May 2015

We had a fun time checking out the tulip festival this year. It was such a warm spring this year, but there were still lots of beautiful tulips to see. Finn loved smelling all the flowers.

Sheldon finally has slightly less than perfect vision and had to get glasses. Halle tried on a few pairs while Sheldon was waiting for his glasses. If she ever has to get glasses she will look really cute!

I went to youth conference and Sheldon sent me this picture while I was gone. He told me Finn was missing his mama and drowning his sorrows in his milk.

We survived some rainy soccer games. I kept hoping we would see some lightning, because they'll play in rain or snow as long as their is now lightning.

We occasionally like to go check out the MOA at BYU. We have to start brainwashing our kids at a young age and convince them to go to BYU.

The Payson Temple Open House was a great experience. They did a great job handling crowds, we didn't have to wait in line and none of our kids cried when they had to put on booties! It was a really beautiful temple, I'm so grateful we live near so many temples and can give our kids opportunities to go inside. I can't wait until the Provo City Center Temple open house!

Of course, it's not a blog post without a picture of some crazy lego thing we have built. We built a lego tower all the way to the ceiling and then had a great time knocking it down. No children were injured during this process.

April 2015

We started off April celebrating Sheldon's birthday. I attempted to create my own ice cream cake and it didn't turn out super awesome, but Finn apparently enjoyed it. Next time I think I will just buy an ice cream cake from coldstone

My parents came up for Conference Weekend. Of course it was crazy being conference and Easter weekend, but we did so many fun things. It was great to be able to go to the temple with my family. Afterwards we all went to eat at a restaurant together and it was one of those dinners where Finn spilled his drink/food 3 times. Each time he spilled something he would cry so loudly, it was definitely one of those dinners where we ate our food as fast as we could to get out of there. 

Conference was great of course. Sheldon's Mom made some awesome activity packets for the kids that kept them busy during conference. 

  This is my favorite picture! We went to the bean museum while my parents were here and Finn is pretending to be a butterfly.

March 2015

We were pretty excited in March to be able to go to a Lego exhibit. They had scale models built of US Monuments. I love seeing how many thousands of lego pieces and hours it takes to build each model. 

Afterwards we stopped for churros at Costco. Have I said how much I love the gifs google makes?

Watching the sunrise out the window.

I don't know if this video will work, but we spent a lot of time climbing up these dirt hills. During the winter they were doing construction by our house and it was a Sunday tradition to go play on the big dirt hill. The kids would come home very dirty, but happy.

One day when we were playing outside, Tucker spent five minutes looking for a four leaf clover and of course Lucky Tucky finds one. Sheldon has spent his almost his whole life looking for one, he was a little surprised Tucker found one so fast. 

Halle turns 4!

My poor neglected blog! I promise I haven't forgotten you completely! I'm only 7 months behind, I can catch up easy.

Halle had her first friend birthday party in February! We planned a monkey party, because of course she loves monkeys. We kept it really small and only invited a few friends from the neighborhood her age and it was still crazy. I don't know how some mom's handle large kid parties, they stress me out. I guess you just have to expect craziness and go with flow. Halle helped me decorate her cake and I am really proud of how it turned out (thank you pinterest).  We had the kids decorate monkey masks, do a small obstacle course, and play a few other games. It was a fun party and Halle still talks about it. She's already planning her next birthday party!

January Moments 2015

This is just a post with a bunch of different random pictures from January. Sometimes it's the pictures of everyday life that I love the most. I like remembering happy moments throughout the days that are similar and sometimes mundane.

 Tucker loves to build with legos and whenever he builds something really cool he has me take a picture so we can try and get it in the lego magazine. One of these days they have to publish our picture! This was his triple-decker car.

 Obviously we are a family that loves Legos! We have quite large collection of duplos and occasionally build something massive with them. The kids actually have the most fun when they get to knock down whatever we built.

 We love Ikea! Except for when it takes us an hour for us to find what we are looking for and decide what we want, and then the kids are cranky and tired and I can't decide what to buy. Ugh. Ikea: it's a love/hate relationship. They do have decent food, but that store is big with too many choices for me.

 Finn eating his morning cereal. He still calls milk "no," which results in many frustrating conversations.

 In January I had a girls night with some of my old roommates. We ate delicious food, saw Into the Woods (not my favorite movie, very weird) and just had fun catching up. It was too short and I didn't get any pictures! While I was having fun with friends, Sheldon took the kids and went to visit his parents. They had fun riding scooters on a trail out by a marsh in Syracuse.

 We spend a lot of time reading stories together. Finn and Halle love to read the same stories over and over again, so I end up with a lot of weird stories memorized. We recently discovered Mo Willems, who I know has been around for a while, but he is a funny writer. I love those pigeon books.

 The one adventure we went on in January was to see Bodyworlds at The Leonardo. Tucker loved learning and we had some helpful anatomy students to answer questions for us. We walked in and Tucker asked, "How many bones are there in your body?" Another person at the exhibit promptly replied, "You start out with 270 at birth, but that decreases to 206 as an adult." My answer would just have been, probably a lot, so it was nice to have someone give him a more specific answer. After Bodyworlds we went up to the kids area of the museum and had a lot of fun playing around. The kids loved the pixel play area and we put every single one of those colored blocks on the wall. By the time we were done at the museum it was lunchtime. We were still feeling adventurous and tried a smaller restaurant that had curry friend chicken. They had no kids menu so we made our kids try all the regular food and they did pretty good trying new things! Pitas with hummus and spicy curry fried chicken. It was a reminder to me that we don't always have to eat at restaurants that the kids will love, sometimes it's good to try new things.

 And to end our post, some funny selfies to put a smile on your face.