Monday, October 1, 2012

Guest Blogger: Neptune's Park with Ry!!!!!

Hi! This is Grace!:) Today, I went to Neptune's Park with Ry, in Saratoga Springs. Trust me, it is the FUNNEST park you'll EVER go to in your life! It has a 30 foot climbing pyramid, swings, spinny stuff, and a lot of kiddie things.:) The pyramid is one of three in the world!


 It was REALLY high! I climbed to the top, and felt like I was touching the top of the world!:) In the picture below, I was being Columbus, and if you look closely, you'll see my knuckles are red, because I was clutching the ropes.:)
 Me and Ry being silly.:)
 The climbing pyramid!:) It was hard to walk, because you didn't want to have your leg slip through the hole, and plummet to the earth!:) When we got the bottom, we timed each other to the middle, which is what this picture is, and Ry got 21.6 seconds, and I got 17.00 seconds. And the awesome part, was that I've only been on it twice, and he's been on it so many times, he doesn't even know how many!:)
 I absolutely love the climbing pyramid!:) It is the PERFECT place to go to family night! Thank you for reading my guest blog!:)I love you Ryan for taking me out to fro-yo after this, and taking me here! I love you!:)

Saturday, June 16, 2012

More Crazy Quotes

"I just sneezed on my clean arm." - Grace
"My toes hurt." - Grace
"I hate it when you have a bad-toe-day." - Tyler
"Sometimes I snore so hard my uvula gets swollen." - Tyler

"I have rabies. Or lockjaw." - Jillian
"Think how many pairs of shoes you could buy with that!" - Tanner
"Nice. Walk into a room, and the first thing I hear is 'mouse blood'"- Grace
"Were you robbed!?" - Mom to Ryan
"GPS = Liahona" - Jillian
"Our life just became a MormonAd." - Ryan
"We should put it's head on a toothpick and stick in the garden. As a warning to the other mice." - Ryan
"Worlds are colliding." - Tyler
"That piece of lettuce looks a camel." - Grace " -
"My boobs are glowing!" - Jillian
"She looks like a scoop of sherbet." - Kara
"Really mom? A unicorn pooping rainbows!?" - Grace

Ah. There were SO many more. I need to start carrying around a notebook with me so we can jot them down when they happen...I love our family!




Sunday, May 27, 2012

May Stuff

 Ryan went to the Festival of Colors with Paige. I adore her. He's alright too.
 The girls and I went to Thanksgiving Point gardens for the Tulip Festival.
 We also went to the farm where Grace rode a horse...
....and the girls fed goats and a llama.
 Ryan went to his Senior Prom.
 Jillian cut 5 inches off of her hair.
Grace had a dance recital.

Ryan's final Encore Show Choir concert where he sang a duet among other fun songs.
It's been a busy month...more to come with Seminary and high school graduations...

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Last Spring Break Post. I Promise.

 I'm kind of tired of this drawn-out boring play-by-play of our trip...so here's the last of it: Went to Hershey, Pennsylvania and toured Chocolate World!

 Gettysburg...
 Climbed the tower to see Antietam Battlefield...
 Drove for HOURS getting lost trying to find the mall in Tyson's Corner where this American Girl Store lived...

Went to the Washington D.C. Temple...let the sister missionaries practice their stuff on us, and watched a new movie that made us cry...
 Got on the airplane to come back home!
Grace's picture from the airplane window. It was a super fun trip!

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Spring Break Day 3

 Mount Vernon, Virginia
Tomb of George and Martha Washington
 Mount Vernon
 One of the cool buildings on the plantation
 Fat sheep
 Jillian and Grace freaking out on the looonnngg drive from Virginia to Pennsylvania
 Um...I think this is a bridge near York, Pennsylvania?
 Andrew finally found his beloved Dunkin' Donuts
 More of Grace freaking out on the drive...
 Lancashire County, Pennsylvania

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Smithsonian Museums, Arlington, and National Monuments...

 Grace getting ready to ride on the Metro...



 WWII Memorial...


 Arlington National Cemetery....

Lincoln Memorial. Good times!

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Spring Break Trip Post 1

 Andrew had a lot of airline miles/hotel points from his travels to and from England last year. So of course we spent them post-haste on a fabulous trip to Washington D.C.! We stayed at an amazingly beautiful hotel right across the street from the White House.
 Seriously. The nicest hotel in which I have ever stepped foot. In the past, we have stayed in Bethesda and rode the metro for a while in order to get downtown. This time, being right downtown already was amazing! The view from our hotel window was beautiful, and it took seconds to walk to the White House, Ford's Theatre, and other sight-seeing places.
Grace especially loved wearing the complimentary bathrobes....we were quite spoiled :)