Spring Round Up 2015

Here we go with our Spring Round Up:

We went to the Payson Temple open house.  The girls were soo excited to get to go inside a temple.  It was beautiful inside and Siena kept commenting how fancy everything was.  They were all well behaved and they all loved the colorful stained glass windows everywhere.

The girls were in need of another hair cut/trim.  So we went to Aunt Margene's shop and she trimmed it up.  She even had treats for them.  They loved the pampering and most especially the treats they got there that day.  Aunt Margene always spoils them and is always so thoughtful of remembering little things they like.

 

 

Grandma Goold came to the girls dance class one day.  The girls were so excited to have her there that they actually didn't really dance that good that day, they just kept looking at us in the window and waving.  Grandma Glover and Aunt Margene came one day as well but I didn't get a picture...sorry.

We had a rare rather big spring snow storm and so of course we had to head out and build a snowman.  One of these days I'll get better at making these...at least this time I dressed him up.

We took a sports class at the rec center.  One month we took it with Holland and the next month with Max.  Every week they would have them run a few laps around the gym and without fail my girls would hold hands with each other and then either Max or Holland, it was funny but super cute.

We went to Wheeler farm with Whitney, Max and Owen.  Fun day, we were supposed to eat lunch there and being the super mom I was, packed the lunch and then left it at home.  It was also super crowded that day with field trips but it was still fun.

On Memorial Day we decided to take the kids downtown on the trax train.  The girls love riding the train and Jaron got a turn this time as well.  It was such a nice day, warm, not crowded and we had a great time walking around temple square, eating dinner and then playing at the indoor playground at the food court (they couldn't stayed there all day just doing that.)

Princess Train

A few months ago Brigitte organized and asked a bunch of friends that all had 3 and 4 years olds if we wanted to get tickets to the Heber Creeper Princess Train.  Of course we did!  The girls love going on trains, love princesses and love to do anything fun. We were in.  there were 17 of us total including all the moms, but look at how cute they all are.  Siena refused to wear a princess dress and she was totally fine with it.  I thought she might feel left out when she saw everyone else but she didn't care one bit.  Ok by me.  But maybe she shouldn't have stood right in the front middle of the group picture!

I've never been on the Heber Creeper before and I've heard a lot of mixed reviews.  So I was interested how it was going to go.  But before I get into the details, let's just say, I LOVED it.  Yes the train doesn't go that fast but it wasn't as slow as some people had said.  But it was such a fun night.

We met at the park and had pizza beforehand.  It was super windy though so soon we made our way over to the train.  As we were waiting to board, we saw Elsa, Anna and Cinderella pull up.  My girls were sooo excited to see them all but especially Cinderella.  They've met Elsa and Anna a couple times so Cinderella was new and exciting to them. 

We boarded the train and the girls were pretty excited about the big train we were on.  We sat with Bostyn from their dance class.  As soon as we started to go the princesses showed up, sang Let it Go and each of them walked around talking to all of us and taking pictures.  They were so friendly and cute with each little girl. 

After that they served us cupcakes and lemonade, which was kind of messy but the girls of course loved.  We still have our little cups they served us in (cuz the flower design on it 'looks like Anna's dress') and we drink out of them for each meal.

We loved the Princess Train and had a great time!

Going Private...I know...so annoying!

I've decided to turn my blog private.  I know...so annoying!!  I am using this more and more as a journal and not as a way to keep people informed as much anymore.  Plus most people just catch up with me via Instagram, so I don't think a lot of people check this blog as much anymore.

However, if you would still like to read my blog, just comment here and I'll add you to my list.  I've turned off publishing of comments for now, so leave your email address and I won't publish it!

Even if I don't know you, or your a friend of a friend, etc. feel free to keep reading, I don't mind, I just want to know who has access, etc. and keep a little more control over it.

I won't turn this to private for a couple weeks, fyi.

Thanks for reading!
Sheri

Good Family St George Trip 2015

We made our annual Goold family trip to St. George this year. We rented the same house we did 2 years ago (which 2 years ago was a nightmare with the girls crying the entire weekend!) 

This year we had so much fun.  It was between 105 and 110 degrees each day so we basically lived in the pool.  Luckily the girls love swimming now and Jaron, mr. water bug of course loved it as well.  As I've said before, Jaron has NO fear of the water.  He just jumps in and sinks to the bottom with total faith that someone is going to grab him at some point.  He swallowed so much pool water that he woke up every morning soaked through his diaper. But he had a smile the entire time.  We also turned Jaron's car seat facing forward for the trip and got him his own headset and he was so happy to finally be able to see the TV and watch some movies. He really didn't know what he was missing out on.

