Our Walk-about in UT

I know this is late but I wanted to post some pics from UT. It was so nice to visit Zane's family for a while in April . We were able to do a lot of fun things while we were there! One night we went to a place called Jump on It. Basically, it was a huge warehouse with wall to wall gymnastic size trampolines all next to each other with the poles covered. There were even tramps leaning at 45 degree angles on the walls and platforms to jump off of. There was also a sectioned off area for little kids to jump. We were able to go the the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point, the Zoo in SLC, the Life Science Museum at BYU, and we caught a few movies while there too.

The life science Museum was so fun for the kids. They had a stuffed elephant that Ciara loved. While we were there we got to see a presentation of reptiles and Ciara got to hold a huge snake skin. She was a little scared of the live snake though and wouldn't touch that. Dalin had fun just trying to touch ANYTHING... that he wasn't supposed to. Daddy spent a long time chasing him around.

The kids and I went to the Zoo in SLC one day and had sooo much fun. I rented a wagon to pull Dalin around and ended up putting him in and out in and out in and out. Of course Ciara's favorite part was the elephants and the elephant ride on the carousel. We waited in line to ride on the carousel and by the time we got to the front both of the elephants were taken so.... of course we had to wait for the next round so we could snag on of them. We were able to stay and watch the Elephant show but it really freaked Dalin out. He was trying to climb up me and hold me as tight as possible. He kept looking over his shoulder every 10 seconds to make sure that the elephants weren't coming to get him.

We grabbed a map of the zoo as we were walking in and Dalin took a liking to it. I snapped the cutest pictures of him checking it out... I better treasure these pictures because soon he'll be to much of a man to look at a map or ask for directions.

Hmmm...

Are you sure we're in the right place

Let me check....

WE ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE

We had a lot of fun while in UT. I miss all of the family oriented things to do in UT. Ciara had so much fun playing with her cousins and with all of the other kids in the neighborhood. It's nice to be back in our own home and have all of our own stuff but I miss being able to take the kids out and have lots of different things available to do. I missed my family while we were there and I miss Zane's family now that we are home. It's always a double edged blade isn't it?!

The Birthday Girl

My little girl isn't so little anymore. This last Tuesday, May 5th, we celebrated Ciara's 5th birthday. I can't believe she's already 5 years old. This year for her birthday she requested a unicorn cake, a pink unicorn cake. Since funds are a little low I couldn't purchase a cake so I had to get creative with the cake making. I've posted some pictures below of my creation, against my better judgement mind you, along with pictures of the birthday girl and her "loot"

putting the pieces together, it took 2 round cakes and 1 square to construct this

the finished product, the birthday girl approved

All the loot

Dalin got a little present too but he wasn't so sure about the goggles

Opening presents

We had a lot of fun at the party. We are still in UT so I think it was fun for Zane's family to be able to celebrate with us. Ciara is excited that we get to have another party in MT with Grandma Julie and my family. We opened presents and played outside till it was dark and then came in for cake and ice cream. We didn't even get through the entire birthday song before Ciara blew out the candles. And, of course, the day ended in true birthday style with a birthday melt down because our little girl was over tired (it was 11:00 at this point) and wanted to stay up and play with all her new things.