Red Cliffs

So on Saturday I wanted to do one last fun day with my family.  My dad was excited cause he wanted to take his 12 passenger van for a spin.  My sister Daniela, her 4 kids, my parents, my 2 boys, and I loaded up and went to Red Cliffs (State Park?) for the day.  I LOVE that place.  It could only have been better if I had thought about wearing swim suits and if Brian had come, and if my other sister had been there....okay I guess it wasn't "perfect" but we did have a good time at one of my favorite places back home.

 The ride

 It's a good thing Levi is tiny or I would have been super worn out by the end!

 Awesome tree cave

 Can you tell he likes to "CHEESE"

 The boys leading the pack

 Pit stop

 Ok hard to tell from this picture but it is a mommy frog carrying her baby on her back! I tried to get a better view but she kept on hopping away.  *....so funny story....after Brian looked at our blog and saw this picture he Googled mating frogs...turns out it's not a mommy and her baby...what makes it especially hilarious is I took a similar picture with grasshoppers probably 5 years ago and showed Brian how cute the grasshoppers were and then he noticed what I hadn't!*

 Lucas stripped down the second he saw the pools

 The view going up, from top to bottom there is the lower pool, small waterfall, upper pool, large waterfall (people slide down these waterfalls), and then there is the stream at the top and more hiking that I have never been through.

 Vovo teaching the boys how to skip rocks

 Lucas kicked his cousin off this rock so he could say "CHEESE" and get his picture taken!

Great way to end a great trip!  Thanks to everyone who took the time to come and visit us :) I love that we have so many great friends, and that so many of my friends I have had since I was 7 years old and the literally the day we moved to Panorama Parkway and a little 4 year old brunette girl came over and made me play with her!

Mother's day and more

It was really fun to be in SG again for Mother's Day this year.  I wore my new skirt that I made right before going there!  So fun to turn a Kohl's clearance sun dress, that I bought when I was pregnant with Lucas and never wore, into a skirt.  In church the Primary kids sang a few songs for Mother's day and when they were done, Lucas was super sad because he wanted to sing a Mother's day song.  By the time we got home I had completely forgotten about that and went about visiting with Brian's mom who had stopped by.  Lucas went digging through some of my mom's stuff and came out with this little harp thing and started playing and singing "Happy Mother's day, Happy Mother's Day, Happy Mother's daaaaay!"  Talk about melting my heart...I will never forget that as long as I live!

One night we decided to have a Lucas date night.  We took Lucas to Fiesta Fun and he got to ride the "Kiddie Car" and then we all did the bumper boats.  Naturally Lucas and I rode together and Brian soaked us so bad that we had to walk around outside for a while for me to dry off!  It was pretty fun though and I can't believe that  was my first time EVER doing that.

One night we decided to have a Lucas date night.  We took Lucas to Fiesta Fun and he got to ride the "Kiddie Car" and then we all did the bumper boats.  Naturally Lucas and I rode together and Brian soaked us so bad that we had to walk around outside for a while for me to dry off!  It was pretty fun though and I can't believe that  was my first time EVER doing that.

 For my niece (Soleil) birthday I made her this super cute little apron and oven mitts and the Capri Sun purse pictured below

I have also been working on ways to make bows/flowers for hair and I made this one my Mom was wearing one day while in SG

Sand Hollow

There are so many places that we love to go back home, but this was the trip to do the things that we don't get a chance to do every time.  We got to see some of my besties that live up north that I don't normally get to see (Booo for me not taking pictures though! - Love you Nik, Shan, and Christy).  This little day trip was just for my little family.  The boys had tons of fun and Brian and I had fun, but wished for the good old days when we had our boat :(  That's at the top of Brian's wish list.

Sand Hollow State Park - This place is even more awesome than 2 years ago when we were here every single weekend.  Tons of beach for hanging out, water for wakeboarding, cliffs for jumping, and sand to ride in.

Driving to SG!

As always it is a happy occasion to drive home for a visit.  With kids the 9 1/2 hour drive quickly turns into an over 11 hour trip so this time we tried to leave at 5:30 am.  For the first time we decided to stop at Colorado River

 Lucas drank his entire water bottle between Flagstaff and here so he had a little "accident" on his jeans so he was sporting his new cowboy boots with no pants :)

 I thought it was the cutest thing ever but some really old grandma's there kept giving me looks like they couldn't believe someone would let their kids out in public with no pants!

Levi insisted on trying some Oreo's on the drive, they were a hit.

End of April

Levi is our little bum scooter.  It is hilarious!  He is much faster than when I took this video already

The first time he scooted somewhere without being coaxed, I had left the door open for a breeze and he scooted in the one second I turned away!

More sewing projects

Lucas is a genius when it comes to computers!

Easter Wrap-up

 We had so many hunts this year

 I forgot to take my camera but Youth Programs here on base put on a hunt (#2)

 the kiddos had a blast, even though we were a little sick

 The "Big" hunt at Hardin Field

 Levi was enjoying the event

 Gettin' eggs 

 Eatin eggs

 Both kids left with full baskets to go to hunt #3 (camera was in the car).  I had to empty them out in the truck cause they filled them to the brim again.  We got enough that we shared with our Lucas's BFF Zach who was at home sick

 Easter morning.  Lucas was ecstatic!

 Levi was more interested in Lucas

One last little hunt in the living room from the Easter Bunny