Classic Skating

 Hunter wanted to go skating for his birthday, but with an emergency visit to the doctor for McKay and his ear infections, it didn't work out.  It turned out good however as Josh found some seriously good coupons for hours and hours of fun, which we didn't have the day of Hunter's birthday as it was a school night.  The Saturday after Hunter's birthday we headed with our arms loaded full of roller blades and helmets to Classic Skating.  I haven't been skating at a rink since back in the day at the 49th Street Galleria (oh good memories).  Josh insisted I bring my ancient rollerblades (from the days at USU...yep old) and skate with the boys.  We tried skating once when the boys were little and it was a bit of a fiasco, but since they all own rollerblades now, they did a great job! 

 They were zipping around the rink so fast I usually couldn't keep up with them. 

 McKay and I nearly wrecked a billion times as we almost got railroaded by kids on scooters.  McKay was in heaven though, and  would cry any time I would go out of the rink. I kept waiting for them to play a slow song and Josh to come and ask me to skate with him...(I always loved that when I was a tween :)  They never did though.  So disappointed!

 Doing the hokey pokey. 

 We had pizza for lunch, which the kids grudgingly came off the rink floor for (who is sad about pizza?  These boys really love skating). 

 They hurried and wolfed down their pizza and were headed back.

 We did some of the arcade games and thought McKay would just loved this dinosaur ride...he didn't.

 Hunter liked the rides though.  We tried to show McKay how fun it was, it never worked.  He wouldn't go near any of them.  The older boys thought they were quite fun however.

 McKay was a hilarious skee ball player.  He would overhand throw all of the balls.

 See what I mean?  The kid throws EVERYTHING!

 After that we headed over to the Pirate's Cove, bounce houses and laser tag.

 I didn't get too many pictures of the boys.  They are just too fast for me!

I pretty much followed this boys everywhere.  He had a lot of fun and it was fun to see him doing these things for the first time.  It was a great day!

A Sweet Reward for Good Grades

 Did you know that your kids can take their report cards into Krispy Kreme and get doughnuts for good grades?!?!  My little sister recently informed me of this and Monday night after F.H.E., we headed there to check it our for ourselves.

 And it was amazingly true.  The boys each got 6 doughnuts for their report cards and were in sugar-infused heaven!!!  Josh and I got some as well and we sat in Krispy Kreme doughnuts having a great time.

6 whole doughnuts!!!!

I love when businesses support the successes of kids.  I liked Krispy Kreme before, but now I really like them :)

Jazz Game

For our Friday Night activity last week we went to a Jazz game.  We had 2 very good tickets (row 7) and 4 pretty good tickets (row 22).  Lincoln and I got to use the very good tickets for the first quarter of the game and then we traded Josh and Palmer places. 

I think the boys had a good time.  I... um...lets just say it was interesting. 

Hunter had this huge cup of ice water that he spilled all over EVERYTHING the second that Josh and Palmer left us at half time.  I couldn't really do much about it as I was just trying to keep McKay away from it.

At the loss of his water he started crying...loudly.  I couldn't calm him down and so a nice guy behind us went and got him another cup of water.  After a while the kids started throwing popcorn around and it led to a floor full of SOGGY popcorn. 

McKay was pretty good until he decided that he was done with the popcorn and wanted licorice.  The only thing was that he didn't like to swallow the licorice.  He would chew it up and then spit it all over me.  It was crazy.

Oh well, the kids had fun and that is all that matters right?

Disney on Ice

 Last Saturday we told the boys "we are going to do something we have never done before."  Josh and I are always on the look out for fun new experiences for our family.  They all started to guess what we could possibly be doing.  Usually they guess a lot of things we have done before mixed in with some off the wall things that I am not even sure exist.  This time Palmer guessed that we were going to watch "cup stacking".  Lincoln and Hunter quickly jumped on that band wagon and were so excited that this might be a possibility.  I personally have never even heard of cup stacking before, but apparently it is a real thing (the kids had a cup stacking assembly yesterday at school which they were thrilled about).  Josh and I got a good laugh out of that one.  They were excited when they found out it was Disney on Ice.  It has been on our list of "things to do with the kids before they are too old and think it is lame" list.  We finally did it. 

 We have been waiting for the time where there were actually boy things in the show.  A lot of them have been princesses lately (not that I would complain to go to those...)  When we were driving to the show and they were guessing they started seeing girls everywhere and they were wondering what was at the Delta Center that girls would like.  I was in a bit of a panic thinking that we had accidentally gotten tickets to a princess show, but luckily they started the show out with The Incredibles and my worries were put to rest :) 

 We are big fans of Peter Pan at our house.  We have read the book 3 times and both Hunter and Palmer have been Peter Pan for Halloween before.  The Disney movie is also a favorite.

Tinkerbell totally stole my hair style!

 I was wondering how McKay would be as he was really wild when we went to the Circus last year.  I was so glad though, he was interested in a lot of the show and thanks to a huge tub of popcorn, happy as a clam.

 A little bit of my worry that the kids were getting too old to like Disney on Ice came out when Lincoln leaned over and told me that the Lion Kind skaters didn't look like the characters in the movie.  I told him they weren't supposed to be exactly like those in the movie because then they couldn't skate.  He looked at me and said "these don't look anything like them.  I went on to explain how hard it would be to skate in a full lion suite...but I don't think he bought it.

Genius, although it definitely would have been more entertaining to see huge birds skating around.

 Anytime there was something flying over the ice rink it was fun for the boys.

 This lucky little girl got to send off a lantern with Rapunzel and Flyn Rider.  Even I was a little jealous :)

 McKay SELDOM falls asleep anywhere but in his bed (although he did fall asleep in the corner in nursery last Sunday).  He must of bee so tired because he crashed on Josh's lap.

 It was not a "princess show" but they still had the princesses come out at the end with their princes.  The bazillion little girls in the audience were thrilled about it.

 I have always loved Sleeping Beauty.

It was a great show!  We all had a fun time, Disney always does a good job.  I am glad that we finally got there!