Happy Holidays

Wishing the best to everyone this season.  May you all have a Merry Christmas.

From Shorts to Snow

Here we are fishing up Blacksmith Fork canyon. 

Yes My kids at every bite when we cooked it.

 

 

Back in September Wes celebrated his Birthday.

Bobo got a hair cut.

We went to the pumpkin walk.

 

It Snowed.  This was one of the funnest snow stoms I remember.

Friday we built snowmen and on Saturday it was still warm enough

for us to have a family snowball fight.  Look at this cool snow fort.

Hyrum city is building a new park next door to us, with a sledding hill, so of course we

went to play.  It was warmer and the ground was soft and muddy. 

Wes even got Meg to go on a few runs by herself.  He also managed to get some

great daddy photography in.

Look out Megsy.  Yep he caught her catching some sick air.

Nothing was broken (thankfully).  The tears didn't last too long either.

Little Sarah has found her passion in life.  She has been riding this thing nonstop.

Happy Blog viewing.  I wll try to be better about posting. 

Back 2 School

 Megan is ready for kindergarten.  I am not so sure if mom is. Megan is going to Lincoln Elementary in Hyrum.  This is when she went to her screening.  The first official day is Tuesday...

 Little Sarah started dance class.  She is super excited and already has some great moves.   Just ask!

 We had one last summer camping trip.  I really wanted to go to Yellowstone, but Wes had other ideas.  We ended up in Emmigration Canyon in Preston.  We spent our time crafting all sorts of things, necklaces, visors, t-shirts and hair things. 

 We drove into Paris and Bear Lake on Friday and went spelunking!.  Wes and I took all 888 stairs in the Minnetinka Cave while carrying 2 little girls,  It was a fun time, the kids thought it was great!

 This was how we spent a rainy friday night.  We watched The Movie  "UP".  I forgot how cute it was, The kids were cracking  us up the rest of the weekend by interjecting the word "squirrel" in the middle of each sentance. LOL

 Saturday was a great day.  We had such a fun time in the Minnetonka cave that we went to search the ICE cave in Bloomington.  We loaded up in the Ranger and 4 wheeler, and got lost.  Well, sort of.  We ended up in the Highline Trail. It was only intended for wheelers and bikes and here we are on a Ranger, with no room to turn around, so we just kept driving, and some how managed not to get stuck. 

 We finally found the Ice Cave, and went in for more exploring.

 This chunk of ice never melts, it is super deep. and slippery.

 Here are the Girls in their night shirts with the friendly neighborhood wildlife  "squirrels" of course.

We have had our fun and we are looking forward to the structure and routine of fall!

Summa Time

 Hogle Zoo.  What a Zoo, and I am not referring to the animals.  I was going to take my girls alone, but am I glad I had Wes go with us.  I can't believe the grown adults who were pushing and shoving  my kids out of the way just so they can look at the amimals.  Reall my kid is 2 feet tall.  You can't see over her head?  I just sat there in disbelief.  Yay for the carosel and the train that had more organized chaos, you wouldn't guess from the smiles that it was a slightly frustrating day.  

 It was a cooler day so this tiger was less shaded up so we could see him.

 The giraffes are always my favorite.  It is about time their "habitat" is remodled.  It seemed so bleak compared to the new "Rocky Shores" exhibit.

 Megan had her dance recital.  She is quite the mover and shaker.  We videoed the performance and she refused to smile in the other pics, so I am posting 2 shots.

 Sweet Sarah and  her baby fresh out of the tubby. 

 Preschool Graduation.  Oh sad day.  I am so happy Meg had the opportunity to attend "tiny tot tech" this year. Believe it or not, both Wes and I attended this preschool.  Megan was practicing the songs for graduation for weeks, and it showed,  she sang every word with such enthusiam and looked so pretty as the pink crayon. 

 Thank you Teacher Hunter. We love you!

over the past 2 months.....

We started March with a Vacation to Moab. This was such a fun little trip. I admit I get a little nervous with the whole climbing rocks that bigger than cars and steep cliffs on either side, but it is such a fun trip. We had fun company, thank you Wolford crew, and everyone who helped make this trip such a fun experience.

This was the only obstacle that I got out of and made my kids climb out of this canyon. We had a little bit of a length disadvantage on this trip. Of course as soon as we got home Wes was making all of these plans to change our little Rubi, fortunately he stopped with only new tires.

This was my view for most of the trip.

Some beautiful scenery, it makes me really want a DLSR camera and a photography class.....

This is what the girls looked like......

The Eccles Dinosaur Park in Ogden

Digging for some rocks in gravel.

I don't know if we should be sitting here or not, but there wasn't a sign and who can resist a pink dinosaur.

We were shopping at Kohls one day and the girls needed Jammies with dolly Jammies.

Sarah has started that phase in life where she is giving up naps, but really still needs one. Most of the time she spends her afternoon grouching around and as soon as dad gets home, she's out.

Easter.

Wes and I went to Las Vegas the weekend before Easter, therefore I was stuck working Easter, so I was kinda a bummer mother, and I am laking some photos, but Wes was a good sport and did the whole egg hunt thing.

Baby Animal days!

I wasn't about to spend the day with the other 7,000 people who attended the event on Easter weekend. I went the weekend after. The weather was nice and there were no lines and the animals were still babies.

Look at my Cowgirls.

Megan is holding baby Alice.

Loving us some naughty goats

This was so funny, maybe that's why I put the pic up twice. These goats were eating Sarah's shirt. She'd shoo one away and then the other would nibble, it was too cute.

It took Sarah a minute to warm up to the baby chick. They had some really cute little yellow ones, but my girls liked the little brown one.

And what post of mine would be complete without my kids in the tub.