My Dad wanted to give my Mom a picture of us girls for Mothers Day so we met at Sugarhouse park last week and snapped a few shots. It was cold and windy that day, so we were glad that a few had turned out decent. This picture of Ryan and Andrew we gave to Mom from them. We gave it to her as a joke. She told us how on Mothers Day she was thinking of how lucky she was to have 2 great son-in-laws and she feels blessed to be a "surrogate" Mom to these guys. Ryan lost his Mom while he was on his mission and Andrew's Mom was in a severe accident when he was 12 and has never fully recovered. I know that they feel lucky to have my Mom as their Mom too. We couldn't have a better Mom! Happy Mother's Day again!

Park City

Our purchases after a day of shopping at the Park City Outlets
Jace ready to go swimming

Blake showing off his big muscles

Ryan and Jace in the pool

Blake totally picked up swimming with his floaties on
Jill and Jace swimming
Logan and Blake in front of the Park City Museum
On the train display at the museum
On one of the track cars that was used in the silver mine, later used with the ski lifts
Blake using the dynamite
Austin setting off the dynamite (this was a display showing the kids how dynamite was used in the silver mine)
This was the tool (just like a jack hammer) they used to drill the holes for the dynamite. You could turn it on, it was so loud!
Inside one of the Park City jail cells
Me and my Boys in front of the track car
This was an old fire truck that was used in Park City
Logan and Blake on the Trolley
Me, Austin, and Jace on the Trolley
Austin and Logan in their room playing video games
Blake and Jace ready for bed

This last week we used our time share up at The Canyons. On Saturday, we had Ryan's brother Adam and his wife, Emily, and Ryan's sister Julie and her husband, Derek, come up and stay the night. The guys went golfing and the girls went shopping (of course). We met up afterwards for dinner, then went and saw a movie. When we got back to the condo we chatted for a while and then decided to play games. We stayed up past 3:00 am playing games, needless to say we were all dragging the next day. On Sunday morning the girls made a yummy breakfast that we all enjoyed. Both couples headed out after that, Ryan and I spent the rest of the day browsing shops and taking little drives here and there. Unfortunately Ryan had to work Monday morning so we woke up early and headed out. We took the boys up on Tuesday for the rest of the week. I spent the rest of the week entertaining the boys up in Park City. We spent the day in downtown Park City, visiting the musuem, walking down main street, and riding the Trolley. The boys loved the museum and Blake loved the Trolley (which he called "the Chawlee"). Ryan came up at night and we took the boys swimming every night after dinner. That is their favorite part. Blake finally figured out he wasn't going to drown with his floaties on and loved it after that, swimming right behing his 2 older brothers. It was a lot of fun to get away from all the obligations that are at home and just spend time with the boys. Thank you Mom, Dad, and Katie for watching my boys all weekend and Adam and Emily's kids on Saturday.

3-2-1 Blast Off!

For pack meeting in April the boys had to make rockets. They used a film canister, covered it with paper to look like a rocket. Then the leaders filled it 1/2 way with water and dropped 1/2 of an alkaseltzer into it, closed the lid and waited for it to blast off. The boys absolutely loved it, and kept doing it until all the alkaseltzer was gone. It was freezing outside but fun to see 20 something boys get so excited over such a simple thing. You gotta love scouts!

Family Ice Night

We took our family ice skating a couple of weeks ago. Austin had gone to an ice skating birthday party and fell in love with it, begging us to take him every day. We went to the Olympic oval and all laced up. Austin and Logan took off right away. Blake didn't want to use the walker that they gave him and liked laying on the ice more than anything. I thought he looked so funny out there with the helmet and the walker (no he is not handicapped if anyone was wondering). Jace liked being pushed in the stroller and would reach down to the wheels and get the ice off of them and eat it. Totally disgusting but funny at the same time. It was fun to do an activity that we could do all together, but it was kind of tricky with the little ones. I think next time Blake would do a little better, towards the end he was taking a few strides on his own!

Knotts Berry Farms (quick trip)

Last month my sis-in-law Emily, and a couple of my friends, Marianne and Kelly went to Knotts Berry Farms. I had mentioned to Marianne who works for Jet Blue that if she ever has any budy passes that she isn't going to use to let me know. Well it happened that she did have some expiring at the end of April that she said I could have. So we decided to head to California. We flew out Friday night, went to dinner, checked into the hotel and stayed up late talking. Saturday morning we had a yummy breakfast then went to Knotts Berry. We were all feeling a little sick after a few rides, due to such a big breakfast. Despite that we had a blast. We rode as many rides as we could then headed to the airport stopping and eating dinner. We went to El Toritos which I highly suggest if you ever come across one, then we went to the airport. We got there a little later than planned and didn't know if we were going to make it on the plane (standby). But we did! It was so much fun to have a girls weekend. I wish we would have had more time though, it always goes by way too quick! Thanks Marianne for the tickets and going with us, I seriously have the best friends ever!

Easter outfits for a project

Here are some pictures I took for an Easter gift Stephanie and I made for my Dad and Mom. We took pictures of all of our boys and put them on different blocks with their names and ages on them. I can't believe I didn't take a picture of the finished product. It turned out cute and my Mom loved them.