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Friday, August 28, 2009

fun night with friends, and family fun at Lagoon


Friday August 7th Tammy took the kids miniature golfing and then for a sleepover.

The next morning the kids did another Lowe's craft. This time it was power boats!

After that, she took the kids to Dinosaur Park. The kids had so much fun!!

That evening, after we got our kids back, we went to a barbeque. It was at the home of some great neighbors, the Weeks'. They were so gracious, they even had the kids and Tony ride their ATV's. Here's Buddy on the little Power Wheels one.





Faith donned a helmet and started off on one by herself.






Tony took Christian on another one. Doesn't my baby look adorable in a helmet?!





There's a huge field behind our homes and it's a perfect place to ride.






Here's Faith driving up over the gravel mound. She did pretty well and only got stuck once. I was a little worried about her since she'd never been on anything like this before!














After riding, they fed us a delicious dinner of barbecued ribs. It was so much fun spending time with them and getting to know them better!







After we got home, the kids enjoyed the suckers that Tam got them from Dino Park.






Monday the 10th we went with my whole family (minus Eric) to my parents' stake Lagoon day. We were so excited to go because we'd been missing having our usual season passes! Tony even took off work to go.







Buddy rode in his own swing for the first time.







I saw someone else taking pictures next to the "you must be this tall" measuring sticks and thought that it was such a fun idea. Faith was just over 51 inches,







and Christian was just over 39.






They loved riding rides with their cousins and each other.
















Buddy with Noah,








Faith with Alaura,







and Lily with Sierra.
















Faith told me that morning that she wanted to ride the "Dinosaur Drop & Ladybug Bop" a million times, and she was on it so much that I think she nearly met her goal!






Buddy also drove his own bumper car for the first time. He managed to kind of figure it out by the end!



Unfortunately, the price of the dart game went way up so the kids only got one each. I love how Christian's eyes are closed while throwing and the dart is way below the balloon line :)












Mom & dad bought us pizza and subs for dinner and then we went back to the rides.




















For our last rides, we (the four uf us + dad) rode the skyride over to the north end and then got on the ferris wheel. Buddy fell asleep while we were in line and missed the whole thing. We had such a great time--thank you so much mom and dad!!!!!!
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Of course Christian woke up as soon as I put him in the car to come home and then was difficult to get back to sleep. Maybe part of that was because Faith put him in her pink High School Musical p.j.s! (Here they're just eating a quick snack of ramen noodles before bed.)

Thursday, August 27, 2009

farmers market

On July 30th, we decided to check out the Kaysville farmers market. The kids got cute balloon animals and made an egg carton flower craft,


and I bought a apricots, raspberries, corn, tomatoes, and zuchini!
The kids tore into that fresh produce right away.








They got so crazy in their gluttony that they shared this tomato.


Then they helped me make my favorite zuchini side dish. Here, Christian's using my new Slice Wizard that we got on sale at the kitchen store in Park City.



Just put a layer of sliced zuchini, top with a sprinkle of salt Kraft powdered parmesan cheese,




then repeat to fill a square baking dish. Cover with plastic wrap and microwave on high for 6-7 minutes. Delicious!




My kids can't get enough corn on the cob this summer. Our favorite corn comes from Day farms in Layton, but this was good, too.

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Next, we made fresh salsa with the vegetable chopper (similar to the Vidalia Chop Wizard, but seemed a little sturdier) that we also got in Park City. We just chopped some tomatoes and onions with it, then added fresh cilantro, a bit of lemon juice and garlic, a few pinches of kosher salt and just a tiny bit of chopped jalapeño.




Everyone loved it! (Although Tony added nearly the rest of the can of jalapeño to his portion.)

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Friday the 30th I took the kids to eat at McDonald's because I had coupons for a free premium salad and two free apple dippers that expired the next day. The kids have been obsessed with the beanie babies that came in the happy meals for June & July! They love the little stuffed animals and also how you can play online games with them.






I love this picture, you can almost taste the joy!







Tony actually got home a little earlier than normal that night, but it was hard pulling the kids away from the playland.






The next morning we did the woodworking project at Home Depot.





Christian had his tongue out-in full concentration most of the time he was putting in the screws!







This project was the cutest yet, they're little memo boards with a white board side and a cork side.




After that, we drove to Day Farms to get even more produce. Faith's snapping beans in this picture. I was surprised how much my kids loved them.







And here are the little monkeys demonstrating how fun and dangerous my bed is. They're always treating it like a playland/monkey bars/fort!

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The G Week Games

On July 29th, Joy invited us to participate in their Letter G Games which they were holding for G week.
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(Is Christian getting into the spirit of G week by being "gross"?)



We started off with Golf, since Joy had forgotten to make it a sign (the slacker).



Faith won the gold medal for that one!
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Then we stated with number 1, Got Goals. (Isn't it so cute that Joy went all out for this? What a great mom!)







The kids took turns kicking a ball over to the swingset "goal".

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Second was the Gliding Goop Game where they had to chase each other around and keep the goop on their spoons while trying to knock everyone else's off.




They were lucky that the goop was a bit dried out and rubbery and stayed on the spoons pretty well. Even at that, the littler ones had trouble!



For the Geological Gemstone Grab the kids had to dig through a bucket of rocks to find a shiny "gem".



It took them awhile and they finally had to empty some of the rocks onto the grass to find one. (Have fun mowing the grass right there Jordan!)





. . . . . . . Sierra got one first!





Then Go Grasshopper, Go! They had to hop to the finish line.



For Goat Galloping to the Gong, the kids were in a relay where they ran to get a toy goat, then galloped back to the slide and hit the gong.






You can see that Faith takes any kind of race very seriously.







Look at her go!







Faith is demonstrating how to play the Goose Game, but Buddy doesn't look too thrilled to be gotten. It was basically just freeze tag, but you had to goose someone to tag them!








Joy couldn't help getting into the fun!




But you know that sports with any kind of bum pinching or spanking is my family's forte, and Faith excelled at it.






In Gunshot the kids got to shoot a nerf gun





which they were aiming at a "G" on the window. We decided that it was time for a break and saved getting wet for last.


For their gold medals, the kids got Rollos which were wrapped in gold foil. (I meant to get the individually wrapped ones, but forgot that they weren't in the rolls anymore--just the bags.)



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We then had a snack with Goldfish crackers, grapes, graham crackers, and grasshopper cookies.

Just before we left, we did the last activity: Guns & Grenades. Joy couldn't find her grenade looking water balloons at the last minute (they still have quite a few things packed), but the kids enjoyed the heck out of the water guns. We sure had a great time and love that Joy & kids had us over for the Letter G Games!!
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When we got home, the kids and I made butter as a late pioneer day activity. We had done it at our party with Ann & Natalie a week and a half earlier, and were craving some more. We put it on Aspen Mills cinnamon swirl bread and it was delicious!