St. Patrick's Day Abbeyism

Here are some pictures of "Patrick the Leprechaun". Abbey made this mask at pre-school for her St. Patrick's day party and when she got into the car this was our conversation:

Abbey- Mom, we did everything green today and saw Patrick the leprechaun.

Me- Did you eat a green snack?

Abbey- Mom, we ate green muffins and drank green juice and we saw a leprechaun named Patrick. Mom, is my uncle Patrick a Leprechaun???

Me- No, but he kind of looks at acts like one!!

So from this day forward she believes her uncle Patrick is indeed a leprechaun............

Disney On Ice

Jeff broke my camera and I forgot I had these pictures on my memory card... I am also happy to report that we got a new Nikon D60 SLR and for mother's day I got a small point and shoot CANON Elph 1200..... These are both AWESOME cameras. We also got a warranty on both since Jeff is going to use the expensive one.

Abbey & I went to Disney on Ice back in March. We rode TRAX from Sandy to the ESA and had a good time!!!!

North Carolina

Abbey playing in Patick's backyard

Abbey kissing "her" babies the night before we left

Stevenson Kids

Abbey posing with the twins

Hey Yates, why is that Sadie is crying again?

What cute kids!!

A rare "friends" moment

The reason so far why Abbey is an only child!!

Thanks Patrck and Julie for letting us come and stay and play with the babies!! We had a great time and Abbey is now convinced she needs a new brother and sister!!!

Dying Eggs for Easter

After breakfast on Saturday morning we dyed eggs with the kids. They both had a lot of fun and got along rather well!!! After we got cleaned up myself, Patrick and the 2 older kids headed off to do some errands. We went to Sears to buy a chain saw and also went to Home Depot and Lowe's and hung out while Patrick purchased his new fire pit, hence the chain saw to cut the wood in his back yard. We ate lunch at Panera's (one of my NC favorites) and headed back home. We spent some time playing outside and around 4 we got the kids ready to take a few pictures.

North Carolina

Patrick, Abbey & Ethan on the back porch

Abbey, Ethan & Patrick in the hot tub

Sadie & Yates taking a nap

Yates & Patrick at Pullen Park

Abbey, Julie, Sadie & Ethan

Andrea and the babies

Abbey at Pullen Park

On Friday we slept in and Patrick made us a big breakfast. After we all got ready for the day we headed downtown to Pullen Park for the day. The kids played on the playground, went on a few rides (carousel, boats, train, etc). We took a walk around the pond and took some really neat pictures. We ate an early dinner at Q Doba (Patrick thinks this place is better than Cafe Rio, but I'm not buying it)... We headed for home and it started to rain pretty hard. That evening Julie and kids made Rice Krispy bird nests for Easter and they filled them with a peep and chocolate eggs and jelly beans. After Julie got the babies to bed she and I headed of to shop while Patrick sat in the hot tub with the kids....

North Carolina

Marbles Museum

Abbey playing hockey

Giving Yates a bath

Singing on stage at Marbles

Abbey and I flew to North Carolina April 7- 12th. We had tons of fun once I got my luggage on day 2. The first day was spent playing and hugging/kissing babies. Julie, the 2 older kids and I left in the afternoon to pick up my luggage at the airport and we spent some time playing at a neat park at the airport that sat right next to the runway.... We played in the sand and watched the planes land and take off. After dinner on Wednesday Abbey helped Julie bathe both babies and get them ready for bed. She thought this was the coolest thing ever!!! Abbey and Ethan had a very hard time getting along most of the trip (they always wanted the same toy, baby etc and the exact same time)...

On Thursday we got up early and went to a children's museum in downtown Raleigh (Marbles) and we spent the entire day there and were the last one's out the door. We spent the morning playing in the interactive section where the kids got to pretend to be firemen, postal workers, play store & kitchen, pirate ship, etc. We ate lunch at a cool little cafe down the street and then we went back for more fun. The kids played in the balls, played hockey, raced cars and then at 3pm we headed to the IMAX theater to see Monsters vs. Aliens 3D. After the movie ended we headed back to the museum and played in the balls some more till they literally kicked us out. We headed home for dinner and the kids all went down pretty early.

