Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Homeless
I'm afraid I will not be posting for a little bit. We are technically homeless right now. My Aunt Susan has taken us in until we can get into our home in Smithfield. Closing is Wednesday. The seller needs til Saturday to move out. We will be moving in the following weekend. We can't wait til all this CRAP is over with!!!! It's hard to live in someone else s' home. You can't do things like you would like and feel like your in the way all the time. Not to mention that I have to clean after my kids a whole lot more! At least we now have the internet established again! I have so much I would like to write about but sadly not enough time. My google reader is at 211! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! So many crafty individuals I get to copy from :) Also I have things to write about like the last 2 Wednesday activities with the kids and Andrew running the TOP of UTAH marathon! Soon I will be caught up I hope! Until then!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
The VanShaar's
So this is what we came apon at the VanShaar's. That's Mana in the middle. Dallin on the left and Isaac on the right. Austin slept a little longer there and then decided that it was time to run around crazy and have fun.
We got to play one of THE hardest games of Croquet I have played in a long time. The grass was so long the ball only went half the distance it should have.
During the croquet game Austin figured out a way to interest him during the slow going game...
He would just keep flipping over that wheelbarrow over and over again. Here is my favorite of the pics I took:
It looks like Isaac knocked him over! Classic!
We played so many games! We played rock band, dominion, the priests of RA, Stone age and the number game. I can't remember the name of it but basically you guess a number with the question. It will can be the right answer or random then you choose which answer is closet to the real answer. It wasn't too bad.
Here the band we made up while we were there..
It was so cute! I love how dramatic Austin is with the microphone. Haha.
Our favorite quote from the trip actually came from something I wasn't even there for. Diane and Jeff teach the sunbeams and Diane decided that Andrew and Jeff were going to take care of the class and she would go to RS with me and Mana. Well let's just pretend that we our in their class.
Jeff: "What is this a picture of kids?"
Kid: "Jesus!"
Jeff: "Um, no that's a lake...."
You can't help but love those little kids! Well we made it home way late but we really had a great time at both places and it was relaxing unlike a lot of other vacations.
The Larsen's
After dropping Mana off at my sisters'. Andrew, me, and the kids headed over the Charlotte's (Andrew's sister). The worst part of going to the Larsen's? The drive, hands down. They live in Stockton which is a small town and only about 10-15min away from my sister's home. The problem with this drive is once you get to Stockton we have to drive on this long rode, which prob. only takes another 5-8 minutes longer, but it seems to take FOREVER! :) I think its because there is nothing to entertain yourself with the whole way there. We did make it despite that.
We had a blast! Austin really enjoyed playing with his cousins and playing in the sandbox and also playing on these cool toys:
How awesome are these?It's like having your own little playground in your back yard. I'll be honest, I was jealous! This will be on our list of things to get in the future for sure! Austin was just a little to young for the cage thing but as you can see he had fun just hanging off it.
We also had fun running out in the sprinklers. I apparently only took 2 pics of this! So here is the best out of those two.
It took the twins a little bit to really get into the idea of being in the water but they did start liking it! I sadly didn't catch them doing that but later we played outside again and they kept jumping off the cage, as I like to call it. Now it's been awhile since we have been there now and I can't exactly remember who is who...sorry. But at least I have a 50-50 chance of getting it right! :)
OK, so I think Ammon is on the top and Gideon on the bottom. I hope someone would correct me if I'm wrong! But I think I'm remembering right..... though now that I'm thinking about it this happened the first day and the water stuff happened the next but I'm too lazy to put it the right way! You'll just have to deal with it.
In the end we had lots of fun and enjoyed playing games with Jeremy and Charlotte and to watch the kids have fun together. Austin was so exhausted by the time we left he fell asleep before we got off of the Larsen's road. Two last pics for the road..
See we did take the little one with us! And you thought we forgot him.
Now off to the VanShaar's...
We had a blast! Austin really enjoyed playing with his cousins and playing in the sandbox and also playing on these cool toys:
How awesome are these?It's like having your own little playground in your back yard. I'll be honest, I was jealous! This will be on our list of things to get in the future for sure! Austin was just a little to young for the cage thing but as you can see he had fun just hanging off it.
We also had fun running out in the sprinklers. I apparently only took 2 pics of this! So here is the best out of those two.
It took the twins a little bit to really get into the idea of being in the water but they did start liking it! I sadly didn't catch them doing that but later we played outside again and they kept jumping off the cage, as I like to call it. Now it's been awhile since we have been there now and I can't exactly remember who is who...sorry. But at least I have a 50-50 chance of getting it right! :)
In the end we had lots of fun and enjoyed playing games with Jeremy and Charlotte and to watch the kids have fun together. Austin was so exhausted by the time we left he fell asleep before we got off of the Larsen's road. Two last pics for the road..
Now off to the VanShaar's...
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