"pool time"

This weather hasn't stopped us from playing at the pool.  They have a fabulous Indoor pool at the Lehi Legacy center.  We love this pool!  Waterslides, huge play center, baby play area and a lazy river. 

 yep all of this is

"indoor"

I think i especially love that everyone is still in school so their are NO crowds!

How do you NOT want to eat this one??
 ew she is so cute!!

this picture cracks me up... it's just my kids and summers kids, but yet it looks like the whole neighborhood came with us. 

Love it!

The living planet aquarium.

We went with our friends the birchall's to the Aquarium last week.  It was so much cooler than i thought it would be.  They had everything there... 

Our highlights were the sharks, stingrays to pet {olivia fed them}, miniature seahorses, Penguins, and the frogs.  

Seriously very cool.  

The best part was that we had our own "tour guide barbie" summer telling us all about the habitats and educating us on the fish! haha  

She comes here alot so she knew her stuff.

I love her expression in these pictures, she LOVED feeding the stingrays.  

i LOVE this picture of Austin!  He is so handsome, but how adorable is it that the penguin is staring right at him.  He thought that was pretty cool.

"I'm beyond thrilled"

it finally happened with these two...

NO Training wheels! 

Hallelujah

i have been trying since last summer to get these two off of training wheels and on to "Real bikes" haha

they had no interest at all.

until one morning their dad came out and gave them a start and they were off.

literally. 

they've been riding ever since with NO wrecks!!  They love it.

i'm pretty sure the bikes they got here helped.  They are amazing with helping them balance.  We sell them at "Canyon Sports" if you are interested....

this child literally may be in a "circus" one day.  He has finally mastered the "unicycle" and loves this thing... 

you must know how much Cory and I love biking,  that's an understatement!

so don't think we didn't take these guys on a 3 miler bike ride their first night on bikes.  It was so much fun, they totally rocked!  

father & son's campout...

our ward had their annual "father/sons campout" on friday.

my boys were so excited and totally looking forward to camping in a tent with their dad!  It was my little haysie bugs first time!!

Boston was the cutest big brother... the second hayes got home from school they started playing catch, hitting golf balls, packing up their back packs and doing everything together!  He was SO excited to take his brother camping!

Olivia was a sobbing mess, she wanted to go on the campout SO bad.  She kept asking why can't girls go. {sniff sniff}

i was kind of hoping this was going to be "our family" campout this summer....
guess not.

Funny faces...

we sent our boys off to go camping{olivia in tears}

 then we went with my friend nichole and her girls to get pedicures and ate "rubio's" after.

such a fun night....

i believe this is a "must have" item...

truly these are my new favorite treats!

 they are so delicious, my kids love them and they only have 90 calories per 17 crackers!!

~great to grab with some string cheese while watching my kids "ball games"...

"spring program"

it's that time of year again, where all the music talent these kids have been practicing is out!   

Boston's 4th grade class has been learning all  about "utah" and has been reading and learning all about our capital and pioneer heritage.  They just went on a field trip to "this is the place" state monument and then to the "capital building."  The whole 4th grade is performing a "Utah Heritage" concert at their school this next week.

but yesterday was their "spring program"   

lots of darling songs were sung from Kindergarten to the 5th grade.  The 5th grade has some awesome songs that they performed in the "hope of america" a few weeks ago.  We were lucky to hear those songs.

"happy mothers day"

I am loving mothers day...

my kids were so excited to sing to me today at Church. It was so precious!
They made darling homemade cards and pens that were wrapped with a flower on top.

When we got home, Cory had made me my delicious "Berry Crepe" and all the kids were so excited to give me this.  I am so lucky to have such darling little kiddos!!  They truly are what makes me smile!

I feel very fortunate to have such wonderful examples of mothers in my life!

I have the BEST sisters/in laws you could ever ask for!  They are my life and i have learned so much from them.  I feel so blessed to have so many!!


Lord knows he didn't stop there...


he blessed me with a sweet, kind and very patient mother who is such a great example of love and patience to me.  I am so grateful to have her as my mother.

I also have the best mother in law, who truly adores all her children and will back us up if you dare mess with her kids.  I think i have a little bit of her "mamma bear" attitude and i LOVE that about her.

I have such wonderful friends/neighbors/aunts who have given me great wisdom and are Huge examples of loving mothers!
Thank you and have a wonderful "mothers day"


{{{Hugs}}}

~today after we ate our dinner Olivia asked me "when is it kids day?" i told her "everyday!" she looked at me and smiled.

"mahalo gleeds"

another one of our dear friends are moving to Hawaii for a while! 

How am i not there yet?!

We took roxy out to "happy sumo" for our last time before she heads out to beautiful Maui and closer to my "bestie."  I am dying that i haven't been out there yet!!

soon jenn, soon!

happy "30th"...

yep... 

i do have a dear friend who is only "30"! haha

seriously this girl is awesome!  i always say we are "kindred" spirits, because we are so much alike it's crazy!   

Love her to pieces.

Happy "30th" sum, i know you are freaking out, but seriously 30's Totally Rock!! 

Peaks Ice skating...

On friday nights, we decided to take our family on "date night!"  each week the kids pick something fun.  I won't bore you with all the things we do, but one friday night we went "ice skating" at the peaks arena.  It was So much fun, my kids have been a few times before and they are catching on and doing awesome. {especially boston, he thinks he's ready for NHL}  

don't bother bringing your strollers. They're NOT allowed anymore!  Good thing, i have enough energy to put ice skates on my 18 month old and push her around as well as the twins & still have fun! haha

i designated cory as the Photographer, so here are some pics...

HUGE "Sale"

You don't want to miss out on this "HUGE" ski sale...  click here to shop...

Northern United FC "Thunder"

Boston has switched soccer teams and is playing on a premier team now and we love it!!   It's nice to not have to travel all the way to Orem for practices and games.  This team took state last year, so he is pretty pumped to be on it.

we have 2 games a week and some of them are in salt lake, and 2-3 practices a week.  then Baseball games and practices.  So this kid is pretty busy and doesn't EVEN complain.  He  loves it!  Some nights he has a soccer game and then goes right to a baseball game.

These games have been either super windy or snowing/hailing... remember it's Utah in the spring.  

we have watched the last 2 games in the car, because it's such cold and windy weather. 

these two escaped the car for a little bit because the playground was SO awesome.  It had a rubber ground like they do in Vegas. Ivy was climbing everything with her sissy.  

"Rangers" baseball...

our fabulous Utah weather is in "full effect" and of course perfect timing for our Baseball and Soccer season! It's spring outside for 1 minute and then it's starts raining or snowing.  SO unpredictible!

but we are still loving it.

Boston has been hitting so good this year and he is also playing Pitcher & 1st base.

this is what happened about half way into the game...