Week in review part 1

Sorry I've been MIA this past week.  I've had my parents and baby brother here staying with us so we've been pretty busy having fun and hanging out with them.  Now I wish I could have blogged it all as it happened because I'm sure I'll forget stuff.  I wish I would have taken more pictures.  I realized before they left that I didn't have any pictures of Em with my parents, but she was at play practice when they left so there wasn't much I could do. 

My family arrived Saturday evening and of course Grandma had brought some gifts for the kids.  She got Liam this Dog puppet that sings Why do birds suddenly appear when you move the mouth.  He loves it and still laughs when it starts singing.  She brought Emily and Jason each a stuffed animal and Jason a boomerang and Emily a book.  They had been driving all day so we relaxed and talked until we were all tired and then went to bed. 

Sunday my brother came down from Ogden with his family and my Aunt came down from West Valley and we all went to church together.  Liam went to his 2nd time of Nursery and he didn't cry at all and he loved it except for right after I happened to be walking by when someone opened the door and after that he tried to escape (he can open the door).  Thankfully he didn't get far.  (Thanks Felicia!) 

When we all got back to my house things were a little bit crazy as you would expect in my modest sized house with all those people.  I made Cafe Rio salads for dinner and everyone seemed to like them.  Aunt Lynn brought carrot cake from Costco which was surprisingly good.  I thought I didn't like carrot cake, but I liked THAT carrot cake.  I think I ate way more than my fair share of it.  Here are some cute pictures of the fun.  

This car was the hot toy of the day that everyone wanted to play with.  They did a good job sharing most of the time.  Shayla loves lipgloss and chapstick so whenever anyone got any out she wanted some too. This one is Liam checking out the keyboard we gave to my brother Jim.  Thankfully for us it wasn't plugged in or else it would have added to the already too loud atmosphere we were in.  ;) 

Monday we met up with my brother and aunt in Salt Lake at the Clark Planetarium.  The kids had fun checking out all the exhibits, but it was a bit crazy with all the school groups that were there.  Jason tried his hand at being a weather man.  Liam walked on Mars and then the Moon.  Emily and Bryannah tried out the Moon too.  Then they all had fun putting pennies down the "black hole" in the lobby.  It was funny to see them all get so excited.  Jason met us at the Gateway food court for lunch and then we decided to go bowling.  Bowling is one of my family's favorite things to do together.  We had one lane with bumpers and one without.  The kids and my mom and I bowled with bumpers--I think I was the only one that didn't get a strike--including Liam, but I still got the highest score on our lane and even beat Jim who is normally a better bowler than I am.  Dad wasn't feeling great so he was the cameraman for us, but it was kinda dark in there so some of the pictures are dark.  Watching Em bowl Grandma's a good bowler My brothers watching Aunt Lynn bowl I think.  The new and improved Jen Stevens (my sil)  After bowling we stopped at Lynn's for a minute for more carrot cake and then headed home.  It was a fun filled, but tiring day. 

Stay tuned for the rest of our fun filled week...