Slip and Slide

So Jared bought one of those cheap slip and slides for the kids to play with this summer, and you have never seen two kids get more fun out of five dollars before! Christopher was especially ecstatic and kept trying to slide on it...but mostly he just fell down a lot. Ayden would back way up and then run at full blast and then he would pause right before the slide and then did a kind of belly flop-slide. It was so funny! Then he learned how to surf across the surface and that seemed to be a lot less painful. Ah...summer!

Visiting Thanksgiving Point

Several weeks ago we went to Farm Country at Thanksgiving point. It was beautiful warm weather and we got to see all of the cute baby animals. Ayden's favorite thing was the horse ride...

...but Chris wasn't too thrilled about sitting on a pony.

He was much more interested in playing at the duck pond!

I personally liked the baby bunnies best myself. =)

The next week we again visited Thanksgiving Point, but with much chillier weather! We went with Jared's parents to see the Tulip Festival. Both of the boys loved playing in the fountains and feeding the fish.

Crazy Utah weather! We never know what the weather is going to be. T-shirts one week, and coats the next!

Sunday Best

Easter

It seems that I am only hitting the holidays. Life has been busy! We had a fun Easter...my parents were here and we played a lot of Settler's of Catan and Ticket to Ride. We decorated tons of eggs, but unfortunately I was so busy keeping Chris from knocking over the dye I didn't take any pictures of the event, and then I ate all of the eggs. They were delicious!

Chris was pretty excited about Easter, but mostly the Jelly Beans. You should see him get all excited about them. When he sees Jared opening the jar, he drops whatever he is doing and runs to Jared and does a little happy jelly bean dance. Then, of course, he stands under Jared with his mouth open expectantly. It is so hilarious!

Ayden's favorite thing about Easter was the spiderman tatoos the Easter Bunny brought him. He immediately asked me to apply as many as could fit all over his arms. He was a spiderman kid! He ran all over the house pretending he was spiderman flinging webs everywhere.

Christmas Pictures

So it is basically impossible to get a picture of Chris with Ayden where they are both looking at the camera!! On Christmas eve, Ayden was so excited and Chris was completely oblivious.

Man I look pale next to my kids! Last weekend we went swimming with some friends, and let me tell you...both Jared and I look pasty...especially when you compare us to our kids.

After all of the hoopla of Christmas morning was over, Christopher was quite worn out!!

Ayden playing with his new remote control car, and Chris trying to grab it!

Christopher wasn't quite sure what to think of this toy when he first opened it, but since it has become one of his favorite toys. It lights up and makes "jungle sounds" and the boys have all of their little figurines and play with it just about every day. Who knew it would be such a hit?!

So Ayden wrote a very detailed letter to Santa Clause this year. He told Santa that all he wanted was 2 wii games: Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Star Wars. He was pretty excited to open them Christmas morning. I guess Santa pulled through...

All Ayden wanted to do after that was play wii...Of course, just the other day he got grounded from the wii for about life...so I guess we will see what happens! =)

For Christmas we got Chris a train to sit on and it plays music and has blocks and etc. He wasn't quite sure what to think of it at first, but he soon figured out that it was pretty neat. Of course his favorite thing is to sit on it and be pushed around. Luckily, Ayden is quite happy to do the honors. Chris also likes to push it, but mostly he just likes to push it down the stairs!!

Christmas was a lot of fun but busy of course! We went to Idaho after Christmas and then by new years I was really sick with strep throat and so was Jared. Then I had a lot of catch-up cleaning to do...in fact, today was the first time I have cleaned my kitchen floor since before Christmas. They were pretty bad so it took quite a while to get them back to normal. Of course, I am sure that Chris will dimolish all of my hard work by the end of the day!

Too cold to go outside...

Boys being Boys

Before it got so cold outside, we were having a lot of fun playing outside. Ayden loves to play soccer and show off his kung-fu moves. Chris was busy running around stuffing twigs in his mouth and trying out the bikes.