We Are Spontaneous!!!

On Wednesday Richard was going to be going out of town to the oh so lovely Elko Neveda! He was going for work he had asked us the week before if we wanted to go but Trey said no that it would be to boring! That was the end of that...well until Wednesday morning when he was getting ready to leave! Trey decided that we should go! So we hurry and packed .....

and off we went! We started our long drive which I actually didn't think that it was all that bad the boys were good and we got to drive through tiny little towns in the middle of nowhere! I just love them and this may be a little morbid but they remind me of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre....scary back wood people just waiting for you to stop so they can get you! HAHA! Sorry I'm a little crazy like that!

In case you didn't know there is nothing on this drive no services of any kind so if you have to pee you pee on a bush! But you have to hurry so that none of the crazy people that live in these parts find you and make a skin coat out of you!

We drove past little places like this!

And did you ever wonder what Beverly Hills Nevada looks like! Well I didn't until I saw this sign!

This is what it looks like! Nothing that fancy!

Finally we made it to Elko and if you've never been there this is about all that you need to see! The place was kind of a dump and I'm putting it mildly! It was just kind of gross and I don't really know why anyone would want to live there! There is nothing but casinos and a walmart and of course movie theatres that is why we were there after all!

Here was our sleeping place! Does it look a little scary! The best part about this was that Richard didn't say that he would have more than just himself when he booked the room the night before! So we had to be all kinds of sneaky with two noisy kids when our room was put right above the office!!!!

Luckily for us across the street there was a great park! It had lots of things to do before we went to go and be spies and the movie theatre!

Yes that is me rockin' out with Trey on the see saw! I'm that kind of mom!

After alot of fun playing at the park! We got all incognito (not really) and went to the movies! We took the boys to see Toy Story 3 again we thought that Jack would sit through that....he didn't!

His kids tray full of popcorn drink and candy lasted him about half the movie before he got all crazy and wanted to go roam the halls!

Trey wasn't so sure about seeing this movie again as it really touched his heart the first time and he just felt so bad for big baby! He cried like a baby this time just like last time when Lotso tells Big baby that his mama doesn't love him! He is such a tender hearted boy, he gets it from his dad...I have a heart of stone....or so I've been told! We ended the night at McDonald's grabbing dinner and then heading back to the room! Me and the boys crashed out and watched TV while Richard hit up another movie! We had fun hanging out with Richard but Elko isn't a place that I ever really want to visit again anytime soon! It was a fun adventure and that it how we like to roll one fun family adventure after another!

Cherry Hill!!!

We have a list! I list that we made of fun things to do this summer! One of the things was to go swimming at the pool! I decided that instead of going to just the plain old regular Logan pool that we would hit up Cherry Hill! I thought that it would be fun for the boys it has a huge pirate ship in the kiddie area and Jack is really into being a pirate right now! We invited our friends with us the Johnson's and the Ropers so glad that they were able to make it it was so much fun! It was a non stop swimming fest all day! They boys loved every minute of it and so did we!

Here is Jack, Trey and Gracie playing in the water!

Richard loved Cardiac Canyon! I also loved it! Me and Kelly took Trey down it! It was a little hard trying to hold on to Trey for dear like since we had to ride in different tubes! I think that me and Kelly both had our arms pulled out of their sockets trying to keep a hold of his tube! But it was so fun and Trey loved it! Sorry we didn't get any picks of that!

Jacky loved these water things he played in them all day! He would stick his face it and try to walk through them without getting knocked over! It was so cute!

All the kids loved the slide! I had just caught little Tenzing after he came down the slide!

Trey loved trying to turn the handle on this! I think that he thought that it would really do something!

Jack loved to splash!

Soon we had to take a break so that Richard could do what he does best....play on his phone!

Tenzing needed a Pepsi break! Who can blame him it was a hard day!

Gracie needed a snack break!

So did Jack!

And so did Trey! We had such a good time and we are so glad that all our friends could go! I wish that we could do it every week but since it's not here in Logan we will just have to do it every once and a while!

Pioneer Day!!!

I haven't blogged in awhile I know, but I have nothing to blog about at all! Good thing that Pioneer Day came around so that I would have something to talk about right?! It was a pretty eventful weekend but unfortunately I didn't get any pictures! We went to a neighborhood BBQ on Friday! Which was great until a few hours after I ate because I got some wicked food poisoning! It's been pretty awful and my stomach is still a little on the queasy side of things! But don't worry I will find out who tried to poison me and that will be sorry ;) Saturday was the actual day of the Pioneers and since I didn't feel good we didn't do anything including go to the fireworks! I felt bad for the boys but luckily they didn't even know that they missed anything! Sunday though was our big celebration! We got our friends together and had a BBQ (uuugghh!) I couldn't even try to make myself eat something! So I mostly ate watermelon and watched everyone else eat burgers and hot dogs! It was pretty much disgusting me! Later that night we did our firework spectacular!

