We love Parks

We love going to parks. The kids have so much fun and can play for hours.

  

About a month ago, we met some friends at a park.  We took our picnic lunches and stayed for quite a while.  A few other kids came for a little bit, but mostly our little group were the only ones at the park.  The kids loved the playground.  The girls also loved playing with the wood chips.  I suppose it's better than sand.  We can't wait for several more park days this summer.

Happy Baby, Damon and Sarah

 We threw a baby shower for my niece-in-law, Sarah.  She is married to my nephew, Damon.  We had a great turnout and they received a lot of fun gifts.

We had so much fun decorating and making yummy food for the shower.

The table turned out so cute.  The sign on the front says "Baby Boy *insert last name here*". 

Cute Sarah. 

Congrats Damon and Sarah!  I can't wait to meet your cute little guy.

Last Bowling Day

Lucas had his last day of bowling for the season on April 21.  It was a lot of fun.  They did cosmic bowling.  Since it was the last day, we decided that they whole family should come.  My parents also came.

   

The girls loved the lights and dancing to the music.  Lucas had also gotten some game cards from the lanes earlier in the year.  After he was done bowling, we went and played games.  He was able to earn tickets and then bought some dinosaurs with them.  He was in heaven.  Later in the day, they had an awards ceremony and he got a bowling trophy.  He loves trophies, so he was super excited.  

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the fun bowling season!

Girls Night Out Pedicures

A bunch of my girlfriends decided that it would be a blast to all go get pedicures together.  So we got together one evening and went to Cameo College of Essential Beauty for pedicures.

All of our lovely toes, post pedicures.

Enjoying our pedis.

I love this group of girls!  They are amazing women and amazing friends.  We had such a fun time talking across the room and relaxing.  The fun didn't end at Cameo, we moved our party to Village Inn and talked the night away. 

Millcreek Center Grand Opening

On April 11 we went with my mom to the Grand Opening of the new Millcreek Center.  It is a rec center, senior center and library, all in one.  It is amazing!  What a great facility.  Since my mom is retired from SL County library, we spent a bunch of time visiting and doing some fun activities in the library. 

They had a bunch of characters roaming around.  Lucas loved them.  Eva was ok with them.  Emrie hated them.  She cried.  I hate to say it was funny, but it was.  This library is amazing.  They have a lot of little areas and nooks to read in.  They also had thousands and thousands of brand new books.  Lucas was so excited to check out a bunch of books about dinosaurs.

The kids had a bunch of fun making a craft.  Lucas got to play with a Pinocchio marionette puppet.  He loved it.

The kids were all in love with Princess Amerah!  I have never seen the girls hold still and listen to a book for so long.  It was adorable!  I am so sad that the picture with her turned out blurry, but I still had to post it.

Ogden Eccles Dinosaur Park

Since Lucas loves dinosaurs so much, Ron decided to take a day off work and we went up to Ogden to go to the Dinosaur Park.  It was a perfect day.  The temperature was great, not too hot and not too cold.

 We had a ton of fun walking around and looking at all of the dinosaurs.  Lucas also enjoyed listening to us read the facts about them.  We were so excited to see the Maiasaura, which is my favorite dinosaur. 

I had previously purchased some adorable dinosaur clips.  I was so happy for the girls to have somewhere fun to wear them.  Lucas also had to sport his T-Rex shirt to go along with the dinosaur theme.  What a super fun day!

Happy 90th Birthday Grandma!

Ron's maternal Grandma is our only living grandparent.  She is the only great-grandparent that our kiddos have ever known.  On April 7, we went to her 90th birthday party.  It was at a church in Provo.  We spent the afternoon having fun with a bunch of Ron's relatives.  We are so happy that Grandma is still in our lives.

Happy 90th Birthday Grandma!  We love you!

Happy 9th Anniversary

We decided to start our anniversary early this year and head up to Logan the Thursday before.  We stayed at the Anniversary Inn and went to Le Nonne for dinner.  The dinner was quite yummy!

Our room was amazing!  It was Juliet's Balcony.  It was HUGE!  We went to start a bath that evening and weren't getting hot water.  We called the front desk and they weren't sure of the problem.  They let us decide if we wanted to move.  We decided to move, so that we could have hot water for baths and showers.  They were pretty booked, so they didn't have a lot of their really nice rooms available.  We moved all of our stuff and were getting settled and they informed us that the hot water was fixed and working again.  So we decided to move back to our original room.  It was a pain and about 1 1/2 hours out of our night, but they gave us a gift certificate to use for our next stay, for our trouble.

