Sunday, October 12, 2014

April

April started out with some April Fool's pranks. I convinced Brian I think about 70% that I had left with Charlotte to go to Utah. It was an all day effort, I even moved my car, but he came home a different way and saw it. Oh well. I also gave the kids "brownies" (brown "e's") and jello drink. Spring showed up a little, which is always nice.


Even though we weren't there to celebrate, my Dad turned 60 years old. So sad we couldn't be there. I had worked hard on a photo video for him and we were able to watch and be part of it through webcam. Love him!




 The girls had a mother daughter activity which was fun. I'm grateful to have such sweet girls who are a lot of fun to be around.













Spring started showing up, which I always love!


 We had our Easter egg hung and just as we were ending it started raining. The kids wouldn't give up until all the eggs were found, so they came in a little wet.


 Always a little creative play making going on. I love it!


 Our first completely solo Easter. Kind of made me sad, but it was still a wonderful day. We are so blessed to be able to have such a wonderful meal and so grateful to our Savior and his sacrifice and that he was resurrected, as we too will be one day.


 Caroline tried out for the talent show by doing a dance. She did a great job and even though she didn't make it, she said she did her best and was glad she tried out.









March

March was a busy, but fun one for us. Brian and I decided to try out a wood working project. Since we don't have a porch for a porch swing, I figured we could do a swing for under our deck and that would be wonderful as well. So we built it in one day. Super fun.


We took a super fun trip to Grand Lake. I usually like to get a warmer trip in the late spring when there's still snow, but this time we went into more snow. It was a blast though. We all had a great time. We walked the strip of stores and stopped in a few times at the candy store. The man there also made glass figurine and a few of the kids got one. We even got to put in a special order and watch him make it.
We had fun staying in a "cabin" where the kids all slept in a room and Brian and I slept out on the pull out couch. We had a fun day tubing down a good sized hill. Cooper and Caroline were really good at riding the sled down standing. They had fun trying that out and they all had a good time riding the tube down and Brian pulling them back up!





We took a little drive up the mountain, as far as we could go, which wasn't too far. It was beautiful with all the snow. I'm not a fan of being in snow, but it can make something beautiful and peaceful.





Elizabeth tried out her first play, The Wizard of Oz, and loved it. She did fabulous! She memorized all her parts and did good with projecting her voice and different expressions. She was anxious to start another one as soon as it was over! She played Auntie Em as one of her main rolls. She had a few other minor parts as well.





Cooper turned 7! Crazy!



Cooper finished basketball and Liz started soccer
 

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

February

The only good thing to do in February is build a snow fort. If you're gonna have snow, might as well play in it right? Brian spent several hours building a snow fort with the kids and they LOVED it of course!
 

Took Elizabeth's 11 year old pictures. She's looking too grown up for my liking, but still beautiful!



And loved this face of Charlotte's!

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Phone picture post



Because I am so far behind, I've just got to catch up. It's July and I'm still trying to catch up from January. It's important to me to keep this up and record the memories we've made and special thing we've done so my kids will have record of them, so I just have to do what I can do to get it done. I pulled up the pictures from my phone, so I will update from those and then I'll go to my camera pictures, so things might get out of order, but at least they will be documented!

 We got free tickets to go to a Denver Nuggets basketball game. The kids were thrilled to experience their first professional basketball game. It was a school night, so we ended up leaving before it was over, but over all, they had a great time. Caroline wanted to be on the big jumbo screen so badly. She ended up getting on there 2 times. The first time, she grabbed my phone and kept flashing it where she thought the camera people were and it worked! She got their attention and got herself on the screen. She said she learned that from Wee-mama.




In February, all the kids came home with a fundraiser for Jump rope for kids to earn money for kids with heart diseases. Caroline was the only one who wanted to do it and she worked hard to earn $100. We went door to door a few times and she went up and spoke by herself. She was like 100% on people donating until she said, " who could say no to this face?", and then in a comical turn of events, the next door said no. We all got a good laugh off that one. She did great though and I was proud of her for doing it.


Also in February, Brian and I took a little get away trip to Vegas. It was a great relaxing trip. We did a TON of walking down the strip and seeing all the hotel lobbies which was fun and impressive. We went to the M&M factory, the Madame Trusseau wax museum, and saw 2 shows. The Beatles Love, which was really neat and had amazing acrobatics, and we saw Jersey Boys, which had fabulous music, but terrible language! It was a great trip and I always enjoy the chances we get to spend some alone time together. Doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's wonderful!


After we got back from our trip, we had a few days to spend with Mom and Dad before they went back home. OH! They were so kind to come out and watch the kids for us so that Brian and I could take our trip! It was pretty cold, so there wasn't much we wanted to get out and do, but I took them to see the Red Rocks. It was Fa-Ree-Zing!!! Super cool though. I didn't know they had a museum, so we took some time to do that and it was pretty cool.



Bella took some ice skating lessons and really enjoyed it.


Cooper turned 7! He wanted a superhero cake, shocker, so I did my best. Always looks better in my head, but I think he was ok with it.



We went to Utah as soon as school was over. We hit BYU, had lunch in the cougareat, hung out with Nana, went to a dinosaur museum, hung out with Caroline and Evie and watched Jayde fly his cool self made plane and went to the creamery.


We  had a fun bday party for Maya which we made the cupcakes for
Fun sleepovers

 Date night

We were able to use our Christmas present from WeeMama and Papa John and go to Liberty Land. The frogger was the kids favorite. A few adults enjoyed it too! :)






Always love going into the mountains. We went up Provo Canyon for dinner before we saw the play Cinderella.


Papa John lost a whip cream fight to Michelle

 We watched Maya run like the wind. That girl is fast!

 Caught these little monkeys in the crib


Had super fun at the water park





Kikster had her dance recital (more pics later)


Brian and I finally finished our new beautiful table! Love it!

And Brian finally bought his new bike that he's been talking about doing for several years!