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I have decided that two blogs was just too much to keep up with! I have some things that I plan to come back here to catch up on, but anything "new" will be posted HERE.

Odds and ends - this and that

In an attempt to get caught up on my blogging, I decided to do a this and that post. I have lots of single pictures to blog...so hang on and enjoy the ride.

Roman loves toys that he can do things with us. He likes toys that are "REAL." A few weeks ago he went to a friends house for a play date. When I went to pick him up his friends mom said "Roman really likes microwaves doesn't he? He came in and he complimented me on my microwave and he really liked Ava's play microwave." After he came home he explained that the play microwave "Really worked." Last year for his birthday he got a lawnmower and vacuum. They are a few of his favorite toys because they actually turn on and he likes to help us. When Spencer went out to mow the lawn for the first time this year it was cold and wet. Roman didn't let that stop him. He got his coat, rain boots and had my fill he mower with bubbles and he was off. He even mowed on the diagonal to make it look better with daddy.



Roman is a HUGE University of Utah fan. Not because he really gets into the rivalry. Because we live in Utah. He LOVES anything with Utah on it. He has been begging for a U of U jacket like Spencer and I have. We finally wandered into The Red Zone store and Roman was like a kid in a candy store. He ran through the store pointing to everything screaming "Utah!" There was a big U painted on the floor that he kept diving onto. It was heaven for him. We did find him a Utah jacket. He LOVES it.

We went to the kid/baby expo and they had face painting. Roman looked at the different designs they could paint and he say a U and that was what he wanted! He was so sad when we had to wash it off because it was getting all smeared.


Another favorite of Roman's is Superman. He recently started watching the Superman movies with Spencer. He loves to "fly" around with his cape on. He usually sings the Superman theme song while he's flying around. One afternoon when Spencer got off work he was throwing the boys up in the air with the Superman cape on. I have recently learned how to edit pictures. Spencer said I should post the before/after pictures. So here's the picture of Spencer throwing Roman up in the air.


And here's the picture of Roman "Flying" (That I took Spencer and the pictures out of.)

Schools out for summer

Roman's first day of school I was sad, and Roman was excited. He was so excited to learn, make new friends, and find out what school was all about. I was sad to send my little boy off for several hours a week to be with other people and to see him growing up so quickly.

Roman's last day of school I was sad, and Roman was excited. He was ready for the break, he has been ready for the break for a while. I was sad because now it's all my responsibility to keep him occupied and challenged, think of things to teach him, and help him to continue to learn and grow.

For the last day of school they had a circus day. They were supposed to dress up as a circus performer. Roman didn't decide what he wanted to be until Wednesday (his last day of school was Thursday (June 2) that he wanted to be a magician. So some quick thinking I remembered he had a magicians hat somewhere in all the toys. We searched the basement and found it. He insisted he needed a cape and wand. So we ran to the craft store and found some fabric (he was pretty adamant that he needed a black cape with stars on it...we couldn't find black so we settled for blue) and a dowel for a wand. After he went to bed that night I hurried and bound the edges of his cape and cut and painted the dowel to look like a wand. Roman was so excited when he got up and tried them on. He love them. He even let Hudson try his costume on.




Roman loved his class. He loved his teachers. He has even said that he loves that he has break, and he is excited to go back to school in August.

Baby Butterflies

For Easter Roman got a Butterfly habitat. It came with a card that he could send in for butterfly larvae so he could watch them grow from larvae then watch them form their chrysalises then emerge as butterflies. The little cup with 5 tiny larvae came in the mail and we watched them grow. We rooted for them as we saw them going up to form their chrysalises. We were worried as we saw one of the chrysalises knocked off the top when another was forming its chrysalise. We were sad when one of the butterflies got stuck emerging and died. We really rooted for him, hoping that he would make it out. We decided that we would release the butterflies.

The first one took flight immediately. He flew a bit then stopped on the grass. Roman went to see where he went. He watched it for a few minutes before it flew away. The second was just like the first. Flew a few feet, stopped on a blade of grass then took flight.

