Playing at the Park,

Maddie woke up Monday with a bit of a red eye and some goop so we headed to the doctor and she had the start of pink eye. We picked up her eye drops, a treat and a movie and I canceled all my plans for the day and we just hung out. Tuesday Maddie was dying to go to school and her eye looked much better but the Dr. said to wait 24 hours after starting the eye drops before sending her back. So we headed to the park (where there were no other kids) Tuesday afternoon to play.
The kids (and Andy and I) had a wonderful time running obstacle courses, playing a 2 on 2 game of soccer and just enjoying the birds chirping and the warm weather. This was Sophie's first time at the park since she could walk so she loved climbing up the stairs and going down the slide and just running away.

This is Maddie playing with her friend Cali at the park on Sat.-

More Burley Pictures

Here are a few pictures my mom took from our Valentine's weekend in Burley:

Sophie and Ryan-

Colton and Garen in front of the infamous Brigham Young desk-

Maddie and Abby-

Family Home Evening Olympics

After a short lesson on why Primary is fun and why it is important to go, we had our own little Olympics.
We did the luge down the stairs, the biathlon with Garen's toy gun, we did ice dancing, curling, Aerial skiing (assisted by Andy) and speed skating short track. It was a ton of fun, thanks for the idea Sara.

Here's a couple videos of our events-

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Purple Pretties, and a handsome little boy

Even with their cuteness, today was hard. With Andy gone working, Sophie was loud in sacrament meeting, Garen needed to go potty which meant I had to drag him and Sophie out and Maddie decided to follow behind. I think I heard a total of 5 minutes of the talks given today.
Garen refused to go to primary and not a quiet refusal. He screamed, he cried, he ran out the doors. This went on for the entire first hour while I tried to fulfill my Primary responsibilities and while Sophie kept darting off or pulling things out of the Primary closet.

I am thankful for the sister that walked down the hall, saw me struggling with Sophie while trying to get Garen to stop crying, and smiled and said, "Don't worry you will get double the blessings for coming to church today." I think that got me through the last hour of church.

Now we are home and I get to look at my cute pictures of my sweet kids and forget how hard church was today.

Little stinker

This little stinker climbs out of her straps and onto her tray everytime I walk away. She thinks she's pretty funny. I look at her and tell her to sit down and instead she stomps her feet and dances on her tray.
We have the high chair on the lowest setting putting it pretty close to the ground but she's going to have a pretty good fall one of these days!

Flashback Friday-PLease bring Spring addition

The sun was shinning this morning and I thought I'd take the kids out to ride bikes. They were super excited until the wind hit their faces. After 15 minutes of riding they were to cold to stay outside even with their warm coats and hats.
This made me get a bit of the Winter time blues so I posted a bunch of Spring time pictures to cheer me up and hold me over until we can go outside and play again!