New Begninings

Since I was called back into being the Personal Progress leader for our new ward I was put in charge of New Beginnings. I decided on doing an "Under the Sea" theme. I decided on this theme when I was recovering was food poisoning or some kind of tummy bug. I was sitting on the couch trying to think of what to do New Beginnings on and the boys were watching BBC's "The Hunt". The show started talking about the Lion fish and how it gets its prey. I hit me while watching that segment that the Lion fish scenario was perfect to use in my personal progress segment for New Beginnings. The Lion fish hangs out in plain sight right in the middle of its prey not doing anything. The fish ends up confusing the other fish into a false sense of security and then before the little fish know it the Lion Fish has gotten within snatching distance and grabs his meal. It was perfect!! So the "Under the Sea" theme was born. It was my first experience doing this kind of big night and I had to delegate out to get everything done. Thankfully the night was a success and everyone had a good time! :-) 

My visual aids for my Personal Progress segment. Each class of girls was given their own fish and then we played a game where they tied a balloon around their ankle and had to try to use the Values shown to protect themselves from the sharks (the leaders). 

Our snack and refreshment table! 

One of the Young Women wanted to do the decorations and she came through for sure!! The decorations were super cute. I had "The Little Mermaid" song "under the Sea" playing while everyone arrived. 

When it was my turn I came in the room looking like this and pretended to swim down the isle and everyone laughed. Whats even funnier is that a lot of the girls and parents don't know me and I had quite a few people not realize that I was who I was. They didn't recognize me and thought that I had blonde hair. So when I was talking with everyone after the activity while they were getting dessert a lot of people were shocked when they found out that I was the one who had the blonde wig on. haha It was pretty funny! Anyways, it was a successful night and I was glad when it was over. haha 

March 22-30th

Target is always a fun outing. Getting popcorn and a drink and sometimes we get a cookie! Lots of yummy treats for me and the boys. Emmett has gotten so used to us getting popcorn at Target that as soon as we get inside Target he runs right for the cafe were we get our popcorn! haha

I love my weird silly boys!!

Enjoying the park on a beautiful day!

Wyatt now has another friend Jacob. We met their family when the ward changed. They are the Ortiz's and they have 3 boys just like us. Their older boys are 6 and 4 like our boys and then they have a 7 month old. Wyatt has so much fun playing with Jacob and was so excited when we met them at the park.

Coya and John came back and stayed the night the following weekend after all of the cousin fun. Ethan and Wyatt were so excited to have Mady and Decklyn come play again and were sad that they were only staying for one night and leaving the next morning. I love how much fun these kids have together! Yay for cousins!!

Now anytime we go to Freddy's I feel like my boys all want to sit by Daddy. I get left alone on my side of the bench! At least I get to keep an eye on all of their cuteness! :-)

Yes this happened. Emmett went poop in the toilet!!! Wahoo!!! Im not getting my hopes up that it will happen again but this one time made me happy. haha I was cutting their hair and Emmett was in the tub and he started to make his poop face so I told him not to poop in the tub and then I asked him if he wanted to go poop in the froggy potty and he shook his head yes. So I grabbed him out of the tub and put him on the froggy potty and he sat there and pushed until he was all done!! I was stoked!! Then he almost grabbed it with his hands to put it in the toilet but thankfully I stopped him before he got a hold of it! haha

The joys of the horse ride at King Soopers. This particular picture I took of Wyatt he told me to send to his friend Bradley's mom so that she could show Bradley! haha What a silly kid! :-)

Emmett LOVES riding the horse too! This one day of grocery shopping became very stressful. I didn't think I had as many things to scan in the self check out line than I did and it was taking way too long. Emmett ended up escaping the car cart and started heading for the exit. I had to stop scanning and run after him because he wouldn't listen to Wyatt and the self check out guy was trying to stop him too. Then he came to help me finish scanning my stuff quicker since Emmett was unruly and didn't want to stay put and was screaming in the cart because I had buckled him. I decided right then and there that if I had a lot of groceries that I would never go to the self check out again and that I was use the normal check out lines so that I wouldn't have to do all the work with little ones around. Lesson learned!! Yikes!

Movie time with these sillies! This second picture was supposed to be funny faces and Emmett looks like he is super mad! haha 

Arm wrestling with Dad. Ethan and Wyatt were doing it with each other first and Wyatt was whooping on Ethan and then all of a sudden Ethan was whooping on Wyatt. So then naturally they want to arm wrestle Dad! haha 

The boys got this train stuff for Christmas. We finally broke it out and put it together and put batteries in the trains. Wyatt and Emmett had fun with it for a while. Sadly, Ethan tore it all about that weekend when they had a babysitter! All my hard work gone to waste! But... life is good! :-)

Cousin Time!

