Category Archives: family

Mesa Temple and Red Robin

Since we were SO very close we took the kids to the Mesa Temple and visitor center after were finished up at the AZ Natural Museum.

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Regan discover the room full or Nativities from around the world. "Mom, can I go into the Christmas room?" Awwww. IMG_7015 IMG_7017 IMG_7018"Hey guys, look it Earf!" IMG_7019After our awesome, but long day I jumped all over Shannon's suggestion of dinner out. So we called up the Hubbies and pitched the idea to them. And before you know it we had our gaggle at Red Robin for dinner.IMG_7025 IMG_7058 IMG_7067

Our waiter felt bad about Regan getting gooey melty cheese on his burger. He made Regan a balloon sword to help stave the tears when we sent Regan's food back to the kitchen. (It was my first time having to send food back to be fixed. Awkward.) He made a balloon something for five of the kids, and then ran out of balloons before Kaylee could get one. So sad. The look of dissapointment on her face broke my heart.IMG_7069But she just took a deep breath and walked out of the restaurant without saying a thing about being the only kid that didn't get a fun balloon. I was so impressed. She often amazes me with her maturity. This Red Robin had a balloon stand of regular balloons for kids. So her Uncle Dwayne snagged her a purple one. She also got lots of good praise from the adults for her great attitude about a cruddy situation.

Isaac and Rebakah came home with us after dinner for a cousin sleepover. We had hot coco and watched Polar Express. The kids stayed up way tool late, and were up way too early. Fun times. 

Regan’s 4th Birthday Party

Regan's birthday landed on a Saturday this year. So we had family and friends over for a Batman/super hero party Saturday morning. It was so much fun having LOTS of children running around, and Regan had a blast.

Regan has been in a "I'm only going to wear jammies today." phase for a monthish now. We got some really cute super hero hand me downs that he is LOVING right now, and insisted on wearing all day long. He wore these jamies for 36ish hours before I peeled them off.

 

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I love how his pinata turned out. I made it EXTRA tough so that ALL 13 kiddos could have a wack at it.

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Regan picked out his candle this year.

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I made this pin  the bat on Batman game.  Black and white engineer blueprint from Staple, and then colored it in myself at home.

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I used the pinata as the table center piece until it was smashing time.

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We played musical squares. I didn't have enough chairs, but had plenty of party napkins.

 

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Our little stud.

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"I'm FOUR!"

 

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For dinner we took him out to eat. He LOVES the french fries at Red Robin. LOVES.

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He said he had a great day. Can't ask for anything more than that!

veterans day 2013

Science Center fun. Shannon and I got a sweet deal on season passes so we have SEVERAL trips planned out already for the Science Center. Today we got to take the kiddos to the Imaginate exhibit. SO AWESOME! My camera was having some issues that I cursed and blamed Jon for for several hours of photo taking, and trying to figure it out (He used the camera last…).

Turns out the camera issues were NOT his fault. Sorry babe. And also thanks for spending an hourish figuring out and fixing the issue. So today's photo are kinda crappy, and also WAY out of order, but I am far too lazy to go  fix the order. Enjoy anyway.

 

 

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Regan making a stop motion video.

 

 

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Group photos taken right before we headed home.

 

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Just before we left to go have so much fun.

 

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Planetarium. 

 

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Regan did bot last an hour in the Planetarium. So he and I ducked outside and had some water fun while everyone else finished up.

 

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Lunch time!

 

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Favorite thing in the Imaginate Exhibit was this wind tunnel. We had to pry most of the kiddos away to other things.

 

 

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Kaylee and Regan at the "Build a flying thing for the wind tunnel" station.

 

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Regan saw some boys making swords, and demanded that he make one too. It didn't fly so well, but he was thrilled with it.

 

 

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Kaylee's "Silly Hat" flew beautifully.

 

 

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Such fun! I loved not feeling like we had to see and do everything in this trip, and the kiddos were okay with leaving because they know we are going back. LOTS. Good times people. Good times.