oakland trip and the fourth of july

ok this is proof that derek DID have a fourth of July1 he was at the junior olympics in Atlanta Georgia for volleyball all week!! but he flew in that night and did sparklers at home cause he wasn't at the...

PARTY!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!! every other year we have a birthday/fourth of july party for uncle mark. it's really fun!!!!
this is toni pretending to be Harry Potter with a sparkler lol

me with my CUTE cousins Sean and Dallas :)

Jenae havin' lots of fun in the pool

I rode a GO KART!!!!!! AAA!!!!! it was crazy. I rode it in the STREET!!!! it was nuts and really fast hahaha NO HELMET! ooh so illegal!!!!

this was Mark's cake! he was fifty so they made a cake of the united states! it was so awesome!

Mark's first glimpse of the cake :)

Uncle royce with grandma and grandpa hansen

lol my face is priceless haha my mom took this picture of me talking to brother pender lol and muhaha i was making a face at something he said..

jenae and tawni are crazy lol

OK!!!! so now about the oakland trip. The penders have some awesome family near oakland with an AMAZING house. So last year and this year we went to the oakland temple for youth baptisms. It was AMAZING and so cool! i did'nt many great pictures because it is SUCH a great huge building!!!!
this is a statue in front of the temple.

ok derek actually took this picture of mom. he wanted credit.

oh my goodness i LOVE this picture! the sky is so blue! and the light is shining RIGHT on the temple!!!! that's NOT a digital effect! it really was shining right on it like that.

i love our young men! they are such studds!!!! and i love they're white shirts! they just look so cool walking infront of the beautiful temple.

our family :)

the whole group :)