Month: April 2017

April 10th – In between Day

April 26, 2017 admin No Comments

Tiago thought he should sleep in my bed after our trip – so he did 🙂

We got home from St. George on Sunday the 9th and MONDAY we were SOOO tired. We barely got the kids off to school. We cleaned the house, did laundry and got ready for the cousins to some!

ready for school?

STITCHES OUT, check out the band aid tan!

We took Rose to school the back way at 12:30 and stopped to play at the neighbors for a few minutes:

Let the unpacking begin:

Tiago has decided that he doesn’t like to wear pants! I have to fight him every morning to get dressed. He has gotten so opinionated recently.

We are still reading the Book of Mormon every morning before school! We are not doing well at reading the Doctrine and Covenants 🙁

And Rose is right back to writing her books 🙂

Categories: General

The Crack

April 13, 2017 admin No Comments

Our family wanted to go to the crack since we hadn’t been in a while. THE KIDS LOVED IT. It was one of our favorite things that we did in St. George. All of the kids ran right through the Crack (Benji squeezed through a few parts) Ben and I made it through as well. The kids were laughing at my claustrophobia. I was fine as long as I was the only one in The Crack. Pioneer Park is really a great place to explore!

Categories: Nettesheim

St. George!

April 13, 2017 admin No Comments

On Wednesday we headed down to St. George for the rest of the week. Ready for SPRING BREAK! We drove straight to Freddys to start our trip with Custard!

From there we checked in at the condo and got our swim suits on and swam until 8:30pm!

The next day we went to the new park with the cousins. It was VERY crowded but lots of fun things for the kids to try.

We rode the little train at the park and then came home ate lunch and swam the rest of the day! We ate with the cousins in their condo and then had a big game of volleyball. I took most of the kids to the play ground and then to our place for snacks and Moana.

On Friday we wanted to go play in the river and recreate our river baseball game BUT the water was really high this year and not kid friendly. We then tried to go to a park with a splash pad but it was under construction. We tried another park and the splash pad was not working but we stayed anyway. We played a big game of Wiffle ball – kids verse adults. Jamie’s mom and Amandas brother were there to help us. Adults won by 1 point!

That afternoon the kids got their swimming in and then we took pizza to the park and played our yearly adults vs kids soccer game. The Hancocks came to hang out also. The kids won by 1 point! So we went to Nielsen’s Custard… and Udine tickled everyone.

On Saturday – we played with the Hancocks and cousins. We swam again for HOURS. Then teenagers went to the movie and we went to THE CRACK to explore.

After the crack, we all met up at Freddy’s for dinner. We enjoyed our meal and then Millie fell and split her chin open. We thought she needed stitches but the nurse and I decided that she didn’t. Michelle and Udine helped with our kids while we figured that all out and the day was over.

On Sunday – we packed up, went to church, and then drove home on the overly packed I-15.

Another St George in the books. We were all a little sun burnt and very tired from staying up late every night! Our kids are still little fish and LOVED it.

Categories: Hancock, Nettesheim

Trafalga

April 13, 2017 admin No Comments

We had a free spring break day so… We had a lazy morning and I was just seeing where the day would take us. The kids eventually remembered that I had talked about Trafalga and we headed out at noon. We stayed for 4 hours and had a good time. The Roller Coaster was working for the first time ever for us! Millie road it but Ray wouldn’t. The miniature golf was under construction but we played anyway. My kids are too little for Laser Tag or too nervous to do it without an adult. Bumper boats and Go Carts weren’t working. But we did the Frog Hopper, Pirate Ship, Airplanes and Roller Coaster LOTS. Rock Climbing was also out of order! We had some money left on a card to play the mini bowling and Laser Game. Tiago was too nervous to do anything but he enjoyed just being out and about. And it was a little chilly for the outside golf course but Ray did it anyway.

Categories: General

April Fools Day and Stitches, Conference and Beauty and the Beast!

April 4, 2017 admin No Comments

My family loves April Fools Day. I don’t. Ben planned tricks on the kids and the kids played tricks back on him. ALL DAY. Ben colored their baby pictures and sprayed them with silly string. He blew the air horn in their faces and dropped a stink bomb in the living room, (Do you see why I don’t like this day!) The kids piled His (my) bed with blankets, put squinkies in his shoes and tried to smear him with whip cream during pie face. They put ice and slime down his shirt and sprayed him in the face with the spray bottle. They all had a fun day of tricks.

General Conference was on April Fools and we were excited to have a quiet Saturday at home to watch. During the first session Millie pulled Tiago down the slide and he hit his head on the hearth! stitches needed! so Benji watched the kids, Ben drove and I held Tiago and held his wound closed. He got 7 stitches and we missed that session of conference.

While we were at the ER the kids made Tiago a sign! and then Tiago went right back to the slide when he got home!

We made cookie cutter pizzas for Lunch/Dinner and watched the next session of conference. Ben got to go to Priesthood Session with his Dad. We watched basketball and chilled and the neighbor PEAed on our porch to finish out the April Fools Day!

Sunday morning we had Waffles before Conference. We had a big Candy Stash and whoever payed attention and listened for our special words got to get candy after each speaker! Sugar over load.

Stitches seem to being doing their job.

We got to babysit Dagny and Gus on Monday!

and then we let Megan and Joel babysit Tiago while we took the kids to the movie. We all loved watching Beauty and the Beast and sitting in the loungers and eating too much popcorn: (next time we need to leave Millie home too – CRAZY GIRL)

Categories: General, Robertson

March 31

April 1, 2017 admin No Comments

Friday the 31st! The last day of the month. Ben took the day off and sprayed the weeds, did our taxes and took his motor cycle to the shop. I cleaned and went through old boxes in the basement most of the day while still doing all of my “mom” jobs.

play doh

watching SING, again, and playing games on the phone.

Rose is still making her little Green Books almost daily!

Tiago loved playing in all of the baby toys in the basement. All of the kids were NOT helpful.

Ben took the bike to the shop!

In the afternoon Mia and Luca, Anna and Ellie all came over to play. They stayed into the evening since it’s the first part of spring break and all of the kids are excited! Benji babysat at 6:00 while Ben and I went out to dinner with some “work friends”. We got the kids to bed and watched a movie and that is the END of MARCH.

Categories: General

March 30

April 1, 2017 admin No Comments

Thursday Dance Party! I love Tiago’s face in all of these:

Gus came and took a nap at our house so we got to see Dagny and Megan too!

Then at 4:00 we went over to the SCHOOL ARTS FESTIVAL: the art work…

We got our tickets and went and played: Face Painting, balloon animals. Making Gak and then the soda pop walk. We lost Millie in the middle of all of that and then we ate dinner in the gym and finished the night at the dance party!

At 6:30 we all went to my soccer game! Kids in bed around 9pm and that was that!

Categories: General, Robertson

March 29

April 1, 2017 admin No Comments

Wednesday was a morning in the car with the Hancock littles and my littles. I drove Erica to Price to get her truck that had broken down there. We turned around and drove back. Stopped at McDonalds to make the kids happy and then dropped the girls off at school.