Utah - Parks, Creamery and Grandma

I really need to hurry and update my blog before I forget everything we did. I can't believe it has already been a month since we were there.

We got into Utah on Tuesday and got settled into our hotel. Cirdan needed to get a haircut and buy a white shirt for the wedding so that night we went to the mall. There was a little train that drove through the mall so Cirdan rode on it with Ella and Jett. While we waited for Cirdan's hair to get cut we went to Claires where Kaiya bought herself these black glasses. She wanted to wear them everywhere we went. I had to say no a few times because they just got annoying after a while. I am glad she is comfortable enough to do her own thing though.

On Wednesday we decided to head over to Provo and go show the kids BYU and go to the Creamery for lunch. After eating we got the kids some ice cream. I never realized how good that ice cream is! I don't eat ice cream very much but that was goooooood!

Ella really wanted to get a picture with the Y on the mountain. She enjoyed watching out the car window to see if she could find a letter. We drove around and found a spot in a church parking lot to take some pictures. The kids were getting restless so we found a park for them to play at. After being there for about 10 minutes and having Jett fall on the bar and cut his lip we decided to go to another park. Not because of the hurt lip but it was ghetto and the people walking past were...interesting....

We found another park and played there with the kids for a while.

That night we went and picked up Cirdan's grandma to go to dinner with her. It was nice to see her. After dinner she came back to our hotel to visit. It was fun hearing some of the stories about Cirdan's grandpa and family. Jett has never met her and the last time Ella and Kaiya saw her was when we were down in Utah for Nathan's wedding in May 2004. She had some pictures of Cirdan when he was little that she gave to him. There is a picture in it when he was a baby which is the only picture he has seen when he was that little. It was really special.

The kids found some ants to watch. Jett wanted to stomp on them and pick them up.

Kaiya being silly

Driving to Utah

My sister Kaylee got married on Saturday, April 28th. The Monday before we started our trek to Utah. Kaiya had missed a couple of days of school the week before (sick) so I really wanted her to go to school for a while before we left. We got on the road around 1:00. The drive wasn't too bad at all and the kids did really well. We had decided to stay in Boise that night and pulled into town around 10:00 pm. In the morning we got on the road around 10:00 am. The kids started to get antsy towards the end of the drive but overall did great!

Jett loved looking out the window and would say, "cow!" or "horse!" every time he say an animal. It was really cute. The girls could care less what was outside and was more concerned with their movie or ipod.

Taking a break at a rest stop

Saying Goodbye

 Saying goodbye is never fun. But we will see her again in June! She will be here for Father's Day and her 7th birthday! Jett wouldn't take a picture with the girls...this was the best I got. Ha ha

More Spring Break Fun

One day during spring break I took the kids to Walmart to buy some outdoor toys. We got some balls, a bat, badmiton set, bubbles and chalk. On the way home we stopped and got happy meals. The intention was to take the food to the school for a picnic but Jett fell asleep on the way home so they just ate in the backyard. We went over to the school once Jett woke up. When we got home the kids played outside some more with their chalk and bubbles until we had to take Kaiya to dance.

Kaiya has been working really hard and learned how to do her back walkovers. It's her new favorite thing to do and she does it all the time.

Decorating Eggs

After Ella's Birthday party we decorated Easter eggs. I almost didn't do it since it had been a crazy-busy day and we were all worn out but I just couldn't not do it. Starley was still here playing with the girls so she also decorated some eggs. Kaiya and her had fun making Auburn Dance themed eggs. Ella and Ava had fun with the glitter and coloring the eggs.



Starley dropped her egg



Easter

Easter morning we woke up and went to church. The girls were itching to see what the Easter bunny brought them but they had to wait until we got home. Jett went to sleep so he missed the girls opening up their Easter baskets. Once he woke up he opened up his then the kids went for an Easter egg hunt. Jett figured out very fast that the eggs were good and there was candy inside of them. He had so much candy that he was running around like a crazy guy.
I am also not sure who had more fun...the girls or Cirdan. I had to remind Cirdan that the hunt was for the kids and not for him. He would rush and steal away an egg before Kaiya could get to it (he was getting them for Jett). It was funny/disturbing to watch.
We made some stuffed french toast the night before so all we had to do was bake it. It was delish! After our brunch and hunt we relaxed for a while before heading over to Nate and Amy's house for Easter dinner. The kids had another Easter egg hunt in the backyard. It was awesome to be able to have the weather nice enough to do it outside. That doesn't happen very often. After the hunt we sat down and ate some very tasty food. It was nice to celebrate with the family.