Monday, May 24, 2010
Hogle Zoo.... the perfect day!
So May 15th we went to the zoo with our really good friends, Aaron and Chelsey and their family!!!! IT WAS A BLAST!! The kids a great time together and love to play... which makes it all the better and a lot more fun! We followed each other up to the zoo and had a great time!! The photos that I took can pretty much tell the story for you and I won't bore you with all the details, but I will tell you of a funny experience I had a couple of times while we were there. There were a lot of girls that were wearing a similar outfit that I was wearing. I had a teal blue shirt on and brown shorts. One girl even had a similar hairstyle, but a little darker in color. We were taking pictures of the kids on a statue of a rhino and the older kids were getting restless so I took them over to see the mandrills and Mat, Chelsey and Aaron look over to where I was and there were 2 other women there with similar outfits and Mat asked, "Which is my wife?" Chelsey took a picture of that event, but I found it interesting that that was a popular outfit for the day. Can I just ask you one other thing? WHY DO GIRLS WEAR HIGH HEELED SANDALS TO THE ZOO?!?!?!? It just hurts my feet just thinking about it! Who are they trying to impress? Countless times we saw women walking in high heeled sandals or shoes and it really baffled me! Wear something comfortable! I said my peace enjoy the photos!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Busy April!
So I have been a really bad blogger the whole month of April! (BEWARE.... It will be a long post!)
To start off the month was my birthday and I had a really good day, considering it's April Fools and it snowed that day!! I was super excited for the weekend to come where I was going to be spending it with my family in SUNNY St. George and Mesquite, NV! We left Friday morning and drove down to St. George to meet my family there and start our trip! We were able to play around on the red rocks there and Hayden had a blast! Even though he was scaring me a lot of the time trying to "stay up" with the boys! Half the time he was not staying up with them and either Mat or I would have to hurry to help him out or carry him along. It was a fun time at our first stop and then we headed to this Dinosaur Museum there where the boys were able to look at fossils and dig around themselves at a site where the dinosaurs were actually found. It was a nice stop and the boys again had a great time. We had a decision to make for the next stop to either go to a place where one of our ancestors helped to build a mill with Brigham Young or go to the Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara. My sister-in-law is distantly related to Jacob Hamlin so we went there. She is related to his second wife, Rachel Judd. It was really cool house and we found out a lot about Jacob as well as his wives. The house was really cool and it made Mat and I want to live in Santa Clara! It was beautiful and not really in the city, but still close enough to "civilization" as Mat would put it. It was BEAUTIFUL...!!! We got talking to the missionary there and found out we had some little connections with him. His name was Elder Bryner, I think that was his name, anyway is from Price, which is where Mat's dad is from. It ends up that Elder Bryner, who is a Sr. Missionary by the way, dated Mat's dad's sister when they were going to CEU and knows the Miller family a little bit. Funny connects all around us to find, huh?!?! After the tour we let the kids play around on the grounds to get some energy out of them and then we headed back to my uncles house in Mesquite. It was fun to see the kids play with their cousins that they don't see very often.
We had a really good meal and the boys did fairly well, considering there was family around and they get easily distracted. Hayden of course did a great job. He loves food, most of the time. That night the kids pretty much crashed from playing so hard outside.
