Friday Nights

I hate having to experience my first Friday night of the season. I don't know why because we don't ever do anything special on Friday nights but something about being at home with my kids and no plans on a Friday makes me revert back to high school and I feel like a loser. So tonight when we were sitting outside with nothing to do and saw a neighbor on the way to Wal Mart we invited ourselves along and insisted on walking to make the outing last longer. Nothing exciting but it did make me feel like less of a loser. Paisley on the other hand went from being sweet and smiley to grumpy and surrounded by groceries. Maybe I should just face the facts and start learning to enjoy my loser status concerning weekends.

Today was a day for dressing up.  We started the day off as beautiful brides.

But quickly decided that wasn't adventurous enough for us and transformed into super heroes!

 If Pais's hat doesn't scream I'm full of all sorts of magical powers I don't know what does.

 

 Since super heroes are constantly on the quest for action we took our show on the road at lightning fast speeds by riding front runner.

 

 Afterwards we were able to rid the Jordan River Parkway trail of all evil.

 Actually we really hid from several advancing hungry ducks but hey, we are in training here.

  

 Last but not least a special super hero thank you to Aunt Kristi for conveniently living between the train station and daddy's work so we could recharge.  We wouldn't have made it without your potty!

Stay tuned for the next episode of super hero Huntley and her sidekick funny little red hat girl.  (Super hero name suggestions would be much appreciated)



It's here

I haven't blogged for a month.  I figured once fire season started I would have plenty of alone time at night and I could get caught up then.   Currently Chris is headed to So Cal and I'm surrounded by sleeping beauties so hello blog, it's good to see you.  The past month has been updated and now for our firefighting man here is what we have been doing to pass the hours until we can see your hairy face again.

 We visited the bunny and chickens at IFA.  The girlies could stay their for hours and I love that it's within walking distance and free. 

 We helped do yardwork at Ma and Pa's.  The girl's were number one dandelion pickers and I'm sure Pa will really appreciate the seeds they blew all over his lawn.  At least Paisley's blowing skills struggle a little and she probably inhaled more seeds than she blew.

 

 We pose for self portraits every five minutes.  We can't have daddy missing anything and you never know when you'll get a sudden growth spurt.

To end the day we take a bath and get squeaky clean for bed.  We love you and miss you daddy and can't wait for November 1st!

While daddy was home

The last few weeks Chris was home were pretty crazy.  Between a really random training schedule and crazy cold weather we tried to create a few last minute family memories.

We spent time swinging as high as houses.

 Ate our favorite breakfast at Kneaders.

 Caught a few little fishies at Tibble before we decided it was freezing cold and went home.

Warmed up on the ride home by wearing dad's beanie.  She's totally looking the hotshot part.

Last but not least joined Chris's crew on a quick overnight trip to Cedar for a softball tournament.  I think that was Pais's favorite.  

Beauty Shop

Huntley hates having her fingernails clipped.  She screams and wails and it's quite the dreadful process.  Paisley on the other hand could care less.  Luckily as Hunt has gotten older I've been able to turn it into an endurable experience by making a game out of it.  We get to go to Mommy's beauty shop where our nails our trimmed and then painted any color we like.  She still cries but at least now she actually lets me do it instead of kicking me in the head.  A little tears beat having to cut them in the middle of the night with a headlamp. 

 

A few weeks ago we were visiting the "beautyshop" and had pretty much finished up our pedicures when Huntley asked if she could finish painting her own nails.  They were almost done so I figured why not.  I sat her down with some newspaper and tried to keep an eye on her while I washed dishes.  Apparently I'm really crappy at keeping an eye on my children while cleaning because she soon announced she was finished and don't her and Pais look beautiful.  Not only did Pais have her nails painted but she also had lipstick and blush applied as well.  I'm thankful she stopped before she got to the eyeshadow!

Easter

Last year for Easter we went to temple square and LOVED our experience so much we decided to make it a tradition.  For some reason Easter weekend is actually pretty quiet there and since temple square equals vast amounts of flowers it will automatically be a winning place for our family to go.  Also now that Hunt is actually getting older and understanding more concepts it's a great place to go and have a great Easter experience that is more than just bunnies, eggs, and candy.  The most surprising part of our day was finding out flowers have been replaced by water.  So instead of beautiful picture of my girls with flowers I got five million shots like this:

 Crappy pictures but we had a great time!

 

We also had our neighborhood Easter egg hunt.  I love taking a picture of all our neighborhood friends and seeing how much the kids have grown and all the new little faces that are finally big enough to participate.  Our neighborhood may be a little on the ghetto side but we have some great friends.

 I love having two kids and watching the different ways they grow and learn.  At age 2 Huntley would find an Easter egg and immediately stop to eat the stuff inside refusing to find more eggs until she ate every bite.  She only found three eggs that year.  At age 2 Paisley found an egg and also started to eat the candy inside.  Halfway through the candy a lightbulb went on in her head and she immediately started running and picking up all of the eggs she could find.  After no more could be seen she stopped to finish eating the candy in all the eggs.  She is definitely the candy lover of the two.  We also found out this year Hunt doesn't like jellybeans because they have the word bean in them and beans resemble deer poop.  Sometimes I miss the non-talking days when she would be happy with anything.

To end our weekend we went to "our" temple and walked around the grounds.  What a great day to be thankful our family can be together forever.

Grandpa's Letter

As fire season is coming upon us Chris has been working out constantly to get ready for life in the woods. Tonight when he got home from training he asked us if we wanted to go on a hike and of course the answer was yes. Huntley picked the place and was so excited to finally get to touch grandpa's letter. I on the other hand hate the hike to the G with a passion and hate it even more so when it's done in super fast get in shot shape speed. Currently I'm in pretty good shape but Chris left me in the dust and so poor Pais didn't even get to touch grandpa's letter before Chris and Hunt came bounding back down the trail. I definitely wasn't made to be on a shot crew.