Messmaker strikes again!

Seriously, who is watching this girl? Obviously not me :)

Fun in Logan

Jeff and I first met in Logan 11 years ago this summer.  It's hard to believe how much has changed since that summer.  We moved to Salt Lake after we'd been married about 7 months.  Since that time neither of us has spent any significant amount of time in Logan.  A couple of weeks ago, he found out he'd be doing a VIP Optics booth at one of the events up here this weekend.  We decided to pull the trailer and make a family weekend out of it. 

This is at Second Dam.  The kids loved it until Big Man slid down a dirt hill and scraped up his foot and Little Man feel off the tree he was climbing across and scraped up his chest and leg.  BOYS!

Another early morning view of Second Dam. So pretty and green.  I had forgotten how pretty Logan is.

 

I took the kids for Aggie Ice Cream.  Yum.  Especially at 10 in the morning.

Being goofy.

The petting zoo at Willow Park. 

I finally got all 4 kids to look at the same time and then the Emu wasn't cooperating.  At the last second he popped his head up.

We played at lots of playgrounds.

The kids were dying to get balloon animals at the farmer's market at the park. 

Ready or Not...Summer is Here!

To start out I get a new 'do'. I go from growing my hair out to chopping it off. I've been wanting a change for a while now and I finally did it. I couldn't get a great 'self portrait', but it does look cute.

Little Princess has had a rough adjustment to summer.  The first week, she was bummed that school and dance were over.  She got pretty bored.  The second week, she had to adjust to her brothers being home all the time.  I've never seen such tantrums and naughty behavior.  Hopefully she'll get better from here.  She was over at our neighbors house playing in their costumes the other day and my friend sent me this picture. 

Somehow with summer our window well adventures resumed.  We hadn't had any animal down a window well for a really LONG time.  This week, we've had two.  Little Man spotted the vole in his sister's window well first.  He saw it in the corner, so I got out the BB gun and shot it.  I was pretty proud of my first kill shot.  The kids had a good time looking at it.  We left the dead body in the window well and one of the kid's friends kindly disposed of it (with gloves on) for me.

This same friend caught with his gloved hands the second vole.  This little guy dug himself quite the tunnel in Little Man's window well.  C  came over and dug through his tunnels and pulled him out. The kids were pretty excited about it.

It looks furry and cute-NOT!

It tried to bite C through his glove.  Little Man took the honors with the BB gun this time. 

This bike has made it through all four of my kids.  I got new training wheels for it for The Mover.  She loved sitting on it, but it may be a while before she figures out pedals. 

And our final adventure was finger painting.  Somehow the paint got left out and open and The Mover found it.  The only thing she forgot was a paper to paint on.  What a helper!

Memorial Weekend Campout

 So 11 years ago Jeff and I went to 'The Springs' for the first time.  It was pretty but at the time I didn't know it would become a frequently visited spot for our family.  We were trying to decide where to go camping this weekend and couldn't find a spot, so this is where we ended up. 

The kids loved it!  There were lots of places to explore and lots of dirt to get into! The best part is it's only 25 minutes from home.  We tried out our new camper and had a great time.

This naughty little thing thought it was a 'sleep optional' weekend.  She thought she would party it up in the camper instead of going to bed.  She earned herself early bed time for the rest of the week.  How can you get mad at that cute little face though?

And finally, the screens in the camper work great!

Kindergarten Graduation

My little man is so cute. He was so excited for his graduation from Kindergarten. He'd worked hard to learn all of the songs and even made his own poster for one of the songs. I can't believe how quickly this year has gone. He asks every day if he can go to school in the morning, so first grade will be PERFECT!

I was at the back trying to keep my girls quiet, so I didn't get a great shot of him getting his diploma.

I asked Little Man a few weeks ago who he thought was cute in his class.  This little girl was one of the three that he liked!  Her mom asked to get a picture of them together.  Apparently she talks about Little Man at her house quite a bit!  Too funny.

This is the poster he made all by himself.  His part was to draw a picture about Spring.  It went with a song about the four seasons.  He drew a tree getting new leaves and animals coming out of hibernation.  He even labeled everything.  I loved it.  He also made a graduation picture of himself.  The questions on the paper asked what he wanted to be when he grew up-teacher.  His favorite thing to do-horseback riding, and a couple of other things I can't remember right now.

May Craziness

May isn't even over and it has already been a very crazy month! Little Princess has had her last day of preschool, preschool graduation, and a dance recital. The week after that was all over was a big let down for her. She was bored and didn't quite know what to do with herself. Luckily we've had lots of play dates to make up for it.

In the middle of all the craziness, I ran the Susan VanKomen 5k Race for the Cure.  It is my mother-in-law's 20th year of being cancer free.  She wanted her daughters and daughters-in-law to all run it with her.  We decided to make it a girls weekend and stayed downtown at a hotel.  It was a lot of fun. This was the first time we'd had a girls weekend in the 10+ years that I've been in the family.   Nothing like running a race in a tutu and tiara.  Wahoo!

Big Man had a piano recital as well.  This is really the only picture I got of him (even though it's not really of him).  He did a great job.  He'd practiced hard.

The Mover continues to be my biggest helper.  One night while I was getting dinner ready, she got out the cups all by herself (without me asking).  She spend at least 10 minutes arranging them around the table.  I think she got out around 10-12.  She was quite proud of herself.

She's my biggest helper, but also my biggest mess maker.  After spilling the whole can of Pringles on the floor, I had her sweet them up.  The sweeping actually made a bigger mess than she started with, so it turned into the perfect photo-op.  You can only see a portion of the chips in the picture. 

Still coming up is Little Man's Kindergarten graduation this Friday.  We also had a Spring Fling at the boys school.  I have a few videos on my camera, but I didn't get any individual pictures.  I can't keep up with all of the excitement!  I need school to get out just so we can have a break.

Let's go Camping!

We have wanted to buy our own camper for a while now, but it has not worked out-until now!  Jeff has been eyeing this camper since we moved to Mona.  It has been parked in the Wendy's parking lot in Nephi.  A few weeks back the lady who owns it posted it on one of the indoor yard sales sites online.  They had reduced the price a bunch and so we went and looked at it.  It is perfect for our little family.  The front part has 4 bunk beds with a door that goes down below to the storage (this is their favorite part if you can't tell).

We've never been a big camping family-until now!  We have some fun trips planned. Our camper will get lots of use. We're excited.