Day #2-Full of Fun in the Sun!

Yeah! So once again we started out our day with swimming lessons for T. Then we headed up to swim with some friends in their pool. We all had so much fun even though Ty and P stayed at home for P's much needed nap. Mr MP3, Miss Cell, and little T swam their hearts out, here are some of their tricks...

After swimming, eating cookies, and drinking lemonade we headed home. First thing on the list, cheese quesadillas and dinosaur chicken nuggets. Then we played making forts, playing in the fountain and rock garden outside, and even making some chocolate chip cookies. Everyone got their turn mixing, dumping, and EATING!

Tonight's agenda...BBQ at a friends house, more swimming, and more eating... we better get to it. Then SLEEP...to rest up for a big day of fun tomorrow.

Our favorite things about today:

Miss Cell's: "swimming and going down the slide into the pool"

Mr. MP3: "definitely, SLIDE"

T's: "to go swimming and have sree cookies"

P's: "fjdksl ajlkdgoi" yah we didn't get it either...but he had fun too.

Mine: Having Miss Cell ask me to pick out her clothes, do her hair, and PUT A BOW IN IT... Oh, and saying my farewells to the mohawk... I have to tell you though, Mr. MP3 was pretty excited and this is what he had to say about it... "I'm happy it's off...and...it felt really cool."

Cousin Company!

We are so excited!!! This week lil' "Miss Cell" and "Mr. MP3" came down to visit! They took their very FIRST plane ride with me last night and loved every minute of it. The I need more crackers... I am dizzy... I am thirsty... I need more ice... I need more snacks... I need the movie back on... and I am still dizzy, were ok because they were far outweighed by the shock and awe of take off and landing and the fascination with the flight. They were so brave and it was a smooth flight.

This morning we woke up and I was in so excited to do a little girl's hair! (I am sure none of you are shocked considering I have a little fascination with hairbows and everything girlie!) Little Cell usually doesn't like it but this morning she was all about it. In fact, after we went swimming this afternoon guess who was asking me to do her hair and put the bow back in it????

So after T's swimming lessons this morning we went to Ethel M's Chocolate Factory with a bunch of our Vegas friends. We got to go through a tour and see how they made all those chocolates, we also did quite a bit of sampling! Then at the very end we bought some chocolate-covered gummy worms, YUM!

Afterwards we went grocery shopping, everybody had a few things to rember.
Miss Cell: milk
Ritz
Mr. MP3: graham crackers
chocolate
marshmallows
T: cheese
chocolate chips

Everyone did so good at remembering!

Our favorite things about today:

Miss Cell: "OHHH, firing smores!"

Mr. MP3: "Watching (Miss Cell) eat all the marshmallows"

T: "to the chocate fattery to eat chocate worms!"

P: "......" yup just silence.

Friends & Fun!!!

We have had so much fun this week. First our friends from Utah came to visit. Their little girl and T played so good together. We went to check out the fountains and gardens again, had some homemade pizzas, hit the carousel (always a favorite!), then headed home for the best part SMORES! It is always so fun to play and we are so grateful to have such good friends!

This week T also started swimming lessons. He is a little fish...he loves going to his lessons because he says the he " won't have to use his floaties" when he is done. He is relentless with his "CANNONBALL"s and is so brave. Today we went swimming at a friend's house and he LOVED it!!! Here is a little clip of him acting all grown-up! P just waits for T to finish his lessons on the near-by grass, being his normal crazy self. The trees around the swim center are all dedicated to different people, yesterday he went in for the all-out tackle of one of the Saint statues near one of them...thankfully he won and they both fell to the ground...he considered it a victory and has left her alone ever since.

What Kind of Human am I Anyways?!?!?!?

Yet another Sunday night of me and the boys, just the little ones that is because big T is off studying. So this week we had a lot of fun and a little not so fun moments. Last weekend while I was working up north Ty had taken T to study with him at his school. Well apparently T was hanging from one of those long tables they all sit at and fell off and on the ground, the problem is the table followed and landed right on T's forehead. So for the first several days it was a MASSIVE bump across his forehead... he kept asking me, "Mommy, what kind of human am I anyways?" Since he was acting fine we did not take him in. By Wednesday the bruising was worse but the swelling had gone down a little bit. By down I mean down his face...his nose and eyes were so swollen, and black and blue mind you. So after asking a few of our Dr. friends the concensus was to get him checked out. Thursday morning found us in the local Children's Hospital getting the CT scan of his little head. Little T was so brave. He held really still and acted like he was sleeping the whole time, that is until the machine turned on... His eyes became the size of quarters and I think he thought the machine was going to take him out, but he stayed so still just like they had asked, was so courageous, and I was very proud of him. T was given a clean bill of health, the "head picture" showed no bleed, broken skulls, or messed up eyes (as T tells the story). So it turns out T survived another weekend home with daddy, but BARELY!

The rest of the week was much more fun...we went swimming at some friends' house, did a little shopping and found some steals at Old Navy, and spent a few nights on the town. We took the boys to the local library carnival. They bounced in the bounce house, chucked a lot of bean bags across the library, and did every activity there so they could win the prize. It was all about the prize. All the boys could talk about was THE PRIZE! The prize...the smallest pixy stick I have ever seen. Moving on... Friday we went to this sort of swanky shopping district where they play "movies under the stars". We took the boys to Horton Hears a Who. Very cute show, millions of people (not all of them very nice to one another), and a few bags of popcorn later we headed home... Fun but next time I think we will avoid the crowd, hit Blockbuster, and set up a tv in the backyard.

Another fun thing this week... T said his first prayer in primary today. He did so GREAT! I just love that he is in primary now, he is learning so much. Every night at dinner we now have both an opening and closing prayer per T's request. He always says one of them and Ty or I say the other. He loves to pray and he LOVES to sing! In preparation for the Father's Day program next week they have been practicing a few songs. All day today I listened to "I'm So Glad When Daddy Comes Home", I never got tired of hearing it. Little T is so thoughtful, T and I laid down to watch a movie on Sunday and I woke up to him serving up 3 bowls of ice cream for him, Ty, and I. He said ,"P won't like this ice cream, cause this is MY favorite."

Take Me Out To The Ballgame!!

A couple of nighs ago we drove up to the local minor league baseball game. Tommy-G, Ty's PA buddy and the fam went and we had so much fun. We had awesome seats, 3 rows back from home plate, and of course had some nachos, hot dogs, and chocolate-covered frozen bananas. So our team lost that night but not for lack of fun from the stands. T caught a bag of Cracker Jacks and a team t-shirt and immediately had to put it on, despite it being an XL. Towards the top of the eighth inning wrestling with P got a little out of hand and we called it a night but all-in-all it was a fun night with the fam!

The Fam!

T and I!

Terrific Tommy-G and P (Tommy is the original teacher of the "Down Low, You Got Soul" trick sported by both T and P. P has slightly changed the rendition to pointing and yelling, "vnoudsagvnofda ngoiangaoiun ssssssssss!". We catch every word! After T shows everyone he knows his new move he says, "You know who teach me that???? TOMMY!!!!)


T SO excited about catching the new t-shirt!!

t's great adventure!!!

sorry they are side-ways, too hilarious not to put on for all to see!