Visit with cousins

In November we were so excited because Jen and her girls Ali and Serina (Izzy) came out to Utah to visit for a few days. We didn't have a lot of time, but we did manage to spend a fun afternoon at the gateway children's museum. This is one of my kids favorite places to play, and no matter how often we go, they always find something new to try out. We had a great time playing with our cousins, and showing them the fun places that we can go.
Mckenzie loves to this part of the play area where she can stack big blocks, and make houses and towers to her hearts content.

Izzy enjoyed playing with Mckenzie in her "house."

Peek-a-boo, does anyone see me. although it looks like a slide, there is a plexiglass block at the top with only a hole to push blocks through. (although I have seen kids beat the system, and squeeze themselves down the slide too.)

Here is Ali and Kenzie building there house.

Brooklyn may not be old enough to build things, but swinging as a monkey comes easy. You can also see Izzy and Ali getting ready to build something.

I guess that she is done.

Halloween

Ok I admit it, I have officially given up on "playing catch-up" with myself on the blog, and will just start over and try to intersperce our fun summer events in with the current happenings. So, on that note....Halloween. This year I was absolutely prepared, I had the girls costumes, the candy, and the make-up ready to go....I only didn't count on Ryan and I getting the flu on the day before Halloween. Needless to say this really put a damper on things. Luckely we were saved by Marlene, Tiffany, and Nate who were more than a little excited to come and take our kids trick or treating. The evening turned out to be a lot of fun for everyone. The only downside I didn't get to go and see my kids having such a fun time or see how Brooklyn acted on her first time trick-or-treating, however I am told that she caught on very quickly. Anyway thank you so much for all of your help in getting over the sicknesses, and through Halloween. Hopefully next year will be a little bit better.

OK can you really get any better than three princesses when you have a family of girls... Well I did try to talk Ryan into being Prince Charming, but he said the tights killed the idea. He was willing to escort then as a Jedi Knight..until he got sick. Oh well maybe next year.

The whole crew Aren't they great!

Scary experiace

Luckily there are no pictures to accompany this story. Earlier this week, after getting Aby off to school, I started to clean up my kitchen, and opened my dishwasher. (This is not a new thing, as I find myself doing dishes no less than 2 times each day.) As I pushed open the door, and went to grab the top rack, I looked down and found looking back at me small brown eye within a small brown furry body. Needless to say I am not sure who was more frightened me or the mouse. (I am sure that it was me, but Ryan seems to think that the mouse was more frightened...fat chance.) After quickly shutting the dishwasher, and yelling I reached for the phone to call my husband. (the hero right:) Unfortunatly, it took him a few minutes to stop laughing long enough to tell me that he couldn't come home until the end of the day and that I should go to home depot to buy some mouse traps.

Never being one to let small things deture me I quickly put Kenzie and Brooklyn into the van and went to Home Depot After looking through the various methods to rid myself of the mouse I bought some different things, and brought them home. There was however, no way that I was going to set the traps, and do anthing remotely close to where that mouse would be found. I was however brave enough to reclean the dishes in the dishwasher, and then deep clean my kitchen. No way was I ever going to give this mouse a reason to stay in my kitchen. I am happy to announce, that since that fateful morning I have not seen nor heard from the mouse, and I hope never to again.