The next day was my favorite day!!!!! We ended up where it would seem out in the middle of the desert of Nevada, but it was a GREAT!! We went the Lost City Museum and looked at the Anasazi culture there. They have a whole collection of Native American tools, clothes, and even the pueblos that the kids could play in outside. The boys thought it was Awesome to play in a place where someone would sleep. They are not very big and it's amazing what the Native Americans did in such a HOT environment and survive. After that we drove a little further south and this is where the fun began. We went fourwheeling to a cave, where I think a lot of teens hang out, and had lunch. I didn't drive the fourwheeler, but Mat was able to and we had a blast. We had lunch in the cave and hiked around that area for a little bit. Then we drove back to where the cars were, the kids took a good nap (Hayden fell asleep on me on the fourwheeler on the way back to the car!), and we were able to drive around on the jumps, curves and everywhere out there in the desert. It was a blast!!! The last time I was on a fourwheeler was my Sr. year for Homecoming with Mike Haney. That was over 8 years ago!!!! Mat and I spent most of the time together doing that. Daxton came out with us once and told us that is what he wants to do for his birthday is to go fourwheeling rather than go to Chuck-E-Cheese. I thought that that was reasonable, don't you? At least I have family around that have fourwheelers that we can go with. After riding for about an hour or so, we headed to the National Park there to look at some AMAZING creations from God! It literally looked like someone grabbed a paintbrush and put a little yellow here, a little red there, a splash of purple here and a drop of pink there. The first hike we did was called the Mouse Tank. It's a place where the Natives knew where there would be water. It was not a lot of water, but an ample amount if it was in dier need. It was a fun hike for the fact that there were petroglyphs, paintings on the wall, that you could look for and at the beginning of the hike there was a map of what each petroglyph meant. It was really cool and a lot of fun!! Daxton was constantly look for them and would be able to tell you what each meant, or a close definition of it. Hayden was determined to walk all by himself on our way back. Even if that meant that we walked really slow and stopped a lot, he did it himself. Funny boy! We just went to a few other spots there and just took pictures, no hiking really. But they stops were beautiful, breath-takingly beautiful!! I will put together a slideshow of all the photos of our trip. I was able to do a book with Heritage Makers for my Aunt to show her our appreciation of all that she does for our family, all the places she takes us and the food she prepares for us and most importantly their home they provide for our overwhelmingly large family. Thanks Aunt Teri and Uncle Steve!!! Hope she liked it! I had a great time making it for her!
On Sunday we drove straight back to Payson, in the snow, ugh..... I'm done with snow!! Then we went to my Aunt Tina's and Uncle Tim's house for Easter.... Oh, wait, .... the Easter bunny didn't forget to stop at our house!! He came while we were gone... the boys were excited that when they got home there was candy and toys for them. It was so fun to see the expressions on their faces to see candy and toys at home!! We had a great Easter BBQ at my aunt and uncle's house. Had a great Easter lesson and spent a great deal of wonderful, needed time with my family.
The next day was the day I will never forget.... the day my dad got in a wreck on his way home from work in Mt. Pleasant!! He was coming home that dreadfully snowy night, blizzard like conditions and very icey!! He rolled his truck in Nephi Canyon just coming out of Fountain Green. Miracles occured that night and my dad came out with a scratch on his nose and a bump on his head. There was a perfect bubble over the driver's side of the car. He rolled on the passenger's side into the mountain side then it rolled back and landed on the driver's side door. My dad had a little bit of back problems that didn't show for a few days, but amazingly enough, he was unharmed.
I was able to see my good friend and former roommate at her baby shower that weekend on the 10th. Colette Day looks soooo cute being pregnant!! Hope all goes well for her and the baby. She's due any day now!
Not much else has happened. The boys have been growing so quickly and so fast. I think we went through a growth spurt because some of Corbin's pants are short on him now and Hayden is talking so much more and running around with the boys!
I did end up getting Strep throat a week or so ago, which was not fun at all. Ends up Daxton and Corbin were the carriers of it and so we were all on antibotics to get over it. If Daxton gets strep throat again this year we have to get his tonsils out!! Scary thought. He had strep already this year at the beginning of the year. Not fun to be sick. We have been getting a lot of things done outside. It's been nice to be able to play when it hasn't been snowing, which lately has been a lot. Silly snow needs to stay away. We need the moisture, but it would be nice to have rain, not snow!! Anyway, sorry for the really long post, but that is what's been up with our lil' family!
To start off the month was my birthday and I had a really good day, considering it's April Fools and it snowed that day!! I was super excited for the weekend to come where I was going to be spending it with my family in SUNNY St. George and Mesquite, NV! We left Friday morning and drove down to St. George to meet my family there and start our trip! We were able to play around on the red rocks there and Hayden had a blast! Even though he was scaring me a lot of the time trying to "stay up" with the boys! Half the time he was not staying up with them and either Mat or I would have to hurry to help him out or carry him along. It was a fun time at our first stop and then we headed to this Dinosaur Museum there where the boys were able to look at fossils and dig around themselves at a site where the dinosaurs were actually found. It was a nice stop and the boys again had a great time. We had a decision to make for the next stop to either go to a place where one of our ancestors helped to build a mill with Brigham Young or go to the Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara. My sister-in-law is distantly related to Jacob Hamlin so we went there. She is related to his second wife, Rachel Judd. It was really cool house and we found out a lot about Jacob as well as his wives. The house was really cool and it made Mat and I want to live in Santa Clara! It was beautiful and not really in the city, but still close enough to "civilization" as Mat would put it. It was BEAUTIFUL...!!! We got talking to the missionary there and found out we had some little connections with him. His name was Elder Bryner, I think that was his name, anyway is from Price, which is where Mat's dad is from. It ends up that Elder Bryner, who is a Sr. Missionary by the way, dated Mat's dad's sister when they were going to CEU and knows the Miller family a little bit. Funny connects all around us to find, huh?!?! After the tour we let the kids play around on the grounds to get some energy out of them and then we headed back to my uncles house in Mesquite. It was fun to see the kids play with their cousins that they don't see very often.
