Mother's Day 2013

I had a great day thanks to my awesome husband and kids.  Mother's day started yesterday for me when Paul kept the kids for 5 hours so I could go on a bike ride, my last long one before my century next week.  I made it 75 miles!  I think I'm ready for 100!

View of Utah Lake from my ride

After a nap , Paul and I headed out for a date night while my dad watched the kids.  We went to the new Happy Sumo Cottonwood and to watch The Great Gatsby

This morning I got to sleep in(until 7). Paul made a yummy breakfast and I opened presents with the kids. 

I got some things I need for biking; sunglasses, jersey tops, and a hat to cover up post ride helmet hair. 

After breakfast we decided to head to the zoo for a bit. 

The zoo has a Lego exhibit right now

Watching the sea lions

Lego Polar Bear

Real polar bear!

Carousel 

 Lego Monkeys

Next, we went to lunch with Papa before he had to head to the airport

After naps, we headed out to the park for the evening for a picnic and to play

Slackline

Sand 

Biking

Christmas-time Festivities

I haven't been keeping up lately because we have been SOO busy with Christmas festivities.  We had one weekend where we had 4 Christmas parties in 5 days.  It was crazy, but we've been having a lot of fun.  

The kids ready to go to daycare for their Christmas party

Santa came to visit at daycare

I made these Santa hat desserts for one of the parties we went to.  We had a progressive dinner with a bunch of our neighbors at our end of the development. 

We decorated for Christmas.  This is what our penguins looked like most of the time.  It was so windy this year and they were constantly being blown over and decapitated.   

Dessert candies for neighbor gifts.  Colin helped me make them

They were yummy

The kids on stage for the kids' Christmas program at church

Zoo Lights! 

 Decorating the Christmas tree

They made these ornaments at church.  I love this picture of Audrey

 Gingerbread house!

 Playing in the snow

Frosty the Snowman!

 Making Christmas cookies with Uncle Billy and Courtney

Weekend in cell phone pics

We didn't really get out the camera this weekend but we still had fun, all our pics are just on the phones.  

Colin was excited when I brought him home some batman pj's from Walmart, complete with cape

Friday night we tried to go to the zoo only to find out they close early for "summer hours".  We went to City Creek mall instead to play in the fountains and eat dinner.  The kids had fun anyways

Saturday we went to a bbq at Tara and Ben's

Saturday night I met up with Denice for some drinks since she was in town

Sunday, we made it back to the zoo

Colin with the grizzly.  We went specifically to see the new polar bear.  We did see him but didn't really get any pictures because it was so crowded and he was on the move

Colin trying to take a pic of the bear

Otter masks

Carousel

We ate dinner on the deck Sunday and had some watermelon

And then fudgesicles for dessert

The kids had a fun weekend.  They took 3-4 hr naps each day.  We've been having so much fun I'm having a hard time understanding why Colin is always begging to go to "school".  He loves it there!