Memorial day novel

 So this is a major catch up blog post.  These pictures are from Memorial day weekend.  Better late than never right??  The top picture is from the gardens at Thanksgiving point.  We went there for story time with our friends one day and Zac loved this spider thing to climb on.  I was there with Emery strapped to my chest...so I was VERY nervous about him going so high.  I couldn't really help him.  But he actually did really great.

 When it was time to climb down it was pretty scary.  He was too high for me to really help him and so my friend put her hand under his bum and he just let go.  So she had most of his weight and I kinda grabbed him and kept him from falling off her hand.  Poor Emery was squished against the ropes for a little bit...but she was a champ.  Pretty funny.

So we had an extra extra long Memorial day weekend because drum roll please.....Rob got hired full time at the church!!  Yay!  We have been waiting almost 2 years for this...so it is great news.  I am so proud of him.  Anyway, because he was going to officially start full time for the church the day after memorial day, he had to take his time off that he had accrued through his contracting company before he was done there.  Well, he didn't HAVE to, but we didn't want to lose it!  So he took Thursday and Friday off...so we had a five day weekend.  What did we do???  Just relaxed and enjoyed having daddy at home.  It was great.  We also moved all of our stuff back upstairs so that we can rent out the basement again.  It was nice having all the extra space, but we are happy to all be upstairs again.  It was such a hassle having to go outside in order to go downstairs!  Anyway, so we will be living upstairs until we move up north closer to Rob's work (hopefully in a year or so...we will see.)

Anyway, so here are some (tons of) pictures from our long weekend.

 Rob holding Sadie, Sadie holding Zac, Zac holding Emery, and Emery holding a baby.  Funny.

 Our cute little dinosaur.

 Pegacorn and dino.  Note the unicorn slippers Sadie is wearing to match her costume!  ha ha.  Thanks Grandma!!

 The kids and dad were washing the car, and so Emery and I chilled in the shade.  Isn't she adorable!

 Working hard.  I think the kids lasted all of 10 minutes...and Rob did the rest.  

 Our house was such a wreck that weekend with all the moving of stuff.  The kids didn't seem to mind though!

 We finally got new tires for this bike that has been sitting in our garage.  Took it for a spin to find out that the brakes are shot.  Luckily I wasn't going that fast so I just stopped myself with my feet.  haha.

 We got the grill out and Rob grilled hot dogs for lunch.

 Which we ate in the front yard on a blanket.  Fun.  We even tried grilled corn...I really liked it, but nobody else did.  

After lunch we packed up the kids and the car and headed out to Salt Lake.  We were going to hang out with Rob's brother Duncan for a while.  We went to Temple square and the new mall right across the street.  More about that later.

 On the way there, it was nap time so we told Zac he could close his eyes and go to sleep...so a few minutes later, I was surprised to see he actually did!  It was great.  And there is Sadie trying really hard to go to sleep.  Ha ha.  She never actually fell asleep.

 Then I had to move to the back to entertain this little one.  

 Rob was really proud of himself for "doing everything".  ha ha.  And there is Duncan's arm.  :)

 The kids at the visitor's center.  I couldn't get both kids to look at the camera at the same time...I kinda felt silly saying anything in there because it was so quiet.  So I just snapped a few pics and then we were out of there.

 The kids loved the fountains.

 Cute.

 It was a chore to keep these kids standing there for like two minutes.  They wanted to go find more water.

 Brothers.

 There is a children's section at the church history museum.  It is really neat.  This is our second time there and the kids love it.

 Dressed up for the dancing.

 Zac and daddy too.  Zac was the only boy there to dance. 

So after temple square the plan was to visit the mall and play at the splash pad.  We knew there was a great one at the Gateway mall, but the brand new mall was RIGHT across the street so we opted to go there instead because of convenience.  What a mistake.  We heard there was a splash pad there, we I got Sadie in her swim suit.  First Zac got sent back to us by an actual security guard to put his shoes back on.  That was fine.  But then they sent Sadie back because she needed to have shorts on over her swimsuit.  So they build a splash pad at the mall, but they don't allow kids to get wet and have fun unless they are fully clothed and have shoes on.  What a nightmare for parents!  They wouldn't even let boys take their shirts off.  Sheesh!  It kinda ruined my day a little.  I was just so confused why they would do that.

Then I got over it and the kids started to play and have fun.

 Sadie with her skirt and swimsuit.  But I mean look at tall those kids in their soaking wet jeans and shirts.  It just makes me cringe.  They will get their cars all wet! Anyway...

So we had a great weekend and we were sad that ROb had to go back to work on Tuesday.  We loved having him home.