Day trippin' in SLC.

January 28th 2012

Coordinated by Grandma Nette.

I absolutely love these day trips my Mom puts together.

She thinks of every last detail, 

all the way down to where we park the car.

We started in the morning by visiting

 a Lego competition thing at U of U.

Since my boys are such Lego fanatics my Mom

thought they would be really interested in checking this

event out and possibly joining this organization for next year.

{This is a very vague description of what this Lego club

or whatever you would call it is about}

Depending on the area you live in,

 they organize the kids into groups of 10 maybe?

These groups meet once a week and create 

a robot using the Lego Technic along with other Legos.

Not sure how long this goes on but in the end

 all the teams meet together for this big competition 

between the teams and robots. 

I was told it is a non-profit organization and

 has huge sponsors like Microsoft.

Here we are checking out one of the displays.
Each team has one.

This room is where the teams have all their stuff.
Cody likes this cutout that someone had made for their team.

Just a cute pic of the boys running in excitement!

This is where the robot challenge takes place.

The winning teams get these cool Lego trophies and medals.

This is a look at the obstacle course the robots have to get through
while doing challenges along the way.

The teams were all different. Some dressed crazy like these guys!

Of course my boys are playing on the stage
 where they are not supposed to be playing.

Cody is super excited about these balloons. 

Team display.

Don't know what happened to Crew
 but  here is our  cute family.

Next up is a quick lunch for all the grouchies.
CREW!!!

It is Landen's actual Birthday day so we
said he could choose where to eat.

Of course he wants nasty McDonald's.
I never, ever, ever,  take my kids there so now
that is where they always seem to want to go.

Instead of McDonald's we hit Wendy's
but don't worry about Landen; we stopped
at McDonald's before going to Wendy's
 and picked him a happy meal. 

And everyone was Happy!!!

Last stop of the day...
Clark Planetarium.

As a kid I always loved going to the planetarium
and as a teenager my friends & I would hit
 the laser shows as much as possible.
The Pink Floyd laser shows were killer!

I was totally excited to take the boys.
We toured the museum part of the planetarium
then watched a movie in the dome theater.

The boys watching the pendulum swing.

Matt teaching the kids about orbit and giving the planetarium
all our loose change.

These balls are so cool!

Cool contraption to keep the kids entertained.

They really did put a man on the moon!

The conditions on Mars are not as bad as they say.

Waiting to go into the theater.

The boys picked out our seats. One row from the back.
Ready for the show to begin!

 The boys loved the movie.  It was about black holes.
Crew was super into it and saying hilarious things, then fell asleep
for last part of the movie.  It had been a long day for the little guy!

And that brings us to the end of our day!
Much fun was had, can't wait for our next day trip!

Okay, time to play a little catch up here. 

Since Pinterest has taken over my life I have not

had time to post on blogger. LOL

Back in January we had several Birthdays.

First up is the hubs. 

He was so excited to turn 34 

on January 11th.

We almost burned down the house with his Jell-O cake.

I mean look at all those candles!

It really was quite the throw-down.

But how can you not expect things to get wild

when you have a house full of boys?

Matt's fun did not end here.

He treated himself to a long night of

driving triples down to Beaver and back.

Matt is hard core!

Up next......

My fabulous 34th Birthday!

Really, it was just another day but with cake!

Which is not that rare either. 

I love cake. LOL

I made myself a delicious Jell-O cake.

We are on a Jell-O cake kick right now.

Matt really outdid himself this year.
He brought me these amazing cupcakes.

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G
Enough said!

and that's not all...

the big kicker is he bought me a new
wood laminate floor for my new craft room!

This is a sample of the laminate I picked out! LOVE IT!!!!

May not sound like the most romantic Birthday gift
but it was exactly what I wanted.

{I will post the before & after pics of my new room in another post}

My Mom had a triple Birthday celebration

for Matt, Landen & I at her house along with Sunday dinner.

And last but not least...

My sweet little Lando is now 6!!!!!

Since we had a big friend party last year,

this year was a fun family party.

I let the boys have a friend party every other year.

Makes my life easier and easier is better!

Matt bought him a bunch of Lego sets.

Would you expect anything else?

Gifts from G&G Simcox and

G&G Southwick.

G&G Taysom sent money.

So just guess what he bought???

Lego Hero Factory.

Landen was also King for a week at school.

He has been waiting for this since school started.

Every week he would tell me it was not him,

so he was floored when it was finally his turn.

On the last day of being King I was invited

to come visit his class and tell them about Landen.

We made a cute 2 page spread to go in the class 

scrapbook and then Landen wanted to read an 

I-Spy book to the class and call up classmates

to find the objects in the book. 

It was so fun to spend this time with Landen

and his kindergarten class.

Matt took this picture of us as we were leaving to 

walk over to the school. I love it!!