May 2017

I'm going to attempt to go back and blog what has been going on in our little family. One thing that has stopped me is I changed my phone to back up pictures on iCloud so I could have more room but I have found it really hard to download those pictures. Currently you have to select each picture for download which is pretty annoying. I used to have the blogger app but I found it frustrating to use so I really don't want to blog from my phone. However, I am going to try and get these pictures on my computer not only so I can blog but also have a back up on my computer. Hopefully, it is made easier soon. So here are some pictures from May.

We love Chick-Fil-A. I sometimes would grab some for lunch after picking up Ava from school. We tried the new frosted strawberry lemonade. It was good!

We got rid of and hid a few more of Milen's binkies. He tried out sucking on his whole hand, different combinations of fingers, and then discovered his thumb.

My SIL Jerica dropped off some stuff for a garage sale that we had in June. Milen spotted this black bear and immediately claimed it as his own.

We spent a lot of time outside. We love our backyard! Here the kids were trying to figure out how to blow bubbles. Ava has gotten really good at it and even Milen has figured it out a little.

Ava has been drawing a lot. It's so fun to see what she comes up with.

Milen always has to have his cars. He has become very particular about lining them up.

Kind of late to still be making soups but I added this on as another favorite, chicken tortilla.
We have quite a few that I make now.

In my previous, I talked about how Milen ran out the door at Article Circle after finishing his ice cream cone.
Yep, this was that night.

One Sunday night, after having dinner at my parents, we went for a walk to the elementary school I went to as a kid.

These kids look so cute in baseball hats. Milen likes to wear his backwards.

Our pediatrician said we had to convert the crib. We did Ava's when she was pretty young, but with Milen I was dreading it. I didn't want him getting into trouble when he was supposed to be napping. However, Milen had escaped from his crib just before he turned 2. We had put him to bed. I walked into the living room and heard a giggle and the tapping of feet running behind me in the hallway. We put him back in and the same thing happened. After that night though, he never escaped again, but we knew it was a possibility for him to fall out of his crib while trying to escape. So we decided to put the gate around his converted crib. He often takes everything off his bed and sleeps on the floor.

We went to Zupas one night and discovered this biking trail that we had never noticed before.
Definitely will have to go back sometime and go on it.


I had a great Mother's Day this year. So sweet getting cards from my kids that they made in church.

The kids and I made a couple of these cards for the Grandmas. I made an extra for myself to keep.

These kids are so silly. Everything is a car or a train.

We have had a lot of weddings lately. This picture was at one of my cousin's reception. They had it at somebody's house and in the basement was a pretty cool kid area. Ava left a toy at the house but luckily my mom was able to get it back because a few days later she was close to the area for a wedding shower and my aunt was able to contact the family to arrange a pick up. Ava was very lucky to get it back. I also had another cousin's wedding reception earlier in the month that sadly we ended up not making.

Ava loves the IG stories filters.

This day we were organizing and getting ready for our June garage sale. Milen was organizing his cars, haha!

A picture my brother took of Ava.

I did my last day helping in Ava's classroom earlier in the month and then Ava had her preschool graduation at the end. She has done so well in school.

I love the way Ava draws people. So fun!

We took the kids to see Lego Batman at the dollar theater. Milen was good for the first 15 minutes and last 5 minutes and was absolutely horrible for the middle. He did love anytime they showed the batmobile. So I decided for the summer movies, Ava and I will be going together and leaving Milen with my mom.

And of course, in the next post, Mason and I celebrated our 9th anniversary!

Anniversary Weekend

Our 9th wedding anniversary came just before Memorial weekend. Can't believe next year will be a decade. Since it was a 3 day weekend, I thought we should make the most of it. I know many people that have gone to Homestead/Midway for honeymoons or just vacation in general. It just kind of got stuck in my head and I was finally able to convince Mason that's where we should spend the weekend. I think it was our first vacation away from both kids, so it was nice not to be too far. I did some research and was interested in the Zermatt Resort. Later my friend posted about staying there and how much she liked it, so I knew I planned well.

I absolutely loved Midway. I think if they put in a few more stores and a movie theater, I could definitely live there or perhaps have a cabin. I loved the Swiss theme.  The mountains and the styles of the houses, hotels, and stores seemed to speak the Scandinavian part of me. We listened to "Howl's Moving Castle" music and it went perfectly with where we were. It was so relaxing and was such a change from the busy city life. I was seriously in heaven! I don't know why we waited so long to go there. It was a million times better then our trip to Park City for one of our other anniversary's.

On the day of our anniversary, Mason got me these flowers.

Then Friday, I packed up the kids stuff and sent them off to my parents. Ava had been looking forward to this sleepover for so long.

Saturday we slept in and then headed to Park City for lunch at the Loco Lizard. The food there was so good!

I liked the green salsa and Mason liked the other one.

We got to Midway with some time before we could check into our room, so we went to the top of the Homestead Crater to look down into it and then we drove around looking at all the houses.

We got checked in to our hotel room a little early and then we headed off to the Homestead Crater. I was a little freaked out swimming in it with not knowing where the bottom was but then I got used to it.

After our swim, we went back to the Zermatt and wandered around the grounds.

We ate at the Wildfire Smokehaus at the resort. We were going to eat at the Z's Steak & Chop Haus but after seeing many mixed reviews and because were weren't too hungry that night we decided not to. We still got way more food then we could eat at the Wildfire. We had wanted to try the bakery at the resort but sadly that never happened.

When we set up our reservation we got breakfast vouchers as well. I recommend getting them because it was a lot cheaper to have the vouchers than paying for the meal when you order. Breakfast was at the Wildfire, so we ate there quite a bit. Their french toast was almost as good as Kneaders.

After breakfast, we headed to church.

We hadn't slept well the past week so after church we took a long nap. Sunday was a chill day. We went around to a few places and went to Heber. Some day we will have to go back with the kids and do the Heber Creeper.

Memorial Hill

We had wanted to have a treat at the Heber Valley Creamery but of course it was closed. So we had pizza and a sundae at Cafe Galleria.

We returned in the evening. We ran into the same friend that I mentioned earlier and talked for a bit. Then Mason and I played some mini golf.

Then we went swimming. They had a hot tub with a waterfall and that was pretty cool. I was surprised that my curls lasted this well through the day because I forgot hair spray.

Then next day we had to say goodbye to the resort and we headed to go hike Cascade Springs.

We headed home to go see our kids. We had a Memorial dinner at my parents and then headed home to go to bed early.