Saturday, April 7, 2012

Funtastic Weekend!

My family got to come to St. Louis for Easter Weekend! It was so good to see everyone again! We packed a bunch of fun into a few days... On good friday we went to the science center...

The kids loved looking through the hole in the bridge to the passing cars on the freeway below.

B loved the telescope

LOVE this pic : )

LOVE this pic too : )

Tornado (fog) simulator... Mckenzie looks super violent... poor Rilea!

I love the bumb line-up shots  : ) All the girls had super cute hair thanks to grandma!

Oh baby D... I would not be surprised if there was another bink behind that one in your giant man mouth hahaha

Bailey's favorite place to be is on someones shoulders!

The trip REALLY wore Bailey out... she passed out in a sea of goldfish on the way home.

Hunterman and goofy uncle rich

The girls had so much giggly fun blowing on dandelions!



Always smiling!

On Saturday we went to a giant easter egg hunt that a family at our church puts on every year. 



Bailey refused to cooperate for the group photo and she ate concrete trying to escape HAHA

Rilea and her loot (with sneaky bailey planning  to  snag a few for her basket)

Ragen skipping along

Bailey absolutely loved finding eggs! She was pretty good at it too!

Surveying their spoils

I love this goofball : )


Grandma & Ri coloring eggs

CHEESE!

SMORES!!! With our propane turkey fryer ... super ghetto but DEEELICIOUS hahaha

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH



Grandma is always covered in kids. It cracks me up

Bailey just loves her pa pa!

Oh matthew... such a good uncle : )


Rocket ship flight simulator at the Science Center. SUPER comfy seats haha

Bailey resting on the state of Missouri

Hunter loved the dinos... Ragen, not so much... she was TERRIFIED! Poor baby girl : (

If you only knew how long it took and how much threatening/bribing/yelling it took to get all 5 of them to cooperate for this picture...

Matchy Match Smith family girlies : ) Thanks amanda for the cute shirts!

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Spring Break Staycation!

McKenzie was NOT excited for spring break. She would go to school 7 days a week all year and LOVE it! Spring Break came nonetheless. We had a super fun and busy week...

Saturday & Sunday we were able to attend a Conference for the LDS Church members in our area. Elder David A. Bednar was our special guest. He is one of the twelve apostles. Rich was able to attend the Priesthood leadership session on Saturday afternoon and i got to go the the adult session that evening. I sat on the front row. As he walked in to the chapel I felt an overwhelming warmth and the Holy ghost testified to me that he is a true & living prophet! It was an incredible experience! Sunday morning we all got to go here him and others speak. It was a very wonderful and spiritual experience. I am so grateful for the unique opportunity to hear a prophet speak and even more grateful that my children could share that experience as well.

Rich had Tuesday off so we hung out and relaxed... ate a couple pounds of bacon for breakfast, played some baseball and enjoyed some good quality family time!

Wednesday we went to story time at the library and played on the playground and had a water fight.

Thursday we went to the St. Louis Science Center! It was our first time here... SO cool and super fun and super FREE (except parking)...


SUPER CREEPY! The life-size t-rex roared and breathed and tossed his head around... Bailey wasn't scared, just mesmerized...
She could not take her eyes off of t-rex!
In the weather center they had a tornado simulator that had swirls of fog. bailey was frustrated that she couldnt catch it hahaha



CHEESE


Bailey loved this statue. Pretty sure she thought it was real. She kept running back to it and hugging it

This is so cool! It projects images from the ceiling and it reacts to where you step. Fireworks explode under your feet or kick the soccer ball image... this one was my favorite... A puddle on the pavement with the reflection of beautiful architecture ... wherever you step it makes ripples. It was so real looking that bailey was completely perplexed. She kept trying to splash in it with her hands but she wouldn't walk in it. SO hilarious! 

Architecture area... Mac built this arch and was so proud of herself!

The view from above the dino area... thats a triceratops that is fighting for breath with a huge t-rex gash in his side... scary!

Another Bailey favorite was the salt fish tank. "OOOOOOOO"

I had a really REALLY hard time convincing Braxton to leave the dino area... That is a real piece of a t-rex jaw bone with teeth and all! He could've spent all stinkin day in here!


Friday we went to the History Museum with our church playgroup. We went to Dwarfs & Fairies storytime and made fairy wings for a craft. b was NOT happy "MOM, THAT CRAFT IS NOT AWESOME AT ALL!"





















Backyard Yahoos!

SO excited that the weather is finally nice! We LOVE being outdoors and I am ridiculously grateful that we now have our very own yard to play in! Favorite yard activities? Water fights & Baseball of course!
Don't mess with this kid...Unless his guns are empty then you have plenty of time because he takes 20 minutes to reload HAHAHA

Love the head turned aiming! 

DRAW!

This was the cheer leading section of the boys baseball game

Kita might even be more excited about nice weather than we are! She can be a wussy though... if its above 74 degrees she lays there like a slug.

Nice stance girl! Daddy taught the kids to swing lefty... big shocker. They are both pretty dang good too!

I love the look of determination!

water of any kind makes bailey a happy happy camper!

She stole the gun reloading ammo bucket full of freezing water and made a run for it... she didnt get very far though before she was SOAKED & SHIVERING... solution? BATH TIME...

Can't ever get her clothes off fast enough for bath time.  The pic I didn't get was her getting frustrated about her lone shoe not cooperating and her skirt sticking to her wet legs so she climbed in as is!

DUNK IT BUG!


We are ALL JACKED UP for a summer full of fun outside!!!