On Thusday morning we loaded up and left for ST. George, UT!!

crazy kids playing in the cold

crazy parents watching their kids play in the cold

Packer, Rose, and Luca

don't know how these girls weren't frozen

So we drove Thursday morning and went straight to Sand Hollow Res. to meet up with the rest of the Netty family. It was a cold windy day but we tried to have a beach day anyway. Our kids played great. I took off Rose’s pants and gave her a shovel and she was entertained the entire time. That girl LOVES sand right now, and water isn’t bad either. We had an early dinner and enjoyed being with Pete, Matt, Michelle and their families. The next day was still chilly and windy but we put on our shorts and willed it to be a park day. We ended up spending a full afternoon at a local park. The big kids explored the hill, played soccer and baseball, and flew Ben’s BIG kite. Little kids played on the playground, got cold, ate snacks, warmed up in the van, more snacks, try to explore and follow big kids. It was fun.

still does the slide backwards

Christian following Rose around. They are little buddies.

Benji doing a wind dance so the kite would fly

Packer and Cali warming up in the van.

Cali with Anna and Ashlyn.

Cali, Ben and Benji joined in on the soccer game.

Diego vs. Uncle Matt (kids challenged the adults)

I think Jamie might have fouled Cody and Lily here.

Lalo vs. Uncle Pete (Ben was on the far end of the field so I didn't get any good shots)

Michelle, Matt and Pete - enjoying the view or looking for kids?

It was a good Kite Flying day.

Saturday we woke up to rain 🙁 So we tried to entertain ourselves for a few hours and then finally decided to make it a swimming day even with the rain. I took the 3 big kids swimming with all of their cousins. The pool was surprisingly warm and was really fun.

when bored - - - find a computer chair to spin in! and a Cali to push you.

Close up of the spinners - Ashlyn, Rose and Christian

ready to swim

these pics crack me up

Ben challenging the kids to beat his Whale Trail score

Packer and company playing Zombies

Sunday morning was nice and Sunny again but we had to pack up and head home. We love our yearly trip to St. George. This year we stayed with Michelle and Udine in Grandma’s condo. We went to church, packed up and headed home. I think I will mention that Packer requested a potty stop cause he needed to pee. Ben asked if he could hold it and he said no but HE always holds it. Ben told him to go ahead and pee in his pants cause we weren’t near a bathroom. Well, you can probably guess where this is going… Packer took him seriously and peed his pants and kept on playing the PSP! Hopefully we all learned a lesson from that story :) We couldn’t go straight home when we knew there would be dinner and games waiting for us at Ryan’s place so we stopped there and ate and played and then came home and ended our spring break. THE END

the kitty

Dinosaur Museum

posing with the dinosaurs, sitting on a bone

Last week was our spring break and we had a lot of fun. I managed to find some energy and tried to play with the kids and do what they wanted to do. On Monday we played at home and then packed a lunch and went to the birdcage park. We met up with Michelle and her kids and then Amanda and some of her kids came later. The kids played and I visited and we got sun burns and had a good time. After the park we went hot tub swimming.

On Tuesday we went to the Dinosaur Museum at BYU. Packer had been asking to go to the dinosaur place since they learned about dinosaurs at preschool a few months ago. I am to cheap to pay for the one at Thanksgiving Point so we went to the free one at BYU which happens to be the place of my first job at college. I was the janitor for the Paleontology Museum and Lab!! I know exciting! I spent 4 hours a day with those dinoS – 5-9, 5 days a week. Anyway, we had been trying to go but with school schedules and afternoon nappers and the place closes at 5 and it’s a good 40 minute drive and anyway… Spring Break was the perfect time to go.

cute kids and dino over the shoulder

The girls were too scared to put their heads in but the boys were not.

do you see a broken finger?

I had to post this last pic for Than Hancock… this is the dino that I was dusting and broke his finger off. I quickly put it back the best I could and made the place extra clean that night. I can’t remember the rest of the details of that story and would most likely tell a lie if I tried to recount it BUT I did break the finger and Benji couldn’t believe it, and I think Than used to threaten to get me fired by telling my boss about the broken bone… again my brain doesn’t do well with details.

After the Dinosaur Museum the kids were still being wonderful so I offered to take them to another museum. We wandered through the Bean Museum and looked at all of the different animals. The kids loved just being there. I think they could have been looking at paper cut outs and still enjoyed themselves. I was simply proud that I could manage all 5 of my kids on my own with no crazy happenings. Maybe I won’t be stuck home all summer 🙂

Posing in the Jungle

The BEARS.

After the museum we headed to the park. We had another picnic lunch and played on the playground. I need to do these little outings more often. The kids ALL loved it and they were ALL well behaved. I declared Wednesday a day of recovery cause I was tired. We chilled at home, got in the hot tub at 8:30am, played too much computer and packed our bags for St. George.

computer time and Rose decided it was nap time

Do you see how she is doubled over? snuggling with her own foot. Random falling asleep just doesn’t happen around here. I was laughing pretty hard when I discovered her and had to snap the pictures. Inside I was wishing it was me that could just fall asleep standing up and then be gently laid in my bed to finish my nap 🙂

Close up of Rose - my exhausted 18 month old.