UTAH 2011

We just got home from our Utah trip! It was tons of fun and we are all exhausted! We LOVED playing with family and friends and miss them all already. Here are some highlights...

We started the fun by stopping in Provo to pick up my Grandma Grover. We took her out to Grantsville with us for the weekend. I love my sweet grandma!!

Johnny asked Grandma to get something down from the top shelf, she couldn't reach it and Johnny couldn't figure out why. "How old is Grandma Grover?" 85 "Then why can't she reach the top shelf?!" Age is directly related to size in Johnny's mind! :)

We had a Utah family BBQ the night we got there.

Matt and Jenny

Liz and Buggie

The kids had tons of fun playing on Grandpa Oliver's tree house!

Belle, Ky and John.

Kyla found a nest in the pear tree WITH baby birds in it!! It was right outside the window so we could watch them any time. It was super cool to see the mommy feed her babies!

Welcome Home Elder and Sister Seamons!! Steve's parents got home from their mission!

Lots and lots of hugs for Grandpa!

Leo and Grandma.

It has been so fun to have grandparent missionaries and we are so very happy to have them home again!

Miss monkey Kyla climbing... making everyone nervous!

We played so hard, it wore us out sometimes...

Watching the "best darn fireworks" in Logan. We didn't make it into the stadium and Beave was so disappointed, until we went to the fireworks in Grantsville on the 4th... They are right over your head and make the ground under you shake!

Weston and Kyla doing some grass sledding...

FOURTH of JULY!! We went out to Grantsville for the parade, I love small town parades!!

Grandpa and the boys playing in the water...

Not one looking at the camera, I think I ruined them... too many pics!

I love my matchy matchy boys!!

Swimming with cousins! This was the best pool ever! So much shallow water, we loved it!

Leo!

John Dude and his floaty...

Belle and Kyla, these two little water babies had so much fun playing together!

We had a picnic with some of my Oliver cousins, it was fun to see them and let our kiddies play!

Leo's hair, the triple spike by Desi.

Johnny had a great time in the splash park, too bad I didn't put a swim suit on him...

We went out on Grandpa's boat a few times. My kids were all very brave and rode on the tube, they all had so much fun. Johnny got dumped off once and scared us all to death, especially himself and his mommy on the boat who could do anything for him... He took a little while but he got back on the tube again before we were done. Everyone was telling him how great he did and how cool he was that by the time we got home he had a pretty tall tale going... "I actually kicked a fish when I was in the water..."

One time we went with some friends, the Styers. Ky met her match for the gift of gab... this little guy could keep up with her, they hit it off!!

Brave Leo on the tube with Kyla and Spencer.

Leo was the best little flag man! "Hold it? Hold it?"

DINO PARK!!

My dino crazed kids were so excited to go to the dinosaur park! Especially Johnny, he was in heaven! He wanted to see ALL the dinosaurs and got so excited when he found one he knew about!

Huggin' on the Bracheosaurus.

Grandpa and our crew with the oh so friendly Allosaurus.

Kyla panning for gold...

We tried to feed Johnny to the Allosaurus but he wasn't hungry...

I am missing our trip to the zoo with G-ma and G-pa O. the pics are on Beave's computer... I'll share them once I get them on the right computer.

We loved our time in Utah! When we left Ky couldn't stop the tears and Johnny askedif we could stay for 11 more days... They seem to be adjusting to home though. :)

Picnic

We decided to have a little picnic last night, we debated about the park or the forest. Ky and John voted for "adventuring" in the forest and Leo said "me!" Which is his usual answer to questions that start with "who..."

Their very own teeter totter, see who needs a park...

Adventuring!

Johnny likes to match Leo, they have two or three matching shirts and they are John's favorites! LOVE these fun kids!

Denistry...

