Happy Easter

We had a wonderful Easter weekend.  It was super cold but we enjoyed
spending the weekend together.  Rory had to work the Jeep Safari in Moab,
so the kids and I hung out at home.  

The kids played with friends most the weekend (Kadee rode
horses at Baylee's all day Saturday), Saturday morning the girls and I
ran in the Health Dept Tobacco Free 5k (Connor had a sleepover
at Nana's so he missed it and Matthew had an ear infection so he
stayed home with grandma Debbie).  Sunday we had a wonderful church
service and then colored Easter Eggs, had a visit from the Easter Bunny, had an
egg hunt in the basement and went to Nana's for dinner.  

Kadee and Kinlee were such troopers for the 5k,
niether one of them complained and they both made it the whole way!

 

Rory's getting old

Yesterday was Rory's 34th birthday. I was going to get him a fabulous gift but his trip to the hospital cost us a small fortune, so I took him to dinner instead.  We had our awesome friends Jeff, Emily, Travis, and Sandy join us for dinner at Groggs for delicious food and lots of laughs. After dinner I grabbed our families favorite Cold stone cake (cheesecake named desire) so the kids could help Rory celebrate his birthday. Kadee bought him a mountain dew and rolos so I'm pretty sure his day was complete :) I found this quote that perfectly describes these people of mine: "they are the beat of my heart, the pulse in my veins, and the energy of my soul." They make my life complete and oh so wonderful. 

Early Easter Fun

We had a fun day with all the activities going on around town. We started at an Easter egg hunt at Wellington park first thing this morning, then to the St. Patrick's day parade, then to the home and garden show to look around and visit Rory (he was working the sheriff's office booth), after that we hurried to the wave pool for their egg hunt (Matthew won a super soaker!), went grocery shopping, and am finally home with my diet Dr. Pepper and leftover cake from Rory's birthday. Fun and busy day, I'm glad to be home.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Wow!  This has been a super eventful week.  Rory got really sick on Sunday with severe stomach pain.  I finally convinced him to go to the doctor on Monday and he was admitted into the hospital.  They thought for sure it was his appendix, but they did a ct scan and ultra sound and decided it was something else.  His white blood cell count, liver enzymes, and inflammation counts were extremely high, so they monitored him over night.  The next morning they ran some more tests and decided he was well enough to go home.  They scheduled a nuclear med scan for yesterday, it scans for gallbladder and other intestinal problems.  It took about 2 hours, but we still haven't received the results from that.  He says he's feeling a lot better and went back to work today.  I hope that whatever it was isn't something that is going to be reoccurring and that he can recover quickly.

Today the mischievous leprechaun visited our house.  He turned all our pictures and decor upside down, hung St. Patrick's Day necklaces from our dining room chandelier, colored our milk green, tied our fridge shut, and left green treats for the kids lunches.  Then that sneaky leprechaun snuck St. Patrick's Day jokes into their lunchboxes for a fun lunch surprise.  I don't know how he does, but he also snuck into Kinlee's Kindergarten class and messed up their classroom and left a pot of gold.  He then went to Matthew's class and did the same, but this time he left his footprints all over the tables.  He is such a fun and crazy guy and the kids always look forward to his annual visit! 

   

Disney on Ice

We had a wonderful weekend.  The kids didn't have school on 

Friday, so we went up to SLC and had dinner at the

Cheesecake Factory (yum!) and then went to 

Disney on Ice (Frozen edition).  Matthew and Kinlee were in awe.

They were singing and dancing along and enthralled throughout the show.

Kadee and Connor got a little board, it makes me sad to think they

are getting too old of that kind of stuff.  They were really good sports though

and said they would definitely do it again.

Our Disney weekend was completed on Saturday when we went to see the new

Disney movie, Zootopia. Rory had free movie passes so all we had to buy were snack packs

for the kids.  It was such an adorable movie and I'm so grateful we got to spend

the weekend doing things we love to do with our kids.   

Chinese New Year & Dr. Seuss' birthday

Last week the Kindergarten celebrated the Chinese New Year.
They learned about the Chinese culture, the Chinese horoscope, brought apples
and oranges to bring their classroom good luck, cleaned their rooms for homework
(out with the old, in with the new), ate orange chicken and rice with chopsticks,
made a flag with Chinese letters, and ended the week with a Chinese New Year
Parade around the school.  I am so grateful Kinlee has such a fun, hands on teacher
to make learning an amazing experience.

Last week was Dr. Seuss' Birthday, we celebrated by going to
school early in the morning for Parents and Pastires, we read to the
kids and Connor, Kinlee, and Matthew all won a book from
the book drawing.  Kinlee's class celebrated by having a read a thon.
They wore their pajamas, brought blankets and pillows, and read with the
dogs, Logan and Baxter (thing 1 and thing 2).  That evening we had green eggs
and ham and strawberry shortcake (made to look like the Cat in the Hat's hat)
and Connor and Kadee read Dr. Seuss books to Matthew and Kinlee. 

Hockey game, Basketball, & Dance

This past weekend was lots of fun.  On Friday we had tickets for a Grizzly Hockey game in Salt Lake.  We got to go visit grandma and grandpa Curtis and then headed to the game.  We had front row seats and it was so awesome!  None of us had ever been to a hockey game before and we all really enjoyed it.  Matthew was in awe, he would hold his knuckle up to the glass and the hockey players would skate by and give him knuckles.  He wanted us to buy him a hockey stick, but I was too worried about the damage that would happen to my house if we let him loose with a hockey stick!

Saturday Connor had his last Junior Jazz game. Their team was an awesome group of boys and ended up finishing 1st and undefeated in the league.  They practiced hard and played hard and obviously their hard work paid off.  Connor is beyond excited to try out for the Middle School team next year and all the boys are excited to go out for ice cream with their coach to celebrate.

Saturday afternoon Kinlee had the opportunity to perform at the USU Eastern Women's basketball game.  That little group of girls is the most adorable thing you will ever see.  They got out on the court and danced their hearts out to, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love."  I wasn't sure how Kinlee would do because she tends to get shy in public places, but she totally rocked it!