Daddy Daughter Dance

So Mike and Mykalyn's professional photo came in the mail from their dance.  It looks so nice.  We've had it for a while, but Mike has now chagrined me into putting it on my blog.  He was disappointed it wasn't already there!

Our trip to Silver Mountain

So, because Mike misses Tyler so much, he couldn't stand the thought of doing the annual General Conference/Snowboarding trip to Utah. He decided that it would be better for our family to take a trip to Kellogg, Idaho and visit Silver Mountain for a little ski & swim. At the resort there they have a big indoor water park complete with 3 tubular slides, a lazy river, a surf station, a kiddies' play area and a couple of hot tubs and more. We showed up on Thursday in the late afternoon. After check-in, Mike and the boys went down to the water park while Mykalyn and I had to make a "stuff forgotten" trip to the nearest Wally World. We came back, made up Jordan River Mud Cake and threw it in the crock pot to cook while we hit the water park too. It was fun. Mike was brave enough to do the surf station and he wasn't half bad! We stayed and played for a while, but then it seemed to be a little stuffy in there and we went to the outside hot tub. It is amazing that a 15 minute gondola ride away there is a whole mountain for them to snowboard on because the weather down in the resort was pretty dang mild.

After playing we sat down to watch Tangled which was a pretty cute movie. I am glad that the kids still like Disney movies. I'll be bummed when I have no one left to buy them for but me. Maybe by the time that Brigam thinks that they are ridiculous, I will have grandkids to buy them for and watch with. It could happen, Brigam is 9, Jeremy is 16 and still watches them. I wonder what Tyler will be doing in 7 years.........

The next day was April 1st. Better known as April Fool's Day. For breakfast the kids had cereal with milk and these great bacon and egg concoctions. It was great to call them to the table for this little "surprise" and start their day off with a sugar high!

The 4 of them were so happy to come back on the gondola at lunch and eat their lunch in this great room we got. It was super nice with a full kitchen, bedroom with a king sized bed and a couch that pulled out for a queen sized bed. They were toasty and the lunch made them refuel for another round on the mountain.

When they came home for dinner, I had a crock pot chicken dish cooking all day and they said they could smell the deliciousness of that smell all the way down the hall. Their tummies were going to be happy. Little did they know that I had another April Fool's food choice on the menu. It was fish sticks (rectangular wafers covered in peanut butter and corn flakes), peas (made from Laffy Taffy) and potatoes and gravy (made from a scoop of vanilla ice cream and hard shell chocolate topping). This type of meal is a traditional April Fool's Day happening in the Nelson household.

Last year Mykalyn helped out by making a sugar cookie "pizza" with candy toppings. She was very creative. But this year she made my day when she said,  "Mom, I didn't even see the April Fool's breakfast coming. I thought, 'Maybe she'll do the dinner', but then I was like 'we're on vacation. She's not going to pack all that stuff.' Mom you are so cool." Ok, forming all 120 peas from Laffy Taffy just got "worth it" with that comment.

After dinner, we went to the hot tub again. Then they played in the water park some more.

You know, I enjoy going on vacation with everyone, but the kind of vacations that Mike likes to take - well they aren't really for me. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy being with them, I just enjoy my vacations to include at least one or more books, shopping (which includes buying stuff - not food), classes and stuff like that. Mike likes total ACTION and MOVEMENT. I enjoyed my time with all of them, but they are concerned that I didn't have fun. I did! I just like to do my own thing.