Weekend Away

This weekend my mom took the kids so Rory and I headed to Salt Lake. We went to the Gateway Mall and shopped in the rain and then we went to see My Bloody Valentine 3D. Oh ya, that's right. Rory LOVES horror movies. Me, not so much. I had my eyes closed for about 90% of the movie. The 3D effects were really neat though. They are going to have the new Ice Age movie in 3D there, so I think we will take the kids when it comes out. We then went to the Home Depot and Rory got a new drill/saw combo. I got a shelf for our laundry room. I was so excited. It's the little things :) We then went to dinner at Red Robin and back to the Little America. I love that place. It is so nice and clean. We got in the hot tub and Rory met this guy that plays in all the Hailstorm church movies. I had already gone back to the room because I wasn't feeling so hot. Turns out K wasn't either. My mom said she had a fever and had to keep running to the bathroom, poor thing. We then went to the Little America Breakfast buffet and did a little more shopping and headed home. It is so nice to get away every once in awhile. I love my kids, but the break tends to make me a better mom. I just wanted to tell my mom and my grandparents thanks for everything... we couldn't have done it without you!

Sleepovers, Curlers, and Brunch

During Christmas break my nieces came over for a sleep over. It was a lot of fun. Connor and Kadee just love them to pieces and we really wish we got to see them more. Aniston was such a big helper! She bathed the kids, got them in their pj's and kept them entertained. Kadee got a baby Alive from our next door neighbor and they all sat and played with it for hours. They thought it was so neat that it peed and pooped and I kept telling them, it's really not that neat! Probably because I've changed a few thousand diapers in my time!
We then went up to Helamen Hollow with Ror's family and went sledding. Connor loved it, but Kadee went down the hill one time and she was done. So we went inside and she played with Danae and Booga.



Saturday we went to our annual Branch girl brunch. Laurie and Dena are turning (or have turned) 50 this year. Happy Birthday girls!!! As always we laughed and gossiped a little and ate too much. They are some pretty fun ladies. I'm glad that Debbie includes her daughter in laws in all that stuff, in return I try to explain the ways of the world to her so she isn't quite so naive.

Last night Kadee and I decided to put curlers in her hair. She sat so still and was so excited to look like a "princess." She slept on them all night and really didn't want me to take them out this morning. I explained to her that the point of the curlers was to curl her hair and we needed to see if it worked. Boy did it! I told her she looked like a cute little poodle. She didn't like that too much. She kept saying "I want to look in the mirror, I look like a princess."