Over the River and Through the Woods

to Grandma and Grandpa's house we go!

For the last two weeks the boys and I were in Texas spending some time with family. Present at this awesome gathering was Kadi, Lanae, myself, Derek, Logan, Andrew, Issac, Mitch, and Grandma and Grandpa Heath! It was a load of fun and family bonding, especially for the cousins. They played with light sabers, took bubble baths together, went to the park, played in the pool, and ran/crawled up and down grandma and grandpa's house. It was a ton of fun! Plus the girls and I got to paint molds of clay, decorated a cake, watched tons of chick movies, went to a painting class and painted on real canvases, and went shopping! Which I have to say, when Kadi and I get together to go shopping, we go shopping! lol Yeah sorry Austin, it was too much fun and the clothes were just too cute. -love you babe-

The week with Kadi and Derek:

Cousins! This was a very familiar pose for Derek and Isaac during our stay in Texas. Derek sitting, tackling, or doing some form of physical contact with Isaac was the norm all day. Isaac was just bewildered that someone was finally big enough to do that to him.

This was a rare shot that was taken of Isaac actually smiling in the middle of being trampled by Derek. lol Glad we got that one on camera.
The boys love Grandma Heath so much! "Thanks for playing, singing, feeding, rocking, and loving us!"
A trip to the park with only a single rider stroller. Yeah we are pretty much amazing. Three babies in one stroller. I don't know why we even bought our double stroller. lol This works great!
The two older boys liked being the ones to actually push the stroller instead of always being pushed themselves. They made it almost the whole 15 minute walk to the park.
oh oh oh. Kadi found these swords at kid to kid for 5 bucks! It was a great deal. It had 9 different colors it could change to and it also had a setting that flashes all of them really quickly. Isaac caught on pretty quick on how to use the swords having Mitch has his personal trainer. lol After Derek saw Isaac having fun with it, he quickly joined the fight.

Even Andrew took a fancy to the swords.

The bean bags were definitely a favorite for the boys as well. They could fling themselves on them and not get hurt. It was perfect. Even Andrew enjoyed it! (see video)

Isaac and Derek eating my birthday cake! Isaac had 2nds, just more proof that Grandma Heath's cakes are amazing.
So last Christmas when Isaac was introduced to these noise making rocking horses, he cried and wouldn't come near them the rest of the time we were there. I am sadden to say that still after 9 months of noisy toys he had the exact same reaction to the horses. Fortunately, it only took him 20 minutes to realize they weren't real horses and was able to enjoy them immensely the rest of the time we were there.
Oh this was one of my favorite parts about our trip, along with painting canvas and clay molds. For the next few pictures you will see Kadi and I getting to decorate my birthday cake at the shop like 'real' professionals. It was a blast! Scary and nerve wracking around real professionals, but a blast for sure. Just in case you can't tell what the end result looks like, I will clue you in. The big purple blobs are flowers and the orange circles are basketballs, not pumpkins. Those were Kadi's idea to make the cake more Liz like.

Wait for it....................

Ha Ha see, they are basketballs.

Finished product! It took us a good 3 hours. Thanks Mitch for watching the boys for us.

Please tell me you can tell they are basketballs. It was harder then it looked. The frosting kept getting plugged up.

The women who made it all possible! And you look great Tami.

This is a picture of Isaac 20 minutes after he met the horses.

Andrew liked the horses at first more then Isaac did. He squealed and laughed right when he saw them.

Hat Time! Derek found his BYU hat and of course whatever Derek had Isaac had to have one to. So we got Grandpa's hat out and put them on the boys. Derek's hat didn't even fit over Andrew's head. We really had to tug hard to get it to go even half way over Andrew's head. What a little big headed buster.

Now that is more like it. Grandpa's hat fit much better.

Kadi you look so cute in this pic. It is crazy how we didn't even plan to do the same gangster face. We must be sister or something.

oh oh oh Here is a picture of the second time Andrew pulled himself up!

Playing horse with Aunt Kadi!

Totally oblivious to anything else in the room.

Funny Story. So on Tuesday we were doing sidewalk chalk in the front yard on the patio. I was making a Welcome Home sign for Grandpa and Kadi was drawing a motorcycle underneath the sign. During this process the boys were running back and forth on the side yard yelling and having fun. We laughed at them and continued on drawing our project. After we were done we noticed that the boys weren't by the side yard anymore. Kadi walked over to the neighbors front patio and she turned to me and said. "They went inside their house!" Yep, sure enough their front door was wide open and we started freaking out. I rang the door bell and we both started calling for Isaac and Derek to get out of their house. It was really awkward. We didn't want to scream their names in some strangers house but we also needed to make the point across to the boys to get out. Finally, we saw Isaac walking across their living room whining for me because he could tell this was not grandma and grandpa's house. He was frighten and relieved to see us at the door. We dragged him out and I harshly told him that it was not okay to go into their house, but it didn't really work because I was also laughing historically. Kadi eventually came out with Derek and told me he was in the master bedroom just walking around like he owned the place. lol We were lucky the neighbors were out in their back yard at the time. They never came to the door and we don't even think they knew about it. But boy will that be a story to tell Isaac and Derek when they are older.