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!

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!

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.  

8 Year Anniversary

June 2nd, 2013

This year we celebrated our 8th anniversary.  It's crazy to think we've been married for that long.  At times it feels like we've been together forever but other times I can't believe it's been 8 years already!  I feel like it was just a year or two ago that we got married.  But it's been a great 8 years!  And although sometimes it's hard more often than not it's great!  I love our weekend dates and it doesn't matter if we go out or if we get take out and stay at home, I just love spending the time with Weston. 

Luckily though we did get to go out for our anniversary.  I wanted to go some where really fancy where we would have to dress up to go.  But when we started looking at those types of restaurants I realized there wasn't much that I wanted to eat.  So we decided to go to The Melting Pot up in Salt Lake.  It was amazing!!!!  I really liked everything about it.  Because you have to cook your own food you eat at a slower pace and it is just so relaxing!  It was also very nice and quiet.  And the food was so yummy!  Especially the dessert!  I had talked to a couple people that had eaten there and everyone said that they spent well over $100 so that is what we were expecting.  But for 3 courses for the two of us we only spent just over $80 and that included the tip!  So even though that is triple or even quadruple what we normally spend on a dinner out I was very happy that we didn't spend over $100.  And I would definitely go again in a heartbeat!  (I'm sure it will be another 8 years though!)


I didn't think about getting a picture of our appetizer which was a cheese fondue.  We dipped bread and veggies in it and it was yummy!  This was a dinner.  It was amazing and so much fun!  We had veggies and then I had pot stickers some BBQ pork and then some kind of steak.  Weston tried 3 different types of steak. 

This was a dessert!  So yummy!!!!  I could've eaten it all myself!  We picked a chocolate peanut butter fondue.  I thought I was going to die it was so delicious!  They had strawberries, banana's, cheesecake, brownies, marshmallows and rice krispies to dip.  I practically died and went to heaven!

It's safe to say that this year was so much fun.  I love getting out and spending alone time with Weston.  I can't wait tell next year!  Love you Wes!  You are the best!

Family Home Evening at Bridal Veil Falls

July 1st, 2013

I forgot to add this post about our family night back in July so this is going a little out of order.  It's so hard to keep everything straight when I'm trying to catch everything up from a couple months ago!  Oh well, better late than never!

So for FHE I thought it would be fun to take the kids on a hike.  We wanted something easy that all the kids could do so we went up to Bridal Veil Falls.  It's so nice because it is paved too so we just put Brynn in the stroller.  We parked down at the bottom so they could have more of a hike and they were so excited to be out in the mountains.  They were even more excited when we made it to the waterfall!  Before we even knew it they were both trying to get in the water and walk over to it.  So we took off our shoes and headed in.  Makenna started climbing straight up and we had to keep reminding her to come back down.  I don't think she would have stopped climbing!  She would have gone straight to the top!  Kason and Brynn were just excited to sit there and throw rocks in the water. 

Once we walked back to the car we stopped at a picnic table to eat popcorn that we had brought.  The kids loved it and had so much fun.  This was a fun family home evening and the kids can't wait to go again!