Sunday at Sundance

Last Sunday was a beautiful spring day in Utah-land, so we did the best thing we could do on a Sunday after church... take a drive up Provo canyon. We took a picnic lunch (which we ate in the car because we were all starving) and drove up to Sundance to walk around. It was a blissful family outing.

Katie Cutie

The Girls

Exploring

More exploring (notice Lucy's binoculars)

Lucy Cutie

Benson Davis Russell

Obviously not his newborn picture... But too cute to resist! Benson was born February 25th at 2:46 pm. He was 6.6 oz and 19 inches long. The smallest of the group so far! In his defense, he was induced a week early. Oh the wonders of modern medicine!

He is a delightful baby. He's pretty chill and likes to sleep a lot. He doesn't quite sleep through the night yet, but we're getting there. Now if only we could get him to take a bottle!

The Bean Museum

The BYU Bean Museum... I guess the pictures do all of the talking. Kenric & I took the girls to the Bean Museum on Martin Luther King Jr. day, a few Mondays ago. It was fun to get to hang out as a family, as K-dawg is at school for the most part these days. We hit the Bean, then In & Out (for my semi-annual burger), and finally Toys are Us. I know, such fun parents right? At least for a few minutes.

So back to the Bean... I have to admit, the first time I ever went it was a a little freaky. The whole place is full of animals, who used to be alive, and still look alive, but are somehow magically preserved so kids and their families can come check them out. It is a large two-story building and the animals range from tiny insects, to Bears, Elephants, and Rhinos. So here we are:

Kenric & the cuties

Checking out the ducks...

Me & Lucy... and little Vilhelm poking out through my coat

Can you see what I mean by freaky??

Holiday Party & more...

Sooo... if you are ever thinking about doing a little grocery shopping on a Saturday evening before you and husband are going on a date... AND you're leaving your kids to watch a movie, while your husband is asleep... you might want to think twice. Yesterday afternoon, I needed to make a quick trip to the store and Kenric was taking a nap, recovering from a late night road trip from the night before. The girls were happily watching a Scooby-Doo movie on Netflix and said they'd rather watch that than go to the store with me. I knew I'd only be gone for a bit, so I said "okay, just wake up Dad when the show is over". Apparently they forgot the part about waking up Dad, and decided they needed to take snack time into their own hands...

When I walk in the door, Lucy said excitedly "Mom, you have to come check out our feast! They had emptied the cupboards of their favorite treats and had pile their plates high of everything that you can imagine.

Club crackers, Doritos, yogurt covered raisins, cake sprinkles, nerds, shortbread cookies, chocolate gold fish... am I missing anything?

We got everything cleaned up (for the most part), Kenric did wake up and we got to go on a fun date. The annual MBA holiday party, where you dress up, eat yummy food and this year we got to watch a performance by Stephen Jones... a super funny comedian. I was a little bummed that I had already seen some of his material on YouTube... come on Stephen, lets get some new material.

Me & my cute date. He is wearing an authentic German Suit.... so Hot!

And this my friends is the Crack Face. Yes, so entertaining for so many reasons. If you haven't tried it already, you really need too. You will laugh every time... In a future post, maybe I can do one of just Crack Faces.

More San Diego Fun...

The girls testing out the water at Ocean Beach

Lucy found something cool (a shell maybe?)

Katie holding up her pants... yes pants--we rolled them that high. Don't worry, she fell in anyway...

Girls finding shells in a huge sand hill

Kenric pushing Lucy at Balboa Park... one of the coolest parks ever!

Lucy in a panda chair

Katie and her beloved "Baby Bear" on the slide

Get-together with some of our favorite San Diego peeps!

Kenric, Keith & Kevin. What? Totally normal that they all have K names, are the same height and have the same haircut...

Me and some of my most favorite girls: Liane & Jackie

Christmas Vacation...

We spent Christmas break this year in San Diego (I guess technically it was last year). My cute, adorable husband thought that I should fly down since I'm pregnant, and that he would have a daddy-daughter road trip to our destination. I know, right? What a guy! We had a relaxing time, mostly just hanging out with the fam, sprinkled with Wahoo's, the park, and friends. I'm not ready to go back to real life in Provo-land. Actually, I am because I will have 3 cuties waiting for me there... Kenric and the girls left earlier today and I miss them already!

Katie in her cute Christmas clothes

Lucy with a locket that she'd been asking for since the summer... the girl had a miraculous Christmas recovery, because the day before she had a temp of almost 103!

Fun presents from Grandma Russell (mittens and scarf handmade)

Cute Katie...

Lucy drew a picture for the crew at Wahoo's, which they hung up and was still there a week and a half later!!

A little more Halloween Goodness...

A few more pics of our adorable little munchkins... We have Tinkerbell and a Barbie Princess!
So Cute...

Katie dressed up for preschool

Lucy in her schools halloween parade...

The girls at the ward trunk or treat... yummy!

Halloween Goodness...

We definately had some Halloween goodness this year! The girls wore their costumes 5 different times... not bad especially because we already had them. They dressed up for dances class, the MBA family party, school, the ward trunk or treat, and finally for trick or treating.

Close up of Tinkerbell at the MBA party
Kenric carving what had to be a 40+ pound pumpkin

The girls scooping out seeds

The girls playing pass the pumpkin at dance class

Me (and baby #3... code name Vilhelm, real name undecided), Katie and Lucy

It's about dang time...

Times flies when your having fun... what? I always go 5 months between posts! So here are some pictures from the last few months (back in Utah-land): Katie on her sweet new PINK radio flyer tricycle. So retro, so awesome. She got it for her birthday.
Classic Katie picture face

Our little family on Katies 3rd birthday in August... we're about to get just a little bigger coming March of 2011! With a boy!

Lucy painting at her last day of preschool

The girls on Lucy's last day of preschool (summer term).

And stay tuned (sometime in the near future) for more snapshots of our life in the making...

Makes me smile...

No matter how many times I look at this picture, it just puts a big grin on my face. The look on Katie's face is priceless. Not bad for a self portrait... Kenric & Lucy were in the water and I was holding up the camera and tickling Katie at the same time.

My Rockin' Hubby & Me...

Just in case you were wondering... I love this guy! Isn't he a cutie? Just to illustrate my point, he took the girlies for a drive AROUND the island today and made stops for them to run around, and had a picnic lunch... All this just so I could sleep in and have a lounge-y, peaceful Sunday morning. What a helper!

Where does she come up with it??

Many times a day I ask myself "Where does she come up with this stuff?" Wow, would be my response to this little performance she put on for us tonight on the north shore as we enjoyed a Sunday sunset...

Back in Hawaii...

What, we always live in Hawaii... Okay not really, but this is our second time around-- short term. The short version of the story is that Kenric got a last minute internship with President Wheelright at BYU-Hawaii for six weeks. We've been out here in Laie for 2 weeks and have been having a great time. We're practically locals (kidding again... our skin is bright white still!)

Us getting some ridiculously good tasting shaved ice in Haleiwa on the North Shore... they put a scoop of vanilla ice cream at the bottom! (PS- did you notice how happy they are??)
The girls felt right at home at the beach, the second day of our trip (Sunday was the first day)

We found this sweet rope swing big enough for our whole family!

Us having a picnic dinner at a beach park nearby... don't miss the Utah weather right now!

Our girlies ready for the beach! Just about a half mile down the street from our place...