Camping Fairies

These special fairies only come out at dusk when you are camping and they only visit if all the kids have been good campers. They secretly leave prizes all over camp for you to find with your flashlight. The kids LOVE it!!

Last night I was in Garrison's room helping him get his stuff together to go camping this weekend. Gar stopped and asked me if the Camping Fairies were going to come this trip? I had to hurry and think of something and the best I came up with is that they wouldn't because they are friends with Grandma Hardy and we wern't camping with them this weekend. Whew, crisis averted! We went back to filling his basket and I left his room. A couple minutes Gar came out and said he knew why the fairies were only friends with Grandma "because she is so nice to all kids, she probably even reads the fairies stories and gives them prizes!" Comments like these are priceless

I had been thinking maybe I could bring the "fairies" to camp this weekend but I'm going to leave this special activity as Grandma Hardy's. Looks like we'll need to make plans for camping with them soon!

Disneyland - Part 2

Did I mention the weather? Beautiful the whole time, 70's during the day and all you needed was a sweatshirt at night. The sun makes my heart feel good. And Saturday begins.......

Don't let that smile fool you....there is a reason we labeled our stroller as pouty!

One face painting and Pluto hat later we were beginning to turn our frown upside down. We ran into Sulley from Monsters Inc. and Gar was in heaven.

Hey, where'd he go?

*Gar's favorite rides: The Tower of Terror, Pirates, Haunted Mansion and Toy Story Mania. The kid is fearless!

*Adi's favorite rides: her stroller

I just loved watching them experience Disney for the first time!

They both loved the bunk beds in the hotel room

Boo! Time to go home

We love you Grandma and Grandpa!! Thank you for coming with us and being part of our fun (and putting up with us for 4 days). Now, let's do some camping!

DiSnEyLaNd!!!

This year we decided to take a family trip to Disneyland. We decided to make it a shorter trip to see how the kids would do so we left on a Friday and came back home on Monday. Since it was a shorter trip we asked Grandma and Grandpa Hardy to come along with us so we could spend some much needed time with them.......and fun times and memories we have!

Gar and Adi checking out the planes, neither one of them had been on a plane before

Preparing for takeoff

They were both so good on the plane and Adi acted like an angel (I had nightmares of her screaming the whole time)

First ride.....the carousel

Unfortunately, shortly after this ride it all went down hill.......Gar had one of his tummy episodes and we had to leave the park after less than two hours of being there. We went back to the hotel to get some medicine and to let him sleep so this is what I did the rest of the day, watch Adi go up and down the stairs! Have I mentioned that there are two places she will sleep, home and daycare. I'm beginning to think, what were we thinking?!?! But the weather was beautiful so I couldn't complain!

We woke up Saturday and were determined not to spend another minute in the hotel room so we walked over to the park and rented Gar a stroller.

We got a signature from Pluto....Adi was not amused!!

and than some more of this..........poor guy! I slept up in his bunk bed with him and he tossed and turned ALL night, he wasn't doing good.

This is where Adi preferred to spend her time, she was not a fan of the rides at all!!! We did quite a few rides and than we headed over to California Adventure. No one had been over there before so I was anxious to go check it out. Gar's heart just wasn't in it so not too long after being there we headed back to the hotel to do some swimming and resting.

Gar loves jumping in.......swimming lessons are a must this year!!

Adi didn't care for the water or having her shoes off! (Hmmmm, at least they aren't moon boots! hahaha)

Try not to be jealous.....

Seriously, August and September flew by and I didn't get much blogging in. I just came upstairs to back up my phone to the computer and I found some pictures that Gar had taken. They cracked me up so I thought I would share.

Sean had a softball tournament in Wendover the first part of September. The kids and I didn't have much going on so we decided to tag along with him so we pulled the trailer down to the KOA. Wow, it's as fabulous as you would expect it to be! We are still laughing about it

Our little slice of heaven.....are you jealous?

Strawberry

This past weekend was our Annual trip to Strawberry Reservoir and we had a blast! We were all so excited to use the new trailer that we weren't going to let the crappy weather stop us from going. Many phone calls to my Dad later we had the trailer loaded up on Friday and we were ready to go. We met my brother and his family on the freeway around Lehi and headed up Provo Canyon (we might have missed our exit because we were distracted by some dumb girl driving in the carpool lane while a cop was flashing his lights and siren trying to get her to pull over and she wouldn't get over because she didn't want to cross the solid line.....DUH!).

The weather wasn't that bad when we got there so we were able to have a fire for a little bit and than the winds picked up.

The next day was cold, windy and rainy. We had to spend most of our time in the trailer so we played a little Gin Rummy. About mid afternoon the sun poked out so we hurried and loaded up and went Crawdad fishing for the boil that night.

Cousin Jakers striking his usual pose

Adi is strapped in so she'll stay out of mischief! We are in so much trouble when this little one can walk, she is a busy little girl!

Aunt Carey taught Gar how to peel potatoes and he spent a good hour or two just peeling one after another. He loved it!

Our Redneck feast..........Delicious!

We can't wait to go again next year! Hopefully the Bartholomew's can fit us into their busy schedule next year, you were missed!

*Thanks Tom for all your tutorials! You would think with all the trailers we had growing up I would know a thing or two but sadly all I know is how to check the "damn bubble" to make sure we are level.*

Happy Place

Sean left Friday morning to head down to St. George and Mesquite for some much needed golf with the boys this weekend.  It's been a long stressful winter so I hope this chases some blues away (I'm pretty sure Mother Nature still has some tricks up her sleeve for us though!).  

We know he is having a fabulous time but we are missing him like crazy!!  Apparently my wrestling skills are not up to "Daddy" standards.  I had to call in some re-enforcements yesterday, Thanks Sam and Gabby for coming over to play!

If you need me next weekend, I'll be at the spa!