Thursday, July 16, 2009

4th of July


the boy in brown is the one tierra fueded with for most of the parade. i thought it was kind of funny until she broke out into tears at the end of the parade when he took a pack of gum she wanted.

horses and 4-H princesses.

i think i'll have another...

cute-cute hair

ammon loves his cousins.

tierra is oh-so-cool in her sunglasses.

lucy and her squirt gun.

cute and matchy 4th of july shirts. ammon was so sad that no one was matching him and kept asking where daddy's shirt was.


our car was still out of commission so mom came and picked us up to take us to the hyrum parade. it is a family tradition and we would have hated to miss it. THANK YOU GRANDMA!

i bought matching 4th of july shirts for the kiddos while we were in park city (GREAT outlet prices!) and lucy and tierra looked so cute with their sparkler hair-dos. the kids had fun at the parade. lucy loved the marching band and she didn't quite get the concept of putting her candy in her bag. as soon as she would get one piece she wanted to open it and eat it and didn't care about putting any more in her bag. ammon liked dancing to any music that went by and tierra fueded with a boy next to us that kept stealing the candy she was after. good times!

the night before we missed the stadium fireworks but did some out on the road with our neighbors. thanks crystal and mark for sharing your fireworks! it was a fun, relaxing 4th of july. which was nice after all of our travels!

park city story with pictures...

these are my pictures of our park city trip. i didn't get any of our MANY trips to the pool. it was probably where we spent most of our time. other highlights not mentioned in the pictures:
playing rockband... i do love to sing on that thing. i am in no way a good singer (pretty bad actually), but when it comes to rockband/karaoke, i LOVE IT!
going with nick to watch an old sundance movie at the library in park city.
the relaxation pool with sauna/steam room and waterfall.
landon taking me to spoon me on our way home.
okay, so all my pictures are backwards in order. here goes:
magic show at the resort. turns out bridget is pretty magical and can turn pennies into quarters!

tierra was the beautiful assistant

lucy wanted to help too!

all the kids ready for a show.

nick and ammon on the alpine slide.

tierra was scared to go at first but ended up loving it and asked to do it again.

lucy said, "weee!" i couldn't go fast enough for her.

the chair lift was fun until we got REALLY high up and i was afraid lucy would suddenly jump off my lap and fall to the ground. then i was TERRIFIED!

bridget in her regal robe.

high flying arial acts. snow boarders and skiers doing jumps into the water.

they did a lot of flips and tricks. it was really cool to watch.

ammon and stockton "riding the bobsled" while we waited for grandpa, landon, josh, and ryan to come down in a real bobsled. grandpa ended up getting really sick, boy did they go fast!!

a couple of australian olympic skiers were there practicing jumps. it was funny seeing them ski on grass in their "wet suits" then strip them off as soon as they got to the bottom.

jess alpine sliding it.

mandi and stockton. this slide went faster than the one our little family went on. no one under 3 allowed on this one.

landon is SOOO cool.

the "extreme" zip line. dad didn't want to do this one after he did the regular one so mandi took his place.

josh

dad on the "wimpy" one. looked pretty scary to me!

the boys on the skeleton sled.

ammon driving the bobsled.

nick and i.

the kiddos.

fun at the park at the resort.

notice ammon "the flash" behind bridget.

lucy's funny faces.

crazy cousins while grandma and grandpa cooked dinner.

riding the shuttle to church together.

tierra in her new cute-cute night gown.

i made matching mu-mu night gowns for lucy and tierra and had enough to do one more for bridget. oh, what cute-cute girlies!

it was nice to be able to shut the door and keep the kids out of our room. nick could not wait to shut the door and just veg out on the bed while watching ESPN.

the kiddos excited about their space for the next week.

a video of the skiers doing tricks into the water.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

finally!

i've been super blog-lazy. everyone keeps asking (or telling me...) to update my blog. it is 7:00am and my kids are still in bed amazingly enough, so i'm taking the time to start updating!
the last bit of june we headed up to seattle to drive nick's mom home and pick up tierra. we broke up the drive with a visit to some old friends in boise and it was fun to see them again. it was funny how as soon as we walked in their door, so many memories flooded back and we had lots to talk about. i can't believe how fast their girls have grown and kristi's fried chicken is every bit as good as i remembered it!
when we finally made it up to seattle, nick's sister had a warm welcome for us with a bbq and bubbles for the kids. the kids LOVED blowing bubbles down on the dock and aunt therese quickly became a favorite (and ammon got to see her again to remember that she does NOT look like santa clause!). we had fun visiting with kayla and seeing how much she is growing up and getting prettier every day. nelson entertained the kids with the computer and movies once they got done with the bubbles.
the next day we all went to pike's place market together. i know it sounds touristy, but ammon remembers nothing from living there and i was excited to show him the guys throwing fish. lucy was pretty amazed by it as well. we stopped by dick's, a seattle institution, for lunch.
that night nick went to the mariner's game with friends and i got to experience why staying at the holiday is the BEST option with kids. we had tried and tried to get into the hilton that therese works at, but we were only able to book one night so we stayed the other two nights at the holiday inn. the best part? KIDS EAT FREE!! so on our solo night from nick i took the kids down to the restaurant for dinner. they had also given me a coupon for the restaurant so i think i paid $10 WITH tip for dinner for all 4 of us! and the kids LOVED it, the meals are very kid friendly and they all got ice cream for dessert and a cute cup to take home! i also received a complement(?) from a stranger while we were eating. he came up and told me his wife thought i was very brave (for taking all 3 kids to dinner by myself).
they gave me another coupon the next day so off to the restaurant again for breakfast! and i have to say, the grown up food was pretty good too! i got a smoked salmon omelet, very seattle-y. that night the whole family went to the mariners game (nick's family too). it was great to be in a real baseball stadium again and fun to see griffey play. lucy loved the music and she got a certificate for her first mariners game. and the best part? THEY WON! the whole crowd was on their feet cheering and yelling, it was great!
the drive home the next day was long and exhausting knowing we were going to pack up the car again the next day to meet my family in park city, but thanks to crystal's dvd player, it went a lot smoother than normal!
thanks rust family! we had a lot of fun!