Jungle Jim's Rocks!

We ventured out to Jungle Jim's a few weeks ago. We were able to go with all of the cousins that were in SLC at the time and G & G Nacey and everyone had a good time. For those of you who don't know what Jungle Jim's is, you should check it out. Its a very low key indoor "amusement park" and I'm using that term loosely. But the kids loved it. Their favorite ride is below. It was called the Amazon and it was rocking mini roller coaster/spinning ride that smooshes whoever is on the outer side of the seat. But they rode it probably 10 times.

This ride was more for the faint at heart, such as Dax and Teag. They could've ridden this ride all day. Oh wait, they did!
Again on the Amazon. And if there wasn't a line, then the kids just got to stay on and go again. Eat your heart out Lagoon!

Good times!
So if you're in the Sandy area you should check it out. It was quite inexpensive and not very busy at all, even on a Saturday. Great for a cold spring day.

Kenady's 7th Birthday

That's right, she is 7. My how the years have flown. She is such a sweetie in our home and just a beautiful little thing! We love her so much.

These are the highlights of her B-day party. We had a luau party for her and her friends. We made flower hair bows for everyone that came and the all got have leis. This is pretty Kenady before the party.

Very cute sisters. That Presley's new way to smile. She always tilts that head.
Me and my girls.
If that doesn't look like a face having fun, then I don't know what is. Everyone was trying to pop each other's balloons.
" Oh my gosh, I can't believe what you got for your birthday, Lucky!"
And last and definitely least, the cake. I had such high ambitions for this cake, but alas, we had some malfunctions with structure. Its supposed to be topsy turvy but its not supposed to buckling under its own weight. It turned out kinda cute and at least it tasted good. Chocolate of course, Kenady's favorite.
After the birthday party, Grandma and Grandpa Mackey took us out to IHOP for dinner ( also Kenady's favorite). It was an awesome day! Happy birthday to my favorite oldest daughter.

Say Cheese!

The day I'm trying to get the house clean, Teag finds his way into the Cheetos bag. For some reason he likes to take his prizes to the bottom of the stairs to dig in. Seriously, Cheezetastic eh?

I guess he's trying to clean it up here. He's a busy boy.

My sweet girl Kenady.
Me and my baby boy!
Daddy and baby boy!
Presley pretending to be a sugar plum fairy. With the help of her Daddy she looks pretty awesome.
Is this considered child abuse? If his binky wasn't in the way you could see that he is smiling!
We haven't been too busy lately, just having fun at our house and doing family stuff. Life is good!

Strawberry Shortcake Boots

We have been slowly plodding away through January and February. It just kinda feels like things have been going slowly. We have done a couple of fun things. Josh and I were able to go to Vernal a few weeks ago to go to the temple and watch a wrestling dual between Iowa and UVU. Iowa is the number one ranked team in the country. UVU is not so much, but it was still fun to see those really good wrestlers from Iowa. At the temple we did Josh's great great grandpa and great great grandma's names. That was the first time that we've done family names. It was a pretty neat experience. Now I don't think I'll go unless I have a family name, which thanks to his mom, we have plenty of work to do!

This last weekend we decided to go up to Jackson just for a quick little get away. We got to go tubing at the Snow King and the girls swam in what they thought were the "Hot Springs"( the swimming pool at Snow King). Although it wasn't very hot and their little bodies were shivering quite a bit when they were done, they had a great time. Teag kept busy running around the lobby impressing the ladies with his strength. Everytime someone would say "Oh, you are such a cutie," he would smack the wall with his hand or pretend to do somersault. He is such a goof ball.

We drove down to Star Valley that night and stayed with my mom and dad. It was a nice change from hanging out in the house the whole weekend.

These are some funny pictures. Word to the wise: If you have girls before boys in your family, you should just buy black, either gender friendly snow boots. That way your little boy doesn't have to wear strawberry shortcake boots because you don't want to go out and buy another pair of snowboots when there is a "perfectly good" pair that he can wear, pink strawberries and red-headed girls aside.

Although I thought he pulled off the look quite well.
This is Teag deciding if he wants to play with the girls outside at Grandma Mackeys. He ultimate decision was no, he did not want to play outside. I'm not sure if it was because of the strawberry shortcake boots or not.
Here are the girls. There is a lot more snow in Star Valley than there is here so they spent a couple hours out there. They loved jumping off that porch railing into the deep snow.
Goofy kids destroying my living room once again. Hope everyone is plodding through winter just fine!

Funny Teag

I just thought these were funny pictures. This one is rare that Teag even holds still for me long enough to take a picture. We enjoy these few and far between moments when Teag will let us cuddle with him or even sit by us on the bed. Ahhhhh...

I couldn't stop laughing when Kenady put her T-shirt on Teag. He thought he was funny too. He kept running around like a mad man. Ohhh we love this little dude!

Which one is which?

When I first met Josh and Jason together I couldn't tell them apart. To me they looked exactly the same, had the same mannerisms, jokes and I think Jason was even wearing a shirt that I seen Josh wear before. Obviously it didn't take long for me to be able to tell them apart and as the years have past it seems like they looked even less and less like each other. But just recently it seems like they are looking more and more alike. This picture is from a couple weekends ago.

It probably helps that Jason is wearing Josh's clothes, but I really did a double take for a minute. Aren't they both so handsome?

Christmas at last......is over!

Now I love Christmas. I love everything about it. But it is sure nice a calm now that its over. Maybe that will be my new goal, to keep Christmas next year nice and calm. We'll see.

These are pictures from Christmas morning. Our kids forgot that it was Christmas morning until they meandered down the stairs at about 8:30 only because Teag had woken up about 30 min earlier and was being too noisy for anyone to continue sleeping.

Once they realized it was Christmas they were so excited.
Santa brought a sled, which Teag loved, so the girls pulled him around the house in it all morning.
This was Christmas eve. We had dinner with our good friends and we even put on the Nativity. It was fun. After that we danced to Christmas songs. When I say "we" I mean those 6 and under and an occasional break out dance from me and Tanya.
This is Josh being the narrator and a wise man. Kenady is a wise man and Presley is an angel. Teag was supposed to be the donkey but he wasn't having the costume on his head.
This is Christmas eve as well , all dressed up in their Christmas Dresses from G & G Mackey.
Teag playing some of his favorite toys. What a smiley face he is!

Christmas Rocks!