Fountain Fun

So wow it has been a while or at least it really feels like it! we are no longer in virginia we just moved to grand prairie texas. our office was small so we decided to combine with another office and now between the two our office is the #1 office in the entire company!!!! yay! so we have been here for almost 2 weeks and i have been internet-less aaaargh, people in texas are way smarter than anywhere else as far as wireless internet goes, we get like 50 wireless signals and all of them are password protected!!! Curse you aqua scum!!!!! anywho so now we have our very own internet connection and i have pics!!!! even though they are from Va they are still fun! there was an outdoor mall with the funnest fountain and the kids had such a blast every time we went! enjoy!!!!

lucas's silly grumpy face that he thinks is hilarious 

evie playing at the fountain at the great fashion place mall in richmond va!!

Lucas was so brave!! he loved to stick his face right in!!

so as you can see i have issues with finding swim trunks that fit my poor little scrawny munchkin. he still doesn't even fit in 12 month pants and he will be 2 in a month!!! :)
 

Lucas and our good buddy Kayson

Evie is obsessed with self inflicted wetness :) 

Pictures

YAY!! I finally got some pictures!!! Here is just a little montage of our trip and some of our stay here so far, unfortunately not necessarily in that order :)

Lucas kickin it watchin a movie at one of the many hotels we camped at along the way.

Evie by a tree at one of the half million gas stations we stopped at along the way. Her classic thing was 5 minutes after we'd stopped and then got going again she would have to go potty.

Lucas stretching his legs after many long hours in the car.

Our favorite place here at our new home. Where we spend about 80% of our time :)

Evie loves to just lounge in the pool in her floatie.

Our first Sunday going to our new ward, the Manchester Ward in the Chesterfield Stake. Great ward!

Evie in her swim suit on the patio.

Evie in her swim suit showing off her purple tongue in the bathroom.

Just in case you couldn't tell Evie wears her swim suit all day every day :)

Lucas kickin it with his Cars, don't ya just love that goofy little grin :)

Evie loves beets and gets the leftovers when we make her favorite pink soup (Russian borsch)

Another goofy grin, more Cars and he loves being outside!!

Lucas headed out to the patio with his cars (can you see the big fun forest right behind our complex? it is everywhere and never ends!!!

The kids doing what they do best on long roadtrips! Lucas even saves his fries for later, he had quite a grip on that thing even while sleeping.

Cool dude!

Evie loves her atlas and is a big help in finding the way, she has already informed her grandparents how to get here turn by turn :)

Rain rain go away.....

Well we are still in Virginia, it is still raining and yesterday we spent and hour and a half lost in Richmond. Actually it is a lot better than I am making it sound. Our office is off and running and everyone seems to be doing very well. It should be a productive summer. We took a trip into old Richmond which is beautiful, we did get lost and luckily found ourselves again but it was actually fun to just drive around, there are all sorts of cool buildings and tons of random monuments for this or that and it was cool to look at them all. We were looking for a park to play at and never actually made it that far. So Evie said a funny thing the other day, she was watching a guy mow the big grassy area behind our apartment. He had the cool kind of riding lawn mower where you stand on a platform on the back and drive rather than sitting and Evie turned to me and said, "Mom that is so so cool! i want a moron like that someday!!" i think she was actually saying a mower-on or something to that effect i laughed so hard!!!!! So we knew we might have issues with Lucas when we bought him Lightning McQueen slippers for Christmas and he wouldn't take them off for like a month (not even for bed) but that is nothing compared to what we have gone through since we bought him Disney Cars matchbox cars. He freaks out if we try to go or do anything without Lightning, Chick and the King. 1 or 2 is not good enough its all or screaming bloody murder!! Bed, baths, walks, the kid is obsessed! Plus he asks to watch the movie everytime I walk close to the computer! Any helpful tips on obsession would be most welcome!  

Virginia

Well i wasn't sure if we ever actually would but after a 4 day very long car ride we MADE it!! we arrived at our place in Midlothian VA at around 3 am EST on Saturday morning and are finally finishing getting settled. it has been a really fun trip actually, we are extremely blessed with kids who don't mind traveling, i guess if thats not Heavenly Fathers way of letting us know we are doing the best thing for us right now i don't know what is :) we stayed the night in Cheyenne WY, Omaha NE (which was great the kids and Jason all threw up that night within 2 hours of eachother, fun fun) and Mt Vernon IL. We drove through St Louis MO right as it was getting dusky and it was so beautiful, the highway goes right down past the temple and the arch, we went over both the Missouri and Mississippi rivers and Evie was so impressed she had to call both her grandma's and tell them about  the huge rivers she had just seen. it was a great drive beautiful scenery, but nothing compares with Midlothian. It literally appears out of the forest, Jason and the kids can walk 100 yards from our apartment and be on a hike, and is just surrounded by gorgeous green everywhere. we got a taste yesterday of what jason will be knocking in yesterday, first it was 95 degrees and humid as "you know where" and then 3 hours later it was freezing and dumping rain like you wouldn't believe. the thunder and lightning were amazing!!!! any ways now my kids need naps and so do i!!!!! i will post pics when i get them developed cause no more digi cam for me. :(

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2008 Bonneville Bonnevaires Tour de Chicago

I just returned from one the best trips i have ever been on!!  i went with Shari and Rozie's choir to Chicago for the Festival of Gold Choir Competition, in which their choir took 1st place might i add!!!! the kids in the choir are absolutely amazing! I have never been with a group of kids that get along better, love eachother more, accept anyone and everyone. they made me feel like i was a member of their choir. we did some way fun things!! the first pic is of Rozie and our friend Taunalee Clark in outside the Museum of Science and Industry. The second is Taunalee and I with a member  of the Blue Man Group. AWESOME!!! if ever you get the opportunity to see it I would highly recommend it! and the 3rd is a me, Taunalee, Nathan Day, Chelsea Stucki, Katie Lewis, Ryan Hemsley, and Dalan Guthrie at the Navy Pier on Lake Michigan. We also went and saw Wicked AMAZING!!!! Ate some incredible deep dish Chicago style pizza, ate popcorn that Oprah buys every morning on her way to work at a place called Garretts on the Magnificent Mile and millions of other funly fabulous things!! I had 6 wonderful days of no kids no hubby and lots of fun!! Thanks Bonnevaires!!!!!!!

Bad Hair Day

Shari came down last weekend to try knocking for the first time (she has signed on in our office as a Pinnacle sales girl in Richmond VA this summer) and we had a blast having her here! It will be fun to have her live with us this summer. Marianne was so much fun last summer. While she was here she and Evie were goofing around and had a grand ole time doing this...

Evie loves to have a good excuse to make silly faces at the camera. :) and she loves to go cross eyed.

I am going to CHICAGO this week!!! HIP HIP HOORAY!! I get to chaperone for the Bonnevaires (Shari and Rozie's high school choir) Tour. I am way excited. We get to go see Wicked and the Blue Man Group. And do alot of other touristy things like the Sears Tower. AAAAHHH!! I am so so so so so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just in case it wasn't completely evident. This month is going to be a super crazy busy one!! This week I go to Chicago, Jason goes to Indiana, the kids go to Grandma's. As soon as we get back we pack like crazy for 2 days straight, haul all our stuff up to Idaho to store at my parents and then on the 21st we head off to our newest adventure in summer sales in Richmond VA. We will see if I make it through the month :)