The Great Wolf Lodge

Chase had spring break this week, so we took off to Sandusky OH to the Great Wolf Lodge! It is about 60 miles away and it's a hotel with a water park inside. We went with a couple of our friends the Barnums, Welch's, Cowdens, and Flemmings, and had a great time! There was a baby area with little slides for babies (and where my water fearing children spent a majority of their time:). Then there was a pool with b ball hoops and a big blow up snake. There was a kid area with kid slides, where Ty and Hallster actually spent about the last hour of our time there. Then there were a few bigger tube slides for all of the older kids and adults. There was a lazy river, and a hot tub also. If it was up to Tyler he would have stayed in the hot tub the ENTIRE time, he cracks me up.

Tyler and Halle posing in the kiddy pool, we spent a lot of time here. Halle kept telling us that "gwandpa need a spwash me in da pool," followed by "and gwandma need a come too." She associates pools and hotels with your latest visit mom and dad!

Tyler going down one of the kid slides, he is about as long as the whole slide:) He did get brave and go down a few slightly bigger ones.

Halle on the playground. There was this huge playground/jungle gym type of a thing with water spraying out all over the place that the kids could play on. There was a HuGe bucket of water at the very top of the playground that would fill up with water. When you heard the bell start dinging you would see a herd of people rushing over to stand under it to get DuMpEd on! When we heard the dinging my kids would make sure they were nowhere in the vacinity of the dumping bucket water:)

Chase with Ty and Halle floating on the lazy river which was VeRy lazy and slow. Halle thought she was so big getting to sit on the tube and hang on all by herself. Tyler just liked it because it was slow and water didn't get into his eyes:)

We had such a great time with our family and friends, it was just a perfect little getaway! We plan on making it a spring break tradition every year!!!

Happy Birthday Tyler!!!

Happy Birthday Tyler!! We can't believe you're 5 years old! We love you goofball:)
Tyler got a basketball hoop for his birthday - I don't know whose been playing with it more, Chase or Tyler! Today we were playing a little 2 on 1, Chase against me and Tyler, I don't know the last time I have laughed so hard it was a little wild:) He also got a green spotted snake , and a snake cake which looks like it might have been frosted by Tyler himself ha ha. We had a couple of friends over to help us celebrate Tylers special day, and I think he felt pretty special!

Happy Easter

We had a great Easter this year. The kids had fun dying Easter eggs, finding their Easter baskets, and learning about Jesus. Tyler was especially curious this year about the ressurection, and I am always amazed at the faith of little kids! Halle got a pony in her basket and Tyler got the card game "Go Fish" along with way to much sugar and junk, but it was fun:) We had a couple of friends over for Easter dinner which turned out really nice, and we were glad that we had someone to share our day with. Hope everyone had a Happy Easter!

Our First Visitors!!!

Two of my most FAVORITE people, my mom and dad, I LOVE you!!!! We got to do so many fun things on their trip out to Cleveland. Here is the very brief rundown ( I tried posting this a minute ago in much more detail and then somehow navigated away from the page and lost it all so this will be less detailed:) On Wed night when the fam got into town we went to eat at the Cheesecake factory, yum! Thursday we went to Kirtland and saw the Kirtland Temple, NK Whitney store, Whitney home, school of the prophets, and visitors center. It was so awesome to feel the spirit of Kirtland (only 25 min away from our house if anyone is thinking of visiting:) That night we ate at Brio a really yummy Italian restaurant mmmmmmmm! On Friday we went to Cosco and loaded up (thanks mom and dad:) and that's when the worst storm in 25 years started, seriously, if you think MT gets a lot of snow OH put it to shame!! We were pretty much snowed in for the rest of that day, but it was so fun hanging with the fam, and the kids loved the attention! Saturday everyone went to the Cleveland Cavaliers B ball game to see LEBRON!! The kids got to swim at the hotel and eat pizza which we all thought was really fun. Halle is still talking about gwandpa splashing her in the pool:) Sunday church was cancelled due to the wild blizard outside, so we got to spend more time with our fam. This post doesn't even start to describe what a great time we had with them, and we miss them terribly!!! WE LOVE YOU!

