Labor Day Movie

September 2nd, 2013

For Labor Day we were lucky to have Weston in town!  He did have to leave that afternoon to head back but at least we got to spend Sunday and most of Monday with him.  We ended up going to a movie with all the Southwick that morning so that was lots of fun.  The kids always like to hang out with Cam and Savannah and their cousins.  We went and saw Turbo and it was really cute.  Here are a couple pictures I tried to take in the theatre. 

 

Brynn, Weston, Kason and Makenna

 

Brynn did pretty good through the whole show.  It helped to have a cup to occupy her!

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Southwick!  We had so much fun!

Family Pictures

August 31st 2013

Okay so this post is really out of order since we actually had the pictures done in August!  Oh well, at least I'm getting them up.  And I don't know how I forgot to blog them!  But we had Weston's cousin Dayna take some new family photos for us so we could put them on a Christmas card and all I can say are they are amazing!  She did such a great job and I just love them!  So here's a few of them!  :) 

Makenna's our little model and Brynn was impossible to get a good shot of! But they turned out so cute anyways!

Mascot Bowl

September 30, 2013

Every year the Lehi 8th grade football teams get together and play a scrimmage game against a bunch of different mascots.  They have Cosmo from BYU, the Lion from REAL Salt Lake, the wolverine from UVSC, the Jazz Bear and a bunch of other mascots from all around the state and even different states.  We went last year and the kids had a ton of fun so we wanted to go again this year but Weston was out of town and I didn't think I could take the three kids all by myself.  But then I found out that Gavin's football team was playing in the fourth quarter.  So we met up with Cammy and all of them to watch the game.  My mom even came half way through and it was a lot of fun.  The kids loved it and I think they had more fun this year because they got to hang out with their cousins.  The pictures aren't great but of course I just have to document that we were there!

 

Maddi, Makenna and Brandon

 

That's Cosmo out there in the white pants.  He is the kids favorite.

 Fun night can't wait tell next year!

Electric Run Birthday Party!

For my birthday this year I told Weston I didn't want a present.  I just wanted to do an activity.  And by an activity I just wanted to do anything.  Some examples I gave Weston were a concert, a trip to Disneyland, an event like a motorcycle race, or the BYU vs Utah football game.  And what we finally ended up doing was the Electric Run.  It was a 5k at Thanksgiving Point.  What was fun about this was it was at night time and everything and everyone was lit up!  It was seriously so much fun!  Rus and Kristy even got me the coolest shoe laces to put in my shoes that were glow in the dark. 

So after we had cake and presents with the kids Weston and I got all ready and went to the Electric Run.  I wore Makenna's light up Tinkerbell wings and had on glow stick necklaces and bracelets.  Weston had on the glow sticks too.  And once it got all dark they had the course all lit up and tons of music playing.  And then after the race they had a big stage with music and dancing.  It was a big old party that was lots of fun.  We stuck around for a little bit and then we decided to go get some dinner.  And where do you think we ended up?  Oh ya, we went to good old Denny's!  It was so delicious!  Denny's is always a treat because we are so egg deprived at our house! 

Here are some pics of us before the run started

 

This was at the starting line with everyone waiting for it to begin.

This was one of the parts during it

And this is us afterwards!

It was seriously so much fun.  I just loved getting out and doing something totally new and different.  Thanks Wes for an awesome birthday!  Your the best!

Katrina's Birthday

September 15th-20th, 2013

I decided it was okay to have a birthday this year.  But don't worry I'm still 29!  I just thought I needed some cake this year!  :)  And this year I got spoiled and got a week full of cake and cupcakes!  It was the best ever!  It started Sunday when we celebrated mine and my moms birthdays.  We had a yummy dinner followed by presents and then a yummy chocolate cake .  It was a great night because Weston even stayed for dinner before he went back to Elko.  He left right before presents but it was still fun to have him there for dinner.

Then on Monday I got a little special delivery!  Two delicious cupcakes!  And I ate both of them!

Then Tuesday I received a 12 pack of diet Pepsi.  Followed by brownies on Wednesday!  Then on Thursday I got something I had been asking for, for about 3 months.  A whole 12 pack of Diet Vanilla Pepsi!  These are very rare and hard to find.  Weston picked me up a pack in Elko and brought it home for me!

Now its Friday!!!  My official birthday!!!!  And guess what I got for breakfast!  A chocolate Dunford Donut!  Yeah!!!, I know its so sad that my excitement in life is all about treats.  But I really try to limit myself so this week I totally splurged!  Plus I got a special delivery of delicious cupcakes and the coconut syrup so I could make my own Jacked up Diet Cokes!  It was a very good morning. 

Once Makenna got home from school we did our celebration with cake and presents.  And I made the coolest cake ever in the microwave.  The kids thought it was magic! 

Kason got me a new hoodie because I am always so cold!

 

 

 

Makenna got me a gift card to the movie theatre

 

And Brynn got me an iTunes gift card. 

 

 

My yummy magic cake!

 

Brynn loved the cake.  She didn't even need a fork to eat it, sure just dug right in!

I totally got spoiled and those kids sure know what I like!  This was one of the best birthdays I've ever had!  Thanks to everyone who made it such a great day and week!  (ps I really have the best husband ever!)

Hogle Zoo!

August 17th 2013

We made our annual trip to the zoo and the kids had so much fun!  They loved the elephants, monkeys, giraffes, and the polar bear.  I thought the polar bear was the greatest.  He kept doing flips in the water and it was fun to watch him.  Makenna's least favorite were the snakes!  It was funny to see her run from the exhibits when she saw them!  Here are some pictures of the fun day!

 The elephants

Look how cute the baby elephant is!

 

Brynn loved seeing all the animals

 

Here are our little monkeys who escaped from their cage!!!

 

Perfect photo op.  Everytime they kids saw one they had to go stand by it and get their picture taken!

 

This polar bear was so much fun to watch.  He just would do flip after flip after flip.  

 

The giraffes were always my favorite growing up.

 

Notice our Miss Vanna White! 

 

Kason loved seeing this big turtle.  Afterwards he kept asking if he could get a pet turtle.  I looked into them but they are aren't good pets for kids. 

 

Brynn just playing in the water!

 

They apparently had cool lego displays through out the zoo but most of them had been removed because the heat was ruining them.  But the did have these set up for the kids to come and play with.  The kids had lots of fun building with the big blocks.