THE DINOSAUR MUSEUM

HELLO! The dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point is AWESOME! I can't believe this is the first time we've been. I'm seriously considering getting a pass to TP, it's like $170/year for the whole family and you get unlimited access to the museum, farm and garden. AND if you take guests with you, it's 1/2 off for them! My nice neighbor, April, has a pass and invited us to go with them on Monday. It's a rare occurrence that I can ever actually go anywhere during a weekday, but lucky me I randomly didn't have any daycare kids that day, so off we went!

Addi, Haven, Miles & Hally

Chillin' w/ the dinosaur!

Kendall & Mikayla

Once again, I highly recommend going here! It was really, really fun and definitely worth the money, especially if it's 1/2 off! Thanks again, April!

A HORSE PARTY

I love scrapblog.com. You can make the cutest invites and then just have them printed at Wal-Mart. I made 20 invites and it cost me about the same as it would to buy them in a pack and handwrite them. I like these kind, because you can design them yourself and personalize them with a picture.

Two days after Addi's birthday she had a friend party and oh my goodness, did we have a house FULL! We had a total of 16 kids (not including Kendall or the daycare kids) at her party. Good thing it was only 1 1/2 hours and I enlisted the cute 11 year old neighbor girl, Mady, to help me out. Addi is in love with horses right now, so we decorated the house with horse/cowgirl stuff. When the kids arrived they decorated horseshoes (I tried to get real ones, but that didn't workout, so they decorated foam ones instead), played a few games including: pin the tail on the horse, find the horses, horseshoe walk and sugar cube racing. We also ate horseshoe cupcakes (that kind of look like red and white U of U cupcakes, oh dear!) and opened presents. All of the little cowgirls and cowboys went home with a decorated horseshoe, a bag of goodies and a cowboy hat. What a fun, yet exhausting party! I LOVE to plan parties, LOVE IT! BUT, maybe we will start doing friend parties every other year, we'll see. It was so fun to see how excited Addi was to have ALL of her friends there, so it was totally worth the mess and craziness!

Addi's 6th Birthday!!!

It was Addi's 6th birthday on October 2nd. She's getting so big!! We started the day with waffles for breakfast, which was Addi's choice. Then we got ready and headed to Salt Lake to watch the Jazz scrimmage. It was fun to watch and Hally and Tim got on the jumbo-tron. I'm really excited that Raja Bell is back, because his eyes twinkle and he has a nice smile!;) So anyways, we only stayed at the game for one quarter, because it was ADDI'S birthday and although she was a good sport about going to the game, I'm sure she wanted to do something more fun. After the game we headed to The Gateway to watch Legend of the Guradians. It was an okay movie, but we were all kind of bored of it by the end. After the movie we walked around The Gateway for awhile and then got lunch at McDonalds. After lunch we stopped in at The Clark Planetarium (formerly called The Hansen Planetarium). It was free to walk around and look at everything. I hadn't been there since I was a kid, so it was neat to go back and see it again. The kids loved it! We got home at about 6pm and opened presents and had some horse cake. There are pictures below of our fun day.

We made a sign on the way to the game that said, "It's my 6th b-day! I want to meet D-Will!" It didn't work, plus Addi was too shy to hold it, so Hally held it most of the time.

Walking on the moon.

Chillin' on Mars.

We're so lucky to have such a good little girl. I went to Addi's parent-teacher conference last week and she got all 4's which is the best you can do. Her teacher went on and on about what a good student Addi is and how much she likes having her in class. Mrs. LeBaron is giving her advanced reading homework cause she's so dang smart! We love you Addi and we're so proud of you and hope you continue to excel in school for 12+ more years!

10 MONTHS

In two months I'll be doing a happy birthday post. Say it isn't so!! Kendall is slowing down a little with her growth. She weighs 21.65 lbs (80th %tile) and is 28.5" long (62.19 %tile). She is a busy baby. A mobile baby means a mess making baby. She crawls all over the place, pulls herself up to things and walks along furniture. She loves to put everything in her mouth and always seems to find the smallest things on the floor, even after I've vacuumed. Kendall loves to smile and give loves and wave goodbye. We all love our baby so much. She's our little sweetie.

No More Training Wheels

We've come to another big milestone! There's been a lot this year. Kindergarten, loss of first tooth and about a month ago she learned to ride her bike without training wheels. You can tell in these pictures that she's really, really concentrating on riding her bike. I feel bad about posting these pictures because she's not wearing a helmet. *Cringe.* BUT I promise that the no helmet wearing has come to an end and she always has to wear it from now on. Here's a tip I learned from my neighbor on teaching your kids to ride their bikes without training wheels. It's all about the two wheel scooter first. Addi has had a two wheel scooter for about a year, but never really mastered the balance thing. Meaning being able to ride with two feet on the scooter for an extended period of time. The day that the balance thing finally clicked in her head, she could also get right on her bike and start riding it with no problem. We had been working with her on her bike for awhile, but it was hard for her to keep her balance. So, just know that it's easier to help them learn to balance on their scooters and after they get the hang of that, then they'll generally be ready for their bike.

Addi prayed to Heavenly Father every night that she would be able to ride her bike without training wheels. After she accomplished this, she recognized on her own that Heavenly Father had helped her and she made sure to thank him that very night. Last week one of the neighbor boys was getting frustrated, because he was trying to learn how to ride his bike without training wheels and was having a hard time. Addi said to the little boy, "I know what will help you. You need to pray to Heavenly Father and he will help you ride your bike, because I prayed to Heavenly Father and he helped me ride my bike." I love my Addi! She's such a good girl and I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful daughter!

Sunday Picnic

Last Sunday we packed up some dinner and headed out for a picnic. We ended up at the American Fork Amphitheater. It's located west, across the street from the Mount Timpanogos Temple. This amphitheater, along with several others in Utah, were built during the great depression to help provide construction type jobs for people. It's still in use today. They also rent it out for receptions and there were dozens of people there getting family pictures taken. It was a great place for the kids to run around and explore.

Baby Legs