Aria, my most timid in the water did great. As long as she had her little inner tube around her she would jump and kick around all day.  She did pretty good jumping without it when I would make her but it was a fun vacation so I didn't force the issue of swimming without it (that's what swim teachers are for, which is happening in a couple weeks.)  I just realized we took lots of videos and very few pictures by

Siena was the most improved for sure this week.  She pretty much taught herself to swim.  She started with jumping into me, then I would slowly push her to the step and tell her to kick and I started moving back and back until she was swimming the width of the pool (well with a big push from me.)  Then she started swimming from one step to the other and I was so impressed that she not only could do it but was excited and wanted to keep doing it.  Then I got her to go down the slide by herself and once she did that there was no turning back.  She would do down the slide and then swim to me.  She did great.

We went to the temple on Sunday while we were there.  We showed up for church to find out we were an hour late for Stake Conference, so we walked around the temple instead.  It was also Father's Day so we celebrated all the Father's that were there with us.  Including Shane who does so much for his kids and is the best dad to these 3.  It was fun to spend the day with my dad as well who loves all his grandkids and children so much.  He would do anything for his kids.  And both these men mean the world to me so it was fun to spend Father's day together.

We also went to the Children's museum there which my kids loved, we stopped off at the carousel.  And one afternoon went to the splash park. 

We had such a fun week.  The kids were well behaved, the cousins even would entertain them with little movie times and play times which my kids love hanging out with their older cousins.  And they were very worn out each night and sometimes during the day.

Frozen Ballet Dance Recital

The girls had their first dance recital in June.  I was a little nervous how it would all go.  A few months ago Siena started having separation anxiety and even during dance class where she can see me through the window, she would cry and make her excuse of having to go potty just so she could leave.  Luckily we worked through it but neither of them were that excited when I would talk about the recital.

We got their costumes, still, no excitement.  We took pictures and put on makeup...still nothing.  In fact they hated the make up.  Siena started crying huge tears when I put her mascara on, which we all know what a disaster that turned into.  And as soon as we were done putting it on they were asking when we could take it off.  So unlike how I thought my 3 year olds would be.

But then the dress rehearsal rolled around and we drove up to Kingsbury hall.  Yes their recital was at Kingsbury Hall at the Univ. of Utah.  This is no ordinary, regular cute little girls dance recital. This is a full on production of a ballet.  It runs for 3 nights so they can fit all their classes into a dance.  So dress rehearsal came, they went up on the 'big stage' and practiced their dance once and came back down.  But that was all it took to convince them that this might be something fun they wanted to do.

The ballet this year was 'The Ice Princess' or otherwise known to the rest of us...'Frozen.'  The whole production was amazing.  They do such a good job and all the dances were cute and went off without a hitch.  The girls danced as Reindeer with Sven and Cristoff.  The day of the recital they kept telling me that only people from Arendelle are allowed on the big stage, so I can't come up on the big stage, but because they are reindeer they get to be from Arendelle.

As their time approached to come out on stage, I was feeling so nervous for them.  I wanted them to have fun and I didn't really care how they danced but I was just nervous.  They came prancing out and the dance was so cute.  I even got a little emotional, I have no idea why but I was.  They looked sooo little on that big stage but they did great.  They did about 1/2 the dance and then when the dance was over they were supposed to line up in a single file line in a train behind Sven and walk off.  I think they either forgot or were having so much fun they just wanted to look around some more cuz they all just stood there and looked around.

After watching them dance all year, it was such a rewarding night to see them up on stage.  We had dropped them off before the performance and they keep them downstairs doing dances, parades, singing, etc.  So after they came out for the finale we went and picked them up and they were so excited and you could tell they had so much fun and loved performing.  Now they keep asking when they can go back to dance class and do their dance performance again.  I have to break the news to them that their next performance is not for another year.

After we took pictures with family (My mom, Jennifer and Margene came as well which was super nice of them!) we were about to leave when we saw Elsa standing by us and her friends had just walked away and she was standing there by herself.  So we ran up and took a picture with her.  She was so cute and nice to talk to the girls for a minute and compliment them on their dancing.

 

The night was truly magical for me and for the girls.