Rose's Birthday

My birthday week was a fun one. I love making it a family affair so we went to Boondocks. We were there for hours and could have stayed even longer.

Here's what having five kids and turning thirty-one looks like.  :)

On the day of my actual birthday we went to Heber for a party at my parent's house. My mom made my favorite, Oreo Cheesecake. Yum!

Ballroom Recital

This picture has nothing to do with the ballroom post but I decided to randomly post it here. These three were my shopping buddies while Kaden was at preschool one day. We weren't at this store for very long but they hopped on this couch and posed so cute and wanted a picture.

One family night we went to the Lehi Ballroom spring recital. One of the boys was in our ward before the boundaries changed. My kids loved watching him dance. Each kid caught the dancing bug and were movin and groovin in their seats while watching it. Lynnlee loved it the most and kept saying how good all of the dancers were.

Weekly Minis

The minis are 22 month. Being a twin mom is hard. They both have lots of hard moments and I say to myself, this is so hard! They want carried a lot and they aren't happy a lot of times through the day. They fight over the same things. When they are hungry they don't want anything that I have. They get into trouble when I'm trying to get things done. While I was mowing the lawn Sienna took a piece of chalk inside and drew all over the house. Anytime they are laughing together it is usually an indication that they are causing mischief. Soccer season added a new hard of taking them to all the games and practices and making sure they are happy and behaving during games and practices. They kept running on all the soccer fields during one of Lynnlee's games. It's tiring trying to stay on top of them. I write all of this so when other twin moms read this they can know they aren't alone. I visit teach another twin mom and it's nice venting to each other.

Here are a lot of fun pictures because there are lots of fun and enjoyable moments too. 

We taught Kaden's preschool one week because his teacher had a baby. The minis were entertained by all of the extra kids at our house.

When it works out we all go to James's soccer practices and play on the playground. The minis love the swings the most.

Warm weather means irrigation time and the minis watched the irrigation ditch all day.

Rocking and singing before bedtime.

When they start to fight I try to distract them by telling them they are friends and to hug. It works some of the time.

Thanksgiving Point '16

We really packed in our outings to Thanksgiving Point at the end of April because our pass was expiring and we knew we weren't going to renew. It was a really fun week! We visited Farm Country Monday.

Thursday we visited the Tulip Festival and Dinosaur Museum. We had just enough time to see everything at the Tulip Festival before a rain storm came through.