They found their treasure boxes in grandma's room filled with candy... and they each got a new book too!
We had green waffles with green syrup for breakfast!
And, of course, I have to have a picture of them in their st. patty's day shirts!
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!
Our first stop was Circus Circus. We spent all afternoon at the adventuredome! The kids loved the rides, the 4D movies and Brenner even went on his first "real" roller coaster... he went on all the big rides! After the adventuredome we headed over to the MGM to eat dinner at the Rainforest cafe... I love their chimichachas! That night we went to see some of the "shows" on the Strip. We saw the pirate show at Treasure Island (ummm.... a little more risque than I remembered) and we saw some of the other shows from the car. We stayed at Circus Circus that night.
Brenner is really into Egyptian stuff right now, so we took him over to see the Luxor hotel.... and get his picture taken in front of the Sphinx.
Logan and Sydney were stopping through town on their way back from Disneyland for Logan to take a test from work. So, we picked Sydney up and dragged her around with us. 
And the kids were loving all the weirdos that dress up like characters to get tips!
A trip to Vegas wouldn't be complete without some Dice suckers!!!
We had a good time and amazingly enough the kids were pretty well-behaved!
We had fun playing at the park, doing a little shopping and going to Pirate Island. It was good to see Sam again... we have missed her:)
Can't wait to scrapbook these pages with Sam's super fun, colorful shorts!!!
On Saturday, Logan and Sydney invited us to go along with them, so we took off up the mountain. We didn't quite realize that it would be straight up the face of the mountain. At first, the boys were troopers.
But about half way up, it starts getting a little crazy. We were literally passing our children up cliffs. Ryan and I were thinking we were kinda stupid. So, about 3/4 up, we decided we needed to take the kids back down... especially Terek who we were having to carry up. Neither one of us could take Terek down by ourselves... because you have to have two people to pass a child down a cliff. So, we decided to head down. Brenner refused to go with us, so we let him go to the top with Logan and Sydney. Joren didn't want to go back down, but he wanted to stay with Mommy, so he got to go back down. (the arrow shows where we turned around and headed back down).
It was a bit scary going down, but we made it. Brenner was a trooper and made it all the way up. Thanks Logan and Sydney for taking him.
Red Mountain, we'll see the top of you when Terek's 7!
For his birthday, all of his kids met up north for a party. While the "guys" were watching the BYU basketball game, some of us went bowling.
Then we met at the church for games....
stacking 3 full coke cans on 3 empty ones...
hoola hoop races...
balloon races...
On Saturday night, we met Lucas and Shellie at their hotel. Ryan and Lucas took the kids swimming. I was too busy finally getting to hold this little baby, that I didn't take any pictures (and I'm really mad at myself for that because I would have liked to have some new pictures of him!)
It's fun to watch these little first graders get out there and play basketball! Brenner tried really hard and really enjoyed playing!
Now we're on to soccer starting next week!
It was a very rocky trail, and a very muddy trail.
Our boys are such troopers. We had hiked about 1.5 miles when we stopped to take a snack break.
Brenner carried our water and snacks. At that point Ryan's GPS said we still had about a mile to go, so Rose and Ryan turned around and took the little kids back. Even Terek hiked almost the whole way.
The rest of us continued the other mile on the very muddy, snowy trail. All of a sudden we were at the end... and it was an amazing view! So pretty! Totally a fun hike... even if it was muddy. 
Any ideas of where we should hike next???
They got to practice brushing teeth on MagiZ dragon.
They got to learn all about the fancy tools that dentists use.
And they got a new toothbrush, flossers and tooth paste!!!
We stopped by Logan and Sydney's. Logan was changing the oil, so the kids thought they would "help." Terek was wondering why Nini's car was peeing...LOL:)
Joren and Cru
Terek
