"This is Better than Disneyland!"

This week has been kind of nice. The kids had Monday and Tuesday off of school, so we decided to do something fun and go to a little indoor amusement place.

We played miniature golf and went on all sorts of little rides with the kids. They thought it was the best thing ever.

Miniature golf was not that great I thought.

Well, this was the first time any of them had been, and it was very very busy at the golf place at the time, and so there were so many people waiting in line behind us, I felt really awkward to have such a large family of small kids to make these people wait, so we just rushed the kids through as fast as we could.

I mean, Jewelia was holding her putter all backward, Micah was swinging his like a line drive over his shoulder, Caleb was playing pool with the other balls, and Macey was just trying to keep her pants from falling off.


I was rather disappointed that we couldn't take more time to actually show the kids what it was all about and show them how to hold the putter and what Par meant, but oh well, they had fun mostly. By the end we had sunk so many balls into lakes or hit them into oblivion that we were sharing 3 balls between the 6 of us.

(yucky picture of me)

The kids absolutely loved all the rides. There were only 5 of them, but they went on them over and over again. They were in heaven!

Most of the rides make me want to throw up, so luckily I had some wonderful helpers to go with Macey while the other kids went on different rides.

Micah is getting to be such a big helper. He took Macey on many rides and got her all buckled and kept an eye on her for me so I wouldn't throw up.

Yes, it's true, even the Merry Go Round makes me ill. Luckily Micah was so kind to go on with Macey or Jewelia so many times.

Even Daddy got a turn!

Caleb loved the golfing and so he went on another round with Daddy and Macey. He was always running around so quickly we didn't get hardly any pictures of him.

Sometimes they were lost in the "climby" thing with slides. But everyone had so much fun.

As we were driving away at the end of the night the kids told us that it was better than Disneyland!

Gee, that would have been a lot cheaper than Disneyland last year if we would have known that!

Ha! No, I'm sure they were just in the moment. I'm pretty sure Disneyland is a whole lot better, but I'm glad they are so easily entertained.

Happy Birthday Micah Boy!

Oh, little Micah boy, wasn't it just yesterday that you were a cute little baby with swirly hair and dark blue eyes?

Well, actually it does seem like it has been a long long time since then, but luckily you are just turning 11 today!

11!

Wow! That is getting up there in age! Next year you will be in Junior High!

We celebrated Micah's 11th birthday today and he was pretty spoiled!

Micah has usually had such small birthdays being the 1st birthday after Christmas when money is tight. Many of his past birthdays have been designated to much needed clothes, scout uniforms, scriptures, or just not anything too exciting or very fun.

Well, we tried to be extra nice to Micah this year and we actually gave him some fun toys and things he likes.

I even made him a nice fancy cake!

Oh, "What is that cake?" You ask?

Well, it is an oh so amazing guitar cake!

Yes, my cake designing skills are at it again!

We reminded Micah to make a wish before blowing out the candles and he took quite a while "contemplating" his wish.

Micah had a great birthday! He had so much family come and wish him well! Many calls and many cards, and he even got a special visit from his Uncle Paul from Ohio!

We hope it was a wonderful day!
We love you Micah!

Finally In---Caleb's 8 year old and Macey's 3 year old Pictures!

We are finally getting a little bit more organized over here after the craziness of Christmas, and we got Caleb's 8 year old and Macey's 3 year old pictures taken.

Caleb's we actually got back in early November, but I just hadn't posted them yet.

What a handsome boy he is!

He didn't want to wear his suit, but he was just so darn cute!

This is one of the few times Caleb's hair actually looks controlled. We always cut his hair short and take the pictures on the same day. Caleb has some pretty thick wild hair most of the time.

And here are Macey's:

We just got these last week. We were waiting for her to get her cast off, but I guess it didn't matter so much since the ones I picked didn't show her legs, but oh well.

Again, our little Macey wasn't a big smiler for the camera person. Stubborn little girl! Here she is looking around him at me with the "Ha ha, Mommy, I don't have to smile!" look.

We did manage one smile in the end: