Trip to Snowflake

Since it is Nate's spring break, we were able to spend almost a week in Snowflake. We went up on Thursday the 11th and stayed until the 17th. The timing worked out perfectly for us to be there on Friday to be able to go to Nate's niece, Rayla's wedding. It's always fun to be in the temple for a sealing. After the sealing we went to the church and had a lunch and later came back for the reception.

On Saturday, due to good timing again, I was able to go to my sister Melanie's baby shower. She is the only one in my family yet to have a baby, so it was really fun to be able to go to her baby shower. I made this cake for the shower, and despite fate's best efforts to ruin it, it actually turned out okay. (I was having serious trouble with the frosting consistency.) Here's Melanie with the cake.

Here's a picture of our tummies. Melanie is due about 3-4 weeks after me. Sadly, this picture has shown me that, yet again, my face has gotten chubby. Lovely. It's amazing how you can see things in pictures that you don't see in the mirror. Maybe I do need to stop eating donuts at night after the kids go to bed... My problem is the BABY wants them.

Melanie and I made blankets for each other. I crocheted the pink and purple one for her and she knitted the blue one for me. Like two little old ladies, I guess. Actually, I would consider us both still pretty young and quite opposite of little.

When Melanie and Sean come over to my parents house, this is Kelton and Natalie's favorite toy--Buster. He is a Yorkie (right, Mel?) and despite the innocently sweet, kind and loving faces my children have in these pictures, they are anything but sweet and kind to this poor dog. He is their toy to be drug, often times literally, all over the house. Poor dog. Happy kids.

On this trip, we decided to forego using the pack-n-play. Kelton is just way too big for it now and we figured he would be okay in a bed. So he slept in a bed for the first time and he thought it was way cool. He wouldn't stop smiling when we told him he was going to sleep in the bed. This is a picture of the first night. All those giant stuffed bears were up on the headboard and he apparently decided that they all needed to sleep with him. Then he tucked himself back in and went to sleep.

These pictures aren't from Snowflake, but I wanted to put them on because, for the first time ever, Kelton has "real" church clothes. So here he his all decked out in his Van Heusen and Oxfords. He looked so handsome! And I have to say, the shirt and tie combo was my steal of the year--$3 total, for both. And the new shoes were actually free, but that's just way too long of a story.

And here's my "Natalie says" section. She had me cracking up all through dinner tonight. We don't have cable so we (fortunatley) don't get the show Dora the Explorer. I cannot stand this show. I would actually rather watch Barney because it's less annoying. Anyway, Natalie saw Dora for the first time in Snowflake just barely and when we got home, insisted on getting a Dora dvd from the library, which she has been watching today. So at dinner, she said:

"Mom, I need a real backpack like Dora, to put all my stuff in."

Me (confused): "You already have a backpack."

Natalie: "No, a REAL backpack."

Me: "Yeah, you have a REAL backpack in your room."

Natalie: "No mom, a real backpack that talks."

I've been having trouble lately trying to explain to her that a lot of things in her movies aren't real. Like dragons and fairies that can fly (or can't fly for that matter) and talking backpacks. She can see them on TV so she figures they are real, despite my best efforts to tell her they are pretend. She told me the other day that she wanted pixie dust for her birthday because she wants to be able to fly.

Shortly following that conversation was this one.

Natalie: "Mom, there's something wrong with my milk."

Me: "There's nothing wrong with the milk. I just had some."

Natalie: "Yeah there is."

Me: "What's wrong with it?"

Natalie: "It's got milkahol in it."

Me (laughing because I already knowing where it's going): "What's milkahol?"

Natalie: "It's really bad for our bodies and makes you sick and then you die."

The other day, Natalie was asking why wine is bad for us and I told her it's because it has alcohol in it. So apparently, her drink had milk-ahol in it. What's funny is that Natalie LOVES milk. But hey, at least our word of wisdom FHE's are getting through to her. I always love it when she asks in all seriousness, "Why is that person smoking? Do they want to die?"