Dinosaur

We renewed our yearly membership to Thanksgiving Point tonight.  I love going there on Monday nights because they always have something different going on for the kids.  Tonight at the dinosaur museum they had "A Night in Paris."  They did a ring toss onto the eiffel tower, dipped food in fondue, and made an art project.  They also had a scavenger hunt inside the museum.  The kids had a lot of fun trying to find the next clue.

When we came home we found a deer in our backyard.  It ran away as soon as we opened our garage door. 

Earlier today Aubrey was curled up in a blanket watching television.  She told me that her arm was really itching.  So she went to scratch it and found a cricket on her arm.  She freaked out so bad.  It was so funny.

Nothing much this week.

Not a whole lot happened this week.  Aubrey passed out valentines that had little puppy and kitten tattoos in them.  She had some left over, so she put the extras all over her face and Jennifers.  After a lot of scrubbing I got them off of Aubrey's face in time for church, but I'm going to let Jennifer's dissolve with time.  Zac made homemade fettuccine alfredo and our usual chocolate strawberry torte for Valentine's dinner.  It was delicious. I had a very small slice of the cake, same with the kids.  On Tuesday Zac was telling me how healthy he had been eating, and that he went running.  He had eaten hardly any lunch or dinner, and was bragging about how he wasn't even hungry.  That's when I asked him what he had for breakfast.  He ate the ENTIRE rest of the cake for breakfast.  I told him THAT'S why you're not hungry!  You ate 2500 calories for breakfast alone!

This entire week when I get home from work both Zac and I have been working out to the Insanity workout.  The kids are in the room with us, and Jennifer has been trying to keep up.  She's pretty cute.  Anytime I'm doing push-ups, she crawls under my stomach and wants me to kiss her forehead as I go down.

I got Lily's 6 month pictures taken this weekend, I should get them back by next week.  That's about it for this week.  Pretty boring.  Boring is good though.

Idaho!

We went up to Idaho this past weekend.  Devin was able to come over and drive up with us.  The kids did really well on the drive.  Lily woke up around Malad and saw Devin and started fussing.  I think Lily just didn't recognize who Devin was.  Zac pulled the van over and made us do a Chinese fire drill in the road.  I ran around to the drivers seat, Devin to the passengers seat, and Zac sat by Lily.  She was fine the rest of the drive.  She would just smile at Zac.  I was able to make it up in time for Markell's baby shower.  It was so great to see so much of my family!  We went to Jackson's farewell on Sunday.  He gave a great talk!  I was able to hear every word from the mother's room in the church.  I didn't have any other kids distracting me.  The ward was SO QUIET though - except for my kids.  I am used to having the entire ward be loud with kids, but this ward it was MY kids being loud.

Lily kept on sticking her tongue out at Grandma.  We watched the BYU v. U of U game at Justin's house, then went over to Grandma and Grandpa's house to visit with them and Stephanie's family.  While I was there, Grandpa pulled out some cassette tapes that had Mom's solo recitals.  He let me borrow the cassettes and I put them on a c.d. today during my lunch break.  It was so great being able to listen to Mom sing on my drive home.  The songs were amazing.  She was so humble about how good a singer she was.  It is so nice that I am now able to play the songs and have my kids hear what she sounds like.

The kids had a great time playing with their cousins.  Eric and Aubrey were very sad we had to leave.  Last night Eric told me that he wished they would sell their house and move by us.  OR have us sell our house and move by them.  I'm glad they have a good time playing with their cousins.  Aubrey finally got over her fear of their dog.  Instead she became very annoying and was asking for the dog the entire time.

I was still trying to get the Sunday picture.

Jazz Game

Sunday pictures weren't very successful today.  Apparently I am mean.  I won't let Aubrey hold Lily in the picture.  Hence, the red crying face of Aubrey's.  Yesterday, I was mean to Eric.  He threw a toy and hit Jennifer in the mouth.  I made him go to his room for a time out.  Aubrey found out that in his journal, he wrote about it - and drew a picture of me, aka Mom, throwing up, and he wrote about how mean I am.

Zac and Eric went to the Jazz v. Rockets game on Wednesday.  They rode up with Eric's friend Zac and his family.  Their ticket gave them a free hot dog and soda.  Eric had the best time.  The Jazz lost by one point.  Zac said he was really worried that they were going to score another basket and HAVE to stay for overtime.  Oh Zac.  You need to learn to like sports a LITTLE bit. :)  I think it was torture tonight for him to watch the Superbowl.

The best commercial of the Superbowl was a Doritos commercial.  The guy started sucking on the other guys finger to get all the cheese flavor from the chips.  This was so funny to us.  Jennifer did the EXACT SAME THING to me the other day.  I wasn't really paying attention, and the next thing I know, Jennifer is sucking my finger that I had Doritos cheese on.  Gross.