June 2012 in Rewind

What a busy month this has been. So let me recap on all of the things that has happened. First and foremost Abigail turned 29 months on June 15th while her big brother Jack turned 37 months on June 16th.

The begining of the month Jeremy and I decided it was time to buy the kids a little pool for the summer. Especially for the nights when we are able to make it over to grandma's and go swimming. They love the pool and we have used it a lot.

For our family trip we got the kids new flip flops, sandals and sunglasses. They LOVE the sunglasses, they are mostly in the kids hands rather than being work on their faces, but they love the glasses non the less.

Jeremy and the kids headed to the Zoo, they saw the giraff's, the bears, pretty much all of the animals, but mainly LOVED riding the train.

The saturday before our trip I got some Bees tickets from work - so we decided to take the kids to their first Baseball Game. We were able to stay through all innings, they were troopers, we then stayed after the game for the amazing fireworks - this is mentioned in a previous post.

We then headed to Vegas for our much needed vacation - all of the things we did are in a previous post. It was so much fun, we didn't want to come back, but I guess at some point you need to come back to reality.

The saturday after our trip, Jeremy and I pick mom up some little tables for the grandkids so when we have dinner over there it will be easier for them to eat at their own little table. So on sunday the kids and I decided to drive the tables over to grandma's house - where we put them together and the kids then decided to try them out.

Thursday June 28th: First Dentist Appoinment - we finally made appointments for the kids to get their teeth looked at. We recently had the kid pick out their toothbrushes a while a go - hoping that will help us get them to brush their teeth and so far it has been working. So we took them to Children's Landing in West Jordan. It is a really cute office, close to home and in the same building as our actual dentist.
     Jack was first in the chair and did a really good job - meaning he actually got into the chair. That was about as far as he would go. Abigail was more hesitant about the chair, but climbed in it, she even let the dental assistant clean her four front teeth and a little glob of toothpaste found its way into her mouth and she started to stick out her tongue and say "Don't like it" the assitant put some water in her mouth then had her put her mouth around the sucker instrument which then Abigail loved doing. She was then done after that.
     The dentist came by and it was Abigail to be first. He had her look into his pricess mirror, which warmed her up to let the dentist look in her mouth. Jack was next - we thought he would scream, but the Dentist was able to look into Jack's mouth without and fuss. We shall see how it goes in six months.

Friday June 29th - Jeremy and the kids headed to Wheeler Farm to milk the cows. Jack was excited to do it, however when the task actually came to doing - he didn't want any part of it, Abigail on the other hand got her turn and did it once then she was done.

Saturday June 30th - headed downtown to meet up with our friend for our family pictures. We got them taken at Memory Grove. After the picture taking we took the kids to City Creek where we had dinner at the Blue Lemon - LOVE IT! then let the kids play a little bit in the fountain.

Our kids continue to grow like weeds. They are talking more and more each day - what they like and what they want to do changes from minute to minute. Jeremy and I have been working with them on using their please and thank you's for things they would like, want and etc. Apparently it was been rubbing off because when you do something for Jack he will always say "Thank you."

Jack's favorite show is Curious George, Abigail it changes but she really likes Phineas and Ferb.

They know their letters which whenever we stop somewhere and there are letters they will say them out loud. In fact when Abigail see's a stop sign she will say "O, P, stop sign - Jeremy will then have her actually spell it, which she will then she will say it again but with just the O, P, stop sign. They are getting to know their numbers - I found an app on my phone that helps them add and subtract and drag lines from 1 to 2, 2 to 3 and so on and they both will play and play and play rotating between momma's little and big phones (the big phone is my iPad).

Abigail and Jack are currently the same height, Abigail is out weighing Jack by a little. They are both wearing 3T clothing and their feet of coarse continue to grow as well. We just had to buy Abigail new dress shoes due to the ones we got her at the beginning of the year were too small.

They both keep us busy which we love and we know they will continue to keep us busy as we go down the road of life.

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Vegas Vacation 2012

This year for our family vacation we decided to head down to Vegas to our timeshare at Tahiti Village. It's been two years since we have been down there and at that time Abigail was 8 months and Jack was 16 months - this time Jack is three and Abigail is two. Time definetly flies when you are having fun.

We headed down on Monday in my friends vehicle. Seven of us fit in just snug enough. We arrived in Vegas about 8:00 pm with a few stops on the way. The first one was due to the child locks on being on the door and Abigail wanting to play with the car door handle. The second one was due to my friend trying to get her contact out so I could put some liquid on it, but then it fell. The third was to get some late lunch in Cedar City.

Since the pool didn't close until 10:00 pm we decided to head to the room, drop off our stuff, change into our swimsuits and head to the pool.

As we were enjoying the breeze, the water and the warmth we ran into our neighbors who were leaving the next day. We chatted with them for a little while, swam some more then about 10 pm headed back to the room to get ready for bed. We still had to go shopping so Lauren, Karly and I got dressed and headed to the store for some food for the week.

