Happenings of late and going private with the blog

We have decided it is about time to put the blog on private finally, not sure how to go about doing that, but I think I need your email to allow you to view it, so if you want to partake of our super exciting blog  send me your email address..

 Here's a little of what we have been up to lately...

We've been hitting up the Thanksgiving point scene a lot recently.  Tristan loves this airplane at the new curiosity museum and this shovel thing, more meltdowns have occurred when leaving said items than any other time or place I think

On Mother's day weekend we ate at Kneader's (because mom's got free french toast and its delicious) and then went to the aquarium.  Notice how Tristan notices this huge fish by him and gets further and further from it in each pic and his cousin actually gets closer and closer.

Ryan looked out his window at work which overlooks their studio and sees Big foot knocking down a nazi soldier... What?  All in a day's work I guess.

Bowling at the Provo Beach Resort with the Bells and Perkins

Went to St. George to buy our Honda Pilot from Ryan's sister, this is the only pic we took apparently, but its cute :)

Memorial Day Hike

Park Time

Learned to sit, right around 6 months

This is a common occurence now

Falling asleep holding on to her favorite (and only) car toy

Eating in the high chair

Fhe activity going to see Adobe #TristanLoveshiscousinsandPenny

Easter 2014

This was a fun Easter, Tristan  was definitely old enough to enjoy it.  We started off the festivities with our  neighborhood egg hunt which was less of a hunt and more of a grab as many eggs laying out as fas t as you can.  Tristan was so funny when they released the children he took off running passing about 10 eggs to get to this one particular one he had his eyes on. Once he realized there was candy involved he quickly got into the spirit of things and grabbed as many as he could.

Now onto the 2nd Easter egg hunt of the day with the Egans.  Grandkid pic just as all grandkids pictures turn out

Family Pic

Egan Family pic

 After the egg hunt and bbq we decided to hurry over to the tulip festival at the gardens before it closed, the kids are pretty tired by this point.

 EASTER MORNING!!!   Tristan follows the Easter bunny tracks

 and finds his Easter basket in the pantry.

 Checking out their goodies

 I think he's pleased, the highlights were the chocolate easter bunny and dinosaur

 What's this Easter thing you people talk of, I guess its alright says Ivory

 Oh my goodness this little girl is cute!!  And ps I love having a girl to dress up!

Me and the kiddos

 We finished the day out with a most yummy afternoon dinner with Ryan's family and then desserts at our house with the Perkins and Bells.

Oh I also made this delightful # for breakfast... it is French toast so technically eating the leftovers don't count as a dessert for the health challenge, right family???

Arizona Trip

We had wanted to fly to AZ before Tristan turned two and we had to actually pay for him to fly, but it just didn't happen but we decided to go anyways and make it a road trip to visit the Cox's.  We drove to St. George and stayed overnight with Ryan's grandparents.  The next morning we were on our way. We stopped in  Vegas for lunch and then some kind of time warp happened and we just couldn't seem to get out of there!  I won't go into details but some sort of combination of getting off a bad exit for gas, our gps re-routing to avoid traffic thru a national recreation park (Lake Mead) which of course was super busy on a sunny sunday afternoon, stopping at the Hoover Dam, feeding Ivory, another traffic delay, that instead of arriving at Annaliese's house around 4 as we had planned it was more like 7:30 and I don't think we could have handled one more minute in the car.  Luckily that was the only day of our trip that wasn't super fun.

Hoover Dam -  Tristan walked up to the dam and stuck his head in between the railing and roared, that was his reaction to the Hoover Dam.

St. Patrick's Day hike and hanging out at the park.

Thanks to Annaliese offering to babysit we got to go out one night to a really fun with super good food mexican restaurant, it was awesome..... And if you have to have a 3rd wheel on your date this one's about as cute and good natured as they come!

 We went to the train park in Scottsdale and it was really cool! The weather was perfect, and Tristan loved the choo-choos's but the carousel ride there was the biggest hit for him.

THis pic (below) is actually from a different park but I didn't get one of us riding the train at the actual train park. But this park near Annaliese's house was a pretty good one too!

Ivory got her toe nails painted for the first time and it reminded me of when we painted Addie's toenails when she was a baby and that must have been like 5 years ago, man time flies! We also had a fun girl's night going to the AZ museum of art

It might not look like it in this picture but Tristan loved hanging out with his cousins!

 On our way back we stopped in Vegas for a night and it was super fun!  Tristan loved swimming at the hotel pool and we did our usual going to the Bellagio and seeing the Gardens and fountains!

Side-note, I realized on the way to Vegas that about 8 years ago I went with this guy I liked to St. George and Vegas in March during his spring break and I thought that trip was either going to make us or break us and its crazy that 8 years later in March during spring break we were there again, married with our two kids, aww how sweet!:)

 In St. George we went to a new children' s musuem there and it was so cool for kids! Tristan loved the costumes and no one had to tell him what to do with a microphone!