Liam's 14th birthday celebrations

Eating cereal for lunch after church and not having mom get mad at you :)

He requested homemade pizza for dinner.

Grandma and Grandpa came down and since Sadee and Adam and Ava and Ish live close by, we invited them as well. It was fun to have a big living room birthday celebratory dinner :)

Liam doesn't love pictures, and he did tell me all he wanted was a Buffalo Bills win for his birthday, and he got it! Eating ice cream for a treat after dinner.

Since there was no school on Martin Luther King day, we went to TopGolf, per Liam's request. But it was the MOST freezing day of the year. like in the teens. They did say their bays were heated, and the seats were warm, but otherwise we still froze, but had fun.

Sadee and Adam came with us since Adam got the day off as well.

Collin had some really good hits.

Adeline had some serious drama, but eventually when we got to the Sonic game, she did better :)

Sadee did the best of anyone :)

Liam doing some shots.

We were going to eat there, but decided we were too frozen so we split up and my kids got Chipotle and then walked over to Zuppa's with the rest of us. Liam mostly got money for his birthday and he said he had fun, and most of all the Bills WON!

 

 

Evelyn gets ears pierced, snowboards for the first time, and starts indoor track

Picture out of order..... but here she is at her first indoor track practice. But she didn't want to smile ha ha.

Evelyn has been wanting to get her ears pierced for a LONG time now. A few months ago, Ryan and I talked about it and decided to give her it for a Christmas present. She was SO SO excited and had to wait a few weeks to get it done, but she was SO excited.

She was a little nervous (even though I told her exactly what they did) so you can see it in  her face her, but the woman was very nice and talked her through each step. She chose the December gem stone.

Are they already done mom? She couldn't believe how fast it went ha ha.

Super happy girl.

And she got to try snowboarding for the first time with the Ski Utah program for 4th graders. I was hoping so badly she wouldn't have as bad of a time as me....and she really enjoyed it.

I was SO glad she had fun!

And her she is signing in to her first indoor track class. I'm proud of Evelyn for always wanting to try new things.
 

Girls' Saturday adventure Jan 17 The Leonardo Museum

Collin and Liam were on an overnight skiing adventure with the young men last weekend, and it was Ryan's weekend to work, and Adeline told me we "hadn't been on a Saturday adventure in FOREVER" (which was kind of true because the boys had been doing bigger adventures out so we had done more stuff at home), so I said we are going to the Leonardo! We went last year and had lots of fun with our whole family. We used our PBS passes for the girls so just had to pay for me. This pic is out of order because that's how they post now, so this is Adeline's little "hut" she built in the cardboard area.

Right when we entered. We got there right when they opened so not very many people were there for the first 30-45 minutes we were there. The girls were so excited to be somewhere fun!

Last year they had these cool balls they played with, but those weren't there anymore. Now they had a little ball that changed color and we played tag with the balls via an ipad to move them. It was similar to the balls, but only 3 people could play at one time.

Doing the flight simulator is always fun. Adeline went to Paris and tried to fly by the Eifel Tower.

Evelyn went to the ocean.

Fun little play area on the bottom floor.

Checking out the "real" plane is super fun.

The girls "flew" a lot!

Upstairs seeing the weird science area.

Probably their favorite part of the Leonardo is the art studio. This place is so cool because they have lots of art options and their is no additional cost to do anything. As art lovers, Evelyn and Adeline LOVED this!

This time they did a shaving cream art thing, as well as made snowflakes, did watercolors, and a lot more! I should have taken pictures of all they made, but they loved it.

This Mona Lisa "without eyes" was by the art studio and so the girls went behind and put their eyes in her eyes. You can't really tell who is behind the eyes, and it's a little freaky, but they loved it.

More art studio pics.

This AI machine tried to "guess" what you were drawing with the mouse. It was funny and crazy to see it get it right sometimes or what it thought you were drawing!

We didn't spend a lot of time in this area, and it was somewhat strange, but peaceful. It was an AI machine with lots of different places and designs and voices talking. We went through the maze of it a couple of times.

The last thing we did was the cardboard part.

I love how much interaction the Leonardo gives kids, especially in building and creating.

Evelyn made a frisbee.

Adeline made a little snow hut.
 

Token picture of the guys driving home from skiing, mostly asleep ha ha.