A Visit to Blanding

On Friday afternoon we loaded up the car and headed to Blanding for a long weekend. We were all so excited to go see the Lyman's and their new home. Taeya was so excited that she sat in the car for an hour while I finished packing up! It took us 6 hours to get there due to my 80ish mile detour (I thought I knew where I was going??) The kids did surprisingly well for such a long drive and we had a great visit. Of course I have a million pictures (cause I always do) and they aren't as organized as the probably should be! But here's a little summary of the visit:

Friday: Drove, arrived around 8 pm, the kids were bouncing off the walls when we got there we were all so excited.

Saturday: Jeremy was hosting a brunch at their house so we tried to clean up as best we could before heading over to Heather in-laws house. The kids loved it. Unfortunately it was a little rainy so they didn't spend as much time outside as we were hoping they would.

Taeya loved being a "free" in Livvy's grandma's yard.  There was so much to do.  She had fun feeding the horse and the donkey.

These 3 babies liked playing outside too but it was a little chilly.  I made Anastyn stay inside after she got soaking wet in the fish pond! 

I should have taken this picture from the side so you could see the toy Taeya and Kira were playing with.  It brought back happy memories, we had this same wooden marble toy growing up.  The girls especially loved this (and they were careful to keep the marbles off the floor so the dogs wouldn't eat them!)

Around 1:30 pm we headed back to Heather's house to let the babies take a nap and Heather and I ran to the local hardware store to get some sewing machine needles so we could start sewing!  We sewed and took care of kids the rest of the day.  Jeremy made us yummy chicken nachos for dinner.  We even made it to the grocery store that night (Alyson and I insisted on going with Heather so we could get a feel for life in Blanding!)

While we were at the grocery store, these 3 were home watching a movie.  Jeremy snapped this picture with his phone for us!

Sunday:  Got ready for church, went to sacrament meeting, came home and the babies took naps while Alyson and I made lasagna roll-ups for dinner.  After dinner we sewed.  That night we tried to go watch "Unstoppable" at Jeremy's sisters house but the babies were a little crazy so we gave up and went home and sewed some more!

I think I owe Heather a new large box of fishy crackers - cause I think Anastyn ate her weight in them!  Actually all 3 babies loved them.  (We just couldn't get a good shot of them all!)

Monday:  Sewed most of the day (of course), while the kids played.  After the babies had naps we headed to "The Field" to watch Mr. Cupcake get his ears pierced.  There was a lot of squealing involved! The kids loved seeing all the animals - cows, pigs, horses, dogs - the big kids loved climbing on the hay, and the little ones loved just walking around.


This is cupcake (the one with black on his face ) and if you look carefully you can see his new earrings (and yes, I said "his!")



For some reason Anastyn loved playing in this cow-milker thing!

Anastyn and I

Taeya, Livvy, Anastyn, Alayna, Kira (not sure were Cohen and McCoy were)

I had to throw this picture in because cowboy Justin fascinated me.  When it was time to feed the horses he drove this truck into the field, then he put the truck in neutral, hopped out and grabbed a bail of hay, hop back in the truck to turn the wheel a bit and grab another bail of hay, he did this several times - it was so fascinating!  You can tell he's done it a few time.:)

After the ear piercing the kids were actually inside the pig pen chasing the pigs around.  They were worried we were going to give the pigs a heart attack so Anastyn and Alayna had to resort to watching from the fence.

Anastyn and the cute little piggy.

The girls loved climbing all over the hay.  You can't tell from the picture but they were quite high up on top of the hay.

On our way home from the field we stopped by Heather's friends house to see her 4 puppies, so cute!

Monday night we got the kids to bed and watched the movie "Unstoppable."

Tuesday: We finished up all our skirts, packed up and then made cake pops.

We made 8 skirts all together - we were quite proud of ourselves!

And these were our yummy cake pops.  Not only do they look cute, they were actually really good.  We had fun making them.

The kids had fun eating them!

All the kids!

My silly girls.

These 3 did so well playing together - they are so darn cute.  We were really missing Lawni, Brielle and Bryce!

Heather, Alyson, and I

Thanks Heather for letting us come and visit and take over your entire house!  Your home in Blanding is so beautiful.  We had so much fun and we are anxious to come again!  Especially since it only took 4 hours and 15 minutes to get home!  We love you and miss you guys! Life in our neighborhood just isn't the same with out you guys!