Road Trip!

For Spring Break this year we did the unthinkable.....we went on a huge road trip. Considering we never drive longer than a day's drive, ever, this was a change for us. We left after school last Tuesday (the kids were on half days for conferences) and headed to Utah. We stayed at Eric's Aunt Robyn's house. Eric had a meeting at noon in Salt Lake. We would have done something outdoors and springy, but it was snowing. We weren't ready to head out of Utah until 3:30, so we got to Arizona after midnight. We stayed at Eric's cousin Ryan's house in Gilbert. Corey and Brenda's family, Lindsey, Hillary and Jeff, and Eric's parents came too. All the girls and kids crashed the boys' NCAA basketball boy's weekend. We had fun with the kids, and the boys had fun going to the games on Thursday and Saturday and golfing and tennis in between. We were just so happy to be in warm weather, since up north we are having global cooling! The kids had the best time playing with their cousins. Ryan and Nichole's kids, Tyler and Kate, are just like 1st cousins to my kids even though they are 2nd cousins.

Tyler, Rhys, Malik and Olivia

Hayden, Jackson and Malik went to Tyler's scout day camp while they were there. The younger boys got to make tool boxes--which they were very excited about!

Jeff and Hillary snuggled with Kate during one of the rare moments that she was sitting still.

Lindsey squirted the kids off before bath time.

Liv went with Ron and Anita to visit GG Mary. She gave Liv a lion that she carries around with her non-stop now.

Liv with BBR(Big Bad Ron) aka grandpa.

Hilly and Jeff

Carter and Kate

Little miss poser

CHEEEEEEEESE!

Carter's favorite thing to say is "wook at me! wook at me! wheee!"

Grandma told Liv she was a monkey. Liv told her that she was only 1/2 monkey because she didn't like bananas.

Kate, Jorie, Carter and Olivia

The kids even got Grandma to go down the slide with them.

On Friday we took the kids to a park to have water ball races. It doesn't look like it would be that fun from the pictures, but the kids loved it. After an hour and a half we had to make them leave.

Olivia adores Grandma Enloe-- it might have something to do with the fact that Anita will do anything Olivia wants. Whenever they are around I put Liv's carseat in their car, and she is their kid for a few days. She cries hysterically whenever it is time for them to leave.

Olivia used her wet water ball to draw a picture of herself on the concrete.

And they are off..... who's ball will make it there first? Riveting, I know!

We had such a relaxing, fun time in Arizona! We were really excited to go see Corey and Brenda's new house in Aspen and hang out with them, but not excited to leave the beautiful weather. On Monday we drove to Colorado and arrived in the below freezing snowy weather. I didn't bring enough cold weather clothes for the trip. Yesterday I wore flip-flops, and my feet were really cold. I should have just worn my running shoes and sacrificed style! I guess it has been snowing back home and in Utah, so what is with this cruddy spring break weather? It is a good thing Brenda and I are home playing games and relaxing while it snows outside-- Eric, Corey, Jackson, Hayden and Malik are snowboarding. It feels like Christmas break??????

I Need To Blog More Often!

PINE WOOD DERBY!!!!!!!!!!
This past Tuesday the boys had their pinewood derby. Jackson wanted his car to be BYU, Hayden wanted Texas Longhorns--- and Olivia wanted Olivia ofcourse. Eric was nice enough to make a car for Olivia too. She was soooo excited and proud.

Carter ran around the church that night causing trouble and cheering for the boys.

Jackson was completely covered in graphite by the end of the night. He applied it to his wheels between each race.

Here is a picture of one of Hayden's races. He always got first place, except on the races that he was against Jackson.

This is one of Jackson's races.

Jackson in the pit between races.

By the end everyone was congratulating Jackson, since he had won every race that he was in. When they announced the winners, and Jackson and Hayden weren't in the top 4, everyone was confused. The boys that they said won were really excited, but their parents were saying things like, "are you sure Eli won? He never got above 3rd place in any of his races." The guy that was running it told them that the computer calculated everything and it wasn't by the number of races won, but by their average time overall. The boys were dissapointed, and so I was the crazy competitive mom. I went up to the guy and asked to see the score sheet. He had to turn the computer back on to show me. He said, "see, those are the top 4." I felt bad, but not that bad. I said, "But Trevor's average time is 3.2 and Jackson's average time is 2.82." A guy from the bishopric came up and told him that he had the kids sorted by car number, not by their times. They had read off the winners as the boys with car numbers 1-4. He then realized Jackson had 1st and Hayden had 2nd out of 17 boys. They had already given the other boys the prizes, and we for sure were not going to go to districts. The boys were just happy to know that they had won. I had to tell Jackson not to go telling the other boys that they hadn't really won. The bishopric member came up to me and asked if I felt a little weird contesting the pinewood derby results, but hey-- the Enloes are a competetive family!

Speaking of competetive....... Jackson is part of the math nerds. Good thing he is a really good athlete! He was one of 16, 4th graders from his school that tested high enough to compete in the Math is Cool competition. Since January they have been meeting after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays to practice. On Thursday night they went to the Regional competition, and they got 2nd place. Last year's team actually got 1st place, but they were very happy with 2nd. I sat in on part of the team competition with the buzzers. I didn't even know the answers to some of these. There were some seriously smart kids there.

This week Hayden had his 2nd grade musical, "How Does Your Garden Grow?" He was a weed and so cute. He thought he was so cool!

He got to do a rap--

Yo we're the weeds, and we're takin over

No more daisies, no more clover

We grow fast and everywhere

Precious pansies-- BEWARE!

IT'S RELIEF SOCIETY BIRTHDAY DINNER TIME OF YEAR

Being Enrichment leader has actually been pretty fun. We had the best birthday dinner ever! We had a "Purse"-onal birthday dinner. The purse theme was really cute and made things really fun. Everyone had to weigh their purses on the way in. The lady with the heaviest purse got a prize. We also voted on the craziest item that someone had in their purse. Our bishop's wife won that one. She had a pair of underwear in her purse. We also had a game that we read off like 40 items, and everyone had to keep track of how many they had in their purse. The person with the most also got a prize.

Everyone had a cute purse sugar cookie at their place when they sat down.

I borrowed 3 cupcake shaped cake pans and made a billion cakes. I was so sick of making cakes! Luckily Kristi Lewis thought of asking a grocery store if they would decorate them for us. They only charged $1 per cake, and they looked so cute. She also made the cute paper purses we had on the tables.

Another ward in our building had a purse theme the night before and had an extra cake. It was even the right color. We put it on our buffet table. Soooo cute!

Hayden just finished his basketball season. He absolutely loved it. His coach is the nicest guy, but so intense. He just loves basketball-- so they started practicing a few months early and 3 times a week. Needless to say, Hayden's team was awesome!

Grandma's Pajamas

For Christmas this year, Grandma Enloe made all the grandkids pajamas. We thought we weren't going to Utah, so she sent the package with the pajamas to our house. We had that huge snow storm, and UPS couldn't deliver our package. We ended up going to Utah, and the kids didn't even get to wear their pajamas on Christmas Eve. Grandma Enloe never got to see the kids in their cute pajamas. They all love them, and wear them a lot, but I don't think they ever wore them on the same night. I finally got around to taking some pajama pics for Grandma.