Monday, May 13, 2013

Baby Animal Days and then some

Last Friday my brother invited us to join him for Baby Animal Days. It is a cute little farm basically where you can pet baby animals, ride a horse, watch farmers sheer their sheep, and much more. The boys loved every minute. Here are some picture highlights. Petting the goat And the pigs I was surprised they weren't nervous about petting the animals, except the mini horse. Neither of them wanted anything to do with that little guy! It was a beautiful evening. Aw....my little animal family! The boys also got to hold some baby chicks They were so cute! Cam didn't want to hold one, not at all! He was good to just watch the little guys wander around. They also got to hold some cute little bunnies, which Cam wasn't exactly interested in doing either! Cam, cousin Rulon, and Ryland, such a good lookin group of boys! Family Picture! And then we finally got Cam to hold the bunny At the farm, with your enterance pass you got a free ride on a horse. Ya, well that wasn't going to happen with my boys. They were terrified of the horses. So we decided not to force them to ride and paid the 2 dollars for them to ride the train. That was way more exciting to them! And yep, totally worth the money, they loved it. Cam was a little nervous before the ride, I wasn't actually sure if he would ride it but when the train pulled up, he jumped right on! Ryland picked the very back of the train, of course! Choo Choo. Also notice the beautiful scenery, we couldn't get enough of the wonderful beauty that surrounded us. Ryland was grinning this big through the whole ride, love it! Cam always threw us a wave when he rode past us, too cute! The boys also got their face painted. Ryland picked a pig And Cam picked the ladybug. He was kind of nervous about the paint but sat still through it all. And last but not least, the bounce house was a huge hit as you can imagine. The boys spent the last 20 minutes of the night jumping away. Camdens face says it all here. Love it! As a completely random side note...Cam started crying in the bounce house when his turn was over. We didn't think much of it and put him in the stroller and left. He seemed okay until we got him out of the stroller and he fell a couple of times. Then we came to realize, he wouldn't walk on one of his legs. It kept collapsing out from under him. He was kind of crying about it and didn't really want to walk anywhere. Random, we got home and same thing, he would try and run but couldn't get his leg to go with him. It was the SADDEST thing ever. I felt way bad for him. It was already 9:30 at night so we decided to put the boys down and see how it was in the morning. Cam got up Saturday morning and was completely fine. He has no effects from whatever happened and was running on his leg all weekend. So who knows what happened, but I am glad it worked itself out! And on that side note, Camden also spends all day, everyday, doing this. If only it was a real mower....then we would be on to something. He loves that little toy! And one more thing, we had a great mothers day especially talking with the Elders. What better way to get all the family and two elders from different ends of the country together in one room. Well google hangout of course! It was so fun talking to my awesome brothers. Can't believe Deirk will be home in 10 days! Yahoo!

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The big 3-0

Lance celebrated the big 30 this year on the 5th of May. We had a great time celebrating all weekend. We had a nice get-away on Friday night to park city, thanks to my mom for watching the boys. We had some lovely car troubles in park city before we tried to leave, so that made things interesting. We ended up being about an hour late to the next surprise party I had planned for Lance. I got his family and a bunch of friends together for pizza to celebrate. It was super fun once we actually got there. Lances mom and step dad surprised us by coming up to celebrate too. It was fun to see them! We got some awesome 30th birthday donuts instead of cake! I was terrible at taking pictures, so busy, but I got a couple. Thanks to Brenda for holding down the fort while we were so slow to get there! And for decorating, and to Lances mom for picking up the donuts. And thanks to everyone else for waiting forever for us! Did I get everyone? :) Thanks! Saturday night we had a big BBQ with my family at the park to celebrate April and May birthdays and my brother getting his masters. It was a way fun night full of games, Yummy food that is still all over Rys face, ha ha! Baseball, And of course we had to have dirt cups to celebrate the "dirty 30" as Lance has always called it! Ryland was in heaven playing baseball with his cousins and uncles! Yum! Cam and McKaylee enjoying their dirt! Happy Birthday Lance! We had a great time celebrating at the park till the winds came out of no where. We had to pack up quickly and we headed out. It was a long windy night! Lance got to open one birthday eve present. The boys were way excited about it. Sunday we did some more celebrating. After church we opened up presents. The boys were loving Grandma Jo and Papa Tom being there. Blowing out the 30 candle. I love Cam helping blow it out from the background. Ry and Cam were very helpful in opening up all the presents. We got some cupcakes made up and had a fun birthday dinner with of course Grandma Jo and Papa Tom, Brenda and Luke and fam, and Gilda. It was way good, and we had a good time celebrating with everyone. Enjoying the cupcakes! Cam was lovin the cupcake! And Lola and Cam shared some ice cream too! So cute! Happy Birthday Lance! Here's to another great 30 years! We love you!