Clark County Fair

It's that time of year again. Fair time. It's always the second week of April so it shouldn't sneak up on me but it does. This is the first year in forever that I haven't gone scrap booking during the fair so I was home for the grand kids! They came out Thursday which is always the best night for the locals.

 We headed over to the animals first thing much to Rees's disappointment. He has a very good memory and wanted to go straight to the carnival to heck with the animals. Cooper was pretty excited about the animals though, even the big animals were fun for him.

 We had dinner (while Rees paced) and then finally headed over to the carnival. The boys were in heaven.

 We thought Cooper would need a little help. Nope. Not really. He even did the kiddie roller coaster by himself! He was pretty brave the whole time. Rees loved the motorcycles but he especially loved the fun houses the most I think.

The two of them had a ball. They both got pretty tired. Well actually everyone but Rees did. I was planning on keeping Cooper for his first sleepover that night. When I got him home, overtired and alone he got worried and wanted to go home. Luckily Ashley and Benjy weren't too far down the road and met us back at Wallys. We will try it again with Rees and a better nap!!

Friday Jeff & Rachel arrived for the weekend. They spent the weekend with us then headed to Disneyland with out us (Super bummed we didn't go). So while they were here of course we had to take them to the fair.Actually I spent more time this year than in years. Two days in a row! They were on their own until I got back from Vegas on Friday but Saturday we went up for dinner and the Rodeo. Good times. I totally swiped Rachel's pictures off facebook!!

Thanks for a great Fair kids!

SpRing BReaK and GIrl's NiGht

Christina's spring break is ALWAYS the week right after ours wouldn't you know it. That means I am usually working unless I take a day or two off. We watched movies and stuff like usual. Friday we went to Vegas though so she could see Ashley and her family. We watched the boys play their paper jam guitars and visited awhile. Then the three of us girls went to The Cheesecake Factory for dinner. Thanks to Benjy for watching the boys for us so Ashley could get away. It was a fun night out. We thought about going out to a movie but Ashley was getting uncomfortable being 8 months pregnant so we headed over to her house to watch tv there. It was a great night. We spent the weekend watching conference and all too soon Christina's break was over and off she went back to Utah!

Bock the Cano!!

So when Hayden was a little kid he heard the song "We will Rock You" and got started on his own version he called Bock the Cano. We will, we will back the cano. 

Don't ask me! He came up with some of the most interesting things and this was one of them. He played his "mote guitar" and sang it like crazy. Well we have a new generation bockin the cano and playing their mote guitars. 

Ashley and Benjy bought paper jam guitars for their boys and we were treated to a rockin guitar concert!!

YES the joint was jumpin! They were awesome. What talent.

Easter 2013

 Easter was early this year in March. You really never know what to expect weather wise during March but we lucked out with a really nice day. Ashley and the boys came out for the day and we had Charlie & Alisha and Beth & Rob and their girls here with us.

We had a nice dinner and then hid about 150+ eggs. Rees couldn't wait to get started on the eggs. I think it was torture for him to wait until after dinner and then there were so many eggs it took us forever to hide them all. The kids all piled into Hayden's room with Ashley and waited for us to get it done.

They are ready to get going!

 

They had a great time running all over the back yard collecting eggs galore. Rob's girls  were good to help the boys. They didn't get to help Cooper much since Rob was all over that! He hauled him all over the place collecting eggs. I think it's safe to say everyone had a great time!

They Are Growing So Fast!

I went to Vegas in March to do my usual grocery shopping and a million other things. Of course on my list was the now traditional visit to Great Buns.  I heart that place.  So after filling up on bread and other goodies I got busy with my huge list. I got my shopping finished with my grand kids help after I met up with Ashley & the boys. Then it was time for a quick playtime in the park before heading for home.

 I had some strawberries that the boys chowed down on while they played. Cooper wouldn't eat then play so he just munched while playing. This attracted the attention of another little guy who had to have some too. Too funny. Better than candy any ol day!

 See I even got a sneak picture of Dane at the playground.

 The boys ran us ragged. Cooper had his strawberry smile going on while he tried to dodge my camera. Before they left I gave them each a bag of green candy and juice and stuff to eat for St Patrick's Day. You are welcome Ashley!

Viva la Tradition!

We even mastered the timer on my camera!

 So we finally found a weekend we could go scrapbooking. We never could find a date last year so we tried hard to make it work this year. It is a tradition now that we do not want to see die off. Se we made it work during spring break this year since Jolynn wasn't visiting family. We are so glad it worked out because we had so much fun. We even managed to stay a day longer than usual!! There was a day we didn't even get dressed and just scrapbooked all day long...heaven!!

 Patty wrote down our pro/con list for deciding if we should stay up late and scrapbook or go to bed at a decent hour. We ended up compromising and stayed up kinda late. I think we made it to one o'clock then we hit the hay.

 

I am demonstrating how clean my side of the work space is!

 We went to Milt's (another tradition) and Patty introduced us to the awesome Garden House for lunch. We each brought up a dinner and went out a couple of times to eat. We went shopping lots and still managed to do lots of pages too. We are amazing! Patty's cabin is perfect and she is the perfect hostess. Good times with good friends.

Lunch at the Garden House was divine!

A Quick Trip to Utah

I had a cousin getting married in SLC in March that we all met up at. Mom & Dad came down from Canada and Carolyn and Spencer came up from California. Carolyn, Spencer & I all stayed at Christina's house. Then on Saturday Jeff & Rachel came down from Idaho to join us there too. 

 Friday night we all met in the mall and then went to dinner together. Then we hung out at Christina's house after dinner. We got lots of visiting in. Then we watched Mom & Dad's pictures of Hawaii and my dvd of Alaska so we are all caught up and each others travels. I guess I am kinda strange because I love seeing vacation pictures.

Saturday we met Jeff & Rachel for lunch at Zupas...one of our favorites.

 As usual the place was packed so we needed to go find someplace else to hang out and have fun. Christina introduced us to the Provo Beach Club which was so much fun.

The pictures aren't great but we had fun playing indoor crochet/mini golf. It was different and so hard to do with all of us so we just did our own thing and made up our rules which is to say there were no rules at all.

We all did the laser mania thinking it was laser tag but it wasn't. It was a laser obstacle course so it was still pretty fun. The best part was when Mom went Dad changed the course to expert on her. Believe it or not they both got into it and crawled through and everything. Kinda shocking. 

We all got ready and drove up to Draper for Kerri's reception and visited with family for awhile.

Once again I didn't take pictures of everyone which is so frustrating! I never think of it. So we visited for awhile then headed back to Provo for our dinner reservations.

We were super excited for Tucanos. Most of us had never been there before. It was fabulous to say the least. A new family favorite. Mom and Dad were in rare form. They ate and ate (well we all did). 

While Mom was making a repeat trip to the salad bar they came around with the dessert platter. We all said we were too full but Mom was bummed she missed it so they came back so she could get a flan. When we were finally finished we rolled out the door and headed back to Christina's to visit. The next day we all had to leave and go our separate ways. We had a great weekend and I was so glad I went up to meet everyone. Now that Wilf's kids are all married what are we going to use for an excuse to get us all together??