Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Syracuse Heritage Days

On June 26th, we went to the Syracuse Heritage Days activity for kids.  It was free, which is my favorite price.

Kaden and Lexi going up...

Look how terrified he looks. hahahaha  I'm so mean.  But he loved it and had to go again!

This was the instant before her leg that is up caught on the side and she bounced off the sides on her way down.  She loved it.

Ari wasn't a fan of the bounce house.

CANDY!

Goin' fishin'

Diving for candy

Shane was "helping" Ari

Faces painted by "princesses"


Kelly took over for time purposes and did a great job with Thomas the Tank on Logan



Besties



See the ball ABOVE her head?  Yeah.  She got a redo for that.  ;)

Much better.



When it was their turn, the girl said, "Go" and Liz, Lexi, and Logan all dove in at the same time.  SO FUNNY when they got stuck.


Ari decided she wanted to try the big slide...and then got stuck halfway up.

So I made Kelly go rescue her.

Thanks, Kelly!

This was funny because Kaden and Lexi were both really good at tossing the bean bags in.  The girl was like, "Um, wow!  They're good!"  I told her that they had lots of practice (thanks to Kelly's awesome birthday parties!).





It was so much fun and made me start thinking of ways to sabotage Kelly's move to Texas.  mwahahahaha

Dinosaur Park

A few weeks ago, we went with Kelly and her kids to the Dinosaur Park.  I'd never been there before, and neither had my kids.




Kelly told them to do "scared" faces.  Love this pic!

More scared faces, but Kelly missed the memo.  ;)
 There were some totally random people dressed up (not as dinosaurs, so, yes, I'm confused as to why they were there.  I couldn't decide if they were just weirdos walking around or actually supposed to be there.).  Kaden waved from a distance, Lexi uneasily ran up and high fived them, and I watched Ari to see her reaction.

"Hi!!!"
Ari walked right up to them and was high fiving all of them and smiling.  I was like, "SHE'S READY FOR DISNEYLAND!!!!!  LET'S GO!!!"

I'm loving this posing stage.


Lexi being a scary dinosaur.

Play time!

Digging for gold

Digging for dino bones

Oh Kaden, someday I'm going to use these silly faced pictures against you.
It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be, and only one kids out of six was bleeding when we left!  Success!!

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Girl's Night Out Baby Shower

My friend, Jess, is having her second baby, but first girl in a couple of weeks.  She said she didn't need a baby shower because she already has a crib and stroller and the big stuff, but what she really wanted was a relaxing night out with the girls one more time.  Our friend, Kim, and I planned the girl's night out shower.  :)  We went to a nail salon for some great pedicures first.


My patriotic toes
 The nail color I chose before figuring out which nail art I was getting was a sparkly, light red, but after she put such a deep red on my big toes, the rest of my toes look pink now.  I have a matching red at home, so one of these days I'll get around to fixing the other ones so they all match.

Jess's toes! So cute!

After we all had cute toes and soft feet, we headed to the Olive Garden and got the best server EVER, Tony.  He was hilarious!







From left: Kim, Jess, Me, and McKenzie (Jess's friend from Brigham City)

We had Jess model her new hospital gown.

Which led to Tony saying, "Catwalk, lady, catwalk!" and Jess walking up and down the aisle.
Towards the end of our meal, Kim got up to go to the bathroom and jokingly said, "Don't ditch me, guys!"  Tony just happened to be walking behind her at that moment and as soon as she was around the corner, turned to us and said, "Let's move!!"  Then he moved us and all of our stuff across the restaurant.  We were laughing so hard the whole night.

Our second table of the night.
Tony stuffed a "to go" box down his shirt to look pregnant.  hahaha

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Father's Day Lunch

With such a fun, busy day the day before (see previous post), I bet the kids would have slept in until 9:00 if we didn't have to be leaving by 8:00 the next morning.  I didn't feel bad at all as I woke them all up at 7:00 AM.  mwahahaha  Revenge is sweet, kiddos.  We dropped them off at my mom's house in North Salt Lake, then headed to the Bountiful temple to see my dad and Heidi get sealed.  After that, we picked the kids up and headed to a luncheon at Heidi's parents' house in Layton.  The food wasn't ready when we got there, so we just chatted with everyone for a bit because we had to leave to go to a Father's Day lunch with Shane's family.

We met up at the Riverdale splash pad and turned the kids loose!



Ari and Ryley

Kaden had a BLAST!




Look at Lexi's face..."Gift cards are lame.  Why would anyone want one?"  She wasn't impressed.  haha  Good thing it wasn't for her!




She looks sad, but she wasn't.  She was trying to show off her "blacked out" tooth.

So cute!

Lexi's happy when she's got her bowl of watermelon!
I think it was 4:00 by the time we got home.  The kids hadn't had naps in two days and they all crashed.  This is the best part of summer!