Gracie was amazed by her pop its! Can't you tell with those big eyes!
Trey just liked being silly!

Jack was the sheriff for the night! Patrolling all the firework!

Tenzing liked to stomp on his pops! Shoes or no shoes!

Oakley was sittin' pretty waiting for the show to begin!

Richard decided to take up smoking the lighting stick!

Spence and John liked to see how long they could hold fireworks before it blew up! Don't try this at home kids!

Trey started a dance off!

Then Gracie showed him what she was made of! That girl can shake her booty!

I snuggled with the Baby Bair in his baby bears!

Tenzing didn't dare watch for more than a few seconds!

Spence tried to convince Tenzing that fireworks are cool by getting closer to them! Eventually he said they were awesome! We had a fun night with our peeps and we look forward to many more adventures with them! Hope that you all had a happy Pioneer day!

The Prison Yard and a Lesson Learned!!!

If you remember last year about this time Richard finally got to work on rebuilding a part of our fence that had fallen down! Well there was still one part that needed to be replaced that goes from the front yard to the backyard! Thankfully for me Richard happened to read our friends the Wennergren's blog that talked about how nice it was that they had a fenced in backyard, that she could let the kids out there to run around and not have to worry about them and plain just how great it was! Well after reading that Richard felt sorry for me and he came right home from work last Friday and got to work!

Here is Richard looking all excited and ready to go before he really got to work!
And of course after a few scoop with the shovel this is what he found! His worst nightmare the big block of cement!

But it didn't take long to get out and the boys loved watching Richard and the magical cement!

In case you were wondering yes Jack is wearing speedo! He will not wear a swimsuit! So he wear his plastic swim diaper! Good thing that it is cute one!

Jack and Trey liked "helping" dad!

We wanted to have a gate on this side so that it would be easier to get the lawn mower out of the backyard! That meant that he was going to have to dig another whole for a post for the gate! We thought that we might get lucky where we were going to put it and there was not going to be another block of cement! But like all of our fence projects we are not lucky! There was a huge block and it was stubborn!

Richard ended up putting the bottom of his shoe right through the shovel!

Instead of changing both of his shoes he just changed one as not to loose any daylight changing the other one!

He finally got it out the next day! He was tired and I'm sure he was pretty sore! We set the final post in Monday night! It was really hard to get lined up all even it took a little more digging, but it was finally done so that we could build the actual fence the next morning before it got to hot!

Shortly after we came inside I was putting the boys to bed when Richard ran up the stairs telling me he had broke his phone! I just want you to know that this isn't just some regular crummy cell phone! It's a palm pre which is a touch screen and it's only a few months old! Richard while he was digging the hole down that day had laid on the ground with his phone in his pocket right on top of a rock which shattered his screen!

I don't know if you can really see it that well but it was totally done! He couldn't do anything on it well because it was a touch screen! He could answer it if someone called him but that was it! And if you know Richard you know that his phone is like another member of our family!

The good thing is that we finished the fence! I now have pretty much a kid outdoor prison! I love it the boys hate it! Trey told me that he felt like he was in jail! They never really went out to the front yard if we were in the back anyway but since they can't they hate it! I can now send them out in the morning while I clean and it's so great! I also love that we now have complete privacy from some peoples prying eyes! The bad news is that Richard no longer has a cool phone (just me) he was not eligible for an upgrade and we were not to excited about having to pay $400+ for a new phone! One of his managers just happened to still have a Blackberry curve that was sprint phone that she was willing to give him for free until he can get an upgrade in December! So the moral of this story is don't lay on rocks with your phone and if you have a really nice phone get insurance on it, because when you break it, it will be worth it!

Big Blue!!!

Yesterday was the big day, it was the day of Trey's little friend Emmie's bday party! He was so excited to go not only because it was his first friend bday part to go to, but also Big Blue was going to be there! We had gone to the Home Depot about an hour before the party was going to start and he was freaking out because he thought for sure that we were going to late! But we made it right on time!

Big Blue was there when we got there and he wasted no time in teasing Trey Baby!
Jack was totally afraid! I don't know why, he isn't afraid of the people at Disneyland! But it's okay because Richard was just as excited as Trey that he got to be at a 5 year olds Birthday Party with Big Blue!

Trey had fun with him all night long!

Trey hitting the Pinata!

Big Blue cuddling the Trey Baby!

High Five on the swing!

This is about as close as Jack would get to Big Blue!

Trey wearing the Big Blue hat!

Trey wishing Emmie a Happy Birthday!

Jack pretty much was happy if we were feeding him something sweet! I think that he ate enough cake for 3 people!

On the walk home to our house Jack was looking through his bag for something else that was sweet to eat!

Thanks so much to the Foster family for inviting us to Emmie's party! We had a great time celebrating Emmie's big day and we loved hanging out with Big Blue!