This is the room that they were going to move us to.  It was nice and big also.

On our actual anniversary, we celebrated by going to Bambara for dinner.  When we arrived, they had our menus printed with a special anniversary message on the top.  It was so cute!  The food was amazing!  For an appetizer we got Blue Cheese Chips.  All I can say is AMAZING!  We also got salads, main courses and a Creme Brulee sampler for dessert.  The sampler had tangerine, mexican chocolate and pumpkin flavor creme brulees.  Yum!  After dinner, we walked up to City Creek Center to look around.  It is a beautiful shopping center with a lot of fun stores and restaurants.

The past nine years have been a dream come true.  I can't wait for several more wonderful years together.

St. George Fun

At the end of March we made a long weekend trip to St. George with my sister, Stacie's family.  They were going down to watch Angelina in a volleyball tournament.  We decided to go along for some fun.

When we first got there, we had to make our annual trip to Tiki Island Broiler.  It was yummy, like always.  The kids had fun playing in the fountain.  I normally wouldn't let them play in it, but we were going right back to the hotel, so I didn't mind if they got wet.

On Saturday, we went and watched Angelina play volleyball at the park.  It was fun.  She is a good player.

By the time we decided to go swimming, it was pretty chilly, the kids did not care though.  They had a blast.  We did spend a lot of the time in the hot tub.  The girls had fun getting out and jumping in and letting Mike and Stacie catch them.  

Since Lucas has been really into dinosaurs lately, we went to Dinosaur Tracks at Johnson Farms.  It was kind of a waste of money.  It was quite pricey to get in and it was more for adults, with a lot of reading.  I thought it was really neat, but Lucas wasn't super impressed.  Eva was being a little stinker and didn't want to hold still for any pictures and just wanted to run away.  They did have a really cute gift shop though, with a lot of fun dinosaurs.  Maybe we should have just stopped at the gift shop and called it good.

Eva was super tired after then dinosaur place and this is how she fell asleep in her port-a-crib. 

We went to Anasazi Steakhouse.  It was so much fun and so yummy.  They bring your meat out on a lava rock that has been heated in a kiln to 700 degrees.  Your meat comes out raw and then you cook it to your liking.  It was such a fun restaurant.

Of course we had to go to Judd's and get soup and breadsticks.  So before the ride home, we headed there.  It was packed.  We were lucky to get a seat inside.  What a wonderful ending to a fun trip!  Thanks Mike and Stacie, for letting us tag along on your trip.

West Jordan Park

For Playgroup we met our friends at a park in West Jordan.

This park is so much fun.  It has a little Western Town that the kids can run and play in.  They had so much fun!

The kids love to swing, well most of them.  I am such a mean mom to make Emrie continue to swing while I took her picture.  She is just not a fan of swings.  She has a little bit of a chicken side to her.  That's ok, we still love her.  

Even the girls backs are cute!  I love that they like to be with each other and do things together.  Here's hoping that this lasts and lasts.

Everything Green

Our St. Patrick's Day started a few days early this year with a St. Patricks Day party at Playgroup.

We had fun eating all green food, playing a race game with a big chunk of gold (balloons) and finding a pot of gold that was left by a leprechaun.  Playgroup is always a good time.

On St. Patrick's Day, We woke up to some really fun things that the leprechauns had brought us that night. 

We went to Burger King for lunch.  They were serving green ketchup, just for that day.  Everyone liked the green ketchup just as much as red.  After eating, the kids had tons of fun playing at the play place.

That evening, we had an all green meal.  If the food wasn't green, it was in a green bowl.  We had green alfredo with noodles, salad, pineapple and green Jello salad.

Park Playing and Forward Facing

Now that blogger doesn't post saved drafts for the day it was created, it looks like my posts are months behind from when they actually happened.   :(   It is true, I am taking a while to put them in.  This post was mid-March.

We love to go and play at the park.  We went and met some friends at Orem City Park.  They had so much fun playing.  Eva is quite the dare devil.  She likes to climb to the highest slide and go down head first.  Lucas had fun catching her.  Emrie likes solid ground and had fun running around the poles.  The kids had fun playing with their friend, Lily.

We got to change the girls to forward facing after their 2 year appointment at the Dr.  It was close, Eva only weighed 20 lbs 3 oz.  Emrie weighed 30 lbs 2 oz.  Emrie was a happy camper and loved forward facing.  Eva, not so much.  She was a little concerned.