Just Having Fun

Lately we haven't had much going on.  But here's just a few highlights.

The girls watching a movie together and having a little snack-a-lack.

Makayla was being SO crazy the other day and then go SO quite when I went into the office to get some work done...so I came out to check on her, and this is what I found...adorable.  Perched up onto top of the couch.  It actually looked really comfy...those cushions are fluffy!

Makayla opening a Valentine's package!!

 Her froggy from us for V-day!

 Brookie just being super cute like always!

 My kids like to be up ON the counter...

 Made these tonight...I was going to make them for Valentine's day...that didn't happen.    But better late than never right!?  They were AMAZING...if I do say so myself.  We ate the whole plate, me Jason and Kayla.  Poor Brookie had already gone to bed, so she missed out.

And after we ate those delicious babies, we played Candyland!  Love that game.  Makayla L.O.V.E.D. it.  Like played it 5 times loved it.  Quality.

Family Playtime

We have had an awesome time this last week. We did a whole lot of nothing. And it really was awesome. Jason took the whole rest of the week off after his family left because it was our anniversary that next weekend, and he wanted to not have to worry about when he would be sleeping before work. So me and the girls had him to ourselves all week!! Here's a peek at some of the things we did. Again, not much, but it was some good quality family playtime.

Fist thing, Jason's first project out using his new workbench. I went out one afternoon hearing a bunch of hammering/drilling, etc, and see that he is making this from the leftover wood from the workbench!! He made us a washers game!! I had never heard of this game before I met Jason....so if you have no idea, it's kind of like horseshoes...but with washers. 3 points for in the middle circle, 1 point for in the box. We proceeded to spend a good couple of hours outside playing. Jason beat me every time. I need to perfect my washer throwing skills I guess.

Jason getting ready to throw.

Makayla decided she wanted to take some pictures, so here I am...haha.
Makayla being daddy's helper.

We also got to leave the girls at Grandma and Grandpa's house for a night and went out for our anniversary! We did a lite dinner, then headed out to the movies. Yes, that's right...2 movies...DOUBLE FEATURE!! We had never done 2 movies back to back. We are hard core like that.

Oh, this one is totally out of order. This was from today. We had an early birthday celebration for me at my parents house today while everyone was there for dinner. So Jason and the girls gave me this necklace!! I LOVE it. So simple, so beautiful. Perfect.
Back to our week. We played forts...
We read books...
Played in pj's all day. (You can see Brooklyn still has bed head hair...and this was definitely sometime around lunch..)
My little cheeser.
Sisters :)

I want more weeks like that one. Sometimes we have more fun when we stay home and just play and do nothing, than when we make big plans and go places. I don't want summer to end.

Egg Huntin'

We went down to SLC on Saturday for a few hours for the annual Horrocks Easter egg hunt on the Capitol grounds. When we left our place, it was sunny, and warm and looked promising...
But no. When we got down to the Capitol, we froze our little tushies off. I felt so bad, cause we had just cleaned out the car of all our misc. blankets, jackets, etc...which would have been really helpful. So Grandpa Glen ran home to grab Jason and Ashley a jacket. But regardless, it was a really fun time. We had a little lunch, and then the kiddo's all ran out and found Easter eggs, and had a blast. Makayla was giddy, she could hardly wait.

This is Jason telling Makayla that he'd better "test" the candy for her first. haha.
My loves.



Me and Brookie trying to stay warm.
I don't know what this face was all about. I started laughing after I took it, cause it was so silly.
This was at Toys R Us, this thing was huge! Something like 21,000 Lego bricks, and abt 170 hours to put together. So cool.


Coloring Easter Eggs later that day.
She prefers no top to wearing an apron...so lady like.

