- We cherished every moment we had with you in Chicago. You were so adorable and bald. Now that you have hair, we don't recognize you anymore. Uncle Mark had to regulate who was next in line to hold you. We had several fights about that! Too bad you didn't like being held.


Asher Hunsaker- We are so sad we haven't even met you yet. If you're anything like your brothers, we'll love you just as much! I guess we'll have to force ourselves to go to Hawaii to see you in person. Aloha.


Madison Sage- We're lucky enough to see you every week at church. We love you because you're such a roly poly. Austin adores you. He can't wait to see you each week. He was so sad when you cried while he was babysitting.

Harlem Globetrotters

We went to see the Harlem Globetrotters. They were playing at Ontario. We went as a group with Brandon's Basketball team. They were really funny. They kept doing all these amazing stunts and shots. Brandon appreciated it the most because he knows how hard it is.

Las Vegas

We went to Las Vegas for our vacation in February. Who would have thought that there would be rain storm after rain storm in the desert? It never rains in Vegas!


One of the days in Vegas, we got the all day pass to Gameworks. Yeah, all day to play video games. I opted out of that one. The boys loved it (including Tom). They used their pass until it was almost expired 11:30 p.m.


Despite all the rain, we were able to go four-wheeling three times. We found a great spot just north of Vegas called Nellis Dunes. There were a lot of trails and hills. My favorite part were the sand dunes. Payton didn't like them because his tires kept spinning. We don't have paddle tires. He couldn't get enough momentum to make it to the top of the hills.
Unfortunately there was a lot of mud that we tried to avoid. Brandon managed to get completely covered in mud in less than 30 seconds. Thank goodness it's sandy mud. It brushed off after it dried. Tom fell on his quad which wasn't too great because he just had knee surgery two weeks before! I just goes to show that women are better drivers! He just doesn't want to sit around. I took a picture of his purple shin and ankle. It looks ugly. He wouldn't let me put it on the blog.


New York, New York Hotel


I've never ridden on sand before. It was so smooth and pretty. No rocks or trees or bushes in the way. We were right next to Nellis Air Force Base. We could see all different kids of jets doing flight patterns.