Let's play catch up! (March 2012) Showers, parties, concerts, derbies and general conference

We are just a little bit excited about the fact that there is going to be a new addition to the Slade grandkids! My kids have been spoiled rotten by their Aunt Alicia for years and now it's time for her to start her own family. Olivia is one lucky little girl. Alicia will no doubt be a awesome mom! We had a baby shower in St. George at Red Lobster for Alicia and baby Olivia. This is going to be one well dressed and spoiled little girl! It was so fun!

It's nice to know people who know people. Especially when the people they know throw amazing birthday parties for a living. It wasn't a "real" birthday party, but Ty didn't know that. He just got to play with his cousins, drink pop, eat cake pops and hold baby bunny rabbits. He might think it's pretty cool when the pictures of this party show up in a book coming out this fall. Glad I had my camera to snap some pictures.





He was killing me in those long johns. They fit his personality perfectly!







KELLY CLARKSON CONCERT Question:What could be better than your husband giving you a ticket to see Kelly Clarkson for your birthday? Answer: Your brother, brother-in-law and dad giving their wifes tickets too! We jammed.

Spencer has been in scouts since September. He loves it. I'm pretty sure his enthusiasm will diminish as he gets older, but for now we are going to soak it all in and enjoy it! This was his first pinewood derby. I'm pretty sure Joel was more nervous than Spencer. It didn't help that when they got to the church, Joel found out that he had sanded the wrong side of one of the wheels and had to take it apart. They also had to adjust the weight. No bueno. However, Spencer still took 4th place which he was happy about. I don't know a lot about scouts, but I love it!
General Conference

I love general conference because we get to hear from our beloved prophet.

I also love going to Moroni to visit my mom and dad. We all cram around the TV, eat good food, and try our best to keep the kids quiet and listening. There are a lot of us, but it makes for some good memories!

Jack's First Haircut

I don't know why it's hard for me to get my kids haircut for the first time. I mean 18 months old might be a little old for a first cut. I think I waited a little longer with Jackson too because he has the cutest locks of curls in the back. I hope he will forgive me when he gets older. He sat so still as Steph cut his hair and looked so cute with his new doo. My kids are lucky to have an Aunt Foo Foo to cut their hair. They kind of have difficult hair (well, mostly Ty), and nobody does it as good as she does! It was a warm spring day and the kids had so much fun playing outside after. Good times!

President's Day with the Johnson's

Megan and Ray are by far our most frequent guests. We love it when they come to visit. It's becoming a President's Day weekend tradition. It started about 7 years ago when we moved to Milford. In the beginning, we just had Spencer, so there was plenty of time for playing games and relaxing. Memories from earlier years include throwing pillows at Spencer and knocking him to the ground. That sounds so mean, but he loved every minute of it. He was 2 or 3 years old. There was also the time when Spencer got a hold of Joel's hair clippers and decided to use them on his hair. We were playing a game at the time and he came upstairs with so much enthusiasm to proudly show us what he had done. Luckily, he didn't go crazy with them. He was just missing a small patch of hair on the top.

Now we have a total of 5 little boys.   It's a little more crazy, but just as fun.  We even slipped in a couple of games of spades and watched Man from Snowy AND Return to Snowy River.  Ray had never seen them and Joel can practically quote every line from both movies.   We played some games with the kids too.  Mckay has been a little obsessed with puzzles lately, so Megan brought a few and that kept them entertained for a while.   On Saturday, we decided to go up to Eagle Point to go tubing.  I have been waiting all winter to go tubing or sledding, but we haven't had very much snow.  They just barely opened the tubing run a couple of weeks ago.  It was a nice day to be in the snow and it is beautiful up there.










Cole and Jack liked the snow for about the first 15 minutes and then they were done.