Playing Outdoor's at Ryan's Place Park

We spent the day playing at Ryan's Park Place, there is a wonderful story about it. It started in August 2006, when Ryan Adams 2 years old drowned during a family trip to Lake Powell. After losing their son Ryan, Craig and Alisha Adams wanted to renovate the community playground , to remember him by. They started collecting money and within a few weeks, the project grew into a full-fledged memorial park, complete with a rocket ship playground and a dragon slide. It became a community effort to build a monument to all children. It's a wonderful park and my children enjoy playing there. I'm amazed at the beautiful, wonderful things that can happen when a community pulls together. Many people donated money and time to help build this park. This is a great place for kids to play and most of the time there are a lot of people there.

Caitlin's Major/Minor Accident? Not!

Have you ever had days when things that go wrong are different than what your panicked self leads you to believe? I had one of those days today. Caitlin was in the kitchen while I worked on dinner. I thought I had all the knives and anything else that she could hurt herself with, out of her reach. I walked into the living room for 10 seconds, she was at the sink playing with the water. She started crying like she had hurt herself, so I walked back into the kitchen to assess the problem and saw what I thought at first was blood on her face, hands, and clothes. I carried her into the bathroom to locate the wound, because already having three other children I have learned that even very small head wounds bleed a lot. I started wiping what I thought was blood off of her and found out that it was koolaid. Relief flooded through me. If I had followed my panicked self, I would have call 911 for nothing, thanks to a cool head and quick thinking it wasn't an emergency. The clothes might be a loss, but Caitlin is great. We couldn't get all of the koolaid out of her hair.

Please Paint My Nails!

Cailtin enjoys looking at painted finger nails. One of the Young Women in our church had painted nails on Sunday and Caitlin was mezmerized by them. Jim leaned over to me and told me I needed to paint her finger nails. Today, with it snowing outside, I decided it would be a good day to paint her nails. I started by painting my nails. She came and held her hands up for me to paint her fingernails. Since we painted them she's been holding them out to show her brothers and their friends her painted nails. It's pretty cool. It's fun having a girl in the house. I can actually do girly things and she enjoys them.

Easter Fun and Learning

Easter this year was pretty good. We've never really pushed the Easter Bunny at our house. We've always let the kids know that we hid the eggs and presents(if they get any) they used to get presents from Grandparents but not anymore. Brennan actually gave a talk in Sacrament Meeting on the purposes of the Aaronic Priesthood it was really cool because in Grandpa Hansen's scriptures, that Skylar received after his Grandpa passed away, a card fell out while we were doing scripture study, it just happened to be on the purposes of the Aaronic Priesthood. Jim told Brennan that even though Grandpa is gone he's helping him from the other side with the treasures he left behind and the scriptures he had marked. It was an awesome experience.





We did have a small Easter Egg hunt, even the eggs were small. The boys had fun. Caitlin slept through it because she has had a cold. We talked about why we celebrate Easter and then spent the rest of the day with family. It was fun.

Looks like Spring! or is it?

It snowed Friday into Saturday last weekend. My first thought was, how were the roads going to be for travel as we left Cache Valley. We ended up in warm snow free weather. It was great. We didn't

have T.V. all weekend so we didn't know what we were headed home to on Monday. We thought it might be cold, but it wasn't. It was warm and wonderful when we returned. My children were extremely happy about this turn of events. Big question is ,will it hold out through their Spring break and Easter weekend? We can only hope. We are suppose to get a few storms, but we hope it won't be bad. The boys are going to make the best of it anyway. Caitlin will be outside whether it rains, snows, hails or there is sunshine. She doesn't care as long as she it outside.

It's time for the roller blades, the wagon and the trampoline. Fun, fun fun!!!!

Caitlin Helping Herself!

Caitlin didn't want to wait for me to grab a bowl and spoon and the milk. She thought she could do it herself needless to say I just caught her with a little bit left in the bag. Before that she strung all my dirty laundry all over the house. She's a busy body.