Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Planting Flowers

Our Family Night lesson on Monday was on the creation, so afterwards Kennedy helped daddy plant some flowers for our activity. She loved digging, watering, seeing all the worms, planting and just playing in the dirt.

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I sure love watching these two together!

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Happy Easter!

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Bay of Play

Sea World opened up again the end of February, and along with it a new Sesame Street attraction called Bay of Play. All the new stuff it has is pretty neat.  They have 4 new rides, a big splash pad area, and an awesome net/rope jungle gym area.  The Sesame Street characters do a show and also walk around during the day so the kids can say hi. Kennedy loves it!  They had Great Day SA (like Good Things Utah) out filming their show a few weeks ago for the big grand opening and we got to be part of the audience and even made it on the show a few times!

DSC_0240Kennedy and some friends playing while being videoedDSC_0327Kennedy loves the Carousel!Pictures3And Abby’s Rockin Wave ride and Big Bird’s Ferris Wheel000_0014 Scaling the net ropes with Chandler.  She is speedy at getting up them and is all over the place once she reaches the top and loves walking through the net tubes.DSC_0323000_0015Chandler, Kennedy and Boston taking a rest up top

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I was impressed how well she did climbing through this!Pictures2Kennedy loves seeing all the Sesame Street characters and giving them hugs! We will definitely be spending a lot of time here this spring/summer!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Wicked Night!

Zak and I went to see Wicked with some of our friends the end of February and had such a fun time!  I’d seen Wicked before in NY with Zak’s family, but this was Zak’s first time so I was excited to go together! We loved it and it was just as good as the first time!206

The Majestic Theatre is really neat and everything is so amazing and detailed inside.  It was so fun having a night out on the town, I feel like I’m in a different city…(almost like NY) when we go downtown and go to this fancy theatre! Aubrey, me and Alecia

Zak, Tyler and Dave- The boys were thrilled when we told them we needed them to smile for a picture!  Ha!

201We went to dinner before the show at an Italian restaurant downtown called La Focaccia, it was fun going with friends and enjoying a nice relaxing meal together.203 Such a fun evening with friends!

Monday, March 7, 2011

Yee Haw!

We love the dollar days at the San Antonio Rodeo and always make sure to go!  And it just happened that the day we decided to go my aunt and uncle were there too.  My uncle is the chair of the Ogden Days Rodeo so he was invited to come down and check out the San Antonio Rodeo for a few days. It was so fun to meet up with them and spend a few hours together, Kennedy loved Camille and had a great time!  Now whenever she sees the letter C, she says “It’s a C for cookie monster and Camille!” 

  This cowgirl is ready for the Rodeo!DSC_0067 I LOVE her pink boots (a sweet $2 garage sale find!) I wish I had some of my own!DSC_0130

I hope her curls never go away, we sure love them!PicturesRemember Kennedy’s first Merry-go-Round experience last year? Well, it was quite the opposite this year. She wanted to go on it first thing and loved it, so we rode it a few times! She also was big enough this year to go on the animal train ride that she really wanted to go on last year. She would wave and smile at Camille each time we’d go past her on the rides.

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She came up to me a few days after the rodeo and said, “Mom, Camille is nice, Camille is fun!” :)

Pictures1The Petting Zoo-Kennedy liked all the animals, but would get a little nervous when they would come right up to her face.  So she would usually only pet them with our help.

DSC_0138 We ended the night with $1 Cotton Candy, she was in heaven!

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This is how Kennedy felt about the Rodeo. She gives it a yee haw! We had a great time and we’ll definitely be back again next year!

Friday, March 4, 2011

Picnic at Daddy’s Work

The weather has been in the 70’s lately and perfect!  We decided to take advantage of it and go have a picnic at Zak’s work on his lunch break.  USAA’s campus is beautiful and huge, so we always love being there.

DSC_0181Daddy brought Kennedy some Cheetos and treats from work. She was SO excited and was even nice and shared some with us.

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Kennedy is such an observant little girl, we can’t get anything past her! Seriously! She recognizes the USAA symbol anywhere and whenever she sees it she makes sure to tell me, “Look it’s daddy’s work mom!”  And then it’s followed with a “caw, caw, caw” for the eagle.

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Kennedy loves going to daddy’s work and she loves her daddy so it was a fun time! 

Monday, February 28, 2011

Thanksgiving in Utah!

I’m playing catch up on events that I never posted about. So even though Thanksgiving was 3 months ago (oops!), I’m still going to post about it. Kennedy and I spent 10 days in Utah for Thanksgiving, and it was great seeing family and friends!  Zak got to spend the last 5 days with us and we enjoyed having him all to ourselves and no work! Sadly, I don’t have one picture  from actual Thanksgiving day, but I’ll post pictures I took throughout the week.

We sure enjoyed our time in St. George! I loved shopping with my mom, eating at our favorite UT restaurants, going to Tai Pan for many hours (Kennedy was with us the whole time and she did amazing, I still can’t believe she lasted for a few hours!), chatting all the time, watching Kennedy play with her cousins and grandparents, playing games, seeing so much extended family, and just being together!  I think the fact that Kennedy doesn’t get to play with her cousins and grandparents very often is the hardest part for me living so far away.  Thank goodness for skype, at least we can “see” them and chat often! (I’m disappointed I didn’t get a picture of Kennedy with all her cousins, next time I guess)

DSC_0103  Making cookies at grandma’s house, she really got into it!DSC_0141 DSC_0163 Kennedy has really been into the nativities we see in the stores, so I really wanted to take her to see the nativity at the temple. She loved it, but I think she was hoping to be able to touch them. DSC_0171DSC_0182 I sure love the St. George Temple, Zak and I were married there so it’s extra special to me! My mom and I were able to do a session earlier that morning together which was really neat!

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I loved this moment!  While we were in the temple visitors center the missionaries turned on the message that goes along with the Christus and while Jesus was talking, Kennedy walked right up to it and looked up at Him.  I think she felt the spirit and wanted to be closer to Him.  After the message ended she just turned around and sat down in front of him sitting quietly. It was really sweet and will always be such a special memory to me!DSC_0195

She loved seeing all the other exhibits in the visitors center too, I wish the San Antonio temple had one!

We had Thanksgiving at Zak’s brother’s house with all the Muir extended family, the food was wonderful and we had a great time with everyone! We even got Johnson family pictures done that day too. It was freezing cold, but Tracy still got some good shots.   IMG_9814e2IMG_9974eIMG_9967e IMG_9946e

The day after Thanksgiving I enjoyed the morning at Santa’s Workshop with lots of the girls. Then that afternoon Zak and I took Kennedy to this really cool park, we all had a great time playing together!

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The Saturday after Thanksgiving a bunch of my high school friends all got together and had brunch at The Egg and I, the food was yummy and it was great seeing everyone and catching up! I just wish I would’ve taken a picture of everyone!

We even got to be there to celebrate Oliver’s 1st Birthday!  DSC_0030Tracy did such a cute job with Ollie’s Party!DSC_0006DSC_0041Us with Grandma and Grandpa Great Johnson

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As you can see, Kennedy was sure happy to be there!DSC_0316Kennedy spent some time our last day playing in the leaves with Oliver, too bad I didn’t bother to do her hair that day! :)DSC_0322 She was loving playing in the leaves, we don’t get leaves like these in Texas!DSC_0321 Happy Fall Ya’ll!

         Phew, way to go if you made it through that big post!     Thanks to all of our family and friends for making it such a fun trip, we always love being with you on our trips to Utah!