St George

 Jordan had a conference in St George so the boys and I went with him.  It was such a fun little get away.  The weather was actually perfect.  It's usually really hot this time of year but the whole time we were there it was only in the 70's.  The only thing that my boys wanted to do was swim.  It was really cold for swimming but the pool was heated so it was really fun.  We spent the whole first day swimming in the pool. We had the pool basically to ourselves.  There were some old people sitting in pool chairs around the pool but we were the only ones in the pool.  My boys had so much fun jumping in and playing.  After lunch they really wanted some pool toys so we went to walmart and bought snorkels for the big boys and an inflatable for Harrison.  They loved it.
When Jordan got out of his conference we went to the temple and walked around the grounds.  My boys loved running around and collecting little nuts that fell from the trees.  Bubba was so cute at the temple.  He really wanted to see the Jesus statue.  Jackson and Link refused to go inside and see the statue so Jordan stayed outside with them and I took Bubba inside.  The missionaries came over and talked to us and played the recording.  They came and talked to us and let Harrison touch the statue.  We talked to him about the holes in his hands and feet and he was really sweet.  I asked him what he heard from the recording and he said "Jesus loves me."  Then I asked him if he loved Jesus and he said "Yes he's my best friend."  It was so sweet!  One of the missionaries looked like she was going to cry.  It was really sweet.  He's such a good sweet little boy.
After we walked around the temple we went to the red hills desert garden.  It was dark but they had it lit pretty well so it was really fun.  There were frogs in the little river and it was really cool to listen to them and try to find where they were hiding. 

Cannonballs into the pool!  Jackson is really getting good at swimming!  He swam in water over his head a ton and swam across the entire pool.  He did such an awesome job.  

Our second day in St George I took the boys to the Red Cliffs Recreation Area in the morning.  We hiked to see the dinosaur tracks.  Jacks did not want to hike and he was honestly just a grump.  After walking around a little bit we went to lunch then went to visit my cousin Kara.  She has a pool so my boys swam for a couple of hours in her pool.  I didn't take any pictures sadly of them at her house.  They loved her pool and she was really sweet and she got in the water with them and she and BJ taught Jackson how to swim which helped him so much he's becoming a really good swimmer.  We hung out with Kara for a few hours then went back to the hotel.  

After Jordan got back we went to dinner and then Snow Canyon to hike a little bit.  We did the Jenny's Canyon trail, a little bit of the Hidden Pinyon, and the sand dunes.  The boys loved the sand dunes.  Harrison absolutely loved it he loved to play in the sand they all loved running down the hills together holding hands.  We wanted to do the petrified dunes trail but there was an accident so we couldn't get up the road to it.  It was a really fun night.   

Dino tracks trail at red reefs

Harrison's weird halo!  He wore this pool diving ring on his head for the entire trip.  It was his little halo.  It was super weird but he refused to let me take it.  He was very attached to it and he was kind of tired from not getting enough sleep so I just let him wear it. 

The next day I took the boys to the Children's Museum in the morning.  They've started charging for it and it honestly wasn't that fun this time for some reason.  I think my older boys are starting to get a little to old for it and we've been a few times so it just wasn't that exciting.  Harrison was really tired and he was kind of weird and got scared of the dinosaurs and just didn't have that much fun because he was so tired. 

Jordan had a short day at his conference so when he got out we went to Zion.  Zion is so busy and just crazy with the shuttle and all the people.   It had rained a ton so a lot of the trails were closed because they washed out or had mudslides and the narrows were closed because the river was really full which made me a little nervous with the kids.  We did the emerald pools trail; only the lower pool was open because there had a mud slide that washed the trail out.  It was a little disappointing a lot of the trails I wanted to hike were closed.  We did the Riverside walk down to where you'd get in the river for the narrows.  It started raining on us on our way back and our kids were just done hiking so we went back to the hotel and swam some more.  The kids just loved swimming it's all they wanted to do.

