Pageant

Last night we took the kids over to see the Manti Pageant. Tyler loved it and said that he wants to go again next year. His favorite parts where when angel Moroni was on the tower of the Temple, Samuel the Lamanite, when the hand carts came and of course the fighting.
Mason spent most of the time tackling his dad so he didn't see much of it, other than the fight scene. He wanted them to do it again and again. He loved that part the best. Elly was a wake for part of it but then fell asleep.
It was very crowded on the temple grounds so we sat acrossed the street and watch. The kids had a good time. It was worth it other then we didn't get home until one thirty in the morning. We are all very tired today. The temple looked beautiful in these pictures.

Our beautiful temple. Anyone who hasn't been to this temple needs to go.

He finally got it.

So after five months of telling Mason to get out of Elly's face she finally spit up on him. I had to laugh when I saw him. He of course was crying. It was impossible not to laugh because I have told him she was going to do this to him for along time. He finally got what he needed. He stayed out of her face for the rest of the day. The next morning he had forgotten all about it and was back to being right in her face.

Girls Day

We had our first girls day on friday. The girls were my mother, sisters, sister-in-laws, nursing baby's and the oldest granddaughter. We were missing my sister Camille who lived to far away to make it. We missed her and are planning to go when she visit next time. We also are missing a sister-in-law that couldn't make it. Everyone but Elly and I rode down to SLC together so they had fun from the beginning. I guess I could say that I had fun from the beginning of my drive to because I didn't have anybody fighting ,I listened to what I wanted to and I visited with Camille on the phone for part of the drive too.
We met in SLC and went to lunch. Then went to Tia pan trading and then to the mall. We only had a couple of hours but it was fun just to be together. We wanted to do something together with my sister, Candice, before she leaves us to go on a mission. This was just our first time doing a girls day so we are hoping to get better at this as we do more of them.
I am not fond of this picture of me and Tiff has her eyes closed but I thought it was really cute of the rest of them, that is including Tiff.

Elly's Five months old.

My Boys

While I was doing some cleaning my boys were busy as well with a project of their own. Normally they have me build their fort but this day they did it them selves. I must say they did a pretty good job.

Our busy two weeks.

We went south with Jay for a couple of days since he was going to be working three days down there. While he was working I took the kids and went sight seeing the first day in capital reef national park.

When we got out of the car to go on a little hike Tyler saw this little guy on the ground and said, "Look mom! It is a baby alligator." It is a little hard to see. I did explain to him that it wasn't a alligator.

Tyler and Mason loved getting to hike and run around when I had to stop and take care of Elly.

The first night that we swam the boys were in the pool for maybe thirty minutes when I noticed that Mason's hair was green. They kept swimming but when I bathed them that night I washed his hair four times trying to get the green color out. The next morning I washed it a couple more times so that hopefully it wouldn't be so noticable. Your could see the green color for a couple of days though. I wasn't happy about that. The second night we stayed at a different place since swimming is what they want to do the most and I didn't want Mason to have hair like the grinch.

We tried to swim glasses on Elly. I thought that she looked so funny, so I thought that I would share the picture.

Tyler and Mason love it when Jay throws them up in the air and then lets them splash into the water. The pictures aren't the best but you get the idea. The boys had so much fun.

After we let the kids swim we went for a little drive to see Boulder, Utah and Hells backbone. We stopped here at one of the look outs on our way. I thought that it was just beautiful.

Mason fell asleep on the drive, but Tyler hadn't had enough hiking so we stopped along the road and so Tyler and I could hike up this little hill while Jay looked for animals.

Here we are on the bridge that I have heard so much about. When Jay was a little boy the bridge was just wood and only wide enough for one car to go over it. The drop of on the sides was pretty scarey. I didn't even close enough to see under the bridge because it was so far down. As you can see the bridge is now cement and asphalt. Jay said he could see the old bridge under the new one. We had to come see this bridge so I could see why the Jay was scared when they crossed it when he was around Tyler's age.

The next morning we had to get up and leave when Jay went to work because we had to go to Wyoming for my sister's graduation. We stopped by our house unload our suitcase and reloaded it, plus we had to get the boys bikes. They had been dying to ride their bikes with their cousins. So this is Savanah with my three kids and two of Tiff's.

While we were up to Grandma's house the boys made a pretty cool farm outside on the grass. They played there for hours. On Saturday when we headed back to our house we ended up bring my little brother and sister home with us. They stayed the week with us. It was pretty fun to have them around. We roasted hot dog's out at great grandpa's farm, went to a barbaque, went to the pool and the park and we even took them to help weed the garden.

Sunday after church we took the kids all up to the lake. It was a little cool but the kids had fun throwing the rocks into the water. Mason had fun until Tyler accidently threw a rock and hit him on the head. It sure did bleed for the little cut it left behind. Mason didn't want to be loved for long though because he had to get back to throwing rocks.

Elly loves being outside so she also enjoyed our little visit to the lake.

We headed back to Wyoming on friday night because my nephew was getting baptised on saturday. On saturday while we were at Grandma Teichert's house Elly decided to roll over. I didn't even try and stop her. We have been stopping her when she has tried. I am not ready for her to move or get bigger. She has also discovered that she can suck on her toes to keep herself entertain for along time.

Bath time with the cousins is always fun. It is a lot easier to talk kids into a bath with all of them then just two at a time because kids don't want to miss out on any of the fun. This way there was no fights while we were trying to get ready for the baptism. Tyler was so excited about going and seeing his cousin get baptised. Sunday after church and pudding we headed home. Tyler won't let us leave Grandma's house on Sundays if we haven't had pudding. So thanks for always doing it earlier when we are there for Tyler.

So that was our two weeks of fun. This week we just relaxed.

Lincoln Logs

The other day Tyler built his first Lincoln Log house by himself. I had to tell him what log to put next but he put all the pieces on himself. He was so proud of himself that he wanted a picture taken with it.

Tyler said that the sheriff here paid one penny for his house. He had the man carrying his penny with him. He didn't like it when Mason tried to take the penny for himself. After all the sheriff had to us it to buy his house.

Sidewalk chalk art

The other day it was so nice outside so after we had done some yard work we decided to have some fun. The boys got out the sidewalk chalk, which I swore I would never have but is great fun for kids. We started off just doing the normal drawing and then got a little crazy. Tyler traced me, Mason and Elly. Then I traced Tyler. We wrote our names and gave us faces and hair. Tyler loved it so when dad got home he had to lay down by us too so that Tyler could trace him. Dad didn't want to lay like the rest of us so he looks like he is dead. We had fun doing it and it stayed until the rains came a few days later.

I wish that the pictures would have turned out better. It was really cute.

Here is Jay.

Me

Tyler

Mason

Elly-
Tyler had fun doing Elly and Mason had fun coloring her faces for her. It was a good thing they make gray chalk so we could color over Mason's art work and give her a real face.