blair and maisy

July 12, 2013

Summer Utah visit

Had a great Utah visit, and saw lots of people!

Lots of Grandma Diane time, mom & dad Curtis right before they went to New Zealand for a year, Vegas friends Lacey & Shannon, my cousins, Ikea, water ballon fight at Ria and Dallin's, sleepover with the boys' favorite uncles, grandparents, lots of cousin time for our kids, drive in with Danny, Dixie & Ben, Dan and Michele's pizza oven, movie time at Kristin's, our Biloxi friend Sabrina, college friend Jen, old neighborhood friends, Jared & Lisa from Vegas, visit at Wendy's house, Heritage Park, Asian festival, Natural History Museum, Wolf Creek, & our favorite restaurants. So glad we could see people and go make some memories with family and friends!

May 27, 2013

Disney 2013 & now summer!

We hitched a ride to Florida from our air force base here in Mississippi. Best part: free!

Fun that we could share our vacation with Grandma & Grandpa!

Before going to all of those parks at Disneyworld, we tried out Busch Gardens for the 1st time.

Now, back to the construction zone of our house...

Any of you Utahns that want to get together we're coming for a visit for a couple of weeks at the end of the week!

Well, if you can't tell, I've gotten some new and updated software to make picture collages, and I'm quite excited. Our old computer had the old version, and the newer computer didn't come with it & it was super expensive. Well, the stars aligned this week and they let me buy the upgrade for pennies on the dollar since I had the old grandfathered version of the program. Hooray! Now I should figure out a way to print these and start making some books!

April 14, 2013

Dauphin Island, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, WoW it must have been spring break!

Content at the beach

I'm free!

Making a sand volcano with Claire in it.

Thanks for the sand in the face Claire!

WHAT?!! Those beach photos were from a camping trip???? YES! We live in a cool place where you can drive an hour or so and go camping with a walkway to the beach. This spot was in Dauphin Island, Alabama. We do have a beach a mile or so from our house, but it's cooler to go on trips to really nice beaches somewhere else, and not bring the sand in our house!

huge tent! Blair found an amazing deal on a big ole tent.

yes, a playground at the camp too!

Looks like the mountains. You wouldn't think the beach is just beyond those trees, eh?

Had to stop at the BBQ place with the pig out front.

BATON ROUGE, LA

So where is the nearest temple to Biloxi, MS? Yep, 2 1/2 hrs away in Baton Rouge. We visited and then hit a children't museum there to make it a day.

Xander & Will making lotion, fun!

walking around Baton Rouge a bit

NEW ORLEANS

Another fun place is New Orleans, just an hour and a half away. We tested out the Children's museum with Claire on a day that Blair had off.

NOLA Zoo

We went twice within the last month. It's such a great zoo! Here was a cool Pelican walking around. These things are everywhere down here-not just at the zoo. This was the closest I've been to one though ;)

Love those pretty fountains

Will making a face for the camera.

Where are all my pics of the animals? I don't know, but the kids loved the leaves.

Oh, here's a monkey ;)

EASTER

Yes I know this was a few weeks ago, it shows how often I post. The kids were lining up for one of the egg hunts here on base.

great weather!

the loot

Check out the ultimate jello I made for Easter dinner with some friends!

LASERCRAZE

The boys have been begging us to go to Lasercraze and play some minature golf and laser tag. We finally obliged during spring break, and found out they have a great family deal, so we can go more regularly to Xander's excitement.

I'm going to miss my friend Sabrina. She's AirForce & has been a member of the church for a year and a half or so & hangs out with us. Moving to UT in a week or so for BYU, so hope she has a great time!

RANDOM: Do you find treasures like these in the wash from your boys' pockets? I could start a rock collection!

WHERE DO WE HANG OUT FOR A FUN TIME?
Maybe the mall.

Check out this sand sculpture at the mall by our house.

To say that Claire LOVES the carousel at the mall would be an understatement.

The boys doing the jump tramps there.

We found a frog in the parking lot on the way home.

THE PRETTY PRINCESS...

has started tea parties and dress up.

Here she saw that her shoe broke.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

The funnies

Will 12/14 " Mom can you please pour the milk for me because it’s almost full, and there’s a 65% chance that I’ll spill it."

11/14 Me: Why did you dump out all the toys?

Claire: Because I was trying to find something to play with

Me: What did you find?

Claire: The glow in the dark dinosaur

Me: Then why didn’t you put the other toys back?

Claire: Because I had to use the bathroom, so I just runned.

Claire 11/14 "Mom I can’t find any of my jammies, so should I bring you the sew kit so you can sew me some?"

Claire 11/14 "What do these constructions say?"

11/14 Claire: Mom Can I have this?

Me: Sure

Claire: Yes!!! Mom, thanks for asking me!

Claire 11/14 "Oh my Geez"

Claire 11/14 "I had a great dream last night. I got to see Dixie, and eat shrimp!"

Claire 11/14 "Our scarecrow fell over, but we’ll still be able to find our house because you know the numbers!"

Will 11/14 "The only good thing that happened to me today, was that Kord gave me a penny. But then I lost it."

Claire 9/13 "I love polka-dot butterflies."

Claire 9/13 " This pencil needs to get sharpt. Can I sharpt this pencil in myself?"

Claire 9/13 after pulling a piece of tape off of something successfully, "I am a great job."

Claire 8/13 "One time a dog pooped on the grass."

Me, "Why are you telling me that?"

Claire, "Because it was weally gross, PU!"

Claire 8/13 I walked in and exclaimed what a mess it was. "I didn't got that out," said Claire pointing at one little thing.

Claire 10/12 "Ehhhhh he he, ehhh he he."

Gaurd at the Airforce gate, "That sounds like a fake cry."

Me, "Yep."

Claire, "Ehhh he he, ehhh he he. It NOT a fake cwy."

Will 10/12 "Mom, could I miss school on Wednesday, because they're going to learn something really hard like minus?"

Me, "Well what would you do the next day when they were still learning more about that?"

Will, "No mom, we don't have to make up the homework when we miss."

Claire 10/12 "You not funny Will."

Claire 10/12 (almost in tears with the saddest little voice because she wanted all of the toys) "Mommy, brothers not sharing a me."

Claire 10/12 chasing her brothers around slowly with her arms outstretched says, "Bwains, bwains, bwains!" just like a real zombie.

Will 10/12 "Xander is white, and I'm white, and mom's white and Claire is white and dad's a little white."

Will 3/12 "Dad and I are getting gooder at disc golf."

Xander 3/12 seeing frozen peas in his drink that had spilled into the icebox, "Mom, there are green cotton balls in my drink."

Will 12/11 "I know something that's not a word: spit-buggar."

Claire 12/11 "Ha ha, fuh-ee (funny)"

Will 12/11 after he broke a plastic fork, "I would like to put it in recycling because that saves the world."

Will 11/11 as he rubs the carpet, "I like this house because it's hairier than the other one."

Will 9/11 "Mom, could you call my nickname 'shark' please?"

Will 9/11 in a prayer while Blair was away for a month, "Bless that we would ever see dad again, and if we drive there it wouldn't be too long."

Will 3/11 after I asked him how primary was, he said, "I was the 1st kid in class. I thought I was going to have to taught myself."

Will 3/11 "Mom, is today fast Sunday."

Me "What is fast Sunday Will?"

Will, "When we eat really fast."

Will 3/11 "Xander is saying mean things, like that I'm not the leader."

Blair told Will to go to the bathroom with him while we were out somewhere and he was doing the potty dance 3/11, "Hey I had to go to the bathroom too!"