Fall Break - Flight and Universal

The Brauns booked a place down on Balboa Island for fall break and kept telling us we should come. Randomly I checked flights one day and they were super cheap so we decided to grab plane tickets and booked a place by the Brauns. Since we came to Newport for spring break also we decided to add a little bit of Disneyland to this trip. We took a later flight and made it there with no complications! We got up early Friday morning and headed to Universal Studios. I wasn't sure if it would be worth going since our kids are still on the younger side, but I'm so glad we did! The kids absolutely loved it. Most of the lines all day were pretty short so we got to ride the rides multiple times and we got everything done we wanted to!

 

Brit and Grant

Another pic of Britney holding a baby that's almost as big as her. She loves being the little mommy and insists on holding Grant every chance he gets!

 

Brynlee’s Birthday

Since Brynlee's bday was on a Wednesday, we knew it would be difficult to get together as a family. Josh and the older kids have mutual and the younger girls dance. So that meant it would just be Brynlee and me to celebrate. So we went to dinner at IHOP the night before, which is a favorite of the kids. On her actual birthday Brooklyn, Brynlee, and I went and got pedicures in the afternoon. For the evening I lucked out and called the Hale Center Theater and they had a couple extra tickets to their sold out show of the Secret Garden. So Brynlee and I invited Kay to come with us and we had a wonderful time. Zupas for dinner then the show. We ended the evening with everyone making it home so Brynlee could open her presents.  

Dancers…

As a mom of 4 dancers I often find them in odd positions all over my house. You never know when you'll go around a corner and run into someone doing a handstand, pirouettes, splits, back tucks, etc. 

 

UVU Dance Workshop

Brooklyn headed down to UVU to do a workshop down there. Our studio owner's daughter is on the team there so Brooklyn loved being there and learning from her and the other dancers.

 

Finished Ballpit!

The girls have been SO anxious to get all the balls back into the ballot. We finally finished everything up so we could dump them all back in. They love love the monkey bars and haven't stopped playing on them!

 

Cabin Trip

We headed up to the cabin to listen to general conference and to get one more cabin trip in before the snow comes. It was so beautiful up there with all the trees changing colors. We tried something new for conference and had bags of candy with words on them...so every time you heard that a word said you could have a piece of candy. Ummm...big mistake. The candy went SO fast and the girls were having a hard time bc they wanted to do the new crafts we took up but they were trying to focus on the candy. So after 3 talks we stopped doing the candy and just let them eat whatever they wanted (they are good and don't ever care to eat too much.) That way they spent almost all 8 hours crafting and listening which was so great. Another new thing we tried was last Sunday we sat down and everyone wrote out a couple of questions they had and hoped to have answered during conference. We hung them up on the tv so we could write down which talk addressed each questions so we can go back later and study them.

As for our time at the cabin...it was awesome. The kids had a lot of fun and always love the 4-wheelers. Brayden wasn't able to come with us so we brought Andi up instead which is always fun for the girls.