Memorial Weekend

Sunday we went up to Brigham City to visit graves on Jared's side of the family. Jared's parents have only been home a few short days and it was nice to see them again. Jared's grandma died while they were still on their mission and this was the first time they saw her grave. Crew loves the cemetery. He kept trying to take the balloons and pinwheels off of every ones graves. Yep, you know what I did the whole time.

A.W.A

Africa Wins Again...

Or so we thought, when we received an email from Jareds parents telling us that they were going to go ahead and extend their mission in the Congo. Thank goodness it was a joke. We were so relieved to see that their flight had actually landed in Utah.

Jared planed his flight home from AZ so that he would be in the airport at the same time. He watched them get off their plane and still holds bragging rites to the fact that he was the last to see them go and the first to see them come home. They had quite a gathering as they were much missed. Afterwards, we went to Crown Burger and ate some fabulous greasy food.

Kade's 4th grade program

Kade had his last program at Old Mill Elementary. He will start his 5th grade year at the Intermediate School, which is the old Jr. High. His program this year was on Utah. They sang some really cute songs and they were all suppose to dress up as mountain men or Indians.

This was the first time ever that he wore any type of shirt other than a t-shirt. He looked so handsome. I even talked him into wearing my old Doc Martens. He complained the entire time about how "heavy" they were. Hmmm, all this time I thought they were light.

Then they surprised us all by taking us out on the floor and teaching us the "Boot Scootin' Boogie". I must say, for being the Xenon, Rave girl that I am, I did a pretty dang good job!

Phoenix Zoo

Another stop during our Spring Break Vacation was the Phoenix Zoo. The boys love to go to the zoo here but the trick is to leave really early in the morning otherwise you are sweating bullets before you get through the gate.

They have the coolest bridge that you have to cross to get to the entrance. The water is full of turtles. I think we could just stay there all day and then go home and the boys would be fine.

They had a monkey exhibit where you could walk right in and interact with them. Tag was getting some great shots with his cell phone and the monkey kept getting closer to him. The lady had to stop him because she said the monkeys have been know to steal cell phones and throw them into the water.

We ended our day at the splash pool. The older boys were to "cool" to play and Garrett couldn't decide which side of the fence he was on. Crew had a blast.

It Looks Like A Bat...

For some reason, Jared thinks that golfing will mess up your swing. Your bat swing that is. My boys have never really experienced the joy of real golfing. As fate would have it they would probably strike out at their next game and I would hear about it for years. I for one, would much rather ride in the golf cart drinking an ice cold Pepsi and watch others try to hit a tiny ball into an even tinier hole miles down the course. But, one thing we all love to do is play miniature golf. Once the boys realize that you don't hit the ball like a baseball, they do rather well.

Squaw Peak Resort

The first resort we stayed at was Squaw Peak. We have stayed here before and we love the fact that it has two rooms. They have a lazy river and a waterslide. They also have miniature golf. The first night there Tag and Kade shared the couch bed downstairs. Tag was complaining about the side he was sleeping on for some reason and made Kade trade with him. Well, about 2 in the morning I hear Tag call out my name. I run downstairs and Tag is standing in the middle of the room with PUKE all over him! Kade is in the bathroom and there is puke all over the floor and all over the sheets. So, what do I do? I start laughing hysterically. Tag is in tears and I am telling him it's his own fault for trading sides with Kade. Kade had to climb over him in the dark to try and get out of the bed. Well, I roll up the sheets and throw them outside in the bushes to be delt with in the morning. I get Kade settled down and go back upstairs willing myself and my family to NOT get sick. Thank goodness none of us did and Kade was just fine the next day.

Spring Break Surprise

This year for spring break we told the boys that we were going up to Tremonton for a couple of days to clean up grandpa's yard before they come home from Africa. We started heading South and the boys were intensely preoccupied with their Ipods, Nintendo's and movies. They didn't even notice that something was up until we arrived here.

We made it all the way to St. George before the boys even realized that we weren't going to grandpa's! Our first stop was of course IN-N-OUT burger. After we filled little boys bellies, we started off towards Las Vegas. This is where we came up on the Hoover Dam. Every time we get to this point on our journey, it is always late at night. Jared makes all the boys get out of the car and scare their mom to death by hanging over the edge.

Then we were off to Arizona.

We stopped at a friends house where we showered and cleaned up. Garrett was so amazed that grapefruit actually grew on a tree and picked a whole bag to take home. Our first stop of the day was Chase field where we took in a Diamondbacks game. They were playing the Pirates and scored 11 points in one inning. Needless to say, the game was pretty boring but the food was delicious. Who would turn down garlic fries and lemonade. They gave all the boys little Webkinz dogs and Garrett and Crew were in heaven.