This year for spring break Ty and Vandy came with their three kids Kemry, Tate and Piper. Ty had some work stuff to do in Denver that week so they decided to make a trip of it and come hangout. It was fun to have them in here with us and our boys were super excited to play with their cousins. By the end of the week Coya and John came with their little ones as well. It was a full house and a little crazy at times but mostly fun. The kids had a blast together and got along pretty well for most of the time. After the kids would go to bed at night we would watch movies or play games. It was a lot of fun catching up with them. We also found out that Vandy was expecting their fourth little one. It was a fun filled week and we were glad they decided to come out and hang with us. 

These 2 were so cute together. They had so much fun together running around and just being cute. Piper is the sweetest thing ever. He has the biggest smile and always seems happy. Emmett played really well with her for most of the time. Some of the time he would push her down or take something from her or hit her. The sad part is that he would take something from her and then walk away and laugh a completely fake laugh. It was hard not to laugh when he did it. He also experienced time out for the first official time. After pushing Piper I put Emmett in the corner by the front door facing the wall. The cutest thing about it was that he actually stayed in the corner and didn't move. I don't think I have had a little one actually stay in time out. The scary part is I think he liked it. haha As soon as he would do something he knew was bad he would go over to the corner on his own. haha It was the funniest and cutest thing!

We also went to the Fort Collins Discovery Museum!

They all had a lot of fun and after we went and got slurpees! 

Wyatt and Tate were digging for dinosaur bones or something! It was keeping them occupied and happy so I didn't mind all that much.

Cousin love! :-)

These 2 seriously cracked me up! They were so cute together and after playing with the fishy game they started to pretend to pray. They would go away from the table and then go back and sit down and fold their arms and pretend to pray and then do it all over again! haha SO.. Cute!!

Movie Time!

Tate didn't want to join the huddle and just sat off by himself.

The kids also saved a lady bug one day while we were enjoying the sunshine in the backyard.

Pool time! We headed to the Windsor Rec Center pool one afternoon as well!

Everyone had a blast and Ethan and Wyatt showed Kemry how to be brave and go down the big water slide. Also when we first got to the pool and we were standing in the pool area waiting for everyone to get ready to get in the water, Emmett took off and grabbed some random girls hand. haha The teenage girl was super cute about it and just smiled and looked at me and started to walk with him into the kiddie pool area. Once Emmett looked up and realized that it wasn't me he ran over to where I was. haha

After swimming we hung out the rest of the day until Coya and John arrived. Most of the kids fit on our little table for dinner.

Mady is getting too old and got to sit at the adult table. She didn't seem to mind all that much! I can't believe she is going to be 8 this summer.

Jaxtin got to enjoy our high chair. He really was not that big of a fan though and cried quite a bit. haha

I seriously loved watching Emmett in Time Out he is too stinking cute!

This was one of the "hug times" after fighting that these little ones had. They not only hugged after a fight some times they could give each other a kiss as well. Seriously such a cute age!

The kids had a blast with their treasure hunt! :-) 

Wyatt let Emmett have a piece of Candy and Emmett was pretty stoked! 

Look at that face! :-) 

For dinner Coya was making an Irish meal and for the meal we needed some red wine. Luckily, our neighbors and given us red wine our first Christmas we lived here and it was just sitting in our basement. So Brandon got to open his very first wine bottle. It was quite the adventure with we don't have a cork screw so he had to use some pliers! haha 

Bubble Time! 

The kids had some good fun playing with our bubble machine out in the backyard. I don't think our bubble machine had ever gotten used as much as it did when the cousins were in town. haha I had to go buy more bubbles because they used all of them! haha 

One night when all the kids were in bed we decided to have some masking fun! Coya had brought some facial masks and let us all try them out. haha 

Yes we are probably as goofy as our kids. I guess they had to get it from someone! haha 

Saturday before everyone was leaving it got pretty hot outside. The kids thought it was hot enough to take out the sprinkler and play in the water. It was hot but I don't know that it was really that hot to play in the water. haha They sure had fun with it though! 

While the kids played in the water me, Coya and Vandy took off for a girls night. The new "Beauty and the Beast" movie had come out and we bought tickets in advance to go see it. When Vandy and Coya first texted me about a girls night to go see the movie I thought they meant just us moms. However, I didn't realize that they were also kind of thinking of their daughter going too. I don't have daughters so it didn't even phase me to think that a girls night could mean their kids too. I felt bad when I realized that I didn't understand that since I only have boys but they forgave me since they never mentioned having the little girls come too. Anyways, the evening turned out fun! We hit the movie and then Cafe Rio afterwards. It was fun for us girl to just chat it up and have some girl time together. Overall it was a lot of fun to have everyone here at our house over spring break! Our kids were so sad to see their cousins leave! We are just glad that they all get along so well! What a fun spring break!! :-)