A Museum Weekend

Gabe is kinda on this inside adventure kick. She wants to go do fun things that are inside. It's kinda funny, cause it's been so warm and nice lately. Oh well, we thought it was a nice mix up. We went to the animal museum. It has an official name, but I don't remember it. We just call it the animal one. It's like the Bean Museum, just a bunch of animals that are stuffed. It has these fun exhibits and they give kids binoculars to look though. We worried they wouldn't like it cause of the fun children's museum we recently did, but they loved it. It made for a fun outing. We ran to target after and got the kids some swimsuits, so if the weather stays nice we might be hitting up some water parks this weekend.  

These are the listening tour devices they give to the parents that give all the animal facts. Our kids ended up loving to listen to all the stuff about the animals. It was cute to see how excited they were to learn how strong an animal's jaw is or what it eats. :)

Milo just loved the whole thing. He kept saying, "Wow wow wow!" 

Around the House

I feel like things have been extra busy lately. Gabe just started T-ball on top of dance. It conflicts with dance, so we are trying to get that figured out. Yuck. The kids have been loving our warm weather and we've been playing outside lots and we've been loving some good BBQ! Daddy had a work trip in Vegas this week so we didn't love having him gone. He's been more busy at work, which is a nice thing. He has his open house for his new office this week so I gotta bake a million batches of cookies and dessert bars this week for it.  We've been so sick lately. The boys had this nasal infection that just made them miserable with constant runny noses for two weeks. It was nuts how much tissue we went through. Then we had a hacker cough cold make it's rounds. We are now starting another round of some other cold. Not sure how to prevent it all, we are all taking vitamins and washing hands. Ah well. I feel like my calling has been super slow cause we've been sick, and had stake conference, and spring break! It's weird to go back to life. We didn't do anything exciting for spring break. We went to parks, and out to eat, and to a museum. Nothing crazy. I feel like we let Gabe down a little, cause everyone at school came back telling stories about how they spent their week. Ah well. She's over it. :) 

Spring break fort. Ollie LOVED having Gabe home to play with more. 

Daddy doing some saturday morning mountain biking. 

We sent Daddy some pics of us while he was gone.

My favorite boys ready for a bath. 

We've had the Wads kids double for a few months. It is just finishing up next week. It's been a long few months. We've had issues with kids and myself just being over it. It's fun for most of the time, but when it is tricky/or someone is over it, it isn't fun. The babies now fight over me and wanting to be held so that has proven to be hard. 

The kids thinking sharing a drink with two straws was just the most wonderful thing ever!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE it when these two get along, which really is almost always. Ollie doesn't tease as much and Gabe doesn't scream bossily as much. They were sharing the phone to listen to some tunes. :) 

Adam's steroids ran out that were supposed to boost his meds some. Now he's just supposed to take his meds without them, and they still don't work as well. :( It still is better than before, but not ideal like when he's on the steroids. Which he can't take for long. So we'll see how those go. We think the only other option is Humera which is more money than the insane amount we already pay. SO we'll see how things go. 

St Patty's Day

This holiday is always so fun around here. It really is one of Gabe's favs. She woke up 3 times in the night watching for Leprechauns and to come tell me what they had done in our house. She was more awake for this than on Christmas! Next year we're gonna have to update to more advanced traps and give her benydryl. Ha! She's too smart and knows what we have won't work well as far as traps go. (Seriously how'd she get so big, my traps were genius last year?) It kinda didn't help the kids I watched came over that morning bragging they had caught one. Not sure how that works, but that's what they claimed. (I think it got away but since they caught it, it had to leave gold?) I'm not sure, but it put a little damper on Gabe's day cause she didn't catch hers, which made me sad for her. Oh well. 

Our leprechauns, yes there was more than one causing havoc while we slept, made a mess of our house. And since we tried to catch them with fake gold to lure them (we used pennies) they left us fake gold to tease us. (Candy) They once again left little green footprints all over and turned our house upside down. They even toilet papered our bathroom. The Wadsworth kids thought that was crazy! ;) I decorated the table and left goodies on it for the morning, including shamrock tattoos. During the night the leprechauns put them on our kids' hands. Silly guys! Gabe was shocked! Ollie's partly rubbed off so he didn't get it. And Milo didn't even notice his. 

Setting up a few traps. I tried to convince her they'd get tangled in the jump rope and be tied up in the morning. Instead during the night they tied up our stuffed animals. 

Decked out in our green gear. They wore the green suspenders, necklaces, and badges all day. The other stuff I didn't pull out until later. 