The other 2 never flew out of the enclosure. So I picked up the third one because he was sitting on the papertowel that we had on the bottom to try to get it to take off. It kept trying to fly, but it would just flutter like crazy then rest again. He sat on the sidewalk for a few minutes, then he flew a bit and I was able to get him to land on my hand. It was then that I noticed that he was missing one leg. The forth butterfly we were pretty sure wouldn't be able to fly. He got stuck on the watermelon that we put in the habitat for them to eat and his wings got stuck together. After about 30 minutes Roman and I made a decision. We decided to bring the two invalid butterflies back into the enclosure and we kept them.


They are still living in their habitat. The one that is missing a leg tries to fly almost every day (Spencer doesn't understand why he can't fly if he's just missing a leg, you fly with wings, I don't know why he can't fly, but I do know that he can't.) A few days after the release attempt we sent our invalid butterflies to the family petting zoo (Janeene's house) to live with the turtle, fish, birds, dog and whatever other pets they have living at their house right now. Jaren is so good with animals he was so excited to have these butterflies. He called me the night before we gave them to him to see how many there were and what kind they were. I hope the butterflies live a long (for butterflies, they only live 1-3 weeks) happy life in their habitat.

Park day

One Saturday Spencer went golfing with a few of his friends. I didn't want to sit at home alone with the kids on a Saturday. So, we decided to make a day of it and go to a new park. I looked online and found a few new parks that we could maybe check out. The first park that we went to I didn't think to take any pictures. It was Roman's favorite of the three. It was also the furthest from our house. (Probably about 5 miles away.) We stayed there and played for about an hour and a half. We left there to go run a few errands. I promised Roman if he was good on the errands that we could go to another park afterward. He was great on the errands so we went and found another park. It was much smaller then the first but he had a lot of fun there too. We stayed at the second park for another hour then we needed to head home to get some dinner. Roman wanted to keep playing so I promised him that if we went home and ate dinner we could go to the neighborhood park to play afterward.



Roman ate his dinner super fast (which is amazing for him, because he is a major dawdler when it comes to mealtime.) so we went to the park in our neighborhood. We just walked over. I let Hudson out of the stroller and he wasn't sure if I was really giving him permission to get into things at first. As soon as he realized that he could get down and into things he was all about the sand.

Roman decided he wanted to be a dog and dig in the sand.

Hudson couldn't figure out why he kept picking the sand up and it kept slipping between his fingers. He was fascinated by it.

Roman wanted to push the stroller home.


After a fun, crazy, busy, exhausting day at three parks I took two tired, dirty boys home for a bath and bed.

Planet Play x2

In the last few weeks we've gone to Planet Play not once, but twice. before that we had never gone before. We found a few deals on City Deals for vouchers for the buffet and 2 $10 play cards. Because Roman is still 3 we didn't have to play for the buffet for him. The first time we went at 3:00 in the afternoon. We went on a Monday (for FHE) and spent 4 hours there. We had such a great time. We found out after we got there that Mondays were $1 days so all the activities (mini bowling, mini golf, go-karts, bumper cars, laser tag) were only $1. It made the $10 play cards go a lot further. After 4 hours we were TRYING to use them up so we could go home and get the kids to bed.

Two days after we went the first time, there was another deal on City Deals so we decided to buy the deal again and we went a second time, just two weeks later. We went earlier (1:30 pm) and convinced our friends John and Heidi to come with us. They have a little girl named Aubrey that's Roman's friend and they had a lot of fun playing together. We ate lunch then went and played in the play area, rode rides, played in the arcade, played golf, rode go carts, mini golf, more play, more go carts, then dinner and prizes. We were there for 6 hours, the kids had a blast, and once again we were trying to use the rest of our cards. Roman got a sward that he has loved it. Now we need to find another deal so we can go again!

Spencer's birthday presents

Last year and again this year I let Roman choose a birthday present for Spencer. Last year Roman was so proud of the presents that he chose for Spencer (and he thoroughly enjoyed them.) When Spencer opened his present this year he said "You know, they say that dad's buy toys for their kids so they can play with them. I think Roman buys things for me so he can have them." This year Roman bough Spencer 2 water guns. One for Spencer...and one for him. The night Roman and Spencer tried to have their camp out in the yard they had a water fight before their "camp out."




After about 30 minutes, Spencer was done, so he volunteered me to take over for him.


Roman was soaked...Spencer and I were a little wet. More wet from the guns leaking them from Roman spraying us. but he didn't care. He had fun. He loved the presents he chose for daddy.