Emerald Pools

Riverside walk.  Bubba still sporting his little halo

The next day we checked out of our hotel and started driving home.  We drove through Kolob Canyon on our way home.  We did a little mile hike at the end of the canyon that was really pretty. We'd never been to Kolob Canyon before and it was beautiful.  It was totally worth the extra time to drive through.  The hike we did at the end of easy and short but our kids were just so tired and kind of done so they were really grumpy the entire time.  Harrison was tired and wanted to be carried the whole time and Jackson just whined and freaked out every time he saw a bee.  Link was the only one that was actually pleasant on the hike.  He said hiking makes him run faster so he was really sweet and cute. 

We had so much fun on our trip!  Harrison didn't want to go home he kept saying he wanted to go back to the hotel.  My boys are finally old enough that they travel pretty well.  The only issue we had was sleeping we didn't have enough beds in the hotel and didn't take a mat for the floor so we were trying to cram 3 of us into one bed.  Harrison just has a hard time sleeping away from his bed so he got up every single night at least once in the middle of the night.  We had a couple days that they woke up way to early and stayed up way to late at night.  So we were all a little tired the entire time but for the most part even without sleep they were really sweet and pleasant and we had a really good time.  We kind of had a hard time coming back to real life though. Getting the kids to school today was a little rough.  We're all just ready for summer to start.  I'm really excited for my boys to be done with school so we can just hang out all the time and have fun.  

April 2019

April was a fun month for us.  The weather was nice and my kids loved playing outside with their friends.  Spring break was at the beginning of April.  We didn't really do anything for spring break because Jordan was sick so we mostly just stayed home and played outside in our neighborhood.  Harrison thinks that he's bigger than he actually is and runs around the neighborhood with all the big kids.

He always wants to be put in this tree with all the neighborhood kids.  He thinks he's so big.

This kid is so crazy!!  He just thinks he can ride around all by himself.

Fun walking on the trail

 Link went to the zoo with his kindergarten class.  Harrison and I went with him.  It was a lot of fun to see him with his friends.

We've spent a lot of time on the Spanish Fork trail biking and walking.

Harrison loves to tell stories.  He makes up funny stories all the time.  He'll start them "Once upon a time" then make up cute little stories.  Jackson and Link love him to tell them stories.  He tells them bedtimes stories.  In this picture his story was "Once upon a time, CHOCOLATE!" He told that story over and over and they thought it was hilarious.

We've been hiking a lot lately now that it's warmed up a little.  Jordan and I hiked the hidden oak trail.  There was still snow on it when we went so we didn't make it the whole way.  The part we did was a hard hike without great views.

My bestie

Chillin' in our hammocks

Jordan and I hiked to horsetail falls in Alpine.  It was a really hard hike but it was worth it.  A lot of the trail was covered in snow and tons of water and mud.  Parts of the trail were basically a river.  The hike was beautiful and the waterfall was really full of water.  It was so pretty!  These pictures don't really show how pretty was really was.  

My boys are almost done with school and we're all really excited. 

Bubba is 3

I can't believe my crazy little baby Bubba is 3!  He is growing up way to fast!

Things about Bubba

• If he's awake he's talking!  
• He loves stories.  He asks me every night to tell him stories.  Most of the time I start a story and he starts adding in his own details and then finishes it himself.  His favorite stories are ones made up about him.  
• He has an imaginary friend named Joey.  He says his best friend is Joey.  The poor little guy loves friends and playing with his brothers so when they go to school he gets so bored and sad so he had to make up his own friend.  He climbs to the top of our swing set and "plays" with Joey.  He steers the steering wheel and says that they're sailing to Hawaii to see turtles and dolphins.  
• His favorite foods are fruit, vegetables, and junk food.  He doesn't really eat anything in between he loves really healthy food and really crappy food.
• He won't take naps but then gets grumpy at about 5 o'clock.  He just doesn't quite get enough sleep.
• He thinks he's big!  He think's that he's about 7!  He runs around will all the neighbor kids down the street on his wiggle bike. 
• He loves to hike
• He loves dinosaurs
• He loves to play at the park

He was so tired from not taking a nap that he fell asleep on the couch with a ring pop in his mouth

He was so excited for his legos

Birthday pancakes