Train Ride and Story Time with Friends!

We love living in a neighborhood with so many kids the same age as our kids, and so many parents that we can call friends.  It's so fun for our boys and wonderful for us.  Especially mama.

We walk almost every day, and usually end up at a park for an hour and a half or so, with two of the twins' best friends, Nash and Logan.  They seriously love them and are always so excited to see them.  We love having friends who are willing to go on adventures with so many toddlers (and babies) in tow.  We are always making new friends, there are lots of people moving into our neighborhood, and let's face it, with little twins it's been hard for us to get out and about, but now that they are getting a bit bigger it's getting easier.

Today we walked the kids to the Trax station (there are three within walking distance of our house) and rode the train to the Draper Library for Story Time.  They had SO much fun.  It was a little hard to keep them still and quiet ant times, but we had a blast.  They sang songs, read books, and danced around.  We sat on a bench outside the library afterwards for some snacks, then headed back to the train.  The kids were so good, and napped so well after walking.  For five toddlers and a one year old, it was awesome and they listened so well.   Can't wait to see what other adventures the summer will bring now that our kids are finally getting bigger and easier to take places.

(These are all phone photos, mama really needs an upgrade in this department, thanks to our friends for forwarding your good pictures.)

 Waiting for the train (they wanted their hoods up the whole walk we had to stop and put it back up every time they blew off, the wind was pretty chilly).

They don't look like they are having much fun, but they said they were.  They rode like this the whole way.

Snack Time!

Headed home!

Easter

Easter was so fun this year.  The maniacs had so much fun.  They saw the Easter Bunny at the mall a week or so before Easter.  They loved him until he walked up to say hi and they were terrified.  They said waved and said bye through tears.  Every time we talked about him after that they said they didn't want to go see him.  They knew when we went anywhere close to the mall and made sure we knew that they didn't want to go see him.

When we told him the Easter Bunny was coming when they were sleeping, they were a little nervous until we told them that he was going to bring them a present.  We woke up and ate breakfast, cinnamon roll waffles, then went outside to find Easter Eggs.  They LOVED it.  They ran all over the yard and brought each egg back and put it in the carton.  They were so happy.  We went inside and they found their Easter Baskets.  They loved the fire engines and garbage trucks.  They got new Lightening McQueen underwear and were pretty excited, but they carried their trucks around every where all day.  We went outside and played with their new big balls and wagons.

After nap time we went to grandma's house for dinner.  We had another Easter Egg hunt and hid more eggs in grandma's back yard.  They had so much fun.  We kept just throwing them around the yard so they could pick them up and bring them back to their wagons.  It was such a fun day.

(Throwing their balls at the fence)

Rainy Day

It rained all day today... every time there is water outside, the boys jump in every little puddle they see.  What kind of parents would we be if we didn't give them the opportunity to do it without getting in trouble once?  They had a lot of fun, eventually they were freezing and wanted to go back inside, but they were so happy.

Moab!

We sent daddy to Arizona to watch some spring training baseball games with some friends.  While he was gone, we went to visit grandma, grandpa, Kassi, Greg, Colton, and Uncle Ty in Moab.  We got there on Sunday and took the boys to the park.  They had so much fun playing together.  Colton wanted to have a stick race in the creek, but when his sticks didn't come out the other side he went under the bridge and found a dam.  Which turned into throwing rocks into the creek.  All three boys thought it was the best thing ever.  They seriously threw the rocks for an hour.  It was so fun.

Mackay spent most of his time searching for big rocks, while Nolan was perfectly content to throw anything he found.  They laughed and laughed every time a rock splashed.

 

After the park we went back to grandma's for a bit for some quiet time (skipping naps) and have dinner before heading up to the rodeo arena to ride Colton's horse.  All three boys had so much fun throwing dirt into a garbage can.  When Greg was ready to take them for a ride they weren't happy about it.  They loved getting up by the horse and petting him, but they definitely didn't want to ride him.  They ran all over the arena, which was impressive because the place is huge and the ground is not solid, at all.  Mackay was covered in dirt, and had dirt in his mouth and kept trying to lick his hand to get the dirt out... it was a huge mess.  His arm was covered in saliva-y mud, and he couldn't figure it out.  It was pretty funny.  (Mama didn't take any pictures because it was dark and they didn't end up riding the horse).

The next day we just hung out with grandpa.  It was good for the boys to get some time in with him.  They found out where grandpa keeps the treats and kept dragging him in the kitchen for more.  They loved hanging out with him.

Before we left Tuesday afternoon, we had to get some photos of all three boys wearing their minion shirts.... Aunt Kassi had bubbles so we played with bubbles for a bit.  We called Uncle Ty out to help us blow bubbles so mommy could get some pictures of the boys playing.

Colton really liked helping his cousins.

 Mackay couldn't figure out that he was supposed to put his mouth on the bubble wand.

Nolan's pucker lips for blowing... 

I think Colton is winning...

The boys are always so sad when we have to leave.  We don't get to see this side of the family much and we always have so much fun.  

The boys really missed their daddy, and it was especially hard when we got home and he wasn't here.  They were definitely ready for him to come home the next morning.

We had a great couple days and daddy had lots of fun in Arizona and made some new friends.  The boys were SO happy to see daddy when we picked him up from the airport.