Weekly Review - April 19 - 25

I just have two words for this past week: Crazy, and Exhausting!

Sunday, April 19 - It was such a beautiful day, and it looks like we are in for a nice week. The kids went outside to play in the playhouse and blow bubbles. (Thanks to Kaylee cleaning the playhouse on Saturday)

Monday, April 20 - After school we ended up playing outside for 4 hours!!! It was almost 80 degrees outside. Some of the neighbor kids came to play outside with us...in this picture is our neighbor Sydney. She is a month older than Gabby.

Tuesday, April 21 - Another beautiful day. While we were outside playing another of our neighbors was out delivering notes about a primary activity. When they got to our house her daughter really wanted to stay to play. She knows we have a play room and wanted to go upstairs to play. So I offered for her to stay while her mom took around the rest of the primary activity notes. When I went to check on them Kaylee had turned on "Horton Hears a Who"

Wednesday, April 22 - Kaylee had Cap and Gown Kindergarten graduation pictures at school. I got up early to do her hair and it turned out so cute I decided to take the kids to Kiddie Kandids at the mall to get pictures done.

Thursday, April 23 - Gabby had Cap and Gown preschool graduation pictures at school. After school we went up to Salt Lake. Our original plan was to scrapbook...but we ended up playing in the Olympic Legacy fountain at the Gateway Plaza.

Friday, April 24 - I offered to help Marla tear down her wallpaper in her bedroom so she could completely redo her room (new paint, decor, and carpet). After I helped her for a while I had to go make dinner...so instead Kaylee, and Gabby went to help.

Saturday, April 25 - What an insanely CRAZY day. Today included a library book sale, babysitting (Kaylee went to a walk-a-thon), my cousin's wedding luncheon, the Treehouse Museum, and my cousin's wedding reception.

Treehouse Museum and a CRAZY Saturday!

Yesterday was an insanely crazy day!!! My day started with going to the Salt Lake City Library Book sale with Gabby, Wendy and Marla. We got up at 6:15 and got ready so we could be there at 7:00 when the sale opened. After fighting through crowds of people we finally made it out of the book sale just before 9:00. We headed back to my mom's house so I could babysit Ariana at 9:30. Kaylee went to Janeene's house while we went to the book sale, and then went with Janeene to a walk-a-thon at Jaren's school while I babysat Ariana.

After our crazy morning I got a short break before heading up to Layton to go to a luncheon for my cousin Allison that just got married. Since we didn't want to go all the way back to my parent's house between the luncheon and the reception we decided to take the kids up to the Treehouse Museum in Ogden. The kids had tons of fun. The kids were everywhere and didn't stay together much, so it was a good thing we had enough adults there to cover all the kids.

We went over to the reception and Kaylee and Gabby had fun helping Papa decorate Allison's car, and helping Grandma in the kitchen. Gabby really liked helping my aunt Nadine refill the juice, and water bowls. It was a beautiful reception, and Allison looked amazing. We ended up staying almost the entire reception and finally got back to my parent's just before 9:00 and got the kids to bed.

Gateway Plaza Olympic Fountain

Today after picking the girls up from school we headed up to Salt Lake to hang out with Wendy and Roman. Our original plan was to go to her house and scrapbook the day away (and get caught up on our project 365 albums)...but then Wendy had her adoption home study this morning and had to take Spencer to work after that was done. Spencer's office is downtown at the Gateway plaza so we ended up meeting Wendy there instead of at her house.

The kids had fun going downtown...partly because going to Spencer's office also means they get to go to Papa's office. My girls were so thrilled to go visit Papa (my dad). They also really like to play in a cupboard in his office. Today they were trying to fit all three of the kids in the coat cupboard.

After leaving Papa's office we had lunch and went over to the Olympic Plaza fountain for the kids to play in. They had tons of fun running and playing (and the funniest thing was that they were trying to stay dry even though they were in their swimsuits.)