We got back about midnight and headed to bed.

Tuesday - we got up, made breakfast then headed down to the pool for some fun in the sun, playing in the sand and enjoying the water from the warmth of the sun.

We spent the majority of the time in the pool, but did head over to the lazy river which Jack loved and Abi disliked.

After swimming we headed to the room for some lunch and nap time. Around two we decided to get ready and do some adventuring on the strip.

We parked at the Bellagio and explored the garden.

After walking through the beautiful Bellagio we made our way to the Mirage with a few stops for posing and picture taking.

The Paris

A cute family in front of The Paris

Ice Cream break from our walk

Kids sharing the ice cream - it was delicious, or yummy or tasty.

After the ice cream break the fountains of the bellagio started so we watched the musical water dance in the air. The kids loved it, Abi wanted more. We then made our way from the Bellagio along the front of Ceasar Palace to finally the in doors of the Mirage.

We had another family head in to stay with us so we made our way back to the car so we could meet them. They arrived about 7:00 pm. We helped them up to the room, cooked some pizza for dinner then headed back to the pool for an evening swim. We swam and played in the sand until about 10 pm then headed back to the room, got cleaned up, put the little ones to bed then the adults chatted (well the ladies of the group) until about midnight or one.



Wednesday - We made a pretty awesome breakfast with eggs, bacon and toast. Once our little bellies were full we again got our swim suits on and headed down to the pool. We swam until about or past lunch time then headed to the room for lunch and naps. The kids took a nap, my friend and her kids wanted to go back to the pool so that is where we headed. We swam for the rest of the afternoon, then headed back to the room to get ready and head out to the strip for dinner. We ran into by brother in law and he hung out with us for the day and headed to dinner with us.

We decided to take Tahiti Village's shuttle which dropped us off at the Mirage and so we hiked our way to Ceasar's Palace to eat at Serendipity.

After we ate and awesome dinner with a frozen hot chocolate for dessert we decided to head back to the Mirage and watch the volcano.

We made it with a few minutes to spare. The sidewalk was pretty packed with people getting ready to see the attraction. I wasn't sure if they had changed the performance so we headed to where the huge volcano was. Jeremy had Abi on his shoulders and I had Jack on mine - of course we should have recorded our experience but we got some pictures instead. As the volcano started Jack started getting nervous and kind of shaking. Then as the fire burst in the air Jack started screaming and then yelled "We need to run!" Jeremy took Jack from my shoulders and put him on his. As the remainder of the show went I took pictures of the volcano, but turned just in time to get a picture of Jack screaming again. It was really funny.

After the volcano we headed back, made our way to the indoors of the Mirage to then await our shuttle for pick up.

Thursday - We again made a pretty good breakfast and new we needed to pretty much cook all that we could since the next day we would be packing up and heading home. So we had eggs, bacon, toast and hashbrowns. After breakfast we again headed to the pool for some fun in the sun. We enjoyed the lazy river and especially the pool. We swam, played in the sand and enjoyed the water cooling us down from the heat of the sun. We headed back to eat some lunch and enjoy the balcony. After a little while my friend and her kids wanted to head back to the pool so I joined them. While they swam and hung out in the shade and read a little on my awesome iPad.

We then headed back to the room to get cleaned up and head out to dinner. This time we decided to go just next door to our timeshare's restaurant - Tahiti Joe's. In a way it was good food, but they also were having really slow service that night.

We all headed to bed after dinner so we could get up the next morning and check out by 10 am.

Friday - we woke up early to get ready, we finished off the breakfast that was from the previous day, packed and headed out the door to pack up the car for our ride home. Before we headed home we had to stop by the Vegas sign and get our picture taken.

 

Here is a comparison from 2010 to 2012 - crazy.

After the Vegas sign we headed to the M&M store and bought some souveniers. All in all it was such a fun trip, I can't wait until we do it again in 2014.

First Bees Game

At my last meeting for paticipating they handed me three tickets to the Bees Game on Saturday June 16th. We decided to take the kids and see how they would do. We were sure if we should try and sneak Abigail in, because on the website it says 2 and older are $14.00 - we ended up just paying for her ticket which was 10 rows higher than were our original three tickets were at - so we got her in and she just rotated between Jeremy and my lap and the empty seat that Jack would sometimes sit in.

We ended up sitting with some other MACU employees and it was good to chat with them from out side of work. Abi ofcoarse what miss little body which she ended up making a new friend and eating thier pretzel, so we went and bought them a new one. Jack got bored a little through the game, but I think he did enjoy it. In the end they did a firework show that was awesome I think it was one of the best fire work shows that I have seen. Abigail thought they were scary but loved the pink ones, Jack loved the big booming ones but also loved the blue ones.

It was a really fun night.