Playing, Picnics, Parties and Conference

We like to have fun with our kids. Sarah was watching TV and was totally engrossed in it. Aaron snuck up on her and scared her. She was NOT happy about it!!
Right after she crawled up into my lap to get loves. Her face looked pretty pitiful. Friday was such a beautiful day. We are getting Spring Fever here! We decided to enjoy the beautiful warm weather and took the kids to the park and had a picnic. It was nice to be outside without a jacket or coat on! However, it was short lived since we woke up this morning (Sunday) to a fresh layer of snow on everything. Doh!! Anyway, all the kids had a lot of fun at the park.Noah had his first slide ride. He didn't quite know what to think of it. It didn't help that he almost fell off the end of the slide either. Good thing Aaron was there to catch him!
The rest of the kids had fun playing on the slides. Here's Daniel and Sarah getting ready to go down a big tube slide.Saturday the weather continued to be beautiful for the most part. We had the "birthday" celebration that afternoon. My birthday, sister's birthday and my Dad's birthday all are within three days of each other. We usually get together to celebrate every year and this year was no different. After eating a yummy lunch the boys headed out to play some football. The dads seemed to be playing with minor assistance from the kids.While we were at G&G T's house we got to pick up Daniel's underwear that he left there last week. While G&G T were watching the kids last week, Daniel and Josh begged to take a bath. G&G T being the softies they are let them take their much wanted bath. Daniel made himself at home and got undressed putting his dirty underwear in G&G T's hamper. The underwear didn't get noticed until Grandma did laundry. Knowing that my Dad hadn't suddenly started wearing little kids underwear, she figured what had happened. She was nice enough to wash them for me and we got them back Saturday. While we were there Matthew kept pestering Grandpa to let Matthew help him. That really meant Matthew wanted to go on a lawn mower/tractor ride. Grandpa was gracious enough to oblige. Matthew loved it. Also while we were there Noah got to check out the baby swing. He loved it for the most part. He didn't really like it as much when Sarah was pushing him, though. She would push him quite jerkily and he kept hitting his mouth on the front part of the swing. After a little bit of that, he'd had enough.Seeing as Grandpa T is very difficult to buy presents for, he started making a list of things he wanted throughout the year. Of course all of us called up Grandma T to get ideas of what to get Grandpa T. When we all called she read off the list to each of us. When we showed up Saturday we unfortunately found out Grandpa had quite a few duplicate gifts. Great. He won't be hurting for haircutting capes and magazine subscriptions to say the least. Maybe next time we should coordinate a little better--at least that's what I am thinking :).

Later that night it was the Priesthood session of Conference. Aaron wanted to take Josh to the Priesthood session. We got home from the birthday party about 10 minutes before the session started so they had to both hurry and get dressed. Josh hurried a little too fast and put his shirt on inside out.

He didn't notice it was inside out. However, he couldn't understand why his tie wouldn't hang right. Hmmmm I wonder?!

Kids say some of the funniest things. The other day I was tucking Daniel and Josh into bed. I said, "Sleep tight." and Daniel finished the saying with, "Don't let the big bugs bite!!" Also while we were at the pediatrician's office the power was out. Daniel said, "Oh the lightricity is out!" I wanted to write it down really fast before I forgot it. Funny kids!