Megan's 15th Birthday

My sister-in-law, Megan, had her 15th birthday on March 10th, which makes me feel really old because when I first met her she was a sweet 7 year old. Luckily she is still sweet but now 8 years older! We met the family at Texas Roadhouse in St. George and I now love it. The food was really really good, they bring out rolls with cinnamon butter, you can spit peanut shells on the ground, and they are really good at embarrassing people on their birthdays. They bring over this saddle that the birthday person has to sit on while they yell some birthday stuff. Megan was so embarrassed and didn't want to sit on it but they made her. I definately wont go to Texas Roadhouse for my birthday but it was fun to watch someone else be embarrassed.

The trip to St. George was a lot of fun. We met Sam's Mom at Costco and bought lots of things, like a kite. We also stopped at Target and Kohl's and spent more money. For those of us that live in Cedar going shopping in St. George is a big deal so we had lots of fun and Sam was in the mood to spend money so that was nice too.

Sandbox Fun

Monday's are Sams day off, for now, so we did some work on our backyard. We went to the gravel pit and got another truckload of sand to fill in behind our retaining wall. We had to wheelbarrel the sand to the wall and then rake it out. Porter, of course, wanted to play in the sand we were dumping and not in is newly finished and wonderfully large sand box that his amazing mother had made him. After we were finished dumping sand Sam decided to bury the kids in the sandbox. They had lots of fun but afterwards they had sand all over them. We had to drive to St. George that night so I put the kids in the bathtub and there was sand all over the bathtub. Porters hair had lots of sand and he he doesn't like getting his haircut anyway so he was crying through the whole thing. After the tub we realized we were running a little behind schedule and hurried and got the
kids all dressed and ready and looking nice for Megan's Birthday.

Ruby and the Tramp(oline)

The weather has been really nice in Cedar recently, occasionally there are still days where it snows but it hasn't stuck for awhile. Our grass is all brown and rough so Ruby can't really crawl around. The other day I put her on the trampoline so she could crawl and bounce. After playing for awhile she crawled to the edge and sat on her bum. The problem is we are missing the hooks for two of our elastic springs and of course she was trying to sit right where there was a hole in the springs. She started to fall right through the hole so I freaked out and ran as fast as I could but when I was about 4 ft away and starting to dive for her I realized she was stuck. Once I realized she was fine I took a picture!

FYI -For all those who haven't seen my trampoline it is less then two feet off the ground. We took out the middle pieces of the leg supports so we wouldn't have to worry about Porter falling off, most adults can't even walk on it without it touching the grass.

Ruby

I was bored and wanting to take pictures so I tried out some new techniques but the sun was too bright. These pictures are so Ruby. She always smiles so big that she shrunches up her nose and squints her eyes. She loves to play with wipes and will wipe her toys if we tell her to clean. Ruby is such a sweet baby and most of the time she doesn't wear headbands because he hair is too out of control. Usually the headband will look good at first so I will leave it in thinking it will be okay but before long it falls out and her hair is in her eyes. Sam keeps saying she needs a haircut but I have to keep reminding him that little girls dont need haircuts.

Computer Problems

I have been horrible at updating my blog but both of our computers are having problems. I accidentally downloaded some major virus onto our desktop (it was really dumb and now Sam tells me that I am always the one to ruin computers, ha!) The laptop, which luckily now works, was running really slow and Sam found a virus on it too (not my fault). So Sam is going to reformat the desktop and I have literally spent the last week transferring all the photos 2G at a time to the laptop. The desktop transfers sooooo slow and randomly just stops working so the thought of using the computer anymore then I have to right now is enough to make me crazy. So I will update more when I get this all worked out.

Playing in the Bathtub

Almost everyday my kids get disgustingly dirty. Ruby is almost always a mess because she crawls around and puts everything in her mouth. Porter finds something bathroom related to do to gross me out, daily if not hourly. Lately if one of them is dirty I just put both in the bathtub and run the shower. They can play in there forever and the other day I let them. I got the laptop and sat on the floor next to the tub and they played and played.

50's Party -New

Our wards 50's party was a lot of fun. We got all dressed up and ate homestyle foods- meatloaf, mac and cheese, salad and rootbeer floats. There was 50's trivia, which we knew none of the answers and most of the time I was thinking...what? There was little paper convertibles on the tables filled with candy so the kids where all hyper and running around. There was a hula hoop and bubble gum contest. At the end some people wanted to dance so they moved some tables but we left at they started dancing. (Since my friend Leilani never posts anything here is a picture of her and Justin dancing.)