Random Crap

So I feel as though I should post, because hardly anybody else is. I'm going to keep the blog dream ALIVE! Surely on some far off future date my kids will want to read this and be embarrassed that I posted pictures of them naked right? It's good for them. Builds character. So yeah...here is the random crap that has happened since Nick and Eric's birthday!

We like to take the kids out for special time with us around their birthday and this year we took Nick and Eric to the mall food court for dinner and toTrafalga for mini-golfing! 

 They had a blast and maybe we didn't return our golf balls?? They are a fun little keepsake now!

Ryan and I were spending some quality time together on a weekend not long ago and all the kids were hanging out at Grandma & Grandpa's house. Just as we arrived home Annette called me to tell me that Eric had climbed into a rubbermaid bin and Nick had pushed him in it, down the stairs. This is a quote from Eric, "It was fine and really fast until I hit the bottom!" We have a feeling that Nick had this grand idea, but Eric was the more willing of the two to try it. Seriously...on their own nothing bad would ever happen...they all just feed off one another's ideas. Eric insisted that it was, "NOT BROKEN!! I DON'T NEED TO GO TO THE HOBSTIBBLE!" We took him to the ER and after an x-ray that showed it was clearly broken he got a splint and a few days later a cast. He really wanted a green one, but they only had red. It's been signed by several people, but he really wanted it to say, "I'm Eric and this is my cast that I got from the doctor." I thought that most people would figure that out though. He gets his cast off at the end of the week! Hooray! (It smells horrible...HORRIBLE.)

Not long after this we took a trip to Idaho. My parents were heading out there to see my brother Brandon, and so we all met up. We were only  their a couple days, but we got to stay in a sweet cabin, see the Snake River Canyon, and the kids got to play on a merry go round A LOT. 

After we returned we had a fun day at Ikea and we headed into downtown SLC so Ally could go to a certain store. Outside the store there was like...I don't know a hallway? An outdoor hallway between businesses and of course it echoed a lot and my kids had to run up and down it shrieking and yelling ECHO! ECHO! Which was fine with me, but apparently none of the business owners. Some people just have so sense of a child's wonderment. Boo.

 My parents came to Utah for a couple days after Idaho. We made a few trips through the canyon and saw some fantastic fall colors.

That is pretty much that. We haven't been up to much since then due to Ryan and I being incredibly sick. Some how the kids have not been terribly effected by it. Some sniffles and coughs here and there, Eric got a double ear infection and burst one of his eardrums, but he has handled it pretty well. So yeah, I think we are all getting better little by little and then things will be great!