Crazy Hair Day

I love crazy hair day.  It is always so fun to come up with something fun to do with the boys hair.  Luckily it is pretty long or it would be a lot more challenging.  This year we did grass with bugs in it.

 Last year we did lizards.

 The boys always think it is fun.

 It was quite a busy day.  I did "Fairy Tale Friday" for Hunter's class.  The fairy tale was Pinocchio and I read it to the class and then we made tree branch noses (more from the movie than the book...)

I am not sure they liked wearing them, but they were fun to make!

Later that night we took the boys to get free Krispy Kreme donuts for their good grades.  It was a fun and full day!

School Art Night

Art night is something that my boys look forward to all year.  Our school truly goes all out.  The classes spend lots of the year doing art and music projects to display and then the night of there are so many fun things to do.

Our kids always love hunting for their art work all over the school.  It is like a treasure hunt!

We lucked out this year having my parents with us!  I happened to be on my birthday and they came to celebrate.  Josh had to work so he came later.  I appreciated having my parents help!

One of the favorite things this year was finger painting with pudding!

Grandma helps McKay make a bracelet.  

I loved that they had music classes going.

And maybe the favorite thing of all, was the music and light presentation put on by the 6th graders.

It was a fun night and we are already looking forward to next year!

Christmas Staycation-The Elves at Gardner Village

 When Josh was young his family had a tradition of going to Salt Lake and staying at The Marriott hotel every Christmas.  They would swim in the pool and got see the lights of Temple Square.  It was one of Josh's favorite memories.

We decided that it was something that we wanted to do with our kids as well.  Josh got us a room at The Marriott and we decided to make a little Staycation of it.  The month of December was so busy, that we weren't able to do as many "Christmasy" things as we would have liked so we decided to do a whole bunch of them while we were in Salt Lake.

 We always love to go see the Elves at Gardner Village.  The boys took the day off school and we enjoyed that it wasn't as busy as it usually is this time of year.

 there are always so many cute displays.  It always seems so magical to me.

Hunter was such a cutie and gave me a kiss under the mistletoe :)

 We found all of the elves on the and went and claimed our cookie (that is always the best part).

This is definitely one of our favorite traditions!

Johnny Rockets

 Johnny Rockets is a favorite of Josh and me.  We have been there in a lot of different states and even in Cancun, Mexico.  We went to check out a new shopping center in Farmington and imagine our surprise and delight when we found a Johnny Rockets!!

 It was fun for us to share this fun 50s experience with the boys (that is one of my favorite time periods!)  The boys thought it was so fun.

 The ketchup bowels are a favorite.

 And the orange creamsicle milk shake is my favorite!

It's fun to have one of these around now!