Having fun

I'll apologize now for such a long post, but I am way behind and want to get caught up quick. All of these pictures are from May. The one on top is from Memorial Day, we took the kids to a local park and had a picnic. Emma wanted to fly her kite...she loves doing it and even let James have a turn.
The Saturday before Memorial Day we went to Lagoon. The kids had a blast. It wasn't very busy because it was a little chilly, so the kids got to ride all the rides a bunch of times. James would get excited when he saw another ride and would point to the one he wanted to go on next.

This was at the Bee's game. After the game the kids got to run the bases and then get their picture taken with the bee.

More fun at the park

One of my all time favorite rides growing up was the tilt-a-whirl. There would be a carnival every year and my Grandma Lund would take me on the tilt-a-whirl. It was fun to do that with my Grandma. I wasn't sure Emma would like it, but she loved it. Our cart was spinning like crazy and she was just laughing the whole time.

James loved bulgy! When he see's pictures of Bulgy he gets all excited and starts jabbering and pointing. He had so much fun.

My two favorite boys

We all took the train ride together. The kids loved the train, there are some animals on the ride that they got to see. They thought it was pretty cool.

While at Lagoon we discovered that Emma is a little daredevil. She wanted to go on all the rides. This one is like the rocket, for those of you that are familiar, just a mini version. She laughed the whole time. It was fun to watch her. She wanted to go on all the big roller coasters too, but she's not tall enough, she was kind of disappointed about that.

They thought it was pretty cool to drive the cars.

We went swimming one evening. The kids had a blast, although they are a little bit nervous about the water. (they get that from mom)

James was getting pretty tired.

This is at Emma's preschool program. They each got to make a fun hat.

We took a little road trip to Vegas to see Geoff's cousin and her family. It was a fun, but very short trip. This is right as we were getting ready to leave.

Emma started getting pretty bored within about 10 minutes of the trip.

Emma loved her cousin Brienne. She had fun playing with her.

She thought it was pretty fun to blow on her tummy, and Brienne kind of liked it too.

Chris' parents have a tortoise that made it's home in their backyard, all the kids got to feed it. Emma thought it was pretty awesome.

We tried to take the kids swimming while we were in Vegas, but the water in the pool was ice cold, so we let them put their feet in the hot tub for a few minutes.

James loved the water.

Emma likes to try to take pictures of us. this is probably one of the best one's she's taken. usually she cuts off Geoff's head.

Going down the elevator to get in the pool, the kids were pretty excited.

Emma and I at the temple.

Another picture that Emma took. She's getting better

More fun at Lagoon

James loved the boats.

Family day at my mom's work is always fun. This year we all got our faces painted. James was really good about letting them paint his.

After Emma and James got their faces painted she decided everyone should. So we all got it done.

The last song at Emma's preschool program was a cute song, at the end of each phrase they would sing I love you, and she would point to me. It was so sweet.

Emma loves to sing, and she loves to have people watch her sing. It was fun to see her in the program.

This basically sums up the month of May. I'll try to get June up soon. We are so busy having fun I don't really have time to post everything.

Easter, Cakes and everything in between

Geoff and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary in April. We went and saw train in concert, and if I ever remember to post the pics you will all see them. That next weekend my mom and sister watched the kids for a few days and we took a little trip to Midway. We decided to swim in the crater at the homestead, it was a lot of fun.
This is the view from the water, you actually go through a tunnel in the crater and then get in the water. It's about 90 degrees year round in the water.

We had a lot of fun in the crater. After that we grabbed lunch and went to the outlets in Park City. It was nice to have a little time without the kids and we got to sleep in.

This is a cake I made in April. I wasn't real thrilled with how it turned out. I did it the day after being in a car accident(OUCH!), so I couldn't do things quite as well.

Emma and Benjamin are great friends and they play so good together. This was them at the Easter Egg hunt I planned for all our friends. They both had a blast.

Look at all those eggs, the Easter Bunny really didn't need to come the next day.

Emma and Addy gathering eggs. They are also really great friends.

Emma and James play so good together. Emma is a great big sister and loves to take care of James. Here they are having a tea party.

James thinks he's so big and loves to climb on the furniture and sit like a big kid.

Daddy helping James gather up some eggs.

I think this is about the time he discovered there was stuff in the eggs.

All the kids lining up to get eggs, they were so excited.

James' first peek in to see the eggs, he wasn't really sure what was going on.

James has to do everything Emma does. He refuses to sit in a high chair, he has to have a fork or spoon, he even drinks his milk like she does when he's done with his cereal.

Easter morning at our house. The Easter Bunny brought so many eggs he had to hide them in 2 rooms.

James thought it was more fun just to put the eggs in his basketball hoop.

I love when James tries to play with this ball, it is twice his size.

Each of them got a chocolate bunny, a new notebook, new crayons and some books. we also got the movie Princess and the Frog.

This is another cake I made for St. Patricks Day.

James just loves this ball.

As you can see we have been pretty busy having fun. We are looking forward to a fun, and hopefully sometime soon, warm summer.

preschool program

Emma started preschool in February this year. She has loved going. I found this great place called My Smart World. It has been fun to see her interact with the kids and teachers. Her main teacher was Miss Megan, she was great with Emma and taught her a lot. They had a program on Thursday to end the year. It was fun to see Emma sing. After the program each child received a blanket with some of the stuff they learned about this year. This is just a little bit of the video from it. We are sad that preschool is over for the year, but for the summer Emma will be taking a music class and a gymnastics class that My Smart World is holding. Hopefully we can get her in some swim lessons too. Hope you enjoy the video, I will get some pics up soon.