Thursday, January 22, 2009

Walking With Dinosaurs


Last weekend we went with some friends to "Walking With Dinosaurs." All I can say is........WOW!!!! It was AWESOME!!! We had pretty good seats, but even if you were sitting up high you would still be amazed at these things. They looked so real and the kids LOVED it! I must admit, even I really enjoyed it! Our pictures didn't turn out too great, so I'm using some pics from their website. If you ever get a chance to go, I would HIGHLY recommend it!

We could not believe how humongous these guys were! They were LIFESIZE. So if you read closely, they were 72 feet long!! And they were as tall as a three story building!


This guy was pretty cool too.


The plate on this guy's head was gigantic!! They had two of these fighting. The boys were captivated.


Definitely the absolute favorite of the entire night. It was really funny how they brought in the T-rex. They got you all excited and set-up for him to come in - even had his huge shadow showing behind the curtain - and then......out comes this little T-rex and lets out a cat's meow. It was just the baby. Very funny! But not to worry, Momma came out and it was a definite crowd pleaser! Huge and loud!!



Before the show started we wandered around the Energy Solutions Arena and found David James and.....I can't remember the other guy's name......watching the Jazz and getting ready for their sports reports. This is Mason, Kyle and Michael. Mason invited his best friend to come along with us. And yes, Mason and Michael are the same age!!


Mason and Michael


Lynn, Hadley and Kyle - Hadley actually enjoyed it too. She got a little tired and hungry, but never got scared! See Kyle's Perma-Grin?


Paul, Teresa, Abby and Gavin.....thanks for inviting us to this you guys! We loved it!


You can see more about the show at www.dinosaurlive.com



Thursday, January 15, 2009

My Sassy Baby

I was watching one of my favorite morning shows a while back - Good Things Utah - and they talked about a 2009 Baby of the Year contest being put on by "Sassy Babies" store at Gardner Village. Well, how could I resist? So, here is my sassy baby:


Here is the website with the information for all of you moms with sassy babies of your own: www.sassybabies.com and look under "casting call."
They are accepting entries until January 31st and there are four categories for boys/girls ages newborn to three years old. It looked like they will be giving away some awesome prizes too. So enter your baby too - because we all know that our babies are the best, right!?!

Saturday, January 3, 2009

What?!? It's 2009?!?!?

Of course, like the rest of you, I have been too busy to post anything until now.....so let's play catch-up!!

Ahhh....the peaceful before....

So much for clean and peaceful!!!

It really doesn't look that bad I guess. This was the first year in over ten years that I didn't have my mom, brother and sister here with us for Christmas. I was really sad to not have them here, but we had a great time anyway. The kids didn't wake up until eight o'clock - thank you kids!!!! Hadley (missing from the picture above) didn't get up until 9:30!!!

She was excited to see the "mess" in the livingroom when she woke up! Because of lack of patience, the boys helped her unwrap her presents - they didn't want to wait all day for her to unwrap each present!

Hadley's first baby doll!!! I'm sure someday she'll know the proper way to care for her baby....

Grandpa and Grandma coming to check out what Santa left.


I love the look on Hadley's face...."Not too bad I guess."

Kyle's "haul."

Mason's "haul."

We received another special Christmas present....tickets to a Jazz game!!
We went to Salt Lake for a couple days, visited my mom and went to the Jazz v. 76ers game on Monday night. The kids all wore their Jazz jerseys. Hadley looks so cute in hers!!

Kyle doesn't look real thrilled....he just woke up from a nap.

Several cousins came to the game too. From left to right: Mason, Mickell, Baylee, Myndi, Hadley & me, Clellan (Mickell & Myndi's cousin), Mikaylee and Kyle.

We were in the lower bowl on row 23. I was worried that would be way too high, but they were not too bad! It was so much fun to be there with the kids and enjoy their excitement too. We were even on the big screen ("jumbo-tron") a couple of times!

I think Lynn's pretty pleased with his little Jazz fan!

Here's the team! ...In the background ;)

Since our hotel was only a couple of blocks away and the weather wasn't too bad, we walked to the arena. We then decided to stay afterwards and the kids got to go down on the floor. They were really excited about that! Overall, it was an awesome night!


Hadley was wiped out! She was SO good during the game. I think she enjoyed it as much as we did. She clapped and yelled right along with the rest of us!

What a great ending to a great year! Hope you had a Happy New Year and may the upcoming year be filled with love and happiness!