Friday, August 20, 2010

We did it! Camping

I am not a big camper in the first place, but to take 2 very active 16 month olds, I was not sure we would all survive or at least stay the whole time. We tried for Tony's Grove, which we have tried to get a spot at a few times and always failed. We ended up at Lewis m Turner, just down from tony's grove.
I told Josh I would go camping if we brought 2 things, #1 the trailer, #2 my parents.
Aj thought the trailer was so neat. Like a little playhouse. We liked him in it, then we didn't have to run around after him.
AJ and Addie really like the step. It was just their size.
My mom and Dad and Jordan went up on Monday to get a spot. We all followed on Tuesday after Tumbling and Art in the Park were over.
Addie Eating, Eating and always eating! Aj actually eating!
Camping and eating turned out to be interesting. They didn't want to eat when they were in their highchairs, but would go steal food right off grandma's plate.
We started off our trip with a little test hike. We were not sure how the babies would do in the packs. So we hiked Limber Pine trail. It is only a 1 mile hike, but a fun one with all the different growing trees. It was one of our favorites when we used to go up to the cabin.
The bent trees or "chair trees".The giant tree
My girls on the chair tree!This is how you sleep with 2 babies. We put them feet together and I slept on the other side of them. I only had to move AJ off of Addie once. The babies and Cass had a lot of fun swinging in the hammock. When we were sick of chasing them around we went to the hammock.AJ just wanted to run out of the campsite. I set up my chair in between the truck and the van and then he could not get out. Addie playing with cans and the cooler and the watermelon.
AJ had to have his tunes. Roasting hot dogs!This is Addies face when anything touches her tongue she doesn't want to. She is so picky!
Isn't this the most precious picture. I am not really sure what was going on, but Addie and Grandpa going for a walk.
Cassady was so excited to get up early and go fishing with Dad and Grandpa. They got up early Thursday morning and went up to Tony's Grove and Fished. This is Cassady catching her fish. She had so much fun, just being a big kid!
Addison got sick with a little cold on Wednesday and was so stuffy that I took her home Wednesday night and her and I spent the night at home and I took her to the Dr. Thursday morning. I actually got in really early. She had a sinus infection, but no earaches, Yeah!!!! It was interesting spending the night with only Addie. I had never done that before. She is such a big daddy's girl I thought it might be hard, but we had a nice time. We got her anti-biotic and nose medicine and headed back up to the campground. We got back up by 10:30 am and headed up Tony's Grove to meet the boys and Cass to go for our real hike, to White Pine Lake.
This is Addie sleeping on the Hike or trying too.
AJ had a better time actually sleeping. Although he never looked comfortable.
Cassady kept playing with the dirt and then rubbing her face. She didn't know her face was so dirty, but we all kept laughing at her when we looked at her. She took a wipe when she found out and washed up. She did so good! She made it the whole way and hardly ever complained!We weren't sure we would make it the whole way to white pine lake, but we all made it, then we had to come back. The last part of the hike is hiking down the mountain into the little valley that the lake is in and it is a pretty steep drop in. With lots of resting we all made it out. Only one casualty. I got a blister, but with all the dust there was I couldn't keep a band-aid on it. I will never hike again without my duck tape. I had to keep putting a new band-aid on. AJ was asleep this time, so my dad helped me out and doctored it up.After going 8 miles for our hike. We were all ready to die and the babies were ready to be out of the packs and run.
On Wednesday we went up to Bear Lake for the day. The last time I had been to Bear Lake was when I was bearly pregnant with the twins and wasn't even sure if I was pregnant yet. I was so dead tired that I slept on a blanket the whole time we were there. My mom told me if I wasn't pregnant I had better go to a Dr, because there was something wrong with me. Little did we know it was twins and I was very anemic. This time was more enjoyable. You all know how much Addie loves to eat. She just had to climb in the picnic basket to be closer to the food.
AJ had a blast just digging holes and getting in them.
Sandy Chips. It was really hard to keep their food from getting all sandy.
eating lunch

AJ throwing sand on Ky while she is trying to read.
Bathing Beauty!


