The Bass Pro Shop, Yogart Land and swimming with the Larkins

Ashlynn, Tanner and Hailey in front of the fresh water tank at the Bass Pro Shop. Aunt Cindy & Uncle Bryce talked us into going on a little outing while the pool was warming up. We sure had a fun time visiting them. Next time we need to stay longer!

Anthony helping Hailey put!

Anthony dropped this one right into the hole! Go Daddy!
Tanner trying his hand at golf!
Anthony helping Ashlynn put!

There was a HUGE salt water tank in the Bass Pro Shop. It was really cool being so close to the sharks ans the sting ray!

After the Bass Pro Shop, we headed over to Town Square. The kids had so much fun playing on the splash pad and the Yogurt was to die for! Alyssa liked it too!

By the time we got back, the water was warm enough to swim in. It was really fun. We played Pig and tried to teach the girls to float in their life jackets, Ashlynn freaked out. But when she didn't have her vest on, she was just fine. Go figure! She'd drown quicker with it on but try telling a five year old that. I think it was just that the life jacket made her feel unbalanced in the water. We defiantly have to do swim lessons this summer.

Yummy Ribs

One night for dinner, we barbecued ribs. It was so fun to watch the girls try and eat them!

Then it was off for a bath because they got really dirty!

June 3rd 2009

Aunt Joy took the kids to Private Island Pizza for lunch! It was so much fun. We were sat by our pirate waiter and while we waited for our food to arrive the kids were able to go into the arcade and win tokens. At the end of our meal They cashed them in for treats! What a fun time!

After lunch we headed to Grandma Mackley's house to say good bye.

Later, over in Hurricane, we decided that since Anthony took the time to fix both boats, we needed to go test them out.
Anthony caught his first fish!

Good bye St. George! It's been fun.... Logan, here we come!

There's No Place Like Home...

We were so lucky to be able to visit every one in St. George but let me tell you... we are even luckier to have a place to come home to! Even little Alyssa can feel a difference. It's probably because she's not constantly strapped into her car seat. She is back to her happy smiling self, is rolling over and is well on her way to sitting up. When we came in the door Hailey went into her room, opened her closet, pulled out her barbies and exclaimed' "My Barbies missed me. And I missed them!" Ashlynn on the other hand has been a nightmare. I think she must have had a little to much freedom on how she spent her time. Since we've been home, she has been sent to her room at least a dozen times. She just won't listen to save her life. I think she thinks she's older than she really is and that she doesn't need me to tell her how to do things anymore. Especially with Alyssa. Everything I tell her not to do, she tries to do. Like when she's holding Alyssa, I told her she can't let go of her to see if she can sit up and as soon as I turn my back, that's what she tries to do! It makes me so mad! It will be nice when she's in school for a few hours! As for Anthony and I, we are enjoying being home. We missed our bed. We missed channel 2 news. (Does everyone in St. George watch channel 5) We missed King of Queens. We missed Scrubs and Everybody loves Raymond. We missed Each other. I'll tell you, being in St. George for so long made me realize that I love my husband. With me doing one thing and Anthony doing another the whole time we were down there, it made me realize how much he really does help me with the kids. I missed our nightly routine together. Prayers with the kids, bumping into each other in the bathroom, watching the news and then flipping the channel between 3 different programs... Ahhhh, there really is no place like home!

Memories

So Anthony and I were watching Wayne's World on TV and it reminded me of a day way back when... April and I had the same BORING science teacher in 10th grade. And I mean that quite literally. Mr. Barben had the most monotone voice and he was a text book reader. Which meant nobody listened because you didn't really need to. At any point, you could look into his class and over half of the kids were lying across their tables, sleeping. One day I brought my camera to school and April and I, being very bored, took a bunch of ridiculous pictures, much resembling Garth from Wayne's World, or so we thought back then, because when I rummaged through my photos and found it, we didn't really look like him at all but it made me laugh and I thought I would share it, and some of the other photos I found.

Anthony and I look so young.

One day, Lyndy, Kate and I took a short drive up the canyon and took a zillion pictures of our selves! Girls are so weird! Wow were we ever skinny!

Natasha's first perm ever. She was such a cute little girl. (Joy, I bet you haven't seen this picture in ages, if ever.)

My ninth grade spring photos. Too bad my eyes are closed. I'm going to have to post this one on my face book for sure!

Me and April~ people used to call us each others shadow & sunshine. Because we were always seen together in the halls, when we weren't together some one would say, where's your sunshine? or where's your shadow.

My favorite picture of me and Colby on his 19th birthday

One of my best friend, Melissa, and I. It's super blurry but you can still see how tiny we both were! We used to tell people we were twins. I'm not sure if anyone ever believed us but it was still fun! Now Mel's getting married next month! Congrats!!

Colby trying to choke Melissa. Again, really blurry, but really funny!

Hope you enjoyed!