Christmas Carol Train

On June 16th, Disney's Christmas Carol Train was at the Union Train Station here in Ogden, My sis-in-law, Beth and I decided it would be fun to take all the kids to see it. Basically it was a train that was promoting the movie that's coming to theatre's in November. If you watch the Disney channel, you'll see ads for it. Anyway, we got there when it opened (9am) and probably stood in line for about 45 minutes (which wasn't too bad cause I heard people were standing in line for 2-3 hrs!!!). Here's a picture of the train:
They had carolers out singing Christmas songs! It was kinda fun - got you in the spirit hahaha!

Some fun picture moments in front of the train:

Kason, EJ, Skyler, and Terryn

Me and Kason

Beth, Skyler, and Terryn

Here is a cool painting of Jim Carrey, who plays Mr. Scrooge in the movie:

Some really cool costumes displayed in the train:

They also had some neat books and papers on display from Charles Dickens:

I thought it was a pretty neat train, but the little kids were wondering when we were going to RIDE the train! I think it was a little too old for them, but I think they had fun anyway! At the end of the tour, we got to "morph" our faces into a character from the movie and if I can figure out how to get them on here, I will soon!

Terry Reunion and My Birthday

Every year near the 24th of July, Shawn's extended family has a reunion. It's always held on a Saturday. This year, we drove down Friday morning (the 24th) and came home Monday (the 27th). Here's a rundown of what we did:

Friday:
* Traveled to Enterprise, Utah
* Spent the evening with Shawn's immediate family at Shawn's parent's house. We had hot dogs and hamburgers, then celebrated my nephew - Isaac, niece - Lucie, and my birthday with cake and ice cream. The kids had fun playing hot potato, wrestling with Uncle Paul, or just sitting and watching all the craziness going on! Later that night we let off fireworks, which is always fun!

Saturday:

* Shawn's HUGE extended family reunion. Shawn's Dad has 10 siblings (so 11 total) so you can probably imagine that there are a ton of people there! They have a big ranch down in Enterprise and it's always so fun to go there.

* Of course I forgot my camera, but they had mud tug-o-war (CRAZY!!!) - NO, I didn't play hahaha! They also had a fishing pond for the little kids, and sno cones.

* At about 3:00pm they had dinner of supper yummy beef and turkey, dutch oven potatoes, and then all the families either bring salads or desserts. Tooooo much food, but oh so yummy!!!!

* Then after dinner, they do a raffle and auction to raise money for the up-keep of the ranch. People bring items to donate for the raffle and auction. For the raffle you buy tickets and put them in the cups of items you want. If they call your ticket, you get that item. The auction is just that - people bid on items, like quilts and bigger things. I won a super neat coat hanger that has a picture of the ranch on it - YAY!!!

Sunday:

* MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

* We went up to the Ranch again for a yummy breakfast.

* Spent the afternoon realaxing at Shawn's parent's house.

* Went to Mesquite, Nevada to the Eureka Casino and ate at their yummy buffet!

Monday:

* Drove home!

It was a super fun weekend! Ate WAY too much and didn't get enough sleep, but isn't that what family reunions are all about?!?!

Quick Update

Gosh, it seems a lot of my time is being consumed with other things besides the blogging world! But some exciting things have happened since my last post of Kason breaking his wrist.

He now has his cast off!!! YAY!!! That was a tough 4 weeks - more for me than Kason haha! He did so great with it on. He never once pulled at it, or complained about it. Bath times were the worst part, but we managed through those. I saved the cast - I know, GROSS!!! - but I guess I had to save his "trophy" as my Dad called it. It will probably end up in the trash eventually haha!

With the cast off and being able to grip things better, Kason is now in a "Big Boy Bed"!!! Read the next post for more details...

We went on a great camping trip over Memorial Weekend! Again, for more details on that, keep reading... I have decided that camping IS pretty fun, and I'd really like to do more of it this summer, so we'll see.....

The Big Boy Bed

I'm not sure if I'm ready for this to happen yet, but I really don't want to see the Doctor again for a broken bone from falling out of the crib!!! SO..... Kason is now in a twin bed!!! It looks kinda funny - this tiny boy in this "huge" bed, but he LOVES it! Shawn's sister had an extra bed frame and said we could have it, all we needed was the mattress for it. We went shopping for the mattress and Kason wouldn't even sit on the bed at the store, so I thought for sure this was going to be a painful process. But when we got home from getting the mattress, we laid it out on the living room floor and he ran and jumped on it and was so excited! We got the bed frame this past Saturday and he was so eager to help Daddy put it together. Then once all together, he was climbing on it, then off it, just totally loving it!!!

Helpin Daddy!

All put together with the quilt I made him on it

So Saturday night, he slept really well in it (he did come out of his room about 10 minutes after we put him to bed, then I rocked him to sleep, but he slept the rest of the night just fine). Shawn put him down for a nap yesterday and he decided to play with toys for 2 hours instead haha! Then last night he went right to sleep when we put him down! When I put him down for his nap today, he got up twice to play with toys, but I was on him!!! Unlike my husband (hehehe love you Shawny), I went in his room and made him lay down and on the third time, he got the hint and went to sleep. So I'm way excited about the bed, but not too excited about Kason growing up!!! But I guess it's got to happen eventually...

Memorial Weekend

Over Memorial Weekend, we were invited to go camping with my sister-in-law's family. We went up to a campsite in Logan Canyon (sorry, I don't remember the exact name of the campground...) Friday night, and came home Monday afternoon. It was so nice to be able to relax a little and enjoy some good company! Of course it rained on us (but it seems to always rain on memorial weekend!) but we survived haha! Here are just a few of my favorite pictures from that weekend (if you want to see more, all of them are in the "OurFamilyLife" link under "albums"):

Throwin rocks into the stream

Kason loved this chair (it's Mason's) and he drug it everywhere haha!

We went on a walk and saw TONS of snails all over the side of the raod

I was SO nervous when Shawn took Kason down by this river! If you can't see it in the picture, the water was flowing VERY fast! Needless to say, they weren't down there very long haha!