What babysittters are for...

"I just waved to my friend Ashley (A YW neighbor we have had babysit a few times).  Do you remember when she was here, 'betecting' me from the robbers?"

Rewards

"Mom, you can have my balloon because you were so good while I was at the dentist."

"We need to have chickens on our lands so we can have chicken eggs!" -Chase

This kid LOVES boiled eggs!

Brody

 This kid has so much personality wrapped up into that little body.

He is constantly laughing, fake laughing, and making us laugh.

He LOVES being outside like any little boy but HATES being inside.  When anyone leaves without him he screams for a while.  

He still talk all.the.time!  He is picking up more words all the time and even many sentances, but even if he doesn't know the words to say he talks in jibberish fully expecting you to understand him.

He is always one step right behind Chase.  Usually yelling "Vait Shess! Vait!" 

We love our little Brody.

Brothers

They don't always get along,

but it sure melts my heart when they do!

Bowling

 I can't believe we haven't taken the boys bowling yet.  Technically we took Chase when he was about Brody's age, but he didn't enjoy it at all.

 We loved these little ramps they had for the boys to push the ball down.  Even Brody loved bowling.  He screamed whenever his turn was over.

 Last Saturday was so laid back and fun.  We started off at the Book of Mormon museum as previously posted.  I gave Daniel a GC to Tucanos (our favorite!) for Valentines day so when we got hungry we took teh train (free fare zone) and rode over to the Gateway.  It was the first time on Trax for the boys and Chase loved it.  After lunch we rode the train back and on our way to the car Chase wanted to see the waterfall on the conference center.  After playing around for a while he needed to go potty and they were opened so we went in to use the bathroom and they offered us a tour of the conference center.

 I didn't take any pictures during the tour but it was REALLY neat!  We had been there before for conference years ago, but they talked to us about all the artwork and they have some pretty neat stories.  The tour guide was really sweet and patient with our impatient boys and would just keep moving when they got antsy. 

 We found huge icicles made from the waterfall.

 The only picture I got at the train station.  I wish I had one of Chase's excited face! :(

Book of Mormon exhibit

 The Church History Museum did a really good job of putting together this Book of Mormon exhibit for kids.  The boys loved it.  The bike was Brody's favorite where he could spin the tire and little balls would fall through the spokes making loud noises.

 He spent the majority of the time walking up and down this ramp on the boat.  Up and down, up and down.

I love this picture.  He is staring at a large T.V. screen where they showed a latin American man dancing a tradition dance.

I blew out his face but loved his stunned look in this photo anyways.

Chase fishing off the boat.  When Brody realized that all the other kids were fishing and he couldn't reach he decided to just walk around the boat and grab the fish with his hands.  A much easier way of doing it :)

Chase checking out the Gold plates.

Daniel will hate me for putting this picture up, but I like it.

You could try to lift this replica of the plates and it was so heavy.  I have no idea how Joseph Smith carted them around.

We've been having a lot of snow fun

This is the second winter in our new house and it has been the exact opposite of last year.  We have had no snow that has stayed on the ground for more than a couple days and certainly no snow storms piling right on top and the old snow.  It has been rare and melted right away when we have gotten it (I am NOT complaining.)  It's made it easier to appreciate the snow when it comes and we have even driven 1.5 hours to play in it.

On a Sunday afternoon Chase and Daniel built this extra large snowman.

Chase goes to work

Daniel had to go to work on a Saturday so he invited Chase to come along with him.  Chase was so excited.  Daniel had him make a lunch for them and he picked out a can of corn and a can of chili.  We also made him a badge just like Daddy's.

He had so much fun testing the cricuts and eating leftover doughnuts, and couldn't stop talking about it when he got home that night.

Brody was sad that he couldn't go so I let him do mostly whatever he wanted and playing in the sick was the top pick.