Snow time in Utah!!!

While in Utah we drove up to Park City to go tubing. There's a great place called Gorgoza Park right off the freeway.

Here's Emma striking a pose with her winter style!

"Smile for Mommy so she can make a tubing scrapbook page!"

This is the kiddie section. We thought we'd see how Emma and Bryce did dragged around in the snow. Bryce's next goal is to become an Olympic curling stone.

WEEEEEEE!! Faster, Faster!

We played around on the bunny hill.

Daddy on the bunny hill!!!

Bryce made it all by himself on the bunny hill!

Mommy and Emma....We made it!!!! We went on the medium hill. It was so fast and Emma wanted to go again right away! So all four of us went down holding onto each other. Bryce loved it at first until I put my boot down to slow us down and snow flew up onto his face, then he cried.

Here's a view from the middle hill. Daddy actually went on the BIG hill while we waited!! Emma really wanted to go but she was just 1 year to young. I was to chicken! hahahaha

How can you fall asleep now?

Bryce started not feeling well and actually fell asleep while tubing!

Here is Mt. Emma where she blasted everyone with snowballs! Honestly that is all she cared about!! We started to leave and she didn't get to throw one at us yet and got upset.....so we let her throw some and left happily! We love the snow and can't wait to go back and play again.

We have silly's!!!!

Ok we have some really silly kids sometimes!!! It helps that we have a silly daddy too! For he encourages the kids! Here is silly Emma!
Here is Silly Brycee!!!!! I love them so much!!!

Ballerina Emma

Emma really wanted to be a ballerina so we decided to sign her up at the community center. She looked so cute in her ballet get up!



Free style dancing!!

The ballet teacher was teaching the kids to sachez, jumping, and all the positions. Emma picked them up pretty good but she kept staring at herself in the mirror all through class!!!

Adorable!!!!

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Daddy is just plain FUN!!!

Oh Boy! The kids just love their daddy, all they want to do is hang on him, climb on him and tickle him. Emma and Bryce beg for his attention all the time so I decided to capture on camera some of Daddys creative kids entertainment....the picture above is Donnie doing the "monster dance" with Emma and Bryce on his feet. He will dance and jump up and down and attempt to walk with the two clinging on for dear life!

It's "Monkey swinging time"! We finally have a great broom to do this, just a side note...if you try it make sure you have a broom that the bottom actually screws onto the pole! Otherwise bye bye baby! hahaha. This is a HUGE hit in our house! The kids take turns swinging back and forth, Donnie sure does get a work out with them!

Emma is Laughing so hard, she could barely hold on! so funny and cute

Emma and Bryce LOVE music so musical chairs it is! But don't ever let Emma lose, she will throw a fit! I am incharge of the remote to turn the music on and off for the 3 of them to play.

CHEESE! Sorry Bryce, I guess you were out this round! We love spending time as a family and greatful for a fun Dad!

Beach time...4th of July....

We decided to enjoy our 4th of July by going to the Beach! Though it's not like California beaches but we still had a blast! Here is a picture of our "Sandman" Emma was so excited to make him, she kept going around to find the perfect eyes...but mommy had to have a say in it and insisted that the 2 eyes match in size and color! lol
Bryce Harley and Emma had fun attempting to make sand castles...it was so hot out that the sand was to dry to do anything. It took Donnie and Emma about 15 trips from the water to where we were dumping buckets of water in our little ditch.

Ahhh, the Meldrum feet!


Daddy and Emma playing together

"Mommy, it's so cold!!!" It may be hot out but the water was freezing!

Emma is trying really hard not to trip on the rocks in the water. She didn't want to lose the water in her bucket! She is so cute but determined!

"CHEESE" I love this picture of our sweet little girl!

MMMMMMMMmmmmmm, yummy food! Emma and Bryce love picnics so I decided that we would do a fun one at the beach. Here is our spread!

Ok....so maybe Emma didn't really like the spread after all! (note...look at Emma's face!)

Minus one child unhappy with the food choices we truly enjoyed our 4th of July...We love spending time as a family and having fun. And what could make a day end better then an awesome display of fireworks!

Zoo trip time!

It was late in the afternoon and we went to the Zoo while Donnie was at work. My favorite part was feeding the birds. They had seeds on a stick and then you hold out the stick and they fly down to you and land on your hand or stick and start eating. Emma was so excited but everytime a bird flew down and landed the the sticks she was holding she'd scream and drop the stick!

Bryce and Emma feeding the birds

This one was my favorite...granted it didn't do anything except sit there and look pretty...my kind of life! lol


Look Mommy I did it, I did it! This is actually Bryce's favorite saying!

My turn!

Ahhh, Emma did a great job as long as we handed her the bird on a stick!

Dani was the first one to get at bird to land

Bryce is a Turtle with Turtle Powers!

Silly Emma

Dani and Emma climbed up into this rope web... So now they are caught!

Emma tried really hard to climb up the web ropes....but there were lots of flies and every time one landed on her she freaked out!

Dani is the spider.....watch out Emma! Dani is so creative and we are so blessed to have her as our "Nanny" She really loves our kids and they love her!

So from what I was told the brown thing is fake Flamingo poop. They make their nest out of their poop and then sit on their young! Dani is sitting on her "young" Emma!

Bryce is being so silly! He didn't understand what we were doing but it was a cute picture!

Hey were hiding in here!

Go Bryce Go!

Dani, Emma and Bryce....they have way to much fun together!
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NOW PRESENTING-----HATCHING EMMA!

We truly had a blast learning about animals at the Zoo!