Every 30 minutes they have a fountain show with the fountain set to music. No one is supposed to go in the fountain during the water show. The kids had fun sitting on their towels watching the show.

After we were done playing in the fountains we went to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and got the kids ice cream cones.

Spring 2009 pictures

Today Kaylee had cap and gown kindergarten graduation pictures at school. I got up this morning and did her hair up in curls. It took me over an hour to get her ready this morning because her hair has gotten so thick. I loved the way that Kaylee's hair turned out.

After I took Kaylee to school I came home and decided to do Gabby's hair just like Kaylee's. (She has graduation pictures tomorrow so I'll have to do it up nice again tomorrow too.)
When I got back to Kaylee's school to pick her up the photographer was running way behind schedule. Kaylee's class was still waiting for their turn so I helped get all the kids in their caps and gowns.
I have been wanting to get their pictures done together for a long time now...the last time I got their pictures done was last April. So, after we picked Kaylee up from school we went over to the mall and got their pictures taken, and I think they turned out so amazingly cute. I'm glad that I just went and did it and didn't stress myself out about scheduling, and planning hair-dos, and outfits.

Here's the amazingly cute pictures that I got done today at Kiddie Kandids.

Weekly Review - April 12-18

The girls had spring break this week. They had the WHOLE week off school. We stayed at my parent's house for the week because I knew I would go insane at my house with the kids all week.

Sunday - April 12 - HAPPY EASTER!!! It was Easter Sunday and I was sick. The girls enjoyed their Easter surprises. I helped them get ready for church and they went to church with my mom and little sister. Here they are in their Easter dresses.

Monday - April 13 - After being sick on Sunday I was feeling much better. We just hung around at my parent's house because even though I was feeling better I really didn't feel like doing anything...including taking pictures. My mom reminded me to take a picture of the day...Did I? No!!! Grrrrr...Oh well.

Tuesday - April 14 - After being at my parent's house since Friday we went home to do some laundry, get a few things done around the house, and have some quiet, at home time. On our way home we stopped at Wendy's house and went shopping at the mall. We took the kids and let them play in the play area at the mall. Here is Kaylee modeling one of the cute new dresses that we got at Gymboree with my Gymbucks.

Wednesday - April 15 - This is the day that my dad celebrates every year. Tax Day!!! The end of tax season. He's an accountant and has been incredibly busy at work. Today we went back up to Wendy's house and then back over to my parent's house after getting a few things done around our house. Kaylee had bought bubbles at Gymboree and they had tons of fun with Bella (our dog) chasing and popping (and eating) the bubbles.

Thursday - April 16 - I took my car to get the oil changed at the dealership. I left my car there for them to do it and my dad picked me up so I wouldn't have to wait for my car. I also had the dealership rotate my tires. When I picked up my car and was driving my car it was shaking like crazy!!! I did not want to go back to the dealership because I have NOT had good experiences with their service department so I decided to go to Les Schwab and asked them to re-rotate my tires because it was not driving smooth...it was shaking. They looked at my front tires and were shocked that the dealership would let me leave with those tires and showed me the problem. I ended up buying 2 new tires and my car drives amazingly smooth now. I have decided I will NOT take my car back to the dealership to have anything done on it ever again. My tires were REALLY BAD and they should have caught that when they rotated the tires. Okay...this whole story has NOTHING to do with my cute picture of the day. Here is Gabby making Juice to go with dinner.

Friday - April 17 - Like I said on the 15th...my dad is happy that tax season is over. He took the day off work and had a nice day at home. Gabby took my picture of the day for today. Here is my parents and Ariana asleep on the couch. I babysat Ariana today (My sister's little girl) because she hadn't slept very well and my sister didn't want to take her to the sitter.

Saturday - April 18 - We had a fun and busy day today. We started our day by going to Paul's parent's house for an Easter brunch and egg dying/decorating party. Then we went to my cousin's bridal shower, and Kaylee had fun cleaning my parent's playhouse.