Me and my cute sisters Camille on the left and Chloe on the right, we were so happy they got to come out to Cleveland!!!!!

While everyone was at the game, Halle and I made smoothie popscicles, carrot and spinach puree (I'll have to explain that one on a different post) and chocolate strawberries. She ended up having an ear infection and pink eye in both eyes, she looks pathetic, but really acted pretty happy.

This picture was taken in the school of the prophets. The back wall is the original wall, so we in a sense got to rub shoulders with many of the former prophets of the church! Since we were the only ones on this tour, they gave our family time to be in this room together alone, there is an amazing spirit about this place especially when you stop to think about all that happened here!!

The Newell K Whitney store

Me, Ty, and Halle in front of the Kirtland temple. We sure missed Chase who was at school and had to miss out.

Tyler and Halle in front of the Kirtland Temple.

This girl has some serious hops! I'm pretty sure this was Halle getting all riled up because gma and gpa were here!

Everyone was pretty excited to go to this game to watch LEBRON, he's the
MAN! Chloe and Camille don't play basketball, watch basketball, talk about

basketball, or even really care about it, but they were pumped to watch

LEBRON!

Chase and Tyler at the game! Tyler got to eat a hot dog, cotton candy, popcorn, pop, what's not to love? When the Cavs scored 100 points they told the audience that everyone would get a free chalupa from Taco Bell. Ty thought he would get his chalupa at that moment plus he thought it was a toy, and cried about it the whole way home:)

Chuck E Cheese Trauma

So last night some of our good friends called us up wanting to know if we could go to yes, that's right Chuck E Cheese. For those of you who have never experienced this magical (ha ha) place let me give ya the run down. First of all it is way over priced - $25 for a large nasty pizza and four pops, but get this, you get 40 tokens which you can use on rides whoa nelly! It doesn't stop there, after you play on all of the germ infested rides and games they give you like 5 tickets that you can redeem at the counter for a plastic fish or something your child will really cherish:) My friend is way on top of things though and she had gotten some coupons from the internet, and the kids absolutely love it, so we really thought it would be fun for them. After telling Tyler that we would be going to Chuck E Cheese, he was thrilled! You have never seen a more excited child, he was talking about rides, games, tokens, and could not WAIT to get there. When we got there, literally the whole city of Cleveland was at Chuck E Cheese and it was going to be at least an hour wait, so that's right, we had to tell Tyler we weren't going in. The poor child had his coat off and we weren't even in the door yet! He was scoping out all the rides and I cannot tell you the shot of pain I felt after crushing his dreams by telling him we weren't going to get to go in! OUCH! Everything worked out, we went to our friends and had $5 pizza on their living room floor and watched a movie, and it was way better than the germ infested Chuck E Cheese. PS I'm taking Tyler and Halle there for lunch next week to make up for the trauma they experienced last night:)

New First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Thomas S. Monson is the new president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President Monson, 80, succeeds President Gordon B. Hinckley, who died 27 January 2008.
The new world leader of the Church has called to serve with him in the First Presidency, the top governing body of the 13-million-member faith, President Henry B. Eyring, 74, first counselor, and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, 67, second counselor.
I love these elect men called by our Heavenly Father to lead His church on the earth!! Follow the Prophet, he knows the way:)

I wanna barbeque a fish!

So let me tell ya about my good buddy Tyler. He is such a great kid, anyone who has been around him knows that he makes friends with everyone wherever he goes. Whenever we have a gathering with our friends he is usually the entertainment. I find myself laughing a lot out loud at him and with him, he is such a fun little person... anyways, he is also very deteremined, and once he decides to do something he won't leave it alone. A few months ago he did "jobs" and "earned" a baseball mit and ball for T-ball this summer, and the other day he was saying that he wanted to do more "jobs" to get something cool, so I asked him what he wanted and he said, "I want to earn a fishing pole so that I could fish in Montana." Then I asked him what he was going to do with a fish, and he said, "I wanna barbeque it!" So everyday he does his jobs to get his fishing pole and can't wait to barbeque his fish in Montana:) We can do the fishing pole, but I don't know about getting to MT to barbeque it:)