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Tyson & Piper

J.D.

Tyson & Josh

Uncle Haunie & Piper

Fun at the Gateway

Okay, so I have a ton of pictures from this weekend. We went to this awesome place in Salt Lake called Discovery Gateway. Check it out at this link http://www.discoverygateway.org/

My kids had so much fun. They wanted to stay longer even though we were there for almost 3 hours. I promised to take them back this summer. It is this fun, educational, hands on museum that the kids can just play in.

My kids loved the crane and building area. J.D. & Tyson would have played there all day if we had let them. They had this awesome dome that had clear tubes and you put colored balls into at diffrent points all over inside the dome and the ball would get sucked up into them and the kids could watch the progress of the ball.

The water center was way cool and Tyson really liked that. The climibing wall and the farm activity place were our favorites. Piper had so much fun moving potatoes from one cubby to the next.

What was so fun about it was that the kids enjoyed it, but so did the adults. It was awesome! I will post some more pictures later this week, as I have about a few hundred to choose from.

Piper in a box w/ Uncle Adam

Here are a few pictures of us riding the Tracks.

My kids would have been happy doing just this!

Corbin & Caleb

Quinton

ISN'T HE CUTE!!! This is Quinton Carter, he's the son our friends Lindsay and Adam Carter. This weekend we went to Salt Lake for his blessing and had the chance to stay at Adam and Lindsay's house. He is so cute!!! Just had to let everyone see our new little cute cousin.

Wondering why is their a camera in my face?

Josh & Quinton snuggling

Paint Balling

My boys love to go paintballing with their dad. Here are few pictures from the other day when they went out. Their cousins Corbin and Caleb went with them. They had a lot of fun watching their daddies and shooting the guns!!

Caleb, Corbin, & Tyson

Corbin & Tyson

J.D. & Tyson in their gear!!

Green Sunday

HAPPY EASTER!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. We had a lot of fun getting baskets and doing the Easter Egg hunt here in Ivins yesterday. Today is just kind of lazy. We watched the Living Scriptures version of the Easter Story this morning and this afternoon we are just hanging out. Somehow, unknowingly, all the boys ended up in green shirts. Kind of funny! Totally unplanned!

Tonight we have one of Josh's customers that he has befriended coming to dinner. He is a cute, little old guy who is all alone. He has been widowed twice and his kids all live in New Mexico. It should be fun!!!

But let us remember what Easter is all about and remember to thank Heavenly Father for the gift He gave us in His Son and our Redeemer!!! We are truly blessed that we have a Heavenly Father who loves us and wants us to return to live with Him agian. Have a Happy Easter!!

Airplanes

Isn't it funny how boys can be entertained with a simple paper airplane? J.D. and his grandad Ward used to play with paper airplanes every Sunday when we go and visit him. Grandad would save the advertisements out of the paper and build airplanes for J.D. I hope it is something J.D. will always remember about him.

Mine probably are nowhere as cool as Grandads. After several failed attempts to make a plane that would actually fly and withstand a 3-year-old, Mommy finally got on the internet to find out how to make one that would fly. And amazingly enough these did fly very well. The boys spent the whole afternoon playing with their paper planes. For all you other moms who have boys and want to impress them with your airplane flying abilities, check out this link for a short little video that walks you through the process step by step. http://www.buildpaperairplanes.com/videos-projects/01/index.html You'll be the coolest mom on the block!!!!

Temper Tantrums

Piper is the funniest girl. This is a picture of her sleeping in her crib. She is sitting up, well kind of. She throws these temper tantrums where she will throw herself forward and cry with her head on her knees. I put her in for a nap and she wasn't happy about it. I went to check on her after a few minutes and this was how she was sleeping. Silly girl!!!

Welcome to our Blog

We are so excited to have a blog. I must admit, I have been feeling a little behind the times. I just didn't think I had time to blog, but it is a great way to keep all of our family up to date on our wild bunch!!!It will be so much fun to share our lives with you. I just wanted to post a few pictures for everyone to see my pride and joys!!!! There was once a quote I read that said "Lord grant me the patience to endure my blessings." My other favorite one goes something like this, "Raising children is much the same as being pecked to death by chickens." How true!!! All you moms know what I am talking about.

Raising kids is hard work and it does require a lot of patience, but I love my kids so much. I would never trade them for anything in this world. So take a minute to check out my cute babies!!!

J.D is almost 6, I can hardly believe that he could be that old. He is in Kindergarten this year and is such a little stud. He just started soccer and he loves it. He so is athletic. He loves all sports. He told me he loves horses, rodeo, the guitar and girls!! What a little ladies man already. He is a joy to have around. He is so bright and happy most of the time! He is also my big helper. He loves to help me with Piper and he is such a little mother to Tyson. It's kind of cute.

Tyson or Tootie-Bootie as he is affectionately known, turned 3 in December. Now this kid may look all innocent, but don't let his good looks decieve you. DENNIS the MENACE!!!!!! He even has the blonde hair to prove it. Tyson is so much fun. He's our little dare devil who is all crazy and wild. He loves Spiderman. He has a little obsessive compulsive behavior when it comes to Spiderman, the boy is still wearing his Halloween costume about 3 days a week.

And this is our little baby girl!! Isn't she pretty? Piper Hermione or P. Herme (Josh hates that nickname) is so much fun!! Girls are so much fun to buy clothes for and she has a lot. She is so spoiled and loves to play with her brothers. She wants so badly to walk, but doesn't dare to quite yet. I bet she will be walking in the next few weeks, but she is pretty stubborn so don't quote me on that.

Well this should be a fun little adventure!  Let's see how we do!