This is the way to camp and to pack! The morning packing went smoothly with AJ sleeping in the stroller and Addie in her car seat watching Baby signing time. What did we do before we had DVD players in our vehicles?

We really did have a good time.

swim lessons

We decided to put the Cass and the babies in swim lessons. Cass did 2 sessions, which meant swim lessons everyday for 4 weeks. We rode our bikes up to the pool everyday. Aj and Addie did the swim babies class, which included mom and Dad or Jordan, or Grandma. They started out afraid of the water. The pics are from the last day. By the end the only thing they didn't like was the dunking.
AJ crawling in the baby pool.
Addie floating in the baby pool.
Aj would laugh after he blew bubbles.


Aj jumping in to Grandma.
Swimming with mom and grandma






Jumping off the side or leaning in.
Thanks to Grandma we spent the last day of lessons at the pool and had a good time. Maybe next year we can go back to spending at least a day a week at the pool.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Pioneer Day


Everyone was freaking out that we had to get up so early to be at the park at 7:30 am to run the 5K. Josh and I got up at 5am with AJ. Not sure why he was up so early. Hoping it is not more earaches. Getting ready for the 5K. Cass ran with Ky and they ran most of the way. She was really sore this morning. They did great!



After the 5K Jim and Rosie bought us breakfast at the Lion's club fundraiser breakfast. It was yummy! Thanks Jim and Rosie! AJ slept through the last part of the run and breakfast. We let the kids play a little bit on the playground. Jordan babysat for a Volleyball player, so we took her over her breakfast. Then Ky, Cass, Ellie and I walked home from the park.
We got everyone all dressed up in their 24th of July outfits and went over to the parade with our lunches. AJ thought the parade was pretty cool.
First, he got to see fire trucks and put money in the boot. It is weird to me that he will not think it is normal to be able to go to the fire station to hang out with Grandpa.
Look mom, people threw me candy!!!
Addie just wanted to eat her lunch!
She finally realized it was candy she was missing out on and was out there with all the other kids.
All the other kids would scream and yell for candy. Aj would throw his arms in the air and scream too.
Cass and Ellie at the parade.
Me and the kids walked from the parade back down to the park for the Candy Cannon.

Face painting, Hair dyeing, I was afraid it wouldn't wash out before church the next day, but it did after some scrubbing.
Cass does the watermelon eating contest every year and gets a little closer every year. She always says her prize is the watermelon.
The babies went up and found watermelon that no kids had claimed once the contest started. It kept them happy while we checked out the booths and bought some Kettle Korn. What would the 24th be without a big bag of Kettle Korn.

Cass and Ellie did the Chicken dance while we waited for Family fun bingo to start.
We always have fun at Bingo. This year Noah and Cass both got a bingo at the same time. They gave Noah a pack of cars and Cass a My little Pony. Then gave me a pool punch pass and had me and Mary (josh's sister) play the game for the bigger prize. I had to throw ping-pong balls into a bucket on top of Mary's head. We had a minute to beat the people beside us. The thing with Ping-Pong balls is they bounce right out. The other group got 2 in, we got 10 in! Mary won a $20 gift card to pizza Hut and I won a $20 gift card to Subway! Jordan and Ky won pool passes. We had so much fun!! That's one thing I love about Logan is the Free celebrations on the 24th of July.
We walked back to our house and had a yummy BBQ and ended up the night with Fireworks. The babies were actually awake for them. They thought they were cool for a little while and then they were bored with them and ran around.

















Thursday, July 22, 2010

Summer Time!

We had a BBQ with friends and Jordan and Josh poured water on AJ's head. He thought it was funny and started pouring it on his own head. I know this one will come back to haunt us.





Popsicles!


Helping to make Sunday afternoon Cookies.
Yumm, Sugar!
AJ works out with me in the mornings sometimes. He lifts weights and does sit ups with me.
So heavy!
Look at that crazy hair!