THEN we went camping!

The kids were SO lucky! Dad was gone for the week and since it is the very end of school mom decided to be nice and take them camping on Monday night and they got to MISS school on Tuesday! They were SO excited! We had lots of fun with Alex and Nicole and Andrew and Sammy made new friends with Alex's sister's kids! Thanks for the fun fairy houses! The kids had a BLAST!

MY kids kept insisting on going for a walk so once we finally gave in and went they weren't too happy with the result. Alex led us straight up the mountain side for about a half hour before the kids were finally done and I took them and headed back. Alex and Nicole continued on for another half hour or so and finally came to "one of the tops" and could see clear over to Quail Lake and would have been able to see St. George if the others hills weren't in the way. This was the view back towards LaVerkin from where the kids and I turned around.

It was SO HOT but Zaylee would NOT let go of her sweater! This was when we tied it around her waist. That did NOT make her happy.

Nicole about died trying to carry her straight up the hillside on her shoulders.

This was Zaylee and I back at camp after the LONG HOT hike without any water! She still wouldn't let go of the sweater.



She was trying to hide from me because she wanted her MOMMY and her mommy wasn't there! What a cutie!

Oh NO, that's not all!

Once I get around to doing something I have to do it ALL! So this is going to be a day of MANY posts!! :) First of all we had Alex and Nicole here for a visit and we had SO much fun!! Even if they did make all our cars break down!!! haha! Just Kidding. We were very glad they were here to FIX all our broken down cars!!

Alex had fun climbing the trees. Nicole really isn't hugging the tree it just looks like it. She was just giving Alex his shoes so he could get down.

Zaylee insisted someone help her down, which really meant up, so Ryan helped her up to her dad but she didn't think it was so much fun once she got up there.

We tried to go to the Enterprise reservoir for a picnic but only made it as far as the park on Main street because mom's car blew a radiator!

Thanks for the pizza guys!

We played at the water park for Gavin's birthday.

Mother's Day

Flower made of cookies and candy. Yum, Yum!

The two wonderful kids that call me MOM!

Thanks to all you wonderful people that sent me lovely Mother's Day wishes. It was much appreciated! This is the wonderful Mother's Day that Andrew made in class for me. He has such a wonderful, creative teacher! We love her so much!!

T-ball

Don't ask about the panda, I don't know what the deal is with it! These are their very COOL uniforms. Hats have been ordered but still not received!

Practicing outfield

It's a hit!

Somewhere around the end of April, again the time thing not working so well for me, Andrew started T-ball. He tells everyone he doesn't like it and that his mom "MADE" him sign-up. But I think he is secretly having fun. He's already had 4 games and is doing GREAT! He even hit the ball a couple of times WITHOUT the T and that was SO exciting!!

Bubbles, Bubbles

Awhile ago, not sure exactly when as time just flies by and I can't keep track of it at all, the kids and I decided to have some bubble fun in the backyard. Before we were done we had about 6 different things of bubbles and most of the neighbor kids over joining in the fun. BUBBLES ARE SO FUN!!

SPRING is here! At least we hope!

A couple of days ago it was snowing! But yesterday it was BEAUTIFUL!

Over Easter weekend we got some pretty flowers to plant in the yard. Ryan has some family that works at Milgro and we were able to get some beautiful flowers, THANKS!!

Hyacinth

Cala lilies, Easter lilies, Tulips, and Daffodils

Ryan had a whole week off work (not by choice) and we decided to do some cleaning!! So here are a couple of before and after pictures of our project in the garage. It basically took all week and we still aren't quite done. But you get the idea.

The AFTER

The BEFORE! YIKES!

Easter and Stuff

We really did celebrate Easter, I just forgot my camera AGAIN! I guess a lot of this year will be going undocumented!! Bummer!! Thanks to my in-laws we had fun coloring eggs and had a big egg hunt at their house. Lots of yummy food and good company! Thanks for everything.

Yesterday was the Kite Festival. I don't really like it anymore! The kids had fun but we didn't even fly the kites. It wasn't very windy while we were there. Just HOT! We bought tickets for the bounce houses but at $1 a piece it was a RIP OFF!! The kids really didn't even want to use their tickets! SO NOT doing that again. Next year I think I'll tell them we'll go get the free kite and if they spend NO money there I will take them to Jumpin' Jacks and they can play as long as they want. I think it will still be cheaper than what I spent there for tickets, train rides, ice cream, and snow cones!!

Sammy enjoying her snow cone

Andrew enjoying his ice cream

Andrew on the train ride