Sydney's family birthday party

Sydney's friend birthday party was on Friday, but her actual birthday was on Saturday, so of course we had to do something fun right. I made pancakes for breakfast and then we cleaned a little. We then went to Idaho Ice World and went ice skating. They had a free ice skating day which included free skate rentals. It really was totally free. The only problem with that was that there were a ton of people there. I haven't been ice skating in at least 12 years. I never fell, but it was harder then I remembered. Megan and Courtney did good and Tyler was starting to get the hang of it. He still had to hold onto someone though. Sydney went around once and did not want anything else to do with it. She rested for a little while then I had her go around one more time. It's a good thing it was free because we definitely would not have gotten our money worth. We then went to yummy Tucano's for lunch. It's our favorite place to eat when we go to Utah so we are so glad they finally opened one up here in Idaho. After Tucano's we went to Chuck-e-cheese's. Note to self do NOT go there on a Saturday. We could barely walk around because there were so many kids there. Surprisingly though they didn't have to wait for the games. Yes, even Megan got in on the fun. I can't believe how fast kids can use 20 tokens. After that we came home and vegged the rest of the day. We were all exhausted and didn't want to do anything. And because we went to Tucano's at 3:00 we didn't need dinner, so it was perfect. Sydney had a great day, but I don't think she will ever go ice skating again.

Discover Engineer Day at BSU

Last Saturday BSU had a big kids Engineer Day. They had alot of things for the kids to do. We got there a little late so we didn't do alot of things, but we did get to hear Barbara Morgan (the first teacher in Space) talk about her experience in space in 2007. It was really cool to listen to all the things that happened in space. She had some really cool pictures too!

Barbara Morgan!
Space shuttle Endeaver with some of the people that made it possible.

The International Space Station in 2007. More has been added since then. It's roughly the size of 2 football fields.

Water and M&M's floating in space.

Picture of the earth from the space shuttle.

Courtney and I ended up winning Basil seeds that flew in space. How cool is that! This is a picture of Courtney picking up her seeds from Barbara.

Megan and Courtney also got to ride a Segway. They thought that was pretty cool!

The last thing they did was learn about buildings and motion using Jenga blocks.

All in all we all had a great time learning about Engineering and the best part was that it was all FREE!!! Can't beat that.

New Friends

In the mail we got a gift card for a free Build-a-bear up to $12.00 as a birthday present, but it was only good from Jan. 21-25. Since my birthday is the only one in that time frame I claimed the coupon. We also had another coupon for $10.00 off since we had spent $100 previously. So we all went to the mall to get bears. The kids had Christmas money and that's what they wanted to spend it on. I was to embarrassed getting my bear so we pretended that is was Megan's. So the bear that Megan is holding is actually my almost free bear with the coupons I had. Thanks Build-a-bear. Now we all have at least on bear. The kids all have 2. Yes, even Ron has a bear that we got him last year for Fathers day that says "#1 Dad!"
Toby didn't want to feel left out so he had to be in the picture too. The bears are bigger then he is :0)!

Wall climbing kids

Courtney is by far the monkey around here. She was climbing up the walls upstairs and Megan decided that if she can't climb the walls she will find the next best thing. So she gets a chair and then sits on the wall. That takes some serious muscles to be able to do that. Soccer must be paying off!

Sydney was getting jealous that she couldn't climb the wall, so she did the next best thing to get up higher, standing on a chair along with her Build a bear monkey named Princess!