Petersen Family Spring Stay-cation Break

This year we wanted to go on vacation but because of money most of us couldnt afford to, so we decided to do a staycation.  The Grandparents, Laura and the girls and Kyle came down for a couple days and then we headed up to end the break in Logan.  It was a lot of fun.  The kids loved to see eachother so much, it was hard to tear them away from eachother.

We spend our first day in Provo.  We went to the bean museam where we met The Madsens, and Grandpa Dingman.  We spend a good hour or so there, looking at all the animals.  But of course I forgot to bring my camera.  We headed over to the BYU Dinosaur Museam after, to see the dinos they had.  Lots of cool things there.

This bone was Kadrynns favorite thing, so she lined up for a picture then Melynn joined her and we even got Haylee in this one.

I told the boys to pick their favorite Dinosaur and after running around trying to decide, they found this guy and got down like dinos and started growling.

Towards the end the kids started getting bored so Brian got down to help the kids pose for a picture of them all acting like dinosaurs.

DAY 2

We spend day 2 in Lehi.  We headed up to the Thanksgiving point Dinosaur museam.  I think that is the most popular place to go for the kids, they all love it.  No matter how many times we go they can find something new and they love it even more.

At the beginning they got to watch some of the empolyees work on cleaning the bones, this was a lucky picture, we usually cant get all of them lined up like this.  So cute.

Little Macy, too small to line up with the other kids, but here she is in all her cuteness.

Half way through the museam the kids get to play in the sand and build little hills and play with the toy dinos, its probably the best part. 

Gotta love Melynns Cheeser face!! She is so cute.

Again another lucky picture, too bad we couldnt get them all to look up and smile.

I think my kids have it down pat, when you see that dino, sit down and smile.  we always get a picutre on it cause its so cute.  And to make it better I got a cute smile our of Haylee, who never lets me take her picture.

Uncle Kyle and the kiddos

After the museam we headed down to Jump On It.  Mom, Dad and Kyle had never been there before but had a really good time.

Brian spend most of the time like that. He and Mom kind of took turns bouncing the kids and each other.

But no matter how old we get this will always be the funnest thing to do.  Mom hates being bounced and she makes the funniest noises when we get her.  Notice Schaef and Kadrynn taking some of the bounce.

Shad and Schaefer really got into jumping off the platform in the middle, they had some good jumps too.  Schaefer even got brave enough to do some spins.

After living with Grandma and Grandpa Kenedi mastered the trampoline.  She was having a blast.

Melynn is still off balance on the tramp and felt the safest on a lap, so she spend a lot of time trying to get on someones lap.

DAY 3

Another day where I forget my camera.  it was a really fun day.  The kids and I, Ian unfortunatly had to miss the whole week because of work.  But we headed up to lehi to go see How to Train Your Dragon with all the cousins. Schaefer loved the movie, he sat watching the whole time and couldnt get enough.  Melynn had to be fed the whole time to keep her quiet and Kadrynn was terrified.  she covered her eyes most of the movie and asked to go home every couple minutes.  But toward the end she started enjoying it a bit more.

 Then headed over to the Lehi Rec. Center for some swimmin'.  The Lehi pool is great, lots of things to do.  Its so fun having Schaefer big enough to go on his own and not have to worry, as much, about him drowning.  They all had a blast and were not happy when we made them leave.

DAY 4

We headed up to the Zoo on our way to Logan.  Ian was finally able to come with us for this day, but Dad had to go home after the pool so he missed the Zoo.  And, yes, I forgot my camera.  Its a good thing I can get pictures from other people who were not airheads forgetting their cameras.

We took some lunch up and had a picnic and then took a couple hours to stroll the Zoo, the kids got to ride on the train and the carosel.  They all had so much fun looking at all the animals. 

After the Zoo Brian and Heather had to head back home while the rest of us went to get some ice cream at Baskin Robins.  Then we headed up to Logan for the weekend. 

