More New Shoes

We decided to get Tom and Charlie some new shoes. We keep buying them the cheap Walmart, or Payless shoes, but then have to buy another pair in a month or so. We decided to try something new and get them some Adidas--a little more expensive, but hopefully they'll last a little longer.
We went to the outlets in Park City on Saturday afternoon and found some great deals. Charlie got a pair, Tom got some shoes and new socks (he wears his out faster than anyone I know,) and even Brian picked out a pair. When the nice guy at the counter rang us up, we also got $25 off. So it ended up being 3 pairs of shoes and 12 pairs of socks for $75! What a steal!

The boys couldn't wait to put their new shoes on and wore them the rest of the shopping trip. They LOVE their new kicks, and I think they are pretty cute too. I didn't get a picture of Brian's new shoes, but maybe when he's not looking.

I love these boys!

Dinosaur Museum

I volunteered to go to Vernal for my work last week. My work thing was at the Dinosaur Museum so I thought it would be fun for everyone to go and check out the museum. Notice their faces in the picture and you'll see how much fun they had.
Here's the kid's in front of the big Dino outside.

Another picture from the outside part, but this is the woolly mammoth and a rare species of children.

Brianna is waiting outside. Can't you tell she's having the most enjoyable time?

Charlie's posing with the glyphs inside the museum. Again, I think this was his favorite part of the day.

I can always count on Tom to smile for a picture. Even if everyone else is being grumpy.

My work thing was down the hall from where the boys are sitting. I thought the museum would take more time to work through, but about 30 minutes after they started, the kids and Brian were ready to go. It's a good thing I got paid for the trip, or the 6 hour drive would have been a waste. After the museum, Brian took the kids to a nearby park to run and play for a while before we headed back home. I think they really liked that.

This is what happened on the way home. You'll notice that Brianna isn't pictured...I didn't want her to be upset with me for posting that image, but she was knocked out just like the boys. It was a long fun day, but we won't have to go to Eastern Utah for a while now.

New Bikes

I did a special assignment for my work during the last half of the year. For payment of this work, I got a gift card to Amazon.com from the company. I didn't know what to get, but soon came to the conclusion that we would spend the money on getting new bikes for the boys.
We let them pick which bike they wanted. Tom picked a Spiderman one and Charlie wanted the Batman one. Then they had to wait for them to come by mail. Each day they would ask if they bikes came and were really sad when they didn't. Soon they stopped asking, and that's when they showed up.
Tom's Spiderman bike came first, then Charlie's was the next day. Here are some pictures of them with their new bikes. They love them and ride them every day. It was a good purchase.
Here's the pile of trash from Tom's bike (Brian had already picked up some of it.) Luckily when we put together Charlie's I was smart enough to put all the garbage in the box as we were going.

Chuck is a speed racer on his Batman bike.

Tom loves going fast with his Spiderman bike.

Brian already had to make adjustments on Charlie's bike, but Chuck was backing him up when he needed help.

They love racing on their bikes and spend a lot of time riding everyday.

Fun in the Sun

I have had math meetings the past few days, so Brian and the kids have been having fun outings without me. Yesterday, Brian told me he got some good pictures of the boys. Little did I know they were all sleeping pictures.
Brian had taken the three kids to the pool at noon, when it opens, and then they swam for a couple of hours and headed home. After the boys got changed out of their suits, this is what Brian and Brianna found.
They were completely tuckered out after playing in the pool for 2.5 hours. They had gotten a little sun too.

Here is a change in position.

And that arouses Tom a bit, but...

Soon they are right back at it. They slept like this for a while.

And when I got home the resting had ended. I always miss out on the fun stuff.

There were other things that didn't get a picture like Brian's sun burn on the tops of his feet and the farmer tan area, or Brianna's new swim wear...see what happens when I'm not in charge of the camera. We'll have to take those pictures next time.

Transformers Movie

The little boys have been waiting for the day that the new Transformers movie was coming out. They would talk about it with everyone and Tom knew the date that it would open. Our conversation went as follows.
Mom: Tom, what happens tomorrow, the 24th?
Tom: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Charlie hadn't heard my original question as so he chimes in.
Chuck: On June 24, 2009.
I wasn't quite sure that they should watch it the very first day. I thought that Brian and I should go see it before they did. Well, that didn't happen. We ended up taking them on Wednesday afternoon. I told the boys that we just had to go to the mall to get a new pair of shoes and so they were a little unhappy about that, but we walked right to the theater and when we walked in they knew that we would be watching the movie.
They loved it. I was so happy watching their little faces light up when the robots showed up. Tom even turned to me a couple of times and said things like "take that Megatron," or "not this time, Megatron."
It's so funny that it's the little things that make us so happy.

Putt-Putt-Putter

Brian had a great idea to take the boys to play miniture golf on Monday. Brianna went with her friend to the library and then run around town, so the four of us headded up to Kaysville to a place called Cherry Hill to play a round. (The boys really got into watching golf with Brian on TV with past weekend, so they were really excited.)Charlie had a hard time hitting the ball with the flat side of the club, but wanted to use it like a hammer. Since they were watching the pros play over the weekend, they thought they really needed to wack the ball good to get it where they wanted it. It was really funny to watch.On the first hole, I was getting so excited to keep score and see how we all did, but after the boys hit the ball almost 100 times on the first hole--we decided we shouldn't keep score, but just play.
Thomas didn't like waiting for the people in front of us, or for anyone in his own family.
Brian and Charlie are waiting for us to hit our balls toward the hole.

Tom's taking a swing. I think they had a fun time. They keep asking if we can go back.

My three putt-putt stars. We did a really good job on our 18 holes, but I told Brian that if we wanted the competition we would have to come by ourselves.

Guess What's...

hiding under here?

It's this!!! He's a funny boy.

This might be the best birthday gift Tom ever got.