A Night with the Kids

 A couple nights ago, we were invited to Bryson's cousins' daughters birthday. She is only a month and a half older than Akoy. They had the party at a jumping place in Orem. The kids had so much fun. Especially my oldest kid, Bryson. I'm glad he left studying a little early to come. The kids loved playing with their dad. Bryson made the comment after that he wants to go back with his friends later so he woudln't have to stick around the kids section. I wasn't much help being pregnant. I went in a little and had fun. Happy 4th birthday Maleia! I had a hard time figuring out settings on my camera. I really need to learn on to use it. One day.

Birthday Girl!

After the birthday party we headed to Trafalga. This summer we bought the "Pass of all Passes" and thought we should start getting our moneys worth! Ellis invited us since they have the pass as well. It was a lot of fun to play around. We rarely go out and do things like this, let alone two events in one night! Everyone went Lazer Tagging while I hung out with Lily and Gavin. Afterwards, we rode the bumper boats. I didn't want to get my hair wet but it turns out kids thought it was funny. Torrie and I thought we were safe. Afterwards when the guys did it they SOAKED each other. Lily was NOT a fan of being squirted. She was in tears most of the time. Akoy rode with Cassidy. He thought it was hilarious whenever Bryson would get wet. He was laughing up a storm. They also had some other kiddie rides that the kids loved. Lily was afraid of a rocking boat. I put her on crying. After it started, she loved it. Then I had to take her off crying because she wanted to stay on! We will defiantly be going back. I love that all these things are free with the pass! Unfortunately, I didn't get a lot of different pictures.. oops!

Lily's face... poor girl

Akoy loving bryson getting wet

Since coming to Utah we haven't gone off and done much as a family. It was fun to spend the night with our kids. We need to get them out more.

Splash Pad: Alpine

I met up with one of my friends, Amber and her kids this week. Our kids are all super close in age. The boys like the splash pad and the girls were super hesitant. Lily rather play with the water in the drinking fountain. I was always one of those people that vowed not to put my daughters in bikinis and tank tops. Until I had Lily... she's just to darn cute in them! I couldn't help it! At first, she kept trying to pull her bikini down. Then she was wiping up the floor with her blanket and it looked like she was doing push ups. I think she was just trying to work out her body! :)

After the splash park we had lunch and the kids just ran around and played. It was fun to get the kids together. Akoy keeps asking if we can go to Ryker's house.

Snow Day

A few days ago I found it funny that my Instagram and Facebook feed were full of snow pictures. Everyone was dumped on in Utah. So I posted our pathetic amount of snow as a joke. We finally got a little snow and the next morning I got a call at 5:15 saying public schools were closed. Lincoln is much different that Utah. Our roads turn to ice fast and it gets slippery. The schools do not have buses to transport the kids. So everyone driving in the ice can get quite chaotic!

If you look closely on the right, you can see my car cleared off with pathways all around. I have a good husband! 

Wednesday morning I was supposed to go visiting teaching but Bryson didn't want me to drive across town in the bad weather. So I decided to have a lazy day in my pj's and not get ready. We are lucky enough to have a few families in our complex so we had a Ellis's, Simpson's and Partridge's over for hot chocolate and sandwiches .. Mostly whatever I already had without having to go to the store. One family in our ward's day care was cancelled so they brought their boy over and I usually babysit another little girl on Wednesdays  Needless to say, there were lots of kids! 9 kids runnning everywhere The kids all had fun while we just talked and got lunch ready. The house was a mess after but what is 15 min of cleaning time to 2 hours of play time. Nothing! Thanks girls for coming over and having fun on a day of lots of snow!

I forgot to take pictures with everything so luckily Torrie grabbed a few. Thanks Torrie!

This book was totally in Spanish and Parker was doing his best to read it! 

Gracie trying to find gum 

Lunch time minus two babies!

Breakfast with Nebraska Friends

One hard thing about going to school is that friends move on before you are done. A few of our friends have made their way back to Utah. We love getting together and remembering times of all living in the same apartment. When we first moved into Lexington Ridge, Burgin's were the only one living in the complex. Within a couple weeks all the rest of us moved in (Ellis, us, Allen)We had so much fun together. The guys of course played Mario Kart while the girls caught up with each other. We still missed a lot of our friends, but hopefully we can organize something again with more people.

A Busy Saturday!

Last Saturday I took the kids to Lowe's Build and Grow workshop. It was so cute. Akoy got to build his own little firetruck. We met a few friends there as well. It is definately something I want to do again with Akoy! The best part, it was free!

After Lowe's, Akoy's friend, Parker had a birthday party. They had superhero training. They had to do lots of things outside, it was so cute! I helped (possibly slightly forced Torrie) to sew all the capes. They turned out so cute! It was cute to see all the kids running around out side. Each kid had to go in the bat cave and get kryptonite. It was cute to see all the kids go into the cave. 

Get Together

Once upon a time Amber, Erika and myself all went to school together to become teachers. We spent 2 years in college learning to be teachers. After graduation we were all lucky enough to teach at Freedom Elementary. I only taught 2 years before Law School, Amber lasted 3 before having 3 kids under the age of 2 and Erika is still going strong! I made so many great friends at Freedom. I often miss it. The other day Bryson was going through boxes of mission stuff and I found all my teaching boxes. I admit, I kinda miss teaching. But I think I mostly miss Freedom Elementary. My school, my team, morning runs getting ice with Megan, buddies with Erika.. the list goes on.. sorry for the side track... :) 

Back to my post. Tonight I got together with Amber and Erika. We try to get together when I come back from Nebraska. We had a little BBQ and let the kids play. For 5 kids under 2, things went okay. Hopefully Erika's house got put back together. Akoy had a little to much fun! Us girls got to catch up while the guys talked. We have nice husbands who allow us to always get together. Amber has Ryker (Akoy's age) and then twins Beckett and Sophie (2 months older than Lily). Erika has Bentley (1 month older than Lily). (and on a complety random note, is it weird that I also have nephews named Beckett and Bentley!)

Best I could get of these boys.