Disneyland Trip Day 1 - Las Vegas

Having fun at the McDonald's in Cedar City.  The kids did great on the way to Las Vegas.  This was our only stop!



We made it to Vegas!  We were able to stay at the JW Marriott in Las Vegas because Mike had accumulated Marriott points from his many travels with his job at the state.  This was the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in!  The grounds were beautiful and the hotel was amazing!  We had fun swimming in their crazy pool complete with waterfalls!

Queen Eliza

We had a great buffet dinner at our hotel and then decided to go the the strip for the evening.  We should have stayed at our hotel!  We went to MGM to see the lions, but they were already gone and asleep for the night.  Then we went to the M&M factory to see the 3D show, but they weren't showing that either.  Vegas is just way too crazy with kids!  It takes forever to get anywhere and everyone is looking at you like you are crazy to have 3 kids in Vegas.  We survived and went back to our fabulous hotel!

05/14/2011

Dragon Award

Ben worked so hard at Kindergarten this year!  This is him getting his Dragon Award, which included doing a reflections project, 3 other projects, reading daily, and physical fitness.  Ben also has received a couple of reading awards.  He's such a smart, cute boy!  I helped in his class one day and he was such a good boy!  He worked hard on his work papers and finished first so that he could have time for his favorite thing in kindergarten..centers!  Ben is such a good friend at school.  I have had multiple parents come up to me asking if I was Ben's mom.  They always say how much their child talks about Ben and how nice he is to them.  I am so grateful for such a sweet, kind, caring, smart boy!

Notice how he's airborne!

She is just the cutest, silliest thing!  She is such a girl!  Eliza loves wearing sunglasses, and putting on necklaces.  She has such a funny personality!  She just makes me smile!

Here's a funny random kid saying:

We were walking in the rain, I asked Ben if we were going to melt.  Ben said a snowman would melt, Hailey said “well I’m not made of snow, I’m made of skin- so I’ll be okay.” 5/9/11

Bike Race and Coach Pitch

Ben and his new bike.  Cute Ben has saved up his money for 2 years to buy this cool bike.  He loves it!

Mike took the 3 kids to Herriman's pedal-palooza bike race.  This was the day before Mother's Day and I got to go with the ladies to our annual Mother's Day brunch.  We went to Thanksgiving point again, and wow it was so much fun and so delicious.  Ben and Hailey did great in their races and both took 4th in their age divisions.  Mike said it was crazy but they had a lot of fun!

Hailey and Eliza in their camp chairs enjoying the game or maybe enjoying treats at the game!

Mormor and her girls!

Silly Hailey, Aunt Aly, and Eliza

Eliza playing peek-a-boo in the blanket

As you can tell from these pictures, coach pitch baseball was freezing this year.  Crazy Utah Spring weather!  Out of all of our games, only one was decent weather.  We had to huddle in blankets with winter coats on each game.  But, Ben didn't seem to notice, he loved it!  This is his first coach pitch season and I was really impressed at how well he did hitting the ball. 

Oh, and Eliza went in for her 15 month appointment, she is healthy and happy!  Here are her stats:

weight 60 percentile (23lbs)
height 80 percentile
head 80 percentile (jumped from 50 percentile)
Eliza also got in 4 molars on 5/4/2011!

Easter Sunday

Love my Hailey!

Eliza figuring out this whole Easter hunt thing

Handsome Ben!

Hailey and cousin Devin, I wish I knew what they were saying!

Me and my Eliza bug

Cute cousins!  They just love each other!

Eliza found that egg early on in the hunt and I think she had it most of the night!

This is my mormor's brother Olaf, he is eating off a frisby.  Maybe that's how they do it in Norway!

Nina, mormor, Eliza, and other mormor

We have always gone up to my mormor's house in Sugarhouse for our Easter celebration.  She has a long yard full of great hiding places.  We enjoyed a great dinner and the kids had a great time with the Easter egg hunt.  The weather managed to stay somewhat nice, just a little chilly.  I have so many memories of my mormor's house and I'm glad that my kids are able to create their own great memories with her.  I didn't get a picture of this, but there is a tree in the lower part of her yard that had a tree house in it when my mom was growing up.  There are always fabulous hanging treats of some kind or other that we get to find.  This year all the adults got huge chocolate bunnies, and all the kids got fun soccer balls.

4/24/2011

Saturday Easter Egg Hunts

We did our Easter hunts at our house on Saturday morning.  We decided that the kids would get plenty of candy elsewhere, so they got camping chairs and hard-boiled eggs!

Ben finding his star wars camping chair!

This is the madness that was South Jordan's free Easter egg hunt.  My kids are in there somewhere!  It was the craziest I've ever seen any race.  Their hunt was at 9am, and the rest of the cities were at 10am, so everyone including us hit this one then went to another one.  My kids had fun, so that's all that matters.

Ben and Nathan checking out the fire truck after the egg hunt.

This is a picture of Riverton's Easter egg hunt, much better organized and a lot less people.  Hailey has the bright yellow rain jacket on.  Ben, Hailey and Eliza all had to be in different areas.  So, Ben did his own thing, Mike went with Hailey, and I went with Eliza.  Eliza was not into the crazy crowds but managed to get a few good things.  She picked up one piece of candy and was happy to just have that!

4/23/2011

Ben's First Tooth Out...Finally!

I was really excited in January when Ben got his first loose tooth.  But, the cute kid  never wiggled it.  I asked him why, and he said it was because his kindergarten teacher, Mrs. McKenna, told them not to wiggle their teeth in school because it grossed her out.  He said he forgot to do it the rest of the day.  Well, it finally got loose and it came out April 22nd!!!  I had my mom and Bri tag team him and get it out!!!  He got: a pennie, a nickle, a dime, a quarter, a gold dollar, a dollar and a chocolate dollar from the tooth fairy. 

His second tooth was much easier.  It was the tooth on the bottom next to the one that came out.  The night before we went to Disneyland I was flossing his teeth before bed.  His tooth was practically sideways, so I just gently tugged and out it came.  Luckily the tooth fairy came through again!  Ben is growing up way too fast.  When he lost his first tooth I thought, he's just getting so big. I can't beleive I have a child old enough to be losing teeth!

Cute Hailey!

Eliza loves swinging!  Notice how she has to be in full winter gear even though it's April.

Easter Celebrations

Cute Hailey on the go!
We celebrated Easter early with my family.  The kids had a great time scouring Mormor and Buddy's yard!  After we went in and played some great minute to win it games.

Lucky Eliza got the deck to herself for the Easter egg hunt.  She loved this little lamb!

Ben was too fast to take a picture of when the egg hunt was on, but this shows his awesome finds!

You have a minute-to-win-it, good luck!

Hailey doing a great job, Mike beat Jake and is still going!

Ben and Nathan heading off.  Notice how Ben is stacking his on his eye,
I think he gets extra points for that!

Nicole was so much better at this than me!

Eliza was the smart one and ate her cupcake!

4/10/2011