We had a really good meal and the boys did fairly well, considering there was family around and they get easily distracted. Hayden of course did a great job. He loves food, most of the time. That night the kids pretty much crashed from playing so hard outside.
The next day was my favorite day!!!!! We ended up where it would seem out in the middle of the desert of Nevada, but it was a GREAT!! We went the Lost City Museum and looked at the Anasazi culture there. They have a whole collection of Native American tools, clothes, and even the pueblos that the kids could play in outside. The boys thought it was Awesome to play in a place where someone would sleep. They are not very big and it's amazing what the Native Americans did in such a HOT environment and survive. After that we drove a little further south and this is where the fun began. We went fourwheeling to a cave, where I think a lot of teens hang out, and had lunch. I didn't drive the fourwheeler, but Mat was able to and we had a blast. We had lunch in the cave and hiked around that area for a little bit. Then we drove back to where the cars were, the kids took a good nap (Hayden fell asleep on me on the fourwheeler on the way back to the car!), and we were able to drive around on the jumps, curves and everywhere out there in the desert. It was a blast!!! The last time I was on a fourwheeler was my Sr. year for Homecoming with Mike Haney. That was over 8 years ago!!!! Mat and I spent most of the time together doing that. Daxton came out with us once and told us that is what he wants to do for his birthday is to go fourwheeling rather than go to Chuck-E-Cheese. I thought that that was reasonable, don't you? At least I have family around that have fourwheelers that we can go with. After riding for about an hour or so, we headed to the National Park there to look at some AMAZING creations from God! It literally looked like someone grabbed a paintbrush and put a little yellow here, a little red there, a splash of purple here and a drop of pink there. The first hike we did was called the Mouse Tank. It's a place where the Natives knew where there would be water. It was not a lot of water, but an ample amount if it was in dier need. It was a fun hike for the fact that there were petroglyphs, paintings on the wall, that you could look for and at the beginning of the hike there was a map of what each petroglyph meant. It was really cool and a lot of fun!! Daxton was constantly look for them and would be able to tell you what each meant, or a close definition of it. Hayden was determined to walk all by himself on our way back. Even if that meant that we walked really slow and stopped a lot, he did it himself. Funny boy! We just went to a few other spots there and just took pictures, no hiking really. But they stops were beautiful, breath-takingly beautiful!! I will put together a slideshow of all the photos of our trip. I was able to do a book with Heritage Makers for my Aunt to show her our appreciation of all that she does for our family, all the places she takes us and the food she prepares for us and most importantly their home they provide for our overwhelmingly large family. Thanks Aunt Teri and Uncle Steve!!! Hope she liked it! I had a great time making it for her!
On Sunday we drove straight back to Payson, in the snow, ugh..... I'm done with snow!! Then we went to my Aunt Tina's and Uncle Tim's house for Easter.... Oh, wait, .... the Easter bunny didn't forget to stop at our house!! He came while we were gone... the boys were excited that when they got home there was candy and toys for them. It was so fun to see the expressions on their faces to see candy and toys at home!! We had a great Easter BBQ at my aunt and uncle's house. Had a great Easter lesson and spent a great deal of wonderful, needed time with my family.
The next day was the day I will never forget.... the day my dad got in a wreck on his way home from work in Mt. Pleasant!! He was coming home that dreadfully snowy night, blizzard like conditions and very icey!! He rolled his truck in Nephi Canyon just coming out of Fountain Green. Miracles occured that night and my dad came out with a scratch on his nose and a bump on his head. There was a perfect bubble over the driver's side of the car. He rolled on the passenger's side into the mountain side then it rolled back and landed on the driver's side door. My dad had a little bit of back problems that didn't show for a few days, but amazingly enough, he was unharmed.