A Day of Fun

This crummy air in the valley has been driving me insane! It almost makes me feel claustrophobic. So I figured, let's get out of the valley for a day and head to SLC. Thinking the air might be slightly better if we got out of the valley. (Which, by the way, it was NOT).
So we headed to Ogden, where Jason had to pick up some fire supply stuff, and well, that wasn't much fun. We were in this Fire supply place for almost an hour, while he tried on pants, had the lady mark where to hem them up, cause they were SUPER long. Then he had to pick out boots, and belts, etc... While we were doing this, Makayla managed to find the little box in the corner filled with old junky McDonald's happy meal toys (so gross). So she was keeping herself entertained. She had found a "Mrs. Potts" from Beauty and the Beast and was having a tea party. She even said a blessing on the food...very loudly, and multiple times, cause she had to get it "just right." Everyone in the place got a good laugh at that. Mind you, the place is filled with big manly Firemen, EMT's, cops, etc. They were all snickering. But how could you not, cause it was super cute.
So after that great adventure, we headed down to SLC to pick aunt Ash up and go down to the Living Planet Aquarium. We had never been before and thought it would be fun to go check it out.

We were petting these...they realllly creeped me out. Especially when you could feel their sides.


After getting my sleeve completely soaked...it was a lot deeper than I expected.

The Jellies...someday I want a big tank full of these with calm relaxing music playing. It was so mesmerizing watching them float around. Beautiful.
My cute girl, who is now completely potty trained!! Woohoo!! She basically did it all by herself too, hooray! I was nervous about it...but she is awesome. I'm so proud!

We actually had a really good time. Makayla wanted nothing to do with me and Jason, she only wanted aunt Ashley to hold her. Every time I would go to hold her hand or pick her up, she'd push me away and say, "Where's Ash? I want her to hold me!"

I don't know that the aquarium was quite worth the trip down just for that, it was pretty small, and SUPER crowded...note to self, never go on a Saturday ever again...
I think it would be more worth the $9 each if we had no crowds and could take our time and slowly wander through and see everything. We couldn't even see the penguins, there were about 100 people packed into that little area. No joke. It was a little too close quarters for us, so we bailed. I don't think we were in there for longer than maybe 40 mins max. Jason doesn't handle crowds well, and really, I don't either.
But at least Makayla was still under 3 and got in free!! That won't be the case next time.. :(
Speaking of which, we are having her birthday party on the 29th in 2 weeks! Hooray for when birthdays fall on Saturdays! She has requested a --heart-- cake, THANK GOODNESS!! With all the princesses and fairies and things she is into right now, I was just relieved that she didn't request a Cinderella cake or something. Hearts I can DO! Plus, all the stores have TONS of heart stuff out right now, lots of red and fun heart decor...thank you Valentines day! Making it easy on me, at least this year!

Fantabulous New Year!

For New Years this year, we went down to St. George to visit my uncle Bryon and his family who recently moved there. Little did we know, we would drive through a blizzard most of the way down. By the time we hit it, we were far enough away that we didn't want to turn back, so we kept on going....ugh. Worst drive EVER!! his pic doesn't do it justice. It was even worse than this at times. But we made it...eventually.
Once we got there, Makayla was playing non-stop with her cousins. I was lucky to get this shot of her running by me chasing Emma.


And of course, when the Geddes family gets together, there has to be a puzzle...or 5 that gets done.


How freaking cute are we!? I love us...

We had some fun hitting golf balls in the back yard up into the cliffs. Yes, that's their view in their back yard. I should have taken a pic of the view out their front yard!! It's amazing.

The end...cause I'm tired and can't concentrate!!

4th Festivities

So, we decided to make the drive down to South Jordan and celebrate Austin's birthday over the weekend. We had a blast, and Makayla got her new chinese pj's from Grandma. Straight from China. They are SO adorable...haha.

Ashley and Makayla both being cute!
Then we made it back home in time (barely) for the Cache Valley Cruise In. A parade of classic cars up and down main street.

Then of course some fireworks!!

My mom's beautiful flower garden that had to be documented. She does such an awesome job with her flowers!

Jen helping Makayla who was VERY unsure of the sparklersBut then she was in love with them and went through about 20!!

I was laughing so hard at this. Jen seriously tried to light this sparkler for about 10 minutes. It would NOT light...haha. We finally decided it was a dud.


Hope everyone had a Happy 4th!!