A Crazy Weekend.....

Last week was a pretty crazy week, so of course we had a packed weekend as well! On Friday the boys went with my parents and Molly down to Bountiful to go to dinner with Jaime and Abbi and my Grandma Carlson. After dinner they went and watched my cousins Jake and Nick in a play, they are such great plays! This year it was "Listen to the Still Small Voice" and I guess the boys did a great job at sitting there listening the whole time. It was fun to hear all about what they learned and saw. Earlier on in the week Carson's cousins dad passed away, so me, Carson, and Olivia went to the viewing on Friday night. Walking into the mortuary seeing all of the beautiful flowers and all of the pictures of these 5 kids who loved their dad dearly was very emotional to see. It really makes you apprecitae every second with your family. They all looked so nice and were doing a really good job expressing the gratitude to everyones support and showing their love for their dad! What great kids they are! After that Carson was able to take his two girls to dinner, we had a great time!

"Alec's Day...."

Saturday early in the morning started out crazy. Marcus probably around 3 sat up in bed dry heved and throw up, and then was done with being sick (crazy I know). Then once we woke up Olivia started in on the messy diaper stuff, so all morning we were in debate on who was going to attend "Alec's sepcial school day at the farm". Clear up until the minute we walked out the door we were going back in forth, but we all ended up going and I am very glad we did because it was so fun! We met up with some kids and their families from Alec's school and went over to the American West Heritage Center to see all of the animals. All of the kids had such a wonderful time! Some parents were nice and bought their kids toads and then others (like me) wouldn't even let them touch them! Here are some of the highlights of the trip to the farm.....

Some of the kids from Alec's school and their sibblings....

Alec loved holding the baby turtles!

Marcus loved the baby chics, you couldn't get enough. He kept saying let me hold just one more! These two were his favorites!

As you can tell Olivia loved all of the animals! She loved petting the sleepy calfs, the pigs that kept following her, the bunnies (even when they got close to her nose), the baby chics, and of course ridding the pony! The first ride on the pony is free and after that you have to pay $2.00, well she wouldn't get off so we paid $2.00 and she went again!

After we were done we went to Brigham because my dad Steve, Marie (ReRe), and Hunter were here from California. Hunter will be 13 in August, but he is so tall and he wears a size 12 or 13 shoe! It was fun seeing them, we haven't seen Hunter since December or grandpa Steve and ReRe since last June. The kids showed off really well for them!! Later my grandparents came home so we went in and had dinner with everyone. Olivia was so funny blowing kisses to my grandma Simmons and showing everyone all of her many expressions! Of course we couldn't go home until after the Jazz game was over, so by the time we left all three kids were asleep! Don't worry, we only changed Olivia's diapers 5 times while we there and she only through up once!

After waking up on Sunday and Olivia was having problems with both directions we deicded that her and Carson would stay home while me and the boys went back to Brigham for a Simmons Family get together. Hunter and my granda Simmons taught me how to play poker! I know, I know I shouldn't been doing it but it was harmless! Hey, I do have to say I was pretty good (I can see how people could get addicted to it!).


It was a wonderful, but crazy weekend that will probably take all week to recover from (Olivia slept for 5 hours on Suday afternoon) but we enjoyed ourselves so it was worth it! Like ReRe says enjoy life because you can sleep when you are dead!