Kyla had her first cavity... YIKES! I felt so bad sitting there with her getting it filled! She didn't cry but I did, poor girl. I will admit I NEVER floss my kids teeth, we brush twice a day but don't floss, we will now... it was a "flossing cavity." The week between check-up and filling was our first flossing ever, and I know why I didn't do it before, GROSS. Dentistry is NOT in my future!

Ky really did so great! She said she was nervous before but she was so brave! We all laughed about her silly smile after...

Leo's Big 2 Birthday!

Leo turned 2 last weekend! We had lots of fun celebrating his birthday! We had friends over for a BBQ and cake.

One of our friends does face painting and "had her paints in the car..." We couldn't pass up fun face painting, she is really talented! Here is miss Kyla the butterfly, she LOVED her RED lips!

Leo LOVES balls, so we made him a baseball cake. It was a little windy but we kept the candles lit until Leo could blow them out!

The Birthday Boy!!

Butterfly girls!

We had a Blue's Clues cake on his b-day, the night before... Kyla did the cake decoration herself! Leo loves watching Blue's Clues. It is so cute to hear him say it, "bue's cues!" He even does the actions...

All three kids blew out candles about 20 times that night, Leo kept saying "again!"

When he opened his first present he was kind of quiet about it, we kept trying to get him to be excited about the huge bag of pit balls... He was... AFTER he threw away the wrapping paper!! He came back from cleaning up and said, all excited, "BALLS!!" Such a funny kid!

Lovin' little LEO

Just thought I'd share some cute pics of my littlest cutie! He is such a great kid, we all love him so much!

He loves to play ball, all the time! He calls all dinosaurs "rex," they all roar and when they roar you really should say "ahh, scared!" If you forget, he'll remind you. He loves his binky and his blanket, he asks for them randomly through out the day, and if mom says no you don't need a binky it isn't nap time, he asks Ky or John... who can't resist and get him his binky. He is our super star slap stick comedian, if he does anything that gets a laugh he will do it again and again! Johnny loves to get Leo to bonk his own head and say "ouch!" They both laugh and laugh.

His go to CHEESE picture...

TWO! Leo will be 2 in two weeks... he is such a big kid!

Funny fun boy!

Circus Ballet!

Kyla had her spring recital yesterday. All the little girls did a circus ballet. She was a PINK POODLE! Can you imagine how excited she was?!

I didn't get ANY good pictures of the dance, no flash photography and too busy laughing out loud at how CUTE the girlies were!

The poodles ran through these hoops... The blurry pink blob at the front is Kyla, she is doing her scared pose, there were lions on the other side of the stage... yes it was the cutest, funniest 5 minutes EVER!

Kyla is the third pink poodle from the right.

There she is again... middle pink poodle (the tallest) behind and between the two girls in blue...

Happy girl after the performance.

Such a cute ballerina!

One of the little brothers who endured two hours of ballet, just to watch his big sis on stage for a few minutes...

POODLE, tail and all!

Kyla has had so much fun with ballet this year! After the recital she said, "Now I am a real ballerina because I have danced on the stage!!" LOVE my little ballerina!

Johnny Boy is 4!!

Happy Birthday to our Johnny Boy! He is all about dinosaurs right now! Dino books, dino movies, dino toys, dino, dino, dino! Naturally he wanted a dinosaur party.

He and I made a dino cake, he was very particular about which dinosaurs made it on the cake and where they were...

(Kyla busted me on the trees... apparently conifers were not present at the time of dinosaurs...)

Daddy and Johnny dinosaurs.

Playing carnivore and herbivore tag!

Johnny's buddy taking a swing break.

Time for CAKE!

YUM!!

We love our John Dude and are so glad he is in our family.

It is getting warmer, time for playing outside all day and otter pops... not that they haven't been eating popsicles all winter, but now they can eat them outside. :) Leo favorite foods start with P, popsicle and popcorn!

Cool dude Leo!

Headed to the library... hat and backpack were the dress code for the day!

Love my SILLY sweet kids!