I was able to see my good friend and former roommate at her baby shower that weekend on the 10th. Colette Day looks soooo cute being pregnant!! Hope all goes well for her and the baby. She's due any day now!
Not much else has happened. The boys have been growing so quickly and so fast. I think we went through a growth spurt because some of Corbin's pants are short on him now and Hayden is talking so much more and running around with the boys!
I did end up getting Strep throat a week or so ago, which was not fun at all. Ends up Daxton and Corbin were the carriers of it and so we were all on antibotics to get over it. If Daxton gets strep throat again this year we have to get his tonsils out!! Scary thought. He had strep already this year at the beginning of the year. Not fun to be sick. We have been getting a lot of things done outside. It's been nice to be able to play when it hasn't been snowing, which lately has been a lot. Silly snow needs to stay away. We need the moisture, but it would be nice to have rain, not snow!! Anyway, sorry for the really long post, but that is what's been up with our lil' family!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
I'M........
Excited for Spring!!!!!!!! You thought that I was going to tell you that I'm pregnant, but nope, I'm not! But, it is OFFICIALLY SPRING TIME!!!!!!! I love Spring! Not only is my birthday in Spring time, but all nature comes back to life and I'm so excited for NATURE!!!! Just thought I would do a fun post!
Monday, March 15, 2010
The old and new begin again...
We were able to go to the Utah Flash Game with Daxton's preschool, Mountainland Headstart. It was AWESOME!! We were also able to take 2 of my nephews, Christian and Dalan. They had a great time too and keep asking me when we are going to go again. I'm glad that they had a great time.
The next thing we went and did with Daxton's school was see the play, "If you give a mouse a cookie!" It was a great lil book and an even better play. It's amazing to see how they get a 10 min book into a 45 min play. The kids were laughing and my boys were glued to the mouse. Corbin kept saying, "silly mouse!" It was a great way to spend family night together, popcorn and a play at the SCERA!! (They play is still going until the 19th of this month. Worth taking your kids to.)
The next day was our Relief Society Birthday PARTY!!! My mom and I were incharge of the food. They told us a party was the theme, nothing fancy so my mom and I did PICNIC food!!! We decorated our table with flowers, bugs, ants, picnic table clothes. Our food was fun and of course, YUMMY!!! We had fried chicken, potato salads (12 or 13 different ones the dear sweet sisters provided), baked beans (4 different ones the sisters also provided), chips and salsa/dip, carrots, pickles, and celery and had water. It was fun, easy and very relaxing. It was a fun activity to do and I thank my mom for the great ideas for the food table decorations as well as the food. She's wonderful!!! Love you mom!!!
We got the boys new bed(s). We got this bunk bed from IKEA and the boys love it!!! It's not too high and very low to the ground. Corbin's bed is on the ground so no worries about him falling out of bed any more. It fits really nice in the room and Hayden gets a crib now! He was not too happy about being in the crib at first. He cried for a total of 30 seconds, fell asleep and was fine was he realized it was his bed now. Silly boy!!
Speaking of sweet Hayden. He's getting so big. He is almost 18months old. YEAH!!! Next month we are able to put him in nursery with Corbin!!! I can't wait! But he is walking like crazy, running is more like it, to keep up with his 2 older brothers. He loves to do everything that they do. Although he is a bigger class clown and loves to just drop to the floor, roll around, make silly sounds and push himself were ever on the floor. He loves to make you laugh and smile all do. His other favorite thing to do is READ!!! He will come up to you, book in hand, and say, "Momma, READ BOOK!!!" Not kidding. He is talking so much. This morning Corbin said, "I love you mom!" and Hayden said, "LUV OO MOM!!" (it's hard to type baby talk!) It was way cute!
The boys are looking forward to our summer of camping and then definitely for October when we are going to DISNEYLAND over UEA (Fall break) pretty much for Hayden's 2nd birthday with Mat's family. They are SOOO excited as well as Mat and I. It's been 4 years since we have been and we can't wait to go back and experience with our boys. We definitely have a busy summer already planned with reunions back-to-back and camping on our own. We can't wait!!
Hope all have adjusted well to the time change. It will take some getting used to for us, but I think we might be able to handle it! Have a great day!
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