Thursday, June 19, 2008

More Utah fun!

Okay so I know that it's been a long time since the Utah trip, but I am still posting some of the fun the kids had there so that I don't forget everything. So bare with me...besides I figured this was better than doing 10 posts at once. (Okay it's ending up to be about 10 posts - good thing I split it up)
There was this awesome place where the kids could play on all of the HUGE bounce houses - they also had a skating rink and during the day the kids can bring ride-ons or bikes to play with. We met my cousins Sarah and Kimberlee and their kids. It was a lot of fun!
That's Brinley in the little window at the bottom - I told you they're HUGE!Brinley & Braden (his feet) climbing one of the housesI love to Fly!!!! :) ( I just love this shot!)
My sisters Elise and Nikki making bead jewelry with the kids.
WHO WANTS CHOCOLATE MILK?????
My kids wanted chocolate milk and my sister made them each do this little dance with her in order to get some...it was hilarious they were spinning and bending and anything she wanted! I should try that at home! After my enrichment night lesson on getting kids to work...you can tell that it runs in my family (I just have to work on it myself).


Shelby and Brinley are the "Princesses" in the family, so this picture is perfect. We are so excited for Shelby to come visit this summer! Obviously Brinley will have soooo much fun!
Elise loves to play computer games fortunately it's the little kid games, so my kids were found many times sitting with her and playing games with her. She's great with them! :)



Friday, June 13, 2008

Obviously new to slide shows

The captions are as follows:
Grandma and Happy Braden
Aunt Elise and not happy Brinley
Am I in Heaven? (He loved the train)
I love trains!!!!
Last 3 are Brinley and Grandma playing around - Brinley finally warmed up

The front runner train just opened a few weeks before we got there and since Braden loves trains we went for a train ride. It didn't really stop anywhere that we could get off close and go eat lunch, so we rode it for about 30 mins - hopped off and waited for the next train going the other way. Great fun!

Train Ride Heaven

Bunny Kisses

My sister Shelby got a bunny and the kids were in heaven. They were feeding it grass and dandelions and Braden was dumping the rabbit feed on his head through the cage. He had the right idea, but i'm sure the bunny wasn't quite thrilled. It was hilarious though, the dandelions slowly made a wave of disappearing from the front yard. Braden would run and grab the closest one he found and run back to feed the bunny, by the end of the week 3/4 of the dandelions were gone but only on the side by the bunny. (Luckily my parents had just put in a sprinkling system so they hadn't been mowing, hence the variety of flowers for Braden.)

Treehouse with Cousins

While we were in Utah, we went to the Treehouse in Ogden with my mom and my sister-in-law and her 2 kids. It was a lot of fun, we were just glad there was 3 of us to chase the 4 kids. They would not stay anywhere for for than a minute, there was too much going on to see. They had a great time and afterwards we went to Fazoli's for lunch. Definitely good to spend time with their cousins. Braden and his cousin Zack, this is a rare picture! They have not had the best reputation of getting along. Hopefully this is a new year and they will start having fun together. :)


Brinley loved dresssing up. They had dress up clothes for everything, in every room you went in. She especially loved the school house, she would bring everyone books and have everyone sit at the little desks. She also loved the babies and clothes that she found. She's such a girl!


Brinley and her cousin Callie dressing up in the fire truck. They loved this one, around the front was a steering wheel to drive the firetruck. This was the funnest place. The kids were in heaven.
Again, getting along, (or so they want us to believe :) ). Braden and Zack loved the trains, even though they both have some at home. They are definitely a favorite in this family.