4th of July Vacation & Other Mischief

I guess it's high time I updated the blog. Here is what we've been up to.

Olie got caught coloring on the wall.

I made sure the punishment fit the crime.

Tato got her first haircut ever!

Before

After (I haven't gotten a very good after pic yet)

We went up to my hometown for the 4th of July weekend. It was pretty exciting since I haven't been back up there in 6 years. We did lots of things while we were there. Alot has changed but my favorite Chinese restaurant was still there so we got to eat there. Yum yum yum! I got to see a few people I used to work with at the Albertsons.

I got to see my best friend from High School and Tato and Olie got to play with her kids.

We got to walk around the greenbelt and Tato got to feed the geese.

Tato enjoyed every second of the walk.


Olie not so much.

The night of the fourth we got a really great seat for the fireworks(or what we thought was a really great seat) on the lawn of someone in my dad's ward.
We had fun with the glow bracelets and necklaces that Roger, Cassie, Dad and Ginni all bought.

And then here is some of the debris we got hit with. The first 5 minutes of the show were spectacular; best seat ever. Then Terry mentioned that he thought he got hit with something and I kind of shrugged it off. Then I got hit about an inch below my eye with something moving really fast and the rest was pretty much ruined for me. I didn't want my babies getting hit (and for heaven sakes I didn't want to get hit again), so I spent the rest of the show covering my children and my eyes. I got hit a few more times but not in the face again so it wasn't so bad. A guy a few feet in front of us got hit with a piece that was still on fire. After he put the fire out he laughed it off. I guess I'm just not that adventurous. I'll sit further away next time, thanks.
Hope everyone has had a great July so far!

July 1st -4th: Camping

For the 4th of July Terry's parents took our little family camping. Tato seems to love everything about camping. Of course our "camping" is pretty plush. Terry and I even had a funny little conversation as we were falling asleep one night.

Terry: Thanks for roughing it with me.

Alice: Ha ha, this isn't roughing it.

Terry: What? I can't hear you over the air conditioning.


Anyways, here is Olie and . . . well what's that I see out the window.
Oh hey look, a deer. It walked right up past our camper.
Olie camping.
Tato picking flowers. Or trying to rather. She couldn't get any because she didn't understand they were attached to the ground. She couldn't figure out why they were so heavy. : )


And, at long last, I got to ride the bikes. After two years of being pregnant and missing out, I finally got to ride up the mountain and feel the wind in my hair again. Sooooo fun! Thanks for all the fun you guys!

Camping

We went the camping the week of the 24th of July and although we didn't get too many pictures, I promise Tato was as cute as ever and she had a lot of fun! I didn't get to go four wheeling because of the whole being pregnant and all, but I still had a lot of fun and my favorite part was making smores at the campfire. It was Tato's first time camping, and her first time having spaghetti!

More Vacation

So mom thinks this is child abuse, but Jessica said if you blow in the baby's face they will hold their breath for a sec and you can dunk them under water. I just don't want Tato to be afraid of water/drowning like I am. I want her to be comfortable in it. So we tried it, and since it didn't seem to bother her that much, we did it again and taped it. She is gonna be a great swimmer!

Vacation!

We just got back from an awesome vacation to visit my sister in Texas. It was so much fun and we definitely needed the vacation. The only bad part was the drive. It took us about 23 hours to get there and we decided to do it all in one day so we didn't have to waste vacation days driving. We got there Friday night and had to leave the next Saturday morning so we had a whole week of fun in the sun!


Monday or Tuesday (now I can't remember which day) Jessica took us to a delicious BBQ place called Spring Creek. They had the best rolls! Really they were like little piping hot loafs of bread but they we're unlimited so I just kept eating and eating. It was a really good place.

Most of the pictures we took are of swimming. I didn't really think to take my camera out at any other time. We went swimming a couple of times and even though Tato looks horrified in this picture, she absolutely loved swimming. Every minute of it. For awhile there she had a perma-grin. Guess we'll have to take her swimming more often.

This is what Terry looked like most of the time. He was usually dragging a few kids around the pool.


She liked this little dolphin thing that Jessica had, but after awhile she got way too relaxed in it and started to doze off so we took her out of it.




Perma-grin.In addition to swimming Jessica helped me make a quilt. Ok really I helped her make a quilt. She did 98 percent of the work. But I did pick out alot of the fabric and I sewed some squares together. I also ironed alot.
Here's the finished product. Cool huh! Thanks Jess for helping me make a quilt. We also made cards and did all sorts of crafty things. I had a lot of fun.


Well since we did so many girly things like quilting and making cards (we also rented "He's Just not That Into You" which is a chick flick), I agreed to take Terry to go see the new Terminator movie while Jessica babysat for us. We found an AMC so that we did not have to go to a Cinemark. The movie was decent. Pretty much what you would expect from a futuristic robot movie I guess. I've never seen any of the previous ones though so I don't know. Terry liked it ok. He still likes the other ones better though.We had a gift card from Applebee's that I got for my Birthday from Tricia so we went there after the movie.
We did other things like play games with the kids, watched movies, visited and stayed up way too late most nights. It was a very relaxing time. We definitely needed this vacation and we had a ton of fun. Tato did too. I think she's gonna miss playing with all her cousins.