Some of This & That

I just love these two little cuties! What more can I say.Dal & I made a banana pretzel caterpillar type thing (and he's making a crazy face:)
So we have a kid tent that Dal was really excited to set up and he wanted to sleep in it in our back yard area. We opted to set it up in our dining room area facing the screen door so he could kind of feel like he was outside. He actually did sleep in it the whole night by himself but he did get up about 10 times needing different things....his blanket, a drink of water, once when I came down he said "Mommy I need a hug" and that was it. I gave him a hug then he went back to sleep. It was pretty cute. The annoyance I felt for having to get up that 8th time all melted away with that request :) We moved the tent up to his room the next night and he sleep like normal.
Before he went to sleep he was really excited to read his scriptures with a flashlight in his tent. (Dal is on a new kick of closing his eyes whenever he says "cheese" to pose for a picture:)

We went to First Dam for some duck feeding fun (There were some adorable little baby ducks there. I just love babies of any kind, well probably most any kind:)

Fun at the Park & Dead Animal Zoo :)

Lately we have enjoyed some good times with extended family. It started with my mother in law coming to town to visit us. It was very fun to have her here! We took her to the wonderful Willow Park. Braelyn had her first experience swinging in a big outside swing.

Braely Rae also got her first good look at a parakeet and she thought it was pretty cool

A nice guy gave Dal some duck food and this is his super cute excited face and jump after he threw the duck some food and the duck ate it

A couple days later we headed down to Provo to go to the temple with Jake's sister, and got to be with a lot of his family there too, and spend some time with them. It was wonderful. We also spent some time with my family that lives is Provo (my mom happened to be in town for Women's Conference so we got to play with her too). While there we hung out, played a lot of Wii and were planning on going to Hogle Zoo but due to inclement weather we ended up going to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point instead. It was a very cool museum. Dal had been excited to go to the zoo so I was explaining to him that we were going to a dinosaur museum instead where we would see bones of animals that lived and died a long time ago. He thought that sounded cool. On our way there he said "Mom, are we at the dead animal zoo yet?"

I thought that was a pretty funny and fitting thing to call it :)

Along with all of the cool dino bones they also had some cool interactive stuff for the kids like a sand area where they could dig for fossils. While at the museum we met up with Catherine and Christen and their kids so Dal got to play and dig with his cousins which was really fun for him.
They also had a huge sand and water table where they could search for little dinosaurs

Good times with the fam!