Gimme A Break!!

We were all excited for Spring Break this year!! A whole week off from school... Okay so maybe I was dreading it just a little bit!

We decided(Ok I decided) that we were going to go somewere. Our first choice was Yellowstone
but it would still be too cold this time of year we headed off to the next best place...




Salt Lake City.
Yup you heard me right. And Yes you can be jealous. We went on "vacation" 40 minutes away from our house. We did the tourist thing and ended up having a great time.

The first day we toured the Mrs Field cookie Plant
and the Sweets Candy Factory.
After our sugar high leveled off we headed to Kennecott! It was a really big hole. :)
The kids loved to watch the huge dumptrucks and diggers working.
We had to have the stadard picture by the BIG tire.
Then back to the hotel for SWIMMING! Safety First :)


Friday we started the day off at The Living Planet Aquarium,
followed by a ride on Trax for our train obsessed nephew.
Wowza there are some "Special, Scary, Strange" people who ride trax.

We got off at the Clarke Planatarium were we checked out the sights and visited a few different planets
before watching a 3D movie. This is were I found out that popcorn and my nephew Bryce don't mix! Okay so Amber found out!! :) After another eventful ride on trax back to the cars.
We headed back to the hotel for more swimming.


Saturday we headed to Logan and took in the cheese factory, pepperidge farms, did a little (or a lot) or shopping and of course more swimming!
The dads were starting to get "swimmed out". I didn't know that was possible!

We headed home on sunday, It turned out to be a good break!!

Goody Two Shoes....

I never thought I would be this excited about a person who has two shoes on!!

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But I am giddy! So is Ryan- He hasn't wore two shoes since November! Ya you read that right- 5 Months!! Almost half a year!! Oh the thing we take for granted!

Happy St Patricks Day.......

............From out 3 Lucky Charms!!!









Baby #3 coming August 25, 2011!!!

{ 7 }

Karden Turned 7 on the tenth of March!! He is no longer a little kid he is starting to look like and act like a boy!
He woke up early and was so excited to be 7! He got to open his presents from mom and dad and Whitley before school.
The fact that he couldn't play his new DS game until after school about killed him! He was super excited to take cupcakes to his class and after school he had his "Friend Party!!"
He decided to go to nickle city and play laser tag!
It was an awesome place for a birthday party. There was probably only about 15 other people in the entire place besides us. That helped alot with my stress level. I didn't want to lose someones elses child! But it was easy to keep track of the boys!! They played games to their hearts content and then they played some more.

and had pizza and pop.

We played laser tag
( and yes the boys ran full speed for the full 15 minute game) When they came out of the room they were all red and hot and sweaty and smelled like little boys. ( ya know that dog smell) It was funny to watch them.
Ryan thought it was fun to hide behind a barricade for the whole time and sniper them. Really Ryan- Whose the adult! :)
After we cooled off with cake and ice cream and presents!!
WOW- He got spoiled!!!!
Then to the dreaded ticket redemption center-
oh how I hate that place- It seems as if they always want the toys that cost 3,000. tickets and they have 120. But after showing them what they could afford they all chose a flute(A heartfelt apologies to the other moms) and some other junk toys!!

It was a great night!! The best part- NO CLEANUP!!! Now that's my kind of party!

Happy Birthday to my favorite 7 year old! Love ya Buddy~~

Another one bites the dust...

.............. okay so make that two!!



Karden lost both of his front teeth in a weeks time. The first on has been loose forever and I have threatened on many occasions that I will pull it out if he doesn't , it was just hanging there and he could move it with his tongue- Gross!
The second one I didn't even know was loose. He was at the neighbors house and his tooth came out and he didn't know what to do so he just put it in his pocket. Luckily it was still there when he remembered the tooth fairy needed to come.

He looks a little like a hillbilly, but still a very cute hillbilly.

Feeling the love!

Valentines day turned out pretty eventful this year.

First project: Operation Valentines box. We (Okay Me) decided we were making a robot. Because I may be a tad sentimental and had a robot valentines box when I was in first grade. So we got to work and it turned out pretty darn cute if you ask me. Karden decided it was TOO cute and that it needed angry eyebrows. ( boys!)


Last night I was also awakened at least every hour by a certain boy telling me he was going to throw up. So the job of bowl holder, throwup cleaner upper and putting back to bed took up my whole night. ( oh yeah the 6 year old was also up all night with the stomach bug) :)

So all day today this is what the two boys did!
What a life if you ask me. Because we all know the manflu is SOOO much worse that when mom is sick.

Karden was so upset when he realized this morning he could not go to school! With big alligator tears he told my how excited he was to go to his valentines party! It broke my heart. So I packed up his box and his valentines for his classmates and took them to school for him. We picked them up after school and he was ecstatic about all the valentines he got!! It was worth it!!


Whitley and I cleaned the house, goofed off,
and went and picked up our Valentines dinner. The boys got soup!! If you are too sick to get out of bed you are definatly too sick to eat pizza. Ha ha!!


The girls also feasted on yummy treats that the neighbors brought!!


I did get these.. Which made the day alot better.



And a valentines card from my cute Dad!!



We decided to give the kids there valentines present and they have been loving dancing to "Just Dance Kids!" I think someone has even forgotten that he is sick!


It really was a low key day but it turned out good. What more can you ask for.

Lord......

... Please grant me the patience to deal with my blessings!!




Today I'm going to need it!


Thanks- Megan