St George-Sand Dunes

After we went to the caves we went to the Sand Dunes. They were so much fun. I think this was one of the favorite activities that we did for the boys. The weather was perfectly cool but still warm. These pictures were very orange. Josh and I quoted "Napolean Dynamite" a lot "since when does Grandma go to the dunes." Yes we are nerds.

Lincoln loved all of the dirt.

As did Hunter.

For some reason I don't have a ton of pictures of Palmer from this trip. I think it might be because he was running all over the place the whole time. He is a busy boy.

Josh buried the boys legs in the sand.

Palmer was all about being buried in the sand. I think he spent 3/4 of our time at the Dunes buried in the sand.

Got a little in the eyes.

McKay was dragged all over this weekend. He is such a great sport. He stayed happy the whole time and found some interesting ways to sleep (more on that soon).

All of the boys decided that they wanted to be buried.

Lincoln insisted on having his toes poking out.

It is a floating head!

Now it is Hunter's turn.

Four heads without bodies (and Lincoln insisted on having his toes and fingers out).

Such a good daddy. I know I say that all of the time, but people if you were around Josh you would be amazed. He really is awesome. He absolutely adores our kids and is so loving with them. I hope they know how lucky they are.

Getting very dirty. They had dirt EVERYWHERE when we got home.

Lincoln has so much dirt in his hair that it was turning red.

The boys loved the soft sand. They started rolling around in it pretending they were swimming in it.

Hunter had on his "Harold" tatoo from our Thomas excursion for a long time. He would not let it get wet in the bathtub. That was one dirty cheek :)

This is how McKay spent much of the trip. Nice and cool in his own little shade.

Isn't that the cutest look?

St. George

Over Memorial weekend our family went with our friends the Lees down to St. George. We had so much fun and ran from one awesome activity to the next. Each thing was so much fun that I decided to do a post on each activity instead of on St. George as a whole.

We went and checked out some caves on our way to the sand dunes. It was sort of impromptu so our kids were all wearing flip flops much to their dismay as there was more than one stubbed toe, but it was really cool to see the caves. We decided to save actually going IN the caves for another time.

I loved all of the wild flowers that we saw.

The kids really were such good sports the whole weekend.

We got these little cameras from our Thomas the Tank Engine activity. They were the kid's favorite thing.

My cute boys.

I brought a pink umbrella to keep the sun off McKay. Josh was a trooper to hold the baby AND the pink umbrella.

McKay has got to be teething. He chews on his fingers all day long.

Palmer is the most independent boy that I know. He was WAY ahead of us most of the time.

St. George is so beautiful! I love all of the red rock.

Baseball Continues

I snuck a picture of their professional team pics.

Every time someone hits a ball all of the kids go after it. It is a good thing that we don't keep score because they spend so much fighting about who gets the ball that whoever hit it gets there with plenty of time to spare.

Both boys are doing so well.

Treats are the best part.

Hunter and Lincoln loved giving them out.

I didn't get as many pictures of Palmer's game because McKay was being so fussy and then Lincoln was running down the bleachers in his cleats and fell skinning his knees and hitting his head on the backstop. It was sad.

Thomas' Day Out

We didn't tell our kids we were going to Thomas. The week previous we started watching one of our Thomas movies in the van DVD player and at the beginning there is an advertisement for "Thomas' Day Out." On the way there Josh and I went crazy over that and asked the boys if they would like to go to that. They of course said yes. When we pulled into the parking lot they still had no idea. When they saw Thomas they were so excited (Hunter's face shows it in the top picture).

This place was serious camera candy. Photo ops everywhere!

They had all sorts of little things that they boys could do. This is a hay bale maze.

They had a ton of train track stations for the kids to play with.

Cotton Candy!

Getting our "temporary tatoos"

So cute! As we rode on the train we heard Thomas talking to Sir Topham Hat. Way cool stuff.

They guys all together.

This was so fun for Hunter. Palmer was into Thomas when he was 3 so Hunter was the closest to it. He didn't know ANYTHING about Thomas before this week of Thomas. He was so excited to find out that we had all of the wooden railway stuff and cars and everything!

Just chillin'. I can't wait to take McKay to see Thomas. I think we will go when he is around 3. That is the perfect age I think.

Hunter was boppin' all over the seats.

The boys were hanging out the windows. We told them to keep their arms in thinking that would make it so they wouldn't lean so far out. This is what we got.

The moment we were all waiting for, meeting Thomas in person (er train...)

Palmer's Class Shirt

Palmer's teacher had a great idea to get the kids all these cute shirts so they could wear them to their field trip to the zoo. Well, they didn't come in time, which Palmer was majorly bummed at, but they came the next week and he was still thrilled to have it.

Each of the kids drew a picture of themselves and then they were all put together on this great shirt.

This is the whole class. I think this is Palmer's favorite shirt right now.

Isn't that a cute picture that Palmer drew of himself?