Random catch up pics...

Disclaimer: None of these pictures really go together so if you were wondering, I just decided to combine a few happenings in our lives into one post so I could try to catch up a bit with the photos I have continually piling up and not being blogged about!

Our friend Landon Roper, who sold/managed with Chad the summer we were in Houston about 3 1/2 years ago has come up a few times to recruit for the company he works for now and we always enjoy his visits. My kids just get a kick out of him, look at all those cheesy grins. Back in Houston, when Ella was only about 14 mo. old Landon would offer to watch her for us so that we could go out on a date. Ella just thought the world of him. It was so cute. He has been a really good friend to us and we're glad we've been able to keep in touch with him over the years.







These were taken around the same time that Landon came by back in January when we started potty training Jack. So I had to do some photoshopping on covering up the little guy's manhood cause we started out with just having him run around bare-bummed so that he would hopefully learn faster how to do the whole potty training thing. He has done pretty well with it but he still has accidents every once in awhile. Someday soon I hope it will just click completely and we won't have any accidents all together!





They were having a tea party on the stairs together it was really cute.



Back at the end of January we went down to Salt Lake City for a job interview for Chad, while we were there we stayed with Chad's sister Angie (who was so super awesome to let us stay with her) and got to take the kids to see temple square.



The kids loved running from one thing to the next so excited to see each thing.



They really enjoyed getting to see the Christus statue. It was really fun to bare testimony of Jesus Christ and the importance of the temple. Their questions were so cute and they just wanted to keep learning more. The faith of a child is so amazing and teaches me so much.








It was fun to get to see the tabernacle as well, there was someone there playing the organ really beautifully as well which was a fun bonus. It was crazy how small it seemed after going to a session at the conference center!





The awesome and huge conference center. We were pretty pooped by the end of our tour so we didn't go inside with the kids.

It has been at least 3 and 1/2 years since we had been down to Utah so it was fun to get to see some of the sights of SLC and a few friends during our short trip.

Ella's First Day of Preschool!

Back in mid- January Ella started preschool up at the BYU-I campus preschool lab. She absolutely loved it. It was a really good school. One of my favorite things about it was that they have like 6 college students majoring in elementary education teaching around 20-ish kids so the kids got a real hands on experience. They would have all sorts of different activities and bring in cool object lesson things like when they were learning about horses they brought in a real one and each child got to sit on it.
She also made lots of good friends and even had a little boyfriend named Kade. I guess pretty much every day her and her friend Kade would play house during the time when they can choose what activity they want to do and she just really liked him. One day I asked her if she had a bf named Kade because I had heard from his mother that he had been telling her that Ella was his gf, so I wanted to hear Ella's side of the story and she said to me, " Yes, I love him." So funny.
Unfortunately she had her last day of school on March 31st and she was very sad for it to end. I am really glad she was able to get in though because there is a pretty hefty waiting list and I think it was a great experience for her to have.



This was her first day and I don't know that a kid could look happier.



Back pack shot.



Thumbs up for learning!

Blast off!

So there is this place in Idaho falls called Blast off that we took the kids to with Chad's sister's family all the way back in January that has all sorts of fun stuff for kids to do. I wasn't that good at getting very many pictures of it all but the kids truly did have a "blast" and we had fun chasin' them around the place.



The ball pit of wonders, they each kept getting out and standing on the edge and counting to ten and then jumping into the pit.





Mwwaahhh!



Peek-A-Boo!



Good ol' Uncle Jason.





The Tarzan swing.



Even little Caz and Jack figured out how to do it. It was cute.

This place was pretty cool though. It has this whole pretend play area with dress-ups and play food. They also have a mini-golf, arcade, laser tag and some other stuff too that I can't remember but it was pretty cool though and not too expensive. Good thing to have around during the winter months where there isn't a whole lot to do outside.