Weekend Activities

We had a fun weekend! On Friday we went up to Steph and Rick's. Oakley is so cute with Bella.. she was sleeping in her car seat with the cover over and Oaks started to take it off and Rick was like "Oakley, let her sleep", and she said, "But I like her!" Haha too cute. It's fun to see Belle watch her too, we put them next to each other and she was just staring at her.. so adorable!

We spent Saturday with Evan and Nicole-- hung out at their place, went shopping at the big Quilted Bear in Midvale (and got some cute halloween decorations for half off!), had dinner at Macaroni Grill, and ended the night watching Karate Kid at our place. 

By the way, that was the first time we took Bella out to a restaurant (haha she was a little scrunched in her car seat but she was asleep like that so we didn't wanna wake her).

We had a ton of fun but are also very tired from the weekend. We're learning fast that normal activities seriously wear you out when you throw a baby into the mix, but we love having Bella to share the fun!

Nitro Circus

For the APX year-end party this year, they brought in the guys from the show Nitro Circus to do a bunch of crazy motocross tricks. It was awesome! They skydived into the front of APX (yes, skydived!!) It was insane. They had free J-Dawg hot dogs, candy and soda for all the thousands of people-- we loved it! 

They had a camera crew there filming everything for one of their episodes, it was so fun to watch! 

Park Grand Opening

The North Park had its grand opening on Saturday-- this was HUGE news for our little city of Spanish Fork. They've been building this park forever and it's super nice for kids.. tons of stuff to play and climb on, banana chair swings, gigantic splash pad, big pavilions, nice grass area for the pups, etc. It'll be fun to take our little girl to!

The grand opening was crazy! (Better than any carnival or fair I've ever been to). They had free hot dogs and ice cream, free pony rides and carousel rides.. princesses and other characters walking around to meet-- it was amazing!


(Notice how Max is staring at Smokey the bear.. I think he may have been a little scared)

I took Oakley around to meet the princesses and she was so shy and would barely talk to them, but as soon as they walked away she wanted to go back and see them again. She couldn't believe that a princess was actually talking to her! Just a little glimpse of what Disneyland will be like some day.. she's gonna be in awe!

Weekend

We had a good weekend-- on Friday we had Evan and Nicole over for pizza and a movie (We watched the 3rd Austin Powers. Trevor had never seen any of the Austin Powers movies so we watched the other two last week, and ended the trilogy on Friday). We were glad they could be there for that epic night :)

The boys also played the wii and we had delicious chocolate ice cream in waffle cones for dessert. Yumm!

Trevor worked Saturday til noon, then Steph and Rick came over. It was perfect cuz we were talking about how we wanted to hang out with them, but Trev didn't feel like driving to Saratoga Springs right after he just got off work-- so we were pretty happy when they said they were heading down here :) We spent the afternoon watching Beauty & the Beast (the usual request when Oakley is here), playing at the park, and eating out at the Spaghetti Factory for dinner.

While the guys were on the swings with Oakley, Steph and I were relaxing on the grass throwing the ball for Max (or, trying to). Kids kept coming up asking if they could throw the ball for our puppy and we'd say yes but you could tell Max HATED it. After a little while when there were about 5 kids surrounding Max and he kept trying to run away, Steph told them she wanted a turn. Haha Max was pretty happy after that.

Nothing too crazy, but it was a good weekend.

Baby Belle's Blessing

Our sweet little niece, Belle, got blessed this Sunday. It was so nice to hear Rick bless his new daughter-- and to have Trevor, Evan and their dad in the baby blessing circle as well. So precious.

After sacrament, we all headed over to a park and had brunch with both families (Rick is the youngest of 10, so there were lots of kids to add to the fun).

The kids loved playing hide-n-seek with Trevor. I loved watching. Seriously, not to sound corny, but it just made me smile to see him interacting with the kids so much. It makes me so much more excited for our little family :)

International Peace Gardens

We went to the International Gardens yesterday-- it has different exhibits and was created for "peace and understanding between nations". There were lots of different countries within the gardens (Norway, Holland, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Africa, Greece, China, France, Russia.. and tons more). We brought lunches and enjoyed walking around looking at the beauty.





Afterwards, we headed over to the cemetery in Salt Lake where the prophets are buried (and got lost on the way, but that's okay cuz Steph and I were loving looking at all the gorgeous victorian homes in the area). I'd never been before, so it was cool to see. It was an extremely hot day so by the end we were all dead tired-- we went back to Herriman to rest, and some of us took a nice nap :)

Fam Bam

It's been fun to have the Sartell fam here to hang out with so much lately. We've had lots of park days, family dinners, and just good bonding time together.


Usually when I'm at the park I wanna be in the sun the whole time.. but lately with my growing belly, I've been loving the shade. I get SO hot outside right now! I seriously have to be in a pool if I'm gonna be outside for awhile to not feel like I'm dying of heat stroke.

Doesn't Steph look good for just giving birth 3 weeks ago?! Goodness. (AND I can't believe it's already been a month now, it's crazy to me how fast the time has gone!)

Oakley is loving having her cousins here and wants to do everything that Kayley does :)

Max gets played with a ton too-- when we come home, he passes out instantly. It's been nice to have him sleepy at bedtime, instead of wanting to play.

Oakley wanted to throw the ball for Max every time at the park, but of course he wasn't satisfied with the distance she was throwing it-- so Rick would pretend that he was putting the ball in the chuck-it thrower thingie, but just throw it himself. Oaks was amazed the first few times at how far she thought she was throwing it, but then she caught on and was not very happy.. haha.






More family fun coming up this week!