Cooling off at the Water Park

Last summer we visited Seven Peaks Water Park a couple of times with our pass of all passes. It was pretty crazy crowded but it was worth it to go even for a short amount of time with little ones. The boys loved playing in the water. We mainly hung around the kiddie area and Simon loved going down the tube slide. Brian convinced him to go and then we couldn't stop him! He just kept wanting to go again. It was nice to have the pass so we could go whenever our schedules allowed for it, even if it was only a couple of hours here and there. These pictures were from July 28, 2012.

Pure joy on this kids face!

 These two were more adventurous than me usually.

 Aunt Maria joined us too.

Too busy to keep up...

So it's been 6 months since I last posted something and I realized I hadn't done much posting before that either. With Isaac's 2nd birthday approaching in 2 months I've been reminiscing and realized I never even posted about his 1st birthday! How terrible of me... So without further waiting, here are a couple pictures from his 1st birthday party 10 months ago!

 
He sure was a mess by the end but he loved it. We just had a small gathering of family and friends at our house and had a BBQ in our backyard. The weather was really nice and the kids liked being outside. When we weren't looking, Aunt Maria let Simon run through the sprinklers that turned on in the back commons area. He was pretty proud of himself and even re-enacted it for me. Overall, we had a nice time together.

Out to Eat!

8/21/12 - We went out to eat at Chuck-a-Rama after being out late. It was way better than we both remembered and the boys enjoyed their choice of foods to pick from. Isaac was being silly with this nilla wafer and just kept it in his mouth hanging out for a while. Just wanted to share these cute pictures while I'm on a role of catching up.

Dinosaurs!

With two little boys in tow, I don't usually do spontaneous outings, but Tuesday my sister Maria reminded me that it was the last $2 Tuesday at Thanksgiving Point. This means you can get into their different venues for only $2 on those days. So just before leaving work we decided to go and we all had a lot of fun. We went to the Dinosaur Museum there and basically just let the boys run around with the rest of the tons of kiddos there. We were lucky to have Maria join us too.

Best picture we got of these two the whole night! (Mostly because Isaac was still strapped into the stroller.)

The flash takes away from the fact that this was a dark cave so Maria was turning on her flashlight app so Simon could see.

My favorite dinosaur, the Stegosaurus.

Simon standing in a dinosaur foot print

Simon with his favorite dinosaur..."the flying one"

This picture pretty much sums up how everyone was feeling at the end of the museum...

Isaac not wanting to hold still for even a second, Simon distracted by everything and Brian and I were tired from chasing the boys around.

I loved doing something spontaneous that turned out so well. The boys really did enjoy themselves exploring things at the museum and Simon really likes dinosaurs so it was fun to see him take in everything even if he didn't quite understand the concept of skeletons.

Surprise Package

Last night just before putting the boys down for bed, I went out the get the mail. I was happily surprised when there was a key for one of the bigger postal boxes in my mailbox! That meant a package!! I was even more curious when I saw it was addressed to me and Simon from my parents. I wondered what it could be that would just be for the two of us.

Simon was preoccupied when I brought the box in the house so I opened it up and read the note from my parents. The box contained a Mickey Mouse backpack with a few toys inside. My parents have been cleaning up their house because they are trying to sell it and move up here to Utah, so they have been going through old stuff and trying to get rid of things. The note my dad wrote was basically they found this backpack and a few toys while cleaning up the house and thought Simon would enjoy them for our upcoming Disneyland trip. I was so excited from their thoughtfulness. I new Simon would love it all!

As I showed Brian what was in it, Simon noticed the backpack and lost interest in everything else he was doing. He hasn't let that backpack out of his sight since (other than today while at daycare, but I had to force him to leave it in the car). I even found the backpack in his bed with him when I went in to check on him last night. He is just so cute!

The toys are mainly old matchbox cars but he LOVES that size car right now and there was a Toy Story Woody action figure and a little fireman. The etch-a-sketch may have been my favorite though! These are going to be perfect for our long road trip next month...hope they keep him entertained in the car as long as they do currently!

Crazy Hair Day

August 7th was crazy hair day at the boys' daycare. The whole week was themed "Crazy Week" so they had a different thing each day the kids could do. Our favorite was crazy hair day! Isaac's hair was crazy most days of his past few months so not much needed to be done there, but we made a spike in the front to be extra crazy.

 

Then Brian used his hair glue to spike Simon's hair. It was awesome!! His hair stood up all over his head and every time Simon touched it, he would giggle and say "it tickles me" so he was loving it.

  

This is by far the best picture we have of the two boys both looking at the camera somewhat smiling.

I just LOVE the look on Isaac's face in these next 2 pictures!

Pure joy...Priceless!!

Just cute, sweet brothers! Simon even put his arm around Isaac.

Isaac's First Haircut

Isaac has been long overdue for a haircut so I finally took him to Cookie Cutters to get it done on August 11th. I was too nervous to do it myself because of how thin and curly his hair is so I wanted to get it done by a professional for his first cut. Here is the best before picture I could get while he ran around the waiting area...crazy and impossible to tame.

 He got to sit in a car chair but as soon as the cape was put on him he started trying to pull it off and complaining and then when the clippers turned on...he was NOT happy.

 Look at that sad little face and the alligator tears!

We tried to distract him with the TV but you couldn't hear it over the noise. He calmed down a little bit whenever the clippers would turn off.

But then he did not like the scissors going across his forehead to trim up the front.

The stylist got him a sucker at this point and he was content to sit and drool all over while finishing the haircut. Hair (random peoples & his own) and drool mixed with sticky sucker is possibly the most disgusting mixture ever, but he was at least happy now.

He spiked the top to show that some of the curl was still there.

Simon enjoyed a sucker too while watching Isaac. He wasn't quite sure what to think about Isaac being so upset, but has told me ever since that he doesn't want his hair cut whenever I mention he's due for one. Simon occupied himself in this cute little fire truck hair washing bed most of the time.

Even though Isaac had a total meltdown and the worst one I'd seen, I wasn't sure how to help him at all. Simon's first hair cut he just stared at the lady the whole time and tried to pull the cape off. Luckily this guy was good with Isaac and really fast. The whole thing took less than 15 minutes and then we were off to get Isaac down for a much needed nap!

Look at my cute little grown up boy! That hair cut made him look instantly older and sometimes I still have to do a double take!!