Haley turns 7

My Haley, my Haley, oh my Haley. You just gotta love her. She lives black and white. She even tells on her self, and make sure everyone abides by the rules (even me). Her and Logan are best friends. She loves being good. I think that is the most wonderful thing. She retains info and loves learning new things. Daddy is still and will always be her favorite. She loves to swim and has learned to ride a bike this year. She is taking dance. She loves to sing. She would rather be out and about then at home, and her favorited is to go out to eat. KFC is one of her favorites, along with Costco cheese Pizza and Toucanos Brazillian Restaurant, which she refers to as "the meat place" She has lots of friends in her class, but she loves adults! There are several women in our ward, that tell me she always says hi, and one she hugs every time she sees her. Her teachers love her because she is so good.

Playing Bingo for her birthday.

Haley loves to play games and we are excited that she is getting old enough to play more grown up games. Theres just no challenge in candy land.

Hat from Aunt Tami.

Tangled, which we then watched for family movie night on Haley's birthday. She LOVES family movie night.

Thanking her brother.

Making a birthday wish.

Haley wanted to get her dad back for smashing her face in cake, so we decided to put a large piece of cake on a plate so she could smash it on his face that way. She did it perfect. Right in the center of his face, and she didn't spill a crumb. He was so surprised. It took him a minute to figure out what was going on. It was a priceless moment.

Logan's 5th Birthday

Logan is 5. He is smart, funny, sweet. His favorite saying is "I'm bored, what can I do?"( which means can i play a video/computer game) He is very good at sports and he loves all of them. The other day he was out playing with Haley and Isaac and while Haley and Isaac were having a pretend campfire and playing with sticks, he was shooting the basketball. He (unfortunately) loves video games and is pretty good at them. Every night he reads the Book of Mormon with us and he gets a lot of the words. I could probably have him reading completely by now, but then what would they teach him in Kindergarten? :) He is definitely a perfectionist. He sometimes gets a few words of a song in his head and sing them for days. He also can be very proud of himself and likes to tell people how good he did something. He is full of energy, and enthusiasm and happiness. He also tries to make everyone else happy. One day I was cleaning the bathrooms and ask him if he wanted to play upstairs near me while I cleaned and he said "i'll tell you what while you clean the bathrooms, i'll clean the whole upstairs for you." and he did. He wants to be just like his dad. They have all the same favorites. He loves his Haley and whenever he gets a special treat he saves some for her, or makes sure she gets some of his. It'll be so fun watching him grow up and see who he becomes. I love him.

Blowing on some party favors.

We played stick the eye patch on the pirate.

Even Derek wanted to get in on the action.

Logan with his loot. We bought him this really cool fish balloon. (All my kids love to play with ballons)

A transformer Bumblee Mask

No Aunt Lisa you can't eat my ears!

But thanks for the gift card.

Some cash to spend on our vacation.

Logan picked out his birthday cake.

Haley kept pretending she was going to put her face in the cake, so Kevin helped her out. She thought it was hilarious, and immediately started planning how she was going to get him back.

He was so excited he even slept with his balloon. If you notice Isaac is in the bed too. We had a couple of nights where Isaac refused to sleep in his room, so we finally decided to move him into Haley and Logans room. Haley was ready to move into her own room, but Logan was not ready to have her leave so we put bunk beds in their room, and as soon as Logan is comfortable with Isaac in there we'll move Haley.

canyonlands

On Sunday we went to Canyonlands National Park. It was a miserable wet day, but we hopped in the car and drove to the Park anyways. We started out at the visitors center so the kids could earn another junior ranger badge. Luckily most of the things were just a quick out of the car to look and jump back in. It got very windy on the drive home, but it was a very enjoyable weekend.

Funny story from this trip. On our trip to Moab for about 30 minutes Logan had to go to the bathroom, we finally made it to a bathroom and rushed him in. When I got back to the car Isaac said he had to go, so even though he was wearing a diaper, I took him in. His diaper was dry and he went potty. All weekend was the same thing he stayed dry and asked to go to the bathroom. When we got home on Sunday I put him on the toilet and he went, and then he wet his pants twice in an hour. So frustrating.

Moab

We took a weekend trip with the kids to Moab. It was great to get away. We got there Friday night and took the kids swimming in our hotel. Isaac's version of swimming is sitting on the step of the pool and then walking to the step in the hot tub and then back again. Then he says "look I'm swimming." I took the kids to McDonalds for dinner while Kevin waited for almost an hour at Milt's drive-in for some awesome burgers and fries for us.

Saturday was beautiful. We headed into Moab and stopped at the visitors center where the kids got packets to be Junior rangers. There are certain things you have to do in the booklets and at the end you get a junior ranger badge.

This is balanced rock which was Isaac's favorite spot.

We ate lunch in the car because we couldn't find picnic benches and then we walked to Double arch. Derek insisted on walking. This hike was a little up hill but he did really well. Every time I picked him up he would start to cry. He finally started getting a little wobbly and fell down, so I picked him up and he just laid his head on my shoulder and let me carry him the rest of the way.

Kevin and the kids climbed up Double Arch while Derek and I stayed at the bottom, but of course Derek wasn't happy about this. He thinks he should be able to do what the other kids are doing. Here he is trying to climb after them.

After our first usage of pit toilets, we drove to landscape arch. Both Derek and Isaac fell asleep on the drive, so I dropped Kevin, Haley, and Logan off at the beginning of the hike and parked the car, within 2 minutes of stopping I was asleep too.

Landscape Arch was Logan's favorite arch. Kevin said it got really windy on the hike and they got pelted by the sand.

We'll put our kids anywhere for a picture.

Afterwards we went back to the hotel and went swimming again, then out to dinner.