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!

State Fair

September 13th 2013

After Weston and I got married he took me up to the State Fair.  It was the first time that I had ever been and we wanted to make it a tradition and go every year.  Well, we haven't really made it every year since but this year we did.  The kids loved it and had so much fun!  We grabbed McDonalds on the way up (which was the kids pick not ours) and then Makenna and Kason really wanted to ride the horses. Then all of us did the big yellow slide and of course we walked through and saw all the animals too!  It was lots of fun and I'm really glad we made it up there this year!

As you can see by those big goofy faces I think the night was a success.  I'm so glad they had a fun time!

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.  

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!