Thanksgiving Point

We went to Thanksgiving Point today with my sister Celeste's family and Brad's friend Casey's family.
It was a hot day, but the kids had a lot of fun!

Lilia loved the slides...she's a dare devil.

Those are the cutest animals I have ever seen!!

The cows were a HUGE hit! Who would have thought? I think I'm going to buy a baby cow! The little calf in the picture was so sweet. He stuck his head through the gate and just loved on Lily and Gwen. And talk about hygene... you can't tell in the picture... but i swear that cow bleaches. Anyway... free milk would be a plus?

Don't we live in the most beautiful place!!

Lily's first pony ride.....poor ponies.

Lily, celeste, and gwen dancing in a......ahh I actually don't know what it is.

For CRYING OUT LOUD!!

Well I'm sitting here on the couch, i just put Lily down like any other night, except... with NO BINKY! Yeah, you may be saying "YAY for you," but this SUCKS!! She is screaming her head off, and all i want to do is go in there, and give her that stupid little sucker! Her screaming doesn't bother me, just the fact I could make her feel so much better with one little binky! Isn't growing up hard! DANG IT! WAIT....did she stop?....wait for it, wait for it....by golly i think we've got it......................um nope just kidding.

Swim Lessons

Lily and I started parent-tot swimming lessons today. It was a bitter sweet experience! Lily loved the water, she kicked, scooped, drank the water, but did everything she was told to do... even thought the water heater wasn't working very well... We were FREEZING! Lily and one other little girl were the only ones having fun and enjoying themselves...the rest were screaming!! I felt bad for the moms, trying to do something fun for their kids... but ended up paying to listen to their kid scream for an hour!

This is my new swimsuit... I love it. Even though my body doesnt look like hers in it. Just imagine putting a brick in it... it still looks cute right?

Calling

So i got a new calling today...Im in the Young Womens presidency! I can already tell what a rewarding calling this is going to be. There are not many young women, its kind of an older ward, but i feel like i can grow a lot personally. Today they played this short video for us and i bawled! You have to watch it... it will up lift your day. Show it to your daughters, nieces, grandaughters... it has such a wonderful message. *Turn off my blog music first

Books?

I know this may come as a surprise to most... that I'm not EXTREMELY intelligent...and that I don't find most books interesting. I have probably read 7 books in my life time, the Book of Mormon (only took like 7 years to read! sad.) 4 of them were the twilight series! AMAZING! and the other 2 i have NO clue, they were so long ago. So the whole point of this post is not to tell you how I seem to only finish books with vampires in it, but to ask if any of you could think of a book I would enjoy. Not Harry Potter, and not anything with big words...like ... i don't know Utopia. Thanks, I'm really not retarded... just a little book special! :)

Dad's Home!!!

Lily is so excited to have her dad home... and after 6 weeks i was ready to have my husband back! We had a really relaxing and fun family night. We enjoyed a picnic by the canyons river.

Dr. Lily

 

Lily decided to take off her own cast... awesome.. great...i love being a mom!

 

Mother of 3

I had such a busy but fun week. My sister celeste had been trainning for this half marathon at Disneyland and was able to race this weekend. Guess who watched the kids.... better believe it... ME! I went from a mother of 1 to a mother of three... crazy, but quite entertaining. Believe it or not i did quite well. Mark made it to school... we all ate 3 meals a day. I felt pretty proud of myself when i took all three by myself to the kids museum in Salt lake. Although i dont get why they make adults pay to get in. Its like paying someone 8.50 for you to watch your own kids. If you ask me thats a "drop the kids off" price! Anyway they had a blast.
Lily and Gwen playing in the gigantic Play house... someone needs to talk to that boy in the window before he gets any older and is still a peeping tom.

 

Lily plaing in the water. they have ping pong balls that you drop in the water, and watch it go its coarse....AMAZING!

 

Mark being hawled up by a bunch of kids playing in the construction zone.

 

When we got home from the museum it starting to rain. Mark heard the thunder and saw the rain and rushed up stairs to put on his snow clothes. He was really excited