Hamburgers

This was probably about a month or so ago but I thought these pictures were too cute not to include in our family journal/book. Rick was out on the back patio grilling hamburgers and the kids couldn't take their eyes off him! I don't know what was so interesting about grilling hamburgers but they were very entertained by it! 

And then Rick came over to say hi through the glass...

and they gave each other daddy-daughter kisses through the window :)

Oh, and by-the-way, the hamburgers were delicious!!!! Can't wait till next time!

Easter Egg Hunts

So went to about 3 Easter egg hunts this year. A.T. Still University had a hunt for the students that have families so we of course went to that one! Garrett learned really fast what to do :) Haha! And he loved it! Rick was helping Kimbri and so I didn't get any photos of her at this one.

Then that night Kimbri got really sick. She was having a really hard time breathing which I explained in the previous post and so she didn't even end up getting to go to the ward Easter breakfast and egg hunt. Poor girl :( I still went with Garrett though since I'd signed up to bring fruit for part of the breakfast. Once again, he had a blast and filled his bucket right up!

And since Kimbri didn't get to go to the ward hunt we of course had to have an egg hunt at our house on Easter morning, well, Easter afternoon, since church is at 8am! So I finally was able to snap a quick picture of Kimbri picking up eggs. We just bought some Sixlets and put one or two pieces in each egg. Probably not a great idea because once they discovered there was chocolate in the eggs they would find one and then sit down and eat what was in it before finding another one. Haha! It was just too funny! 

For Easter Sunday dinner I made lasagna and we obviously had to make deviled eggs! The deviled eggs actually turned out really well. Rick loves those things so I'm glad they turned out good.

ER Visit

The Friday before Easter Kimbri came down with the croup. She had only been asleep about an hour and a half when I went in to check on her and she was really struggling to breath. So much that I called Rick right in and we called the doctors office right away. They said with her struggling to breath that much that we should take her to Cardon's Childrens Hospital. It was just really scary to me since she had been acting totally fine and happy and healthy right before she went to bed and then all of the sudden she was having a hard time breathing. 

By the time we got to the hospital Kimbri had started breathing a ton better, thank goodness. When they checked her out they said that sometimes croup hits kids really hard when it's more of an environment-induced croup (for example if it's extra windy, like it was that day, and there is a lot of stuff in the air, etc...). So they gave her a steroid to help combat it faster and we were on our way. It was after midnight by the time we left the hospital. Luckily they had a kids show on in the room and that kept Kimbri entertained while we waited for the Dr. 

She was starting to look REALLY tired when the Dr finally came in! We are glad she's all better now!

Olivia's Visit - Phoenix Zoo

We are so glad that we got to take Olivia to the Phoenix Zoo. I think we all had a ton of fun! Our Zoo pass has my name and then for the second name they let us put "Guest". With Rick being so busy with school, he isn't always able to come so having the second adult on our pass be a "Guest" is so convenient because we can get other people in for free! And kids under 3 are free so it's way nice! We took Pearl, a little girl I've been babysitting, with us and since she is under three we got 3 kids and Olivia in all on my Zoo pass! It's great!

Here is Olivia with Kimbri by the zebras. I think this is my favorite picture from our Zoo trip! Kimbri with her Aunt Olivia :) So cute!

Pearl and Kimbri looking at the emu.

Kimbri and Pearl in the turtle shell!

There is a place with a bunch of little statues of smaller animals and in the picture below Kimbri kept saying how cute the little frog was as she was petting it. 

Garrett wasn't too sure about sitting in this big shell...

She loves riding the tractor!

Olivia & Garrett

Petting the goats

Watching Olivia ride the camel!

It was so cool that Olivia rode a camel! They have all sorts of fun extra things you can do at the zoo for a few more dollars. And how often do you get a chance to ride a camel?! So she did and it was awesome!

Olivia's Visit

Olivia came to visit us for her Spring Break and it was sooooooo fun to have her here! That first day she was here we went to the outdoor mall and Olivia let Kimbri help her do a Build-A-Bear. Kimbri loved it!

We also saw the Easter Bunny at the mall so Kimbri got to sit on his lap and talk with him. At the end he gave her some bunny ears to wear with a little coloring/activity book to take home. 

After walking around the outdoor mall we took Olivia to see the new Gilbert Temple and then decided to do a little more shopping at Ross on our way home. 

Also, while Olivia was here we made these Reese's cookies which are SO yummy! And it's always so dangerous to make them because of my love for Reese's. I always end up eating WAY too many of them! 

And for a quote by Kimbri:  "I love cookies. Them are yummy to my tummy! Member I put cookies in pan?!" She is just too funny! She loves to help me bake. Lately her thing when helping me cook is to say this: "First, we have to get ingredients!" and she repeats it over and over as we put different ingredients in the bowl. She's such a great little baker!

We did so many other things while Olivia was here I probably am forgetting some things but we also went swimming at the YMCA and at one of my friend's pools. We walked to see the goats, donkeys, and horses that live not too far from our house. Olivia and I went to see Divergent one night after the kids went to bed and Rick had to study so he stayed home with them. (By the way, I really liked that movie!) We also went scorpion hunting several times, once even with some friends along the power lines at the edge of our neighborhood with a blow torch! And we also went to the Phoenix Zoo! Which was a blast! But I think I'll post all of those pictures in a separate post. We were so happy to have Olivia with us for a week!! 

It's Getting Hot!

So it is definitely taking some getting used to with this hot weather thing. The winter months were fabulous! But this picture below of the temperatures was taken at the beginning of April! In Utah you sometimes still get snow in April!!! And here it got up to the mid 90's! Wow. So we have started to do have to stay indoors in the afternoon unless we are playing out in the water! The park slides get so hot and even the sand gets too hot to walk on with bare feet! 

And it's not too bad yet in the car but I'm definitely not looking forward to the middle of summer when you get in your car and feel like you can't even breath because of how hot it is. We'll just have to avoid going anywhere in the afternoons! 

It wasn't too hot when I took this picture though! Now that we have the Acura instead of the old green Camry, the kids have AC vents in the back seat! Which was pretty much a necessity living in Arizona!

The kids love playing in Kimbri's room. Kimbri loves playing with her princess dolls. She often tucks them in her bed for them to take a nap. The other night I was spying on her as she was supposed to be going to sleep and she lay her dolls and monkey and Minnie Mouse all down on her pillow and covered them up and then scooted all the way to the side of her bed and laid down herself. After she fell asleep I went and moved the dolls to the side and scooted her back onto her own pillow :) 

Garrett showing me a "trick".

And sometimes when it's hot we all just sit down and watch a movie. Thanks Mom for "Frozen"! We love it! And apparently Garrett loves it too... or at least the song that was playing in this picture :)

Feeding the goats! Pearl & Kimbri

She loves to rock her babies!

Sibling Love

These two hold a special place in my heart. Even though some of the time they don't get along, they truly love each other so much! Kimbri can be so sweet with him and I love how great they are starting to play with each other now that Garrett is older. Yes, Garrett sometimes swipes whatever Kimbri is playing with and Kimbri gets really annoyed and Garrett runs away laughing, and it is kind of hilarious how Garrett thinks it's sooooo funny, but other times they really do share pretty well! 

Like here, when Kimbri spent forever pushing Garrett around the backyard in the little car. He loved it! Kimbri is such an awesome big sister! And Garrett makes a pretty handsome little brother too ;)