All in a weekend at "black" grandma and grandpa's 7/09

This is why my kids LOVE to go to grandma and papa's house.....

Playin' with dead fish...

awesome backyard...

Uncle Derek...

Thank goodness that toy is at grandma's house..

More Uncle Derek (They have the same facial expression Ü)

Noah learning how to do a flip..

Playing Go fish...

Eating yogurt..or maybe having a yogurt bath

Watching 3-D movies with grandma (she is the best!!!)

Playing with papa (Emery LOVES her papa!!!)

Swimming......

No wonder they sleep so well when we are there. Ahhhh, the memories!!!!

Ragnar 6/09

So Ryan and I decided to do a relay race called Ragnar. I'm sure most of you know what Ragnar is, but for those of you who don't, it is a 12 man continuous relay race from Logan to Park City (that's 180 miles). Each person did 3 legs and it took us about 30 hours to do it. I must say, it was a HUGE accomplishment for me and it was absolutely a love/hate experience. Our group was awesome and we had a blast (except for the running part Ü).

Nate and Wendy

Team Heavy Breathers

Me and my girl Stac-!

Tribute to Wendy!! Go Celine! Ü

Who stunk more...the skunk or us??

What a picture

You go girl!

This is before the race..hence the smiles

Before my midnight run...

Chris was trying to beat this girl...Ü

That's my man...He trained all of 1 day..OUCH

St.George 5/09

Our good friends, the Morleys, invited us to St. George for the weekend. It's always fun to get away for a weekend and the kids have a blast doing whatever.....

Noah and his grill!

What a fun group of kids....

Emery and Ava were hungry.

Thanks Morley's!!

A year, REALLY??

So, it's been a while since I updated my blog, and now I am back to where I was when I started my blog.....not knowing where to start. But since this is my way of journaling, I've got to catch up on the last year......so....here it goes!!

Noah's birthday

So my baby turned 6 a couple of weeks ago. I CAN'T believe it has been 6 years already. In a moment of weakness, I decided to do a birthday party here at our house. We decided to do a Mad Scientist party. I know..sounds crazy, right? A bunch of kids and lots of mess was exactly what it was, but let me tell you, we had a blast. Well, the kids had a blast.

When they got here, Noah handed them their box with their lab uniforms in them (goggles and lab coat). Then we made marshmallow and toothpick structures, lava lamps, and slime. We played pin the goggles on the professor, and ended the party with an erupting volcano that Noah and I made and the famous diet coke and mentos experiment. Here are some pictures from the party.

goofy faces

My first attempt at an erupting vocano cake.

Erupting vocano

Diet Coke and mentos finale!!

Baseball

Baseball season has started and Noah is playing machine pitch this year. I LOVE to watch his team play. Most of the kids are his friends from the neighborhood so they have so much fun together learning how to play. They are the Dodgers which made Ryan very happy. He bought he and Cole matching Dodgers hats to "support" Noah's team. Ü

JUST BECAUSE!!! She is sooo Yummy!!!

Easter

I know....Easter was awhile ago but I am way behind so we have a lot to "blog" about!!!

EASTER
We had a great easter this year. On Saturday morning, we went to our neighbors house for a huge easter egg hunt/breakfast. Thanks Heather for working so hard...It was a bit cold, but nobody seemed to care and the kids had a blast. Emery didn't really get the idea, but it was fun to watch her try to figure it out.

That night we decorated easter eggs. It always sounds like a good idea, but turns out to be just a big disaster. Oh well..It's all about the memories, right? That's what I keep telling myself anyways...

Cole would rather eat the eggs than decorate them.

This is as good as we got on Easter pictures. I'm not sure why I even try but it does make for some good laughs.

The boys have been begging and begging for a pet. Since neither Ryan nor I like animals, the Easter bunny decided that fish would be our family pet. So Easter morning the boys came down to 4 pet fish. Apparently our family isn't the "pet" kind of family because all of the fish have already died. At least we tried huh?