Utah Vacation

Hill Air Force Base Museum
Our Friends the Agrens

We got to play in snow. Even built a snowman

Our friends the Carricks

Tubing at Brianhead

We had so much fun and it was hard to come home. We miss our family and friends very much, but we decided that going there is like a dream and now we need to be back to reality. We are grateful for our home here too and all the people we know here. It was nice for a break though!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Don't you just love holidays! I really love St. Patrick's Day for some reason. Maybe it is that little tiny bit of Irish blood that I have in me. Anyway we woke to a surprise this morning. A lil' wee leprechaun had visited us in the night and left all kinds of mischief and gifts for us. We had made a couple of traps to catch that pesky wee thing, but none the less he out smarted us. He even peed in our toilet of all things and left foot prints everywhere. I have to say I was a little upset because I had just cleaned the day before. We did find out the leprechauns wash their hands after using the potty because there were footprints all the way to the sink. To top it all off we found that the wee little guy had turned our milk green, and our eggs too. He also made us green pancakes with shamrocks cut into them. We didn't find him in our trap but we did find some of his treasure that he put their instead. That crazy wee leprechaun even wrote us a note.

We had all of the excitement at home, but it didn't end there...Tyler's kindergarten class was also visited by a leprechaun. He left them treats, sent them on a treasure hunt, and even gave them some Irish bread and green juice. The green juice had a caution sign on it that we later found out that the adults were not suppose to drink it because it would turn their feet green. Poor Mrs. Lusher, she found that her feet were green when she took off her shoes.

Well the day is not over, we will have to see what other surprises that leprechaun has up his sleeve.

Well, Top of the Mornin' to ya all!

Thinking of the Beach...

I was scrap booking this week and got to do our beach pictures from last years trip so it really got me to thinking about the beach. The weather has also been so nice that it made me feel like I needed to go to the beach. This picture from above was some pictures we took in the campground at Refugio State Beach.

This is us with our water play, which mainly is boogie boarding. Oh so much fun!!!

Lastly, you can't be at the beach without some sand play. This kids love this.

Anyway, I hope this makes all of you that are looking forward to going to the beach more excited and those who haven't come want to come with us some time.

As for this week we started off kind of lousy. Tyler was sick with a fever for Monday and Tuesday so I was trapped at home. Well it was kind of good I got our house cleaned really well while Tyler watched movies from the couch.

It was minimum days this week so the kids were out of school early on Wed - Fri. They loved that because they were able to play with friends more. On Friday we went with our friends the Clayson's to Pizza Hut for lunch and used up our kids reading coupons.

Justin had to work late on Friday and all day Saturday so we missed him but had fun watching movies, going to the primary activity, and just playing outside. We like it better when he is home though because it seems like we do more fun things.

I also was able to get our lawn mowed, a dead bush pulled out of our front yard, and rid our front and back yard of some weeds. Yay!!!

Junior Olympics

First, before I write about what I was going to write about I must make a clarification about my last post. Really I would like to play Lego's while my kids are at school, but don't have the time. There is just too much to do and not enough time to get it done in. I feel guilty reading a book during the day. Could you imagine the guilt that I would feel if I played Lego's. You can't possibly imagine. It would be tremendous. I did rebuild Tyler's Lego castle because we got a part that was broken in the mail one day and it took me all afternoon. That is way too much time, but on my defence it had a lot of parts.

Anyway this week was just a regular week of school, visiting teaching, house cleaning, laundry, watching kids, extra. On Friday the kids had their Junior Olympics at school so I volunteered in the morning for the short jump and in the afternoon we walked over to the school and watched Mackay perform. It was fun to watch both of the kids in all of their events. The kids had a lot of fun. There was no competition, that will start next year when Mackay's in 3rd grade. The kids were just able to participate in all the events and not worry about who comes in first or who comes in last. They just all did their very best.

My Secret Obsession

Okay this picture isn't my obsession, but Tyler is very obsessed with crafts, this is one I made while he was making his. Cute, eh! It's our little green guy trap!
This is my obsession. I really like to build with Lego's. Sometimes I like to do it while my kids are at school so they can't tell me that I am doing it all wrong. This is my supper cool space craft.
Well my kids though it was cool and fought over it for awhile.

My real obsession is dealing with these poor Lego guys. I really get upset when they are not whole. The poor things, as you can see from the picture, some are headless, some armless, and some have no bodies. I guess it is very cool to pull them totally apart and then make new guys out of them. I personally don't see the point. I think they should stay in one piece, then I don't accidentally vacuum them up, or I should say I don't vacuum a part of their body up. The part that would most likely get vacuumed up is the hand because they are so small. Anyway, I have gotten upset at my kids a time or two because I find Lego people all over the house missing their important limbs. Hopefully this post is not too gruesome for those with weak stomachs. Now you know my secret, so I guess it is not a secret anymore.