Dress of the Week and Trip to Regina

This picture pretty much sums up T today. She was CRANKY.

The awesome scenery on the way home from Regina. Flat, snow, and every once in a while even a silo. =) Ok, there is one large dip in the road on the 6 1/2 hour journey so not totally flat the whole way.

We had a great trip. Matthew's parents were very kind and watched our kids for us while we went. We enjoyed seeing the Temple there and visiting with friends that we have not seen for quite a while.

The only mishap was on the way back. We were close to home. We don't really have freeways were we live, just highways. So every time there is a stoplight, the speed limit goes down. Matthew was driving and slowed down to the appropriate speed, then he sped up again to the normal highway limit after the light... but a few feet before the sign. So he got a ticket. We were trying to be really careful and go close to the speed limit too the whole trip. Anyway, just a warning to everyone. Don't start speeding up till after you pass the speed limit sign. Apparently officers are extremely anal.

Dress of the Week

One of my lovely boys got the yogurt out and left it out, so T helped herself. Notice the large blob of yogurt on her sweater. =P

It was all good. I had a backup. =)

Got Snow?

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

They loved their green eggs and biscuits. =)

Mmm...

Gordon didn't want to mess up the coloring on his with cheese. =)

Gordon's Recital, Dress of the Week, and a Cute Moment

Dress of the Week

T has become completely obsessed with drinking fountains lately. I prefer the ones that she is not able to turn on like this one. However, then a sweet kid usually comes up and "helps" her out. She ends up with drenched clothes. She doesn't want to actually drink the water, she just wants to play with it. =)

For family night last Monday we talked about making good choices and we made CTR shields and had some brownies and ice cream. Mmmm... Brownies. I love these guys.

A cute moment - Daddy reading to the boys.

Gordon had a little recital this weekend. The main part of the recital was listening to all the kid's compositions that they wrote. It starts out with the MYC song, then Gordon's composition, and then a little rhythm ensemble. If you saw his last recital, you'll notice a huge difference. There was no collapsing at the end. lol

Dress of the Week

Visit to Kid City

Friday there was no school. Jamin was invited to a birthday party at Kid City, so we all decided to go. Well, the kids and I. Here are some pictures...

Neil was soooo cute. He kept posing for pictures. I took a bunch of him and pretended to take more. The battery in the camera died eventually. He loved the place and was happy the whole time.

Tegan was happy a lot of the time, but got sleepy for part of it. We went in the afternoon, so it was over nap time. She started out in the toddler area, but got bored of it after a little while.

Tegan wanted to be with her big brothers and go on the big slides. So Jamin kindly helped her climb up and went down a big slide with her. He's such a good big brother.

Then Tegan found a new friend. This girl is in Gordon's gymnastics class and loved following Tegan around for a while.

Then Tegan became confident to climb up and go down on her own. So she did over and over and over again. But she stuck to this one slide most the time.

She did take a little break to enjoy some food.

Jamin walking with Gordon. Jamin made sure Gordon had fun and introduced him to all his friends.

Overall, it was a good time. Only a few speed bumps. On the way there, Gordon had to go potty REALLY bad, so I was trying to get to a gas station unfortunately a little too quickly. I got pulled over for the very first time in Canada and got a huge stinkin ticket. (I am never speeding again, btw) Holy moly, tickets are expensive here. Anyway, I got out of the car while the officers were writing the ticket and let Gordon pee on the side of the road so he didn't wet his pants.

Then leaving Kid City was a little tricky, but we got there. We just left Jamin's red sweater in the process. So it was a kind of pricy excursion, but it was good memories and something to look back on and laugh. =)

Glow in the Dark Shape Turtle

This week we made some glow in the dark shape turtles. This was shape week for Neil at school, so we had a little fun.

What you need:

mini paper plates

paint - green or yellow and blue - make it more fun and use some glow in the dark paint

brushes

I printed off the shapes for the back, legs, tail, and head from here.

scissors

glue

What's cool about these turtles? Well, we used some glow in the dark paint! Cause that makes anything cool, right?

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