February and March 2016

For Valentine's day, our family went to Great Wolf Lodge. This is us sharing our free tiny scoop of ice cream. First thing we did when we got there was hit up the water park! It was super fun. The big boys loved the slides and Raidon and Baine loved the wave pool.

 We went to the story time clock tower show. They have kind of creepy robot characters sing and tell stories. We didn't stay for the whole thing and it was so packed we could barely hear.

 I thought this fireplace chimney was cool

 Raidy playing with Deko's valentines in the room. I didn't know our room was so big. It had 2 queen beds, a sleeper sofa, and then another room with a king bed and another bathroom. It was pretty sweet.

 That night we played MagiQuest until the little boys were tired, then Randy and Tripp ran around playing until 10 pm when the game shuts down. All around the hotel are things you can point a magic wand at and they will talk to you or make sounds. There were quests we had to go on and find certain objects to continue to the next quest. Super fun!

The next day Randy, Tripp, and Deko went to the waterpark again to go down more tube slides while we waited for Baine to wake up. We eventually had to get him up at 11 am to check out on time. Then we went to the arcade to play. Raidon picked this little whack-a-mole type alien game and at the end, it went nuts! I took this pic after it spit out about 200 tickets.

 It's a super small game, Baine can play it. It kept shooting out tickets until it reached around 800. A group of teenagers gathered around us and a game attendant finally came over to turn it off. And he let us keep the tickets! So you know we got 800+ tickets worth of candy!

 It was a fun stay and adventure!

We went to Blockfest again this year at the middle school. Tripp and I built this arch

 Raidy loves these foam blocks and never wanted to leave

 Baine loves to knock them over

We had some nice weather, so the little boys and I walked to the river near our home

This is Baine and Raidon's favorite thing to do at the river........... chase the millions of bunnies that are around there. One day we only saw one, and the next we saw nine. You can bet we chased every single one of them. Well, I hoped you enjoyed my binge blogging (just finished 5 posts, whew). I can finally say I am caught up.

Life in 2016

 Deklan was student of the month in his class and he had to fill out this poster and take "Little Husky" home with him. He was supposed to take care of Little Husky and write about his adventures with him. 

He took Husky to a birthday party for a friend in his class.

 Husky also slept with him each night.

 For Christmas, my mom got our family tickets to Monster Jam in January at the Tacoma Dome. It was crazy loud and super fun. Lots of good beats were played and the different events were fun to watch.

 We were thankful to Aunt Jill who lent us these ear muffs to protect these little ear drums.

 Randy and I just used ear plugs and it was still loud!

 Gravedigger is always a favorite. Sadly he flipped in the final round and lost to Max D.

Randy went to Ben and Shannon's sealing at the Draper temple. It sounds like he had quite the time with his siblings and family that weekend, but this was the only picture he took.

Life wouldn't be complete without this tower of boys at Bri and Jenny's house.

 Too much fun! Just missing Baine and Traccor :(

Does anyone else have this many pics of their kids sleeping in weird areas? My kids are pros at it! I think Baine learned it from Raidy.

 This is my favorite!

Christmas day and Childrens museum in Olympia

Didn't take many pics on Christmas, Just these two.

 Christmas was super fun. We opened sweet presents and then headed to the church to spend the rest of the day with family playing games, sports, and eating lots of good food!

 I got Randy a gift certificate to the Root Beer Store. 

 He got to pick out 8 root beers, a half pound bag of root beer barrels, half pound bag of root beer taffy, and a membership to the store which includes 20% off purchases for a year. There were so many kinds of root beer to choose from. The huckleberry pop was my favorite.

 My friend Tina got us passes to the Children's museum in Olympia for Christmas. Randy was sick the day we were supposed to go so we went took Alyssa with us and met Tina and Benton there. The glow stick wall was probably my favorite.

 Let's be cops!

 Hmmm, I think Baine needs a baby.

 Don't let him fool you, I've seen him try to beat on little babies. Ask Avery. He tried to pull her out of her seat.

 Raidy's favorite

 This was fun too!

 Love that he dressed up

 Dinner is served

 They probably could have spent another hour in the grocery play area.

 But the water area is where it's at. I found Baine drinking the water and we had to pry Raidon away to go home

 We went to Bri and Jenny's house afterwards to play. Baine and Legion were super cute riding the quad together. It was a long, fun-filled, exhausting day. They all slept really well that night.