Memorial Day

My sister and her husband came to visit us for memorial day. We had a lot of fun and the kids were heartbroken that they had to leave. E kept trying to convince them to take him home with them or that they needed to move back to our town. They love their aunts and uncles!

One thing we did was go to a tailgate party and BYU baseball game. We went last year and had so much fun with some friends of ours, so we jumped at the chance to go this year. Little did we know this year it would be FREEZING! It was still fun, but cold.

We met Cosmo right away. E grabbed his aunt and uncle and said, "Look! There's my friend!" This is right after he and E high fived.

 One good thing about it being cold was that lots of people ate in their cars. So we got to meet Cosmo and get pictures with him really easily. He just pulled up a chair and let us snap away!

 Bundled up, eating our J-Dawgs

 There was face painting for the kids. Miss H got a paw print. 

 E sat down and said, "I want an Elephant!" The slightly frazzled BYU students tried to comply even though everyone else was getting Y's or paw prints. We couldn't stop laughing. 

 We all won these snazzy sunglasses, and E even did a little dance for everyone. He is entertaining, I'll give him that. 

 We went home because it was cold and the game didn't start for another half hour, only to have it start pouring. The game ended up having a rain delay for about 2-3 hours. Eventually we made it back though only to watch BYU get slaughtered 17-1. 

 It was soooo cold! I couldn't believe it was Memorial day and that the year before we had all gotten sunburned!

 Miss H just enjoyed eating the snacks. E liked the game overall, but started to get cold and antsy. G was mad that BYU wasn't trying hard enough and lost. Hmm, looks like he got a bit of my competitiveness after all. :- ) 

 On Sunday, we thought we would beat the rush and visit my Grandparents graves. It was so packed! Then we felt bad that they didn't have anything and decided to go back Monday with flowers. It turns out that we had beat the rush. Monday was even crazier.  It was still good, though, and we got to talk to the kids about their grandparents and other relatives. 

 

 

We had a lot of fun having family visit. It makes me miss them living closer. I'm just glad that they aren't too far away!

Last day of school

G's last day of school was a field day. It really meant a lot to him that I come and see him, so I packed up the kids and we headed down to the school. Shockingly, once we were there E and Miss H ran around out of control and we ended up having to leave after about 10 minutes. I know--no one saw that coming. :-) 

Miss H swinging on the play equipment.

 G is in the green

 It looked like a lot of fun, and there were kids everywhere. Side note--aren't the mountains amazing? Sometimes I take for granted how beautiful it is where we live. 

 When I decided it was too out of control, I took the little ones to a different park. As we were walking out to the car E said, "Where are we going?" I explained that we were going to a different park. "Why?" He asked. "Because you want to play," I said. "Are we going to show the people this?" he asked as he walked around the car with his shirt off. "NO! Put your clothes back on!" I said. Jeez! Sometimes I can't believe this kid. 

 Don't worry, though. He peed in the trees so it all worked out for him.

As a side note this picture doesn't really have much to do with anything, but I just thought it was so sweet that Miss H snuggled with me on the couch like this one night. She is such a sweet girl. She is becoming a toddler and can be a pill sometimes, but she more than makes up for it with the joy she brings into our family and to everyone she meets. 

Lazy Sunday

A couple of Sundays before the move, we had a lazy Sunday water fight. 

 The boys chased each other with water balloons.

Miss H was happy to hold her pet water balloon and watch the boys get wet. Until she loved it just a little too much...

Before 

 After

 I suppose tragedy strikes everyone at some point. :-) 

Anemic catch up

I just looked at our blog and realized that I haven't posted anything in over a month. Yikes. Well, I have a good excuse, which is that we have been busy moving and not having internet. Yeah! People have asked me to post pictures of the new house but then I would have to clean it. So you can see where that has ended up. On a side note, it's amazing how not nice a new house can look once all of your old junk is in it. :-) 

So anyway, here is a slight catch up post of some things we did forever ago, and I promise to buckle down, take pictures, and post. 

Twinners.

 First slip-n-slide of the year

 Ask me how much I miss grass and our old yard, just ask...

We went to Farm Country with my sweet sister in law and her cute little boy--cousin H 

Here are H and H. We kept laughing and wondering if people thought they were twins since they are so close in age and size and both have H names. They are super funny together too--they play and fight like siblings. 

E standing in a section that was not meant to be climbed into. Surprised?

 Feeding the chickens

 This Momma horse had a new little baby. I kept taking pictures because he was so cute. Good thing my mom wasn't there--it would have been the butterfly house all over again. (Just teasing Mom, love you!)

 We considered leaving them all there, but they managed to escape. :-) 

 A hay ride is included in admission.

 This picture cracks me up. Doesn't he look super excited to be on the back? 

 Of course, we had to do a pony ride.

 Just as we were leaving, a worker had out a baby lamb and let us all pet it. It was so cute! 

 I also decided one day to take the kids to Sonic for happy hour. Too bad I picked an overcast day so it was kind of cold. The kids liked the drinks, though, just better in the car. 

Finally, we had some family photos taken. They did not go well. I think we ended up with maybe 9 decent ones? The kids were terrible, the photographer wasn't super experienced so I'm not sure he knew how to handle them...it just wasn't the best combo. I'm trying to get him to re-edit some of the pictures too, because the ones he chose were not the ones I would have chosen. Though I do have to say, there is one picture that best represents the entire experience and our family:

Oh dear. I think that ending speaks for itself.