Jeff's Birthday- March 10th

Better late than never......

Since Jeff has been skiing/Snowboarding at Sundance all winter Abbey picked out a snowboarding cake for his birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF!!!! It was a low key day, a little skiing for Jeff and we had cake and ice cream. Jeff and I also went to see Slumdog Millionaire.....

Magic Kingdom- Epcot- Scroll Down Entire Page for more Disney Stuff

Epcot- Test Track Car

Waiting in line for test track

After the long wait..... Tinkerbell

The Haunted Mansion

Abbey and Jasmine

We spent our final day in Orlando at the Magic Kingdom and before we went home we went a few rides at Epcot. Abbey got her dose of Aladdin carpet ride, Pirates of the Caribbean and when we got off the Aladdin ride Jasmine had appeared so Abbey got to meet her. We were able to ride Splash Mountain, Train Roller Coaster, Haunted Mansion & Small World. After lunch Jeff headed back to Epcot and Abbey and I stayed at Magic Kingdom. We rode, the teacups, winnie the pooh, dumbo and then ventured over to Toon Town to see Tinkerbell and her fairies, we had to wait 30 mins, but Abbey wanted to wait. We met back up with Jeff at Epcot and went on our favorite rides again and then headed for home. We had an awesome time in Orlando and we appreciate Kathie and Jamal for the hotel and food and we also appreciate Troy "32" for getting us into Disney!!! We can't wait to go back.

Lady and the Tramp

Learning to eat Spaghetti

Wiping her mouth after each bite

Notice that some of her paint came off after she wiped so much

After we dropped Jeff off to go to trivia in downtown Orlando, Abbey and I headed to BJ's for dinner (I wish we had BJ's in Utah). Abbey wanted the kids Spaghetti & Meatballs and I got the buffalo chicken pizza. This place is my new favorite restaurant in Orlando. The waitress brought us our food and put a big napkin around Abbey's neck and while she was eating this was our conversation:

Abb- "Mom, since my face is painted like a dog and I'm eating spaghetti I feel like Lady and the tramp"

Me- "Really, if your lady where is the tramp?"

Abb- "mom, since my face is painted I'm lady and your face is not painted but you can be tramp"

She then proceeded to sing "This is the night, what a beautiful night,"

Which then got the people behind us cracking up and they even clapped when she finished singing. She politely thanked them and hid her head under the table

Universal Studios

Giving Woody Woodpecker a kiss goodbye

Curious George & the Man in the yellow hat

My new Dalmatian- "ruff, ruff"

Seuss Landing

She was so excited for Seuss Land

On Wednesday we spent the day day at Universal Studios. We initially planned on only going to one park, but the ticket salesman told us we could get through the entire park in 3 hours so we bought the hopper pass for both sides. She was right, we got through Islands of Adventure by 1pm (that included several rides in Seuss land, hulk roller coaster, Spiderman). I think Abbey rode on the Cat in the Hat 6 times and she she laughed at the same things every time. While we were in Seuss Land I let Abbey get her face painted like a Dalmatian and every once in awhile she'd bark and then she would belly laugh. We ate lunch and then headed to the Hollywood side were we went on Shrek 4-D, Jimmy Neutron, ET, Woody Woodpecker roller coater, Jaws, the new Simpson's 3-D, etc. The lines were so short that we rode some rides multiple times. We also got to see quite a few characters, Spongebob, Shrek, donkey & Fiona, Curios George & the Yellow hat guy, Scooby Doo, male/female woodpeckers. I did see Barney out of the corner of my eye but steered Abbey the other direction, does that make me a bad mom? We stayed until the park closed at 7 and then headed to drop Jeff off to go to trivia. We had a super fun day