Dinosaur Museum and Farm Country

Yesterday Lexi and I were able to go with Driel, my old roommate from college, and her two girls to the Dinosaur Museum and Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point. We had such a good time catching up, while the girls explored and played. Lexi and Moriah became instant friends and were holding hands throughout the day. They loved playing in the sand at the Dinosaur Museum and getting to touch so many things. Lexi wasn’t too sure about the all the animals at Farm Country and refused to ride the ponies. She freaked out and said they were scary so we watch Driel and her her girls enjoy the ride. We had such a good time since we had never been there before and I hope we can go again soon. Thanks Driel for letting us come! We had a blast!

Moriah and Lexi playing in the sand and water

Digging in the sand for the dinosaur bones

Looking at the wild turkey, who decided to turn around right when I took the picture

Looking the the pigs, who were very smelly

Lexi and Moriah in jail

Getting close!

It is hard to believe that I am only days away to having another baby. When I went to the doctor on Tuesday I am already dilated to almost a 2 and 75% effaced. That is what my doctor told me the last doctor appointment before I had Lexi too and she came 9 days early. I am getting induced on the 29th if I haven’t had her before then but my doctor thinks I will probably go on my own. My mom is coming up to help for two weeks and then I will go back with her to Vegas for a week so it will be so nice to have help for 3 weeks. I just can’t believe it could be any day now!

Ready for church

Wearing mommy's shoes, which she loves to do

Anniversary #4

June 10th was Jaron and my 4th year anniversary! Since it was a Thursday and Jaron had to work all day I made a big dinner complete with candles, sparkling cider, and Carrabbas dipping seasoning. I also made scallop potatoes, smothered chicken, corn on the cob, salad, and éclairs for dessert. It turned out great but I was on my feet all day running around to do it all, which made me very tired later that night. I tried to make it romantic, but how romantic can a dinner be when you have a 2 year old throwing her food on the floor and singing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star next to you!? It was still fun even though. Last Saturday we were able to go to the Cheesecake Factory in Salt Lake, while my sister watched Lexi for us. I had forgotten how nice it is to go out with just my husband and we both really enjoyed it.

Lexi looking out the window for daddy to come home

Enjoying her corn on the cob

Our nice "romantic" dinner

Jaron and Lexi before church

Ready for church carrying my huge basketball

Mother's Day weekend - a very late post

I have been meaning to post this for a while now but I just haven’t gotten around to it. Last month for Mother’s Day we rode down with Stacy, Jaden and Kysa to Vegas. We had such a blast having a picnic and playing at the park with my family on Saturday. Then later that night we went to BJ’s restaurant for Stacy’s birthday. On Sunday we went to my cousin baby blessing all together for Mother’s Day and after church we were able to talk to both of my brothers on the phone , since they are on a mission. All of the guys made us dinner as well so it was fun to be all together.
Mindy’s little girl Kenzie also turned one so we were able to celebrate her birthday and make her a cute bumblebee cake as well. I directed and supervised but Mindy did most of the work. I think she did a fabulous first decorating job!
Since I have been back at home I have been making a lot of strawberry freezer jam and just getting ready for baby number 2. It was my very first attempt at homemade jam and I have been getting rave reviews from my family so I guess it turned out pretty well. We sure have enjoyed it and I have been making lots of pancakes, waffles, crepes, and pb and jam sandwiches so we can eat the yummy jam too.

Swinging on some very cool swings with Mindy and Kenzie

Austin and my dad enjoying the regular swings

My mom with Kysa

Austin and Lexi

All the grandkids outside of Bj's restaurant

After church on Mother's Day

Such good friends

Enjoying Mother's Day Dinner while talking to Tyler on phone

Bumblebee Cake

Kenzie enjoying her little cake

Mindy and Kenzie with the cake

Stacy and Kysa with her yummy Jello cake

Ready for church

Some of the Strawberry Freezer Jam I made

One nice weekend

A few weekends ago we were able to go up to Draper and spend the day with Stacy, Jaden and Kysa. It was actually a pretty nice weekend for the weather so it was great to be outside. We first went to the park and I took some family pictures of Stacy's family and then we had a picnic. After a fabulous lunch, we took the girls to play on the swings and the slides. They both loved the swings but the slides were really weird so they didn't enjoy those as much. After playing we went to Temple Square and walked around. We were going to go to the new church library but discovered it had closed at 2 and we got their around 3:30 so we just enjoyed walking around. It was really windy but it was still nice to be outside. Afterward we went back to Stacy's house and had a superb dinner together that we made together. It was such a fun day and so nice to enjoy the spring weather that only lasted a couple of days. Unfortunately we are now experiencing SNOW! Yuck!

Here are just a few of the cute pictures that I took of Stacy's little family:

At the park:

Stacy enjoying the swings too!

Jaron getting stuck on the very narrow slide, apparently it's not made for people with hip bones

The Rime Family

The Shaw Family

Alexis has been a little stinker when it comes to pictures lately so we haven't been very successful at getting any great ones. However I still wanted to post a few that we have!

She loves to pretend she is talking on my old cell phone

I have no idea why she looked like this after eating a strawberry but at least she enjoyed it

Watching Television and would not look at the camera

Refusing to look at the camera again, but at least her hair is cute

Ready for church