Princess Festival

Every year in Lindon there is this amazing princess festival that runs for 2 weeks. I have never been able to take the girls and this year Grandma Chalmers wanted to take all the grand daughters. It was probably one of the funnest days I have ever had.

I loved watching all the cute little girls all dressed up as princesses walking around the park with their eyes lit up and you could see the magic they felt at the festival. They were able to do the funnest things like; learn how to fly with Tinkerbell, attend a tea party with Alice, help Peterpan escape from Captain Hook, make wands and crowns, swim with Ariel, and so many other fun things. It truely was magical!!

This is something that I will need to do with the girls every year since it was probably the high light of their life, and I loved watching their eyes all day as they felt like real princesses.

Fun at the Downeys

One thing that has been a tradition every year is to go and watch the fireworks from the Orem summerfest at the Downeys house. Their house has an amazing view and the kids love it.

Here are just some cute pictures that Devrie took when we were over at the Downeys for Sunday dinner.

Calling all engines!!

Every year up in Heber they turn the train there into "Thomas the Train" and make such a fun weekend for the kids. This year Derek decided to take the boys with his dad since the boys are obsessed with trains.

They had so much fun riding on the trains, and listening to the whistle. They got to see "Sir Topham Hatt" which they loved.

They had such a blast being up there all day with daddy. This whole week they have talked so much about when they got to ride on thomas and year the whistle go toot, toot.

The next day we took the family up a second time to eat at the dairy keen up there since they had turned the restaurant into a thomas theme. The kids loved it!! What a fun weekend

trains, trains, and more trains

The boys are obsessed with trains right now, they cannot get enough. They spend so much time in their rooms playing trains with each other. My dad made this amazing train table that brings them way too much joy!!

Grandma Greats.

We have been so blessed to have such amazing family surrounding us, which includes Dereks grandma and grandpa Downey. They are the sweetest people and always welcome us with warm hugs and cheerful grins. Everytime we go and see them the kids have a blast. Grandma always has a snack or two to share, the live across the street from horses, and grandpa has his infamous train that he built. So grateful to have these fabulous people in our lives!!

Here is little Zacky on our way up to grandma greats in my glasses.....So stinkin cute!!

Kali at her last week of first grade. She had an amazing year. She loved her teacher, met some new fun friends, and learned a lot.

great week

This last week Derek and I decided to do a little "get away." We have never left the kids and taken a vacation so we thought it was time. We decided to go to Vegas since it was close and WARM!! We had such a blast. We went and saw 3 shows while we were there which were absolutely out of this world amazing!! It was so nice to sleep in and stay up late, and my favorite was of course hanging out by the pool for hours each day. It was a much needed get away.

Then the day we got home Kali had a mothers day program at school put on by the first grade. They sand lots of cute songs and quoted some poems, it was adorable. I love that little girl and it is days like this that you love being a mom!!