What's Happenin

Here's what we've been up to the past few weeks!

Hailey & Peyton were visited by a policeman at school and were very excited to ride his motorcycle! This is part of Mrs. Consalo's career awareness. Look for a post in the future because we have Uncle Bryce coming on November 3rd!

Jax has 2 obsessions now: dinosaurs and TRACTORS! So one Friday Brock came and picked Jax up to go ride on a tractor at Uncle Boe's job site. He sat in there for 30 minutes strait and now every night we read his favorite book Tractors he points out which one Uncle Boe drives. Loves this kid!

So if you know my husband you know he gets something in his mind and will not stop until we've done whatever it is. Well this particular month it's been shooting (taking me and the girls shooting, getting new guns, etc.) So one fine Saturday we went to the shooting range and I have to say the girls were very excited until they heard how ear piercingly loud a gun is and then started the fears and tears. I was continuously and naggingly (sometimes don't know how he deals with me) telling Brock what a terrible idea this had been until it was my turn then something happened maybe it was my inner Nikita but I really got into it and would love to go back (don't tell Brock)! So watch out if an intruder breaks in I'll be able to take care of business! Ha!

Hailey shooting a rifle (this was really loud I didn't enjoy shooting it either)!

Peyton shooting our handgun

Me/Nikita

A cluster of chest shots or at least thats what I like to believe!

New York

I Love New York! I know this is a really long post but we did so many things I didn't know where to stop! The first thing we had to do when we got there even though it was close to midnight was go have Carnigie Deli and I had forgotten just how delicious their cheesecake was!

The view from our hotel room. We stayed in Times Square at the amazing Renissance

The first day we rode the double decker bus around and had lunch at Blue Ribbon Bakery! Yum!

We also saw How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Daniel Radcliffe. I think we all loved it!

One of my treasures I found. It's a Brazilian designer so I just had to have it!

The Original Grimaldi's. I thought the pizza was about the same as the other Grimaldi's, but I have to say the atmosphere was what made it so fun. There's a line down the side walk and then you have the owner/manager coming out to yell at you every few minutes if your not following the rules! It cracked me up, probably because we weren't the ones in trouble!

After dinner we hopped on The Staten Island Ferry to get a quick glimpse of The Statue of Liberty at night. We actually were a lot closer then the picture portrays. I don't know why it made it look 12 miles away.

I really wanted to take a carriage ride through Central Park but we settled for a pedi-cab tour instead. We had very interesting chauffeurs and it ended pooring rain ten minutes into it so we were stuck in the thing for a good half hour before it finally let up, but we got a lot accomplished in those first 10 minutes!

The Today Show! So exciting I loved seeing how everything was ran and I did get to shake hands with Al Roker and Curtis Stone and see Natalie Moralis and 2 of the other newer anchors. It was definitely worth waking up at 1am Vegas time to wait in line!

We all really wanted to go to the New York Temple and I'm so glad we did because it was probably my favorite thing we did. We ended up getting a private tour from the Temple President and saw some of the prettiest artwork I've ever seen. He then recommended the best restaurant Pomodoro's.

I really wanted to see the new 9/11 memorial that opened this past 9/11 but to get tickets online it was a couple months out so luckily we found out that they give out 1100 tickets a day at the temporary 9/11 museum so we hopped on the subway to try and get some.

The new 9/11 tower

I don't have the words to describe what I was feeling being there, but it was definitely an emotional experience.

On the last day we saw Wicked! I love love love it and can't wait to take my girls when it comes here next year!

Thanks so much to my amazing mother-in-law for taking us on such a memorable trip! I had the best time with the best girls there wasn't one thing I didn't like I wish I was there now!

Jax's 3rd

I CANNOT believe my baby boy is 3! I have to say I'm a little saddened by this it seems like just yesterday he looked like the picture below but now he's a big boy as he likes to point out frequently. Hailey asked me the day before his birthday if I was going to still carry him once he turns 3 and I said that I will carry him as long as he will let me or I am able and she replied well how come you don't carry me? Well....I didn't really have an answer to that!

We made waffles for breakfast and let Jax open his presents from us in the morning.

Jax has quite an obsession with dinosaurs right now (he can probably name 20 of them) so we did a dinosaur theme for his party.

Favor bags and safari hats

Dinosaur crossing

We dug for dinosaurs and made an erupting volcano for activities

I think his favorite thing about a birthday is blowing out the candles

Drinking Dino Milk

That night we had family over for Jax's favorites: Spaghetti and an M&M cake

Jax at 3:

He runs the house Brock and I quite often say under our breath "he's a stubborn s***"!

He can entertain himself for hours with the simplest things

He refuses to go poop in the potty

He has to read 2 books at naptime and 2 books at bedtime

He LOVES his sisters

He has to clean up what ever mess he's made before leaving the house (I'm afraid he's a little OCD)

He wants to go to preschool everyday

He's kind of a bully to his friends

He has an addiction to Juice, Chocolate Milk and M&M's

We just love our Jackers!

8 YEARS

To celebrate our 8 years we went back to the place where it all began Morton's. It was originally the place where Brock wanted to propose, but because they didn't listen to Brock's request of a private room and stuck us in the middle of the dining room he took me to the temple after and asked me there. Which I preferred anyway.

They even printed us a personal menu!

Being married to Brock is what I would describe as a roller coaster not because of the "ups and downs" part but the "hang on because its gonna be a wild ride" part! He is literally my other half and what I mean by that is whatever I'm embarrassed or too scared to do he does with out an ounce of either of those, which sadly enough is a lot! I admire him for that fearlessness. He does not EVER get embarrassed it's like that personality trait has never existed for him! Some of the highlights of our marriage are:

1. Having a dream like wedding & reception

2. Going to Hawaii 2 times our first year of marriage

3. Having 2 years of just us before starting our family

4. Having identical twins

5. Having a boy

6. Traveling with our kids to places like Costa Rica, St. Thomas, Hawaii (again), Paradise Island.

7. Laughing a lot

8. Weekly date nights

9. Racing

10. Sand Dune trips and campouts

I can't believe its been 8 years!

Utah

We went to SLC for Brock's cousins wedding and stayed at Aunt Tracy's house which is probably my kids favorite place on the planet and I can't really blame them. There is 2 acres of grass, grass and more grass along with an in ground tramp and horses. I love it there too! While we were there we took the kids to The Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point. Jax's favorite thing right now is dinosaurs so he was beyond ecstatic! We took their cousin Brynn along.

Fun learning area

Riding a triceratops

Digging for fossils

Saturday us adults attended Brian & Amy's sealing in the SLC Temple and then some of us wanted to check out the top of the Conference Center. I don't know why but I failed to get any pictures of the wedding/reception!

Jax's 1st Day of Preschool

Although Jax had been going to Miss Alisha's over the summer this is his 1st day of real preschool and he was so excited. He got out of the car and ran inside before I could kiss him or get a picture, little stinker. Once again I'm not so sure about this! I've been missing him all morning.