Isaac's 5th Birthday

Last Saturday Isaac turned the big "5." He was so excited and couldn't wait until his birthday. In fact for the last couple of weeks before his birthday I would ask him everyday where he wanted to have his party. It changed pretty much every day but what we finally decided on was Chuck E Cheese. It was a pretty crazy few hours, but it was a lot of fun for the kids.

The birthday boy with none other than Chuck E Cheese. It was pretty cute, Isaac was excited to see him, but then he turned to me and said "Mom, I know it is just a person dressed up like a mouse." He is so smart!!
My sister Kaytlyn and my nephew Hunter. They had quite a blast playing all the video games. and as you can see below, they made out with quite the loot.

Isaac, Kylie, Audrey and Allie on the big screen water skiing. It was so cute to watch them, they had some pretty good moves.

After nearly 3 hours at Chuck E Cheese we were ready to celebrate with cake and presents. Then we went to Grandpa and Grandma Price's house to do a Spiderman pinata. The kids had a lot of fun each taking a swing at it, the kids would just giggle when Steve and John would move the pinata up and down.

Isaac and his cousins: Preston, Ryland, Dalton, Sadie, Kylie, Brinlee, Allie and Audrey(sister)

Hunter helping Isaac swing the bat while being blindfolded.

Brinlee and Audrey. Such cute girls!!

Kylie and Brinlee. BFF's.

As part of a birthday surprise we decided to do a bedroom makeover. So Steve took Isaac out for the morning while I was busy at work at home re-doing his bedroom in Spiderman. When they came home I asked Isaac to go up to his bedroom. He looked at me strangely wondering why I was asking him, but when he opened his door he soon found out. He looked at me and said "Just what I always wanted, a Spiderman room." He was so excited, it was great to see such joy on his face. All in all I think he had an awesome birthday. Happy Birthday son, we love you!!!

A day with the family at the HAFB Air Show

Today we went to the air show at Hill Air force Base.  It was a lot of fun, tons of walking, but still it was great.  Having lived here all my life you would have thought I have been to an air show before, but I never have been.  We saw all sorts of military planes, trucks and helicopters. Then we watched different airplanes perform the air show, it was so much fun to see them.  The performances were absolutely amazing.  After the show was over we were amongst hundreds (I think even thousands) of people waiting for the UTA shuttle buses.  When traffic was at an absolute standstill we decided to walk off of the base.   We walked at least 3 or 4 miles and still beat the shuttle buses out.  Then we had Kaye come meet us at Ligori's for dinner and then headed back to the trax station to pick up the car.  Every one of us are exhausted, but it was a great day!!!

Steve with the kids in front of a helicopter.

Tara, Don (Grandpa), Isaac and Audrey in front of one of many planes.
Isaac inside of a huge combat rescue plane.  He is standing in front of a bunch of parachute packs.  They are a lot heavier than I had ever imagined. 
Audrey buckled and ready to go. She loved the seats that were lined down the side of the airplane.

From the mouth of babes

My friend Amber did a post on her blog of quotes from her little girl Libby. I thought it was such a cute idea, that I thought I would do the same. So here it goes:

The other day I was doing Audrey's hair and since she has naturally curly hair I always put mousse in her hair and then hairspray it. Well Audrey is going through this stage where she does not like her curls. So while we were standing in front of the mirror doing her hair she said "Mommy I don't want curl's" and I said "Well Audrey, Heavenly Father gave you pretty curls and you can't get rid of them." She replied "But mommy, I don't want curls." So I said "Audrey maybe you can ask Heavenly Father why he gave you curls." Then Isaac chimed in and said "Yeah Audrey, maybe when you are resurrected you can ask Him." After I got over my initial shock from how quickly Isaac thought about that, I could not get over how funny it was that he even thought about that. I guess sometimes when you don't think they are listening, they really are.

An update on Molly

  Last night we went to Jensen Park with John and Suzi. It was so much fun, we took the dogs to get some exercise and play together. Yup, all three dogs: Molly, Lucas, and Sophie.  It was so much fun.  After we walked around the park for a little while we stopped at one of the ponds and let the dogs fetch a floating toy that John had.  First Lucas went, then Sophie, and then Molly. We weren't sure how Molly would do because we have only had her a few days, but we thought we would see if she would go into the water.  So after she watched Lucas and Sophie retrieve the toy, then it was her turn.  Steve put the toy a few feet out and Molly went for it. Only she was very dainty about it, just like a lady. LOL.  Then the more she felt comfortable Steve threw it out farther.  By the end of the night Molly was going out there to get it pretty good.  The kids had fun watching the dogs swim in the pond.  It was a lot of fun and just a good wholesome family activity. I think that having Molly around is going to make me more active, because she sure has a lot of energy.  

  Also this weekend Steve built a dog run for Molly on the side of the house. Courtesy of my dad, he had some extra materials from his vinyl fence that he put up at his house.  So Molly has a nice size dog run on the side of the house and all we had to spend was about $45 for the gate hardware.  That definately beats a couple hundred bucks for a chainlink dog run from Petsmart. So now I won't feel so bad when she is by herself all day while Steve and I are at work.  We do have one more thing to do in her dog run before I will let her stay in there.  And that is to build some sort of barrier around the central air unit.  I do not want Molly to chew at the wires or damage the A/C unit.  That would be really, really bad.  So today she is in her kennel while we are at work.  But Molly is kennel trained which is awesome, so she is great to stay in there.  

  So there you have it, a big long post about what we did with Molly over the weekend.  Isaac really likes her because Molly will follow him around the yard.  And as for Audrey, I think Molly is growing on her.  She has always had a fear of large dogs, so it is taking time to ease her into Molly, but the other day Molly was giving her kisses and Audrey just giggled (after she got over the initial fear).  Also the only casualties we have had with Molly chewing things was a sippy cup and part of Isaac's T-ball bat.  So that is not bad.  We will see what this week holds......