Grace at the Children's Museum

Grace gets to go on lots of fun field trips this year in preschool. On Monday they got to go to the Children's Museum at the Gateway. Grace had lots of fun and absolutely loved the pretend store and to scale house.

Grace checking out her groceries at the register.

Grace climbs the wall - Go Grace!

The Girls

Liam Plays the Vent

Well we knew our kids were creative and muscial, maybe this is the next big thing.

First Doctor's Appointment

So our main computer is getting fixed and I am working on Adam's laptop. Yesterday we went to the doctor and got to see the baby - I didn't expect an ultrasound but I guess my new doctor just does it at the beginning to make sure everything is okay to start off with. Everything looks great, the baby was moving all around, it waved at us. The heartbeat was 160 BPM, we still think it is a girl. Who knows though? We will be finding out with this baby, I want to be as prepared as possible. I am due on April 5. I will post the ultrasound pictures as soon as I get my computer back, mostly it just looks like a blob, those ultrasound pictures are hard to tell anything. But for those of you interested, I will put them up soon.

Sunny San Diego

Adam and I got back last night from our 10 year anniversary trip to San Diego. It was so much fun and so nice to relax together and enjoy the silence. Seriously, we just sat in the car with no music and just listened....to nothing. It was great. We went to the Gas Lamp district in downtown San Diego, to Tamarack, Corona Del Mar, and Mission Beach, SeaWorld, and the San Diego Temple. We drove up and down the coast and found some fun places to eat, and we even tried boogie boarding. It was pretty fun....and salty. I never realized how salty the ocean was. Yuck. Especially when you get a mouthful. But we had a blast and it was a great trip.

At Tamarack Beach

SeaWorld

Shamu - okay it wasn't actually Shamu, I think Shamu died a long time ago. But it was still pretty cool.

Someone else about to get splashed - thankfully we didn't get wet.

Okay I didn't mean to take a picture of the shark's private parts, but this was one of Adam's favorite exhibits - you get to walk in this tunnel and the sharks swim above you. Cool.

The dolphin show - one of my favorite shows.

The San Diego Temple was gorgeous - and just as pretty inside.

The beach at Corona del Mar - this was where we spent most of the day on Saturday and where I got folded into a pretzel in the ocean trying to boogie board. And let's be honest, you don't really want to see a picture of us in our swimsuits. (And we don't want to show you either.) I am pretty sure I was the whitest person there. But since we didn't know anyone, we didn't care.

And last, but certainly not least, we have to say THANK YOU a million times to Chad and Brenda who braved instant kidhood and watched our kids while we were relaxing. One thing's for sure, it was an experience, I'm just not sure whether they would say it was good or bad. Probably some of both. THANKS again you guys!

Rasta Liam

One day a couple weeks ago all the neighborhood kids were over playing and the next thing we know, we look out there and here is Liam, in the center of everyone, becoming the latest fashion experiment. What a good sport.

Grace's 1st Day of Pre School

Okay I actually remembered the camera today. It was Grace's first day of pre-school. I can't believe she is old enough to go to pre-school! She was SO excited and this first day we got to go together for "Mom and Me" day. She got her very own backpack from Miss Kristi and lots of fun things to go in it, including a pair of scissors that I promptly took away when she cut her hair AGAIN when we got home. But you can't tell this time, it was only one little snip, thank goodness. I am seriously locking up all scissors for like 3 years.

One of her favorite things was the backyard toys. They have a huge tree with a swing, and some trapeze things that you can hold on to and run and go up in the air, and a fun trampoline that was easy to get onto and off. She was a little apprehensive at first about being there and away from me, but but the end she was doing great. I think she is going to have a great year. We are so proud of you Grace! Check out her preschool blog on the links on the side.

The Braveness of Luke

Since I have been having blog neglect, I have forgotten to take the camera with me. This is the least of my problems, really. You should see my house. Anyway, I didn't get any pictures from this weekend, but I have to tell you about Luke at the carnival. He really, really wanted to go on the Twister? I don't remember the name. But it's one that goes up and around, while it's going around, while you can flip yourself over and over at the same time. Just thinking about it makes me sick. So I kept saying - "Are you sure? Look at this ride - look at the people inside" and he was "SURE". Even his older cousins did not want to go on, but Eden said she would go on it with him. I warned her before if he threw up I was sorry. He has had a couple bad experiences on rides before and I just couldn't believe that he would want to go on this ride. BUT we let him and the whole time I was thinking, he's going to throw up, he's going to be traumatized. He's either going to love it or hate it. And you know what? He closed his eyes the whole time and his shoes even came off in the cage, but he LIKED it. I am in shock. He was smiling when he got off. Sometimes you just have to let go and believe in your kids. It is so hard though. I am breathing a big sigh of relief. Ahhhhhhh.......

Well, THAT was memorable...

So every year we go down to Payson to Onion Days and watch the big parade on Monday and go to the carnival/fair afterwards. This year we spent the night down there on Sunday and then were going to go to the parade the next morning. Well, of course Monday the high was only supposed to be 67 and it was supposed to rain and all that good stuff. It wasn't actually raining when we got to the parade, the weather looked like it was going to cooperate. We watched about 10 minutes of the parade when it slowly started raining - we did have one of those big umbrellas so we thought, we'll be okay. Then it started pouring. And pouring. And the wind actually picked up Julie's big stand umbrella and flew it aways away and it was insane. We had parked around the block so we were going to get drenched either way. We decided to make a run for it. We made it back to the car and we were soaked. I mean, like we had been standing in the shower soaked. So, we didn't get to see the parade, (the poor beauty queens) but thankfully later in the day the weather was beautiful and we did make it to the carnival.
Which brings me to my next subject.... see above.