Milo was so funny. He saw Gabe's wig and was all about putting it on. He's always down for most things we do. Our other two when they were that little we had to coax them into them to get a picture. Cute boy. He was more weirded out by the antenna headbands. :) 

Ollie was a hoot that day too. He'd purposely pinch you to start a pinching war. He loved it. Gabe was so good at making sure people had green. She told me everyone she pinched who didn't. She also was quick to pinch Daddy when he changed after work and forgot to put green back on. She pinched me when I changed into greenless pajamas. Stinker. Ollie started more pinching wars later when Daddy got home. 

I felt like kinda a slacker cause I didn't do any cool games or anything the whole day after shool. I did make lunch as green as I could with juice boxes, pears, and green veggies to go with their sandwiches. We had mint milkshakes that night too. But the kids had fun playing anyway so there ya have it. We had spring break the week before so when the holiday rolled around on Monday I kinda flaked. You'd think it'd give me plenty of time to prepare, BUT I didn't even think of it. :/ 

Oh well the kids still loved it. Hope everyone didn't get pinched too much. If you were here it wouldn't have mattered if you had green, Ollie made sure you got a pinch or two followed by his giggle. 

New Children's Museum

St George recently opened up a new Children's Museum. We got a flyer about it a few months back from Gabe's school. We talked about going but kinda forgot about it. Someone at church mentioned it was fun and it made us remember we needed to go check it out. After it was too windy for the hike/picnic we had planned today we decided to go run errands in St G and let the kids try it out. We knew nothing about it except it was kid oriented and free of charge. Well they accept any donations and I think alot of people give a few bucks. We had no cash so we didn't. :/ Sorry we will next time. 

Anyways, we were very pleasantly surprised. It was SO stinkin cute. Maybe I loved it because my kids play dress up/make believe 90% of the day. (It's the one really good thing they play well together right now-every other game is too "girl game" or too "boy game" for them) With that said, they were in heaven. You walk into a hallway that looks like a road. On both sides are very realistic pretend looking buildings. The idea is to show kids what jobs they can grow up to have in the community. They had so many fun things. They had an airport with a security check point and a plane you could pretend to fly. A mechanics shop with pretend stuff you could actually do on the cars. A grocery store, a bank, a farm, a post office, an office to be the president/mayor/anything political. It was kinda nuts! 

Downstairs was more educational. It had a space/weather room. A sports room to play sports. A bunch of climbing toys everywhere with shape matching etc., and this huge castle area that a construction company made. It had a dragon and everything. There was a music room, an art room. So cool. Obviously companies are clearly displayed everywhere, but I gaurantee they donated a lot to be apart of it. So they deserve it I think. 

I gotta find out where they got these play ice cream cones. They had magnets in the scooper and the cone so the actual ice cream would stick to both. It was cute. My kids would play so much with those. They were mad we made them leave the diner area. 

Learning to milk a cow. They had real water come out of it. I even tried it. 

You can't tell but this was a farmer truck. 

The post office. Most of the little stations had dress up clothes you could put on if you wanted too. 

This was the airplane they flew. It had a pretend screen that changed scenery to help you pretend. 

This was one of my favorites. It made drill sounds for the tools. You could get under the car or pretend to change the tire by using the tools. 

This was the mini tornado machine. It was awesome. 

This you were supposed to lift a bubble around you but we couldn't get it to work. 

Gabe for president 2054! ;) 

This was my other fav. This grocery store my kids spent the most time in. They have a volunteer in there full time constantly putting food in the right places. I felt bad for her it was a busy job. So we made our kids put away their food when done. 

Ollie the banker

Their royal highnesses on their thrones in the castle area. 

Music room

Gabe learning about finger prints and how they are all different. 

Anyway we didn't take pics of it all. (Even though it seems like it) I would have if I could, cause it was so fun to see my kids so excited. Plus not sure how often we'll go to it. Gabe was sad we didn't let her perform in the room with the stage playing Frozen songs. It had a pretend light room to control all the stage lights. It had these computers you could pretend to be a newscaster. The line to sing a song was a little long for big and little kids. No thanks, maybe another time. It was a little crowded at times. Not sure we'll go on a Saturday next time, but kids were good about taking turns. It did get hectic keeping Ollie and Gabe from excitedly walking away from us while trying to chase Milo around. BUT we made it. 

It was a blast and right next to the water park. So who ever comes to visit we can make a fun day trip or it. Museum, then water fun. Who's with us? :)