March 2022

Wheeler Farm

It's so fun living so close to Wheeler Farm.  We went there with our neighbors Annie and Jules.  The girls had fun looking at the animals and riding on the cow train a couple of times.

Happy 3rd birthday Harper!
Harper was so excited for her birthday!  I love having a toddler and seeing all the excitement that comes out of them.  She played in her balloons and then went straight to opening her presents.   We made her mini pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream and she thought we meant Minnie pancakes so Rem made a few Minnie Mouse mini pancakes for her.  That afternoon we dressed her up in her new Minnie Mouse dress and took her to Disney on Ice.  She loved about the first half and then she got restless.  I should've splurged and got closer seats, but they were a bit pricey and I had to hold off on buying tickets because we weren't sure if Paxton would be able to make it.  Later that evening we took her to Chuck-a-Rama for dinner and of course she loved that.  I sure love this Minnie Mouse loving girl of mine.  She brings lots of smiles to our whole family.

The next day we celebrated Harper and her cousin Lincoln's birthdays at Sunday family dinner.  I made her some Minnie Mouse cupcakes and she thought it was the best thing!  She is one spoiled little girl!

Graham's eye

One Sunday afternoon I was in the kitchen doing some clean up and all the sudden Graham comes upstairs from playing with his siblings crying pretty hard.  I really didn't think much of it because sometimes he over reacts, even Rem felt the same and said something like "did you lose an eye?"  and then he looked up and Graham had his hand over his eye and he was bleeding.  Apparently he had his nice chopsticks and was sliding down the couch on a cushion with them and one of them stabbed him in the eye.  I was worried about his vision with the cut being so close to his eyeball so Rem took him to instacare while I stayed home to cook dinner for the missionaries that were supposed to come over that evening.  Instacare ended up sending them to Primary Childrens Hospital because they didn't have the right equipment to check his vision.  Then they ended up waiting about 3-4 hours for the doctor because she was in an emergency surgery and it took forever.  Luckily everything ended up being okay for Graham and we just had to put some ointment on his eye a few times a day for a couple of weeks.  But because everything took so long I had to give the missionaries dinner to go because your supposed to have an adult male present in the home.  I'm sure they were glad to have a meal without all the small talk though.  They were very understanding and text us later to make sure Graham was okay.

The Children's Museum

I took Harper to the Gateway Children's Museum with Jamie and her kids, Erika and Jo and our friends Ali and Emma.  Harper absolutely loved it!  She mostly played with Jo and followed her around.  It was fun watching her explore and play.

Happy 12th birthday Paxton!

I can't believe my Paxton is 12 years old!  He is such a great kid and we had a great time celebrating him.  It was a school day but we started the morning off with presents and of course he gets a new St. Paxton's day shirt every year.  His big presents this year were a Gabb watch and tickets to go see "School of Rock" at Hale Theater.  His sweet brother Graham wanted to buy him a present and picked out a Snoopy dog blanket which he loved!  He then went to school and that evening we went to dinner, yes he picked Chuck-a-Rama (my kids love that place).  Afterwards he had a church ball game that he did not want to miss, so we went as a family to watch him.  

Birthday Party

The next day we did a big birthday party for Paxton.  He said he wanted a basketball party which was easy enough for me.  So I reserved the church gym, bought a bunch of food and hired some 9th grade boys, one of which was on the Murray basketball team to come run the party.  They did some drills with the boys and then they played a game.  One of the 9th grade boys got nicknamed "pink shorts" that night, I still wonder if that nickname will stick with him longer than that night.  They all had a great time, Paxton has some great friends!

Spring Break

We headed to the Hurricane house for spring break with my sister Erika and my parents came for some of the time as well.  We didn't get out and do a ton of things because Rem still had to work (it's nice to have a job that he can work remotely) and I am very pregnant and have a hard time doing a whole lot.  But the kids were happy to have a fun yard to play in, do some hot tubbing, go on some side by side rides with grandpa and more.  We did go into St. George a few times and climbed the red rocks at Dixie Rock which is one of my kids favorites.  Erika and I had a girls night and went to dinner and got prenatal massages which was amazing!  And then I took Graham and Harper (Paxton wasn't feeling well) to an ice cream shop, rode the carousel and played in the water at river walk.  I wasn't planning on taking them to play in the water so we weren't prepared with swimsuits but they still had fun getting their feet wet.