April Fool's Day

Much to Jon's dislike I LOVE April Fool's Day! Most of my joking comes by way of food. For breakfast we had magic milk cereal. When I poured the milk onto the kids cereal this morning Caleb's turned blue, Leah's turned pink, and Alex's turned green! Ha ha ha! They wondered how I did it. Leah guessed by saying, "Mom, you're not magic...it was just food coloring!" Oh man, my secret's out!

Lunch was fun too. I went to my mom's house and we had pizza for lunch. Caleb's favorite food is pizza, so he was super excited! That is...until he found out we were having cool veggie pizza, with fruit pizza on the side. They still ate most of their pizza, but it wasn't the hit that Caleb was expecting.

Dinner came around and I called in the family for dinner as I was cooking up some grilled cheese sandwiches. I called twice and said, "Come before your grilled cheese gets cold!" When Caleb bit into his sandwich he was totally disgusted that it WAS cold and exclaimed, "I don't like it cold! I want it warmed up!", but as he was chewing he realized that it didn't taste like grilled cheese at all. It tasted like cake! He was grinning from ear to ear when I said, "April Fools"! I got him good. We made sure our kids finished off their dinner before we gave them "dessert". We had regular grilled cheese sandwiches for dessert. Let's see if I can fool you--which is the real grilled cheese, and which is the impostor?

Legoland, USA

Our kids love getting the Lego Club magazines in the mail. Since I won the trip to Disneyland and we weren't going to have to pay for tickets or hotel there, we thought it would be fun to go to Legoland too while we were in southern California. We signed all 5 of us up for the Lego BrickMaster club. With the club you get a free ticket into Legoland, and a BrickMaster magazine and a lego set every 2 months. The kids are SO excited to get a new lego set 6 times in the mail this year.
We went to Legoland on Saturday. The weather was so nice. We wore jackets in the morning, but by afternoon it had warmed up nicely and we all ended up a little burnt from the sun.
Legoland was great because it is geared for smaller kids. There wasn't a single ride that Leah was too small for. She could ride everything. Here are some pictures of the fun things we did at LEGOLAND...

















It was Legoland's 10 year anniversary when we went, so they had this awesome cake made out of Legos.

We got to see Bob the Builder in 4-D. It was really neat.
The highlight of the trip for the boys was combining their money they had been saving to buy this Star Wars Lego set. Of course we had to put it together, so we spent that whole night, plus Sunday morning finishing it.
Leah also bought some Legos for her Lego set. We got her some flowers and pink and purple bricks. We all had a good time.

San Diego Beach

Our trip started out by staying with my brother and his family in Las Vegas. It was so warm and nice there. We arrived in San Diego Friday afternoon and it was a rainy cold day. The kids associate vacations with swimming, so they insisted on swimming at the hotel's outdoor pool. Although it was a "heated" pool, it was not warm enough to make me stay in for very long. We sat in the hot tub most of the time. After we got dressed we went to the beach. After the cold dip in the pool I wasn't about to get into the cold ocean water, so we just stayed on the beach.



Leah loved collecting some seashells on the beach. We even made one into a necklace for her.


We saw a few chipmunks on the beach, so we shared some nuts with them.

My Happy Birthday

I turned 29 today! What do you think I would do for my own birthday cake? Make it myself? EXACTLY! I had a cute idea for a square cake, so I made it for myself. Happy birthday to me. It turned out really yummy.

We went with our family to Tucanos for dinner. It was our first time there. I really loved the pineapple and bacon wrapped turkey. Also, the beans and rice on the salad bar were extremely good. Caleb loved the restaurant. He is our little carnivore. He has always loved meat and tried just about all of them. Alex and Leah ate a little bit of meat, but loved the choices on the salad bar. Jon was daring and decided to go for some chicken hearts. I would NEVER try them, but apparently they taste just like liver--hmm, another thing that I will NEVER try! I got the royal Brazilian birthday treatment and got to dance to the drums and got a birthday sundae (I actually got a bite before my kids devoured it).

After dinner I got to go do some shopping for a few new shirts. I had a great birthday. My kids made me awesome cards. Caleb even wrote his own recipe book for me. They're recipes he made up that we can make together. Leah made a craft for me and Alex made me my own Lego magazine. They're such great kids.

Help Us Get to Sea World

We need everyone's help to get our family to win a trip to Sea World! It's simple. All you have to do is go to: http://www.kodj.com/pages/sing_seaworld/ and vote for #3 (Leah). Caleb and Leah both entered, but we want to pool all of the votes together for just one of them. I had Caleb and Leah both pick a number between 1 and 50. Leah was closer to the number I picked so that's why we're voting for her. I think they both did a fabulous job!

Bowling

Trine and I were both without our husbands on Friday night. Larry was at a dirt bike race and Jon was working. So, we decided it would be fun to take the kids and go to dinner and go bowling. We first went to eat at the Golden Coral. We had a surprise while we were there because we ran into my mom and dad! The kids were happy to see them and I was happy to have my mom help me get food for my kids.

While we were at dinner Jon called and said that he wasn't needed at work and would be able to meet us at the bowling alley. I'm glad he was able to get there first so we could get put on a waiting list.

We went bowling at the BYU bowling alley. Next time we have that many kids bowling we'll only pay for a half game. It took WAY too long! The kids were not as interested during the last half of the game. They all had fun though and were surprised to see daddy there waiting for us. It was a really fun night.

I Could Dance All Night...or Morning

We have way too much time on our hands every Sunday morning while we wait for the time to go to church. Leah and Caleb decided to have a dance. It was so cute. At first they danced while holding hands.

Then I taught them where to put their hands. They thought it was so funny.

And, of course, Leah loves to spin and twirl. Caleb picked her up and spun her around a few times. I wish they always got along this well.