DAY 5

We went to the American West Heritige Center for Baby Animal Days.  The kids got to look at real farm animals and even hold some baby ducks and chicks and pet some baby lambs, pigs, goats, cows, and bunnies.

We stayed in Logan for the weekend and then headed back on sunday, back to reality.

EASTER FUN

Easter this year was really fun.  We had my whole family here.  We started Saturday off at the Provo city Easter Egg Hunt.  Where there was a ton of kids, I was a little suprised because it was kind of cold that morning, but my kids ended up with just a couple of eggs and the candy from them was gone before we got home 20 minutes later.

Then went home to paint some eggs.  The kids had a lot of fun with this.  We have never painted eggs at home before so this was a first.  We did end up putting Melynn down for a nap because she was throwing a fit about everything.  But they where all excited when they got an egg with their name on it. 

After painting eggs we headed over to the Madsens church to have a little picnic and egg hunt.  It ended up being cold so we moved inside, and did the hunt outside.

Cute little Kenedi and her basket!!

This was the only picture we could get with Haylee in it, everytime she saw a camera she left the area.

This is the one Haylee dodged out of, but its so cute I had to put it up. Notice Melynns "eating Smile."

The other picture I got with the little Petersens, I totally suprised Shad and luckly I got Haylee behind him.

Kadrynn and Melynn in search of candy and eggs.  They were having so much fun, the whole time they had this look of "what is all this candy doing on the ground!!"

Laura is always looking so pleasant but this time she over did it.

Some of the big kids helping the little kids, while looking to fill their own baskets.

I didnt see Schaefer at all because someone took him the other way and he came running back with a bucket that he was having a hard time carrying.  he was totally excited.  He also found 2 dollars in some of the eggs and to this day he reminds me that he has 2 dollars when he sees something he wants.

The loot!!

THE COCCOA BEAN

I found Heaven on earth, well at least on thursdays!  The Coccoa Bean cupcake cafe.  UMMMM!
Laura and I found it a few months ago and I have been going way too much.  They have different cupcakes everyday, but my favorite is the Party in your Mouth cupcake and its served on Thursday.  Its chocolate cake with nutella, cream cheese chocolate, and drizzled with chocolate.  YUMM!

Well Laura came down for a visit and we decided to go there and take Mallory and introduce her to heaven, although it was saturday night, but still so yummy.

Yes, we ordered Half a dozen and ate them all.

About half way in we started wondering what was in these cupcakes.  I have never had such a bad sugar rush.

After we realized what we just did.  WOW that was a lot of cupcake.

A NEW CAR!!!

YEY!!!!!!!!!!
I finally got an SUV!  We finally found a great deal on a nice SUV, and I am so excited about it.
                                       

                                              Its a 2007 Ford Expedition. 

And Oh, How I love it!!!

I think Ian loves it just as much as I do but he tries not to show it.  But he is always washing it and trying to find cool things to put on it or in it.

The kids were equally excited.  We didnt tell anyone when we got it but before anyone saw it Schaefer had spilled the beans.  We saw my parents a couple days later and he was riding in their car and told my mom all about the new car and then pointed it out when they were walking into the mall to meet us.  He even gave her the specs. "its an '07, it has a seat here, and here and here, its got a DVD player, and its white."

They were all really excited to play in the back.  Then they found out that the rear window opens and they could have spent all day climping in and out of it.

Well, Kadrynn had her moments.  Now she is always saying "I have a big car, I love my big car!"

The Race is ON!!

While we were sitting at the Crosswalk Schaefer decided he wanted to learn to race "like they do at Track"

So I showed him how to get down and take position and of course all the girls wanted to play too.

I started them off with "Mark, Get Set, GO!!"  And they all took off as fast as they could go.

Kadrynn stopped about ten feet out and decided that was far enough.  So she sat down and took a rest.

Schaefer ran all the way down the street and around the yard at the church.

As he was coming around the corner, Melynn decided she had gone

far enough and headed back at a casual pace.

Schaefer came to the straight away and proudly yelled "I WIN!!"

Next we all took a water break.  And they spend a solid hour racing and then continued to race at track.