Go Bananas

Ok, So I'm finally gonna get my Go Bananas pictures on here. My sister was in town for a couple days in March so I had her come with me to play with the kids and have fun herself so that I could take pictures.

For some reason whenever I go there I get bored enough to throw all the balls back into this little pool.
My kids love jumping in and hiding when it's full.
Malakai too. But other kids just like to throw them out so I don't know why I do it.

I think he bit his lip or something.

I don't know why she was pointing at me.

And I don't know why Michael is pointing at Melanie either. But I was entertained when I went through the folder and saw two pointing pictures right next to eachother.

The new Whale that they had. It's already gone though. Janice (owner) said it was too big for her ceiling. She bought it online and was mislead on the size.

Climbing the "rock" wall.

Malakai walking through the dinasaur bones.

Michael's turn.

Michael climbing up the BIG slide.

Michael sliding down the big slide. (sorry it's a little blurry)

Vivian loved hanging out by all the toys. She's my little homebody that doesn't like to do much or wander far.

Lounging in the princess chair that she claims as her own each time we go.

I loved this cool little climber. I want to find one for our back yard someday.

Vivian and Malakai pretending to play pac man.

Look at my little monkey... he really does go bananas when we come here.

Lounging with his water cup.

Vivian sliding down the whale.

We really miss this one. It was the only one she was super confident about doing the stairs by herself.

Michael being cute.

Malakai sliding down the whale.

I don't think Vivian liked this strange little boy getting that close. I just hope she keeps that fear when she's a teenager.

We had so much fun going to Go Bananas again. Unfortunately our 3 month passes expired and we have to wait until we can afford it before we go again. But I'm hoping that will be sometime around the end of July or begining of August. That way we can get 3 good months in before the baby comes. It'll be nice to have an indoor place to go in those super hot months though. If anyone wants to join me, let me know. It's so much funner to go with friends. Here's the website if anyone wants to look into it: http://gobananasnow.com/

Easter

Ok, I know this was like 2 and a half months ago, but you have to give me a little slack because we moved the day before so I kinda forgot about them.

Here is Michael and Daddy on Sunday morning. (We love holiday's when he doesn't have early meetings on sunday morning.)

This is the best picture I got of Vivian that morning, she wasn't cooperating witht he camera.
Here is my attempt at capturing some sybling love sorry it wasn't a very good one.

Here is Vivian running away... again.

We went to Grandma and Grandpa's house after nap time and Michael was facsinated with the colored eggs.

Grandma helped supervise this activity.

Vivian just wanted to feed her baby.

Here are all the different colors we used. We didn't try anything fancy though... maybe next year.

Now it's time for the Easter egg hunt in the back yard.

They both found quite a bit, but Vivian was a little slower than Michael. She wanted to open them and Michael just wanted to find as many as he could.

This is her attempt at getting more lemonade.

We had a lot of fun at Grandma and Grandpas house and it was nice to get out of the mess we left at our new house. So to keep the Spirit of Easter alive in June: Remember The Savior and what he did for us. He suffered for all our sins and every day I am grateful that I have the opportunity to repent for my MANY shortcomings and mistakes. I am grateful that I have the opportunity to repent each week as I partake of the sacrament and start the week with a clean slate. I hope all of you remember Our wonderful big brother and what he did for us.

Happy Easter (in June).

Growing

This word has been coming up a lot lately. The kids are growing so big and so smart everyday. I can't believe the sentences that are coming out of Vivian's mouth. And the smart questions that Michael has been asking lately. I can't just shove them off anymore, he really wants answers and most of them (when I take the time to answer them) he understands quite well.

Also I've been thinking a lot about growing myself. I've been more interested in reading things or talking to people that have more wisdom then me and just trying to grow my mind and testimony. But I've also begun to grow something else inside of me. Something we've been trying to start for 6 months and now we can officially and proudly say that I am now pregnant for the second time with our third child. I am looking forward to this next chapter of our family.

We told Michael that the baby has to grow inside my belly until it gets too big and then it will come out and we will have another kid in our family. It will start out as a little baby and then it will grow big and strong like Vivian and Michael are growing big and strong. He asks me everyday if the baby is big enough yet. Hopefully he won't be the one to make the pregnancy go by slower. So far though it seems to be a much better pregnancy than the last one. By this time when I was pregnant with Vivian, I was so sick and didn't want food near me for 16 hours every day. But so far I haven't gotten sick and I am LOVING food.

We are all very excited for our family to grow in late November or early December. I'll keep everyone posted on any new developments. I hope everyone is doing well and I would love to hear how you and your family are doing.

Camping

We decided to give Michael and Vivian a little taste of camping. It was kind of a rushed trip and only for one night but it was fun. We just drove down to Caswell in Ripon. It's $20 to camp for the night so not bad. But it gave us an idea of how to be more prepared for a real camping trip.

Sunday Paper

This is what our family does with the sunday paper.
This video is hilarious. It is so true to everyones character. Especially Vivian, always cuddling, never really in the action but at the same time she gets those random urges to be a pest and get in the way, however this family just works around her.

Celebration Dinner at Denny's

So the day after we found out the Bank accepted our offer we went to Denny's to Celebrate. Malacai's Mom and Sister came with us. It was pretty fun accept for the first part. Kids are always impatient waiting for their food. So I pulled some peanut butter chocolate chips out of the diaper bag.

Vivian is usually really slow at eating things (just like her mom) but when it comes to chocolate chips she inhales them (just like her dad). I guess she stuck one to many in her mouth and started choking on them. She ended up throwing up all the yummy chips as well as most of her lunch. Which included some pretty large pieces of pickle that she didn't chew very well (just like her dad) Ok, sorry if all that was TMI.

So I didn't come fully prepared (Even though I had a feeling earlier that I needed to grab some extra clothes for them.) All we had was the clothes from Malacai's diaper bag. So we brought a cute little girlie girl into the resteraunt, and brought this out of it.

She still looks adorable though.
And to hold the pants up, John decided to be resouceful and use his tie.
I love the huge bow on her bottom. I've made sure to keep an extra outfit in the diaper bag from now on.

Tree

Before we move out of this house I thought I would share the interesting tree that is in the back yard. In the fall it was covered in bright firey orange and neon pink leaves and then in the winter when it was bear it's branches would turn red. I noticed it got redder the worse the weather. I took these on an overcast day to demonstrate the beaty of this red tree. Right now in the spring it's leaves are bright yellow. It is still just a baby, but I bet it will be even more gorgeous as it grows.