Spring Stuff

Lane had track and field day.

My mom text me saying she was going to be down there all day helping.

Even though she has not had a child in that school for 3 years,

she still thinks track and field day is the best day ever!

She is chummy with the PE coach so they coordinated for her to be a helper!

I think she just needs to figure out how to become principal:)

I only went for the last hour.

My dad was sweet to come support Lane as well.

Lindi wanted to help Grandma and Grandpa keep track of all the winners!

It's no secret Lane can dominate in every athletic thing he does.

The boy came home with a 1st or 2nd place ribbon in every event!

 

Casey Lane had a birthday!

It was pretty funny when we BOTH couldn't remember how old he was turning, yikes!

He of course requested that we pretend it was just another ordinary day.

No gifts or hoopla.

BORING!

We ( meaning us wives) planned to meet up with his womb mate

and have dinner out at San Tan Flats.

We were quickly detoured when the parking lot was full to capacity.

It was only 5:30 for crying out loud!
All of the Minnesota and Michigan license plates need to drive back from where they came from!

We walked in but pretty much walked straight back out when the line for food was over an hour long.

Luckily Sunni and Travis knew of a good pizza restaurant just up the road.
Which we were seated right away, thank goodness.

Afterwards we went to a park and had dessert!

Sunni made giant cookies and I brought thrifty's ice cream on dry ice.

After some coaxing we finally got smiles from both of them!

This picture captures them perfectly!

All smiles when it's time to dig into dessert:)

Spring break arrived!

I was not so excited at first.

I was just getting over the flu and having the kids home sounded exhausting!
Luckily Stephanie invited the boys over to play all morning.

After I picked them up I couldn't stand their long, WAY over due for haircuts shaggy heads.

But I still was lacking on energy.

I saw a Sports Clips and pulled on in!

The boys weren't sure about the situation yet.

But once they got a head message at the shampoo bowl they were sold!

No clean up for me and I was sold!!

I would love to take them there every time but 40 bucks??

It will only have to be for special occasions, darn.

The next day was a lazy one.
I rounded up some neighbor kids and we swam in our old neighborhood pool.
The following day I met Stephanie and her kids out at Mesquite pool.
If it's going to feel like Summer, we will play like Summer:)
Plus their water is heated.
I picked up QT pretzels and cheese for lunch.
We also got some shaved ice as a snack.
Don't mind the bikini bum lady in the background.

We were there for 5 hours!

Proof that is was a successful day in the sun:

Earlier on in the week I was trying to think of something fun we could do

so I wouldn't want to murder my children or have their eyeballs pop out from

watching too much tv.

After a big group text with my mom and sisters,

we were set to go to the AZ Grand on Thursday

and spend the night then swim in their fun Oasis all the next day!

I was really excited.

I have never been there before but know a lot of Arizonans like to do stay-cations there.

When we drove in to the resort I was shocked by its enormity.

It was a mini city in there!

I was the first to arrive so we checked in and I asked where I was supposed to park

my car. The man said there was no parking by our room so they needed to valet my car and a

golf cart would drive us and our luggage to our suite.

FUN!

We got a 2 bedroom suite that had a kitchen and living room.

Stephanie got there not too long after us.

We promptly put on our swimming suits and hit the pool for the last hour of sunlight!

We went back to the room to change for dinner!

The front desk said if you needed a ride to anyplace on the property to dial zero

and ask for a golf cart to come pick you up.

Sweet!

They have 2 restaurants that are close to the resort.

We decided to go to Aunt Chiladas.

You can't ever go wrong with Mexican food:)

They golf cart picked us up and drove us straight there.

The driver said for a ride back, to let our waitress know and they would call to send back the

golf cart for us.

It felt like luxury!

Lindi getting Olive all dolled up.

We got back and got the beds made for the boys.

My mom and Craig came after their Spring Training game was over.

They slept in one room and me and Stephanie shared the king in the other.

The next morning we had breakfast, cleaned up and got ready for the pool!

After some smuggling in outside food for the kids we were ready to relax!

Marcie and Scarlett came to party with us!

My dad and Travis came later in the afternoon, too!

I was bummed Casey was too busy working to meet up with us.

I think ordering food pool side is one of my favorite

things to do! Being lazy and eating overpriced yummy food...

I could get used to that:)

Cheese fries and pina coladas are a must!

The whole time I was thinking, if this is what heaven is like,

I would be ok with that:)

I was sad when it got dark and they started shutting down everything for their

movie in the pool night.

I guess we were there for 9 hours solid.

Time to go home.

Man, was that a GREAT way to end Spring Break!

This cute little munchkin had a birthday the next day!

Needless to say, she was SO EXCITED!

She would sing happy birthday to herself all throughout the day.

These glasses slay me.

The neighbor girl gave them to Lindi.

She will put them on randomly and when she does I want her to wear them permanently!

We got donuts and breakfast burritos, of course.

Earlier on in the week our old neighbors had us over for dinner.

Of course she had a cake for Lindi!

It was a Saturday, and dad surprised us by coming home early from work!

He took us to Ned's for lunch.

The rest of the day she played with friends.

Luckily one of her favorite babysitters was going to watch them that night.

We blew out candles and opened presents and she thought it was the best

"party" ever!

Grandma sure knows how to get awesome birthday presents!

This Barbie mannequin head was pretty awesome in her books!

She loves it and keeps her busy;)

Somebody else likes it too:/

Happiest 3rd birthday

our sweet Lindi Lou!

Life pics!

One Friday afternoon I could hear a bunch of hoopla coming from outside.

I looked through the window to find the whole neighborhood trying

to hitch a ride on the pink Landshark!

TGIF!

His face... I die!

This kid will NOT crack a smile for the camera, for anything!

Lane had his pinewood derby.

During awards they were taking a picture of each

boy in the photo booth. Each kid walked up and put on their best

cheesy grin. Lane walked up and was stone wall as could be.

In fact he wouldn't even look at the camera!

Everybody was saying, don't smile Lane, to get him to smile.

Head slump. Oh well!

For date night Casey and I hit up IKEA to get me a sweet new cart to put

all of my hair stuff in! (It was Casey's favorite date night... shopping AND assembling

when we got home:)

Lindi woke up and thought it was HER new cart.

She wheeled that thing around the whole morning!

As she wheeled, she found more and more things to put in the cart!

It was so funny.
I thought we were going to have to go back

to IKEA and get another one!

100'th day of school!

Grandpa turned 90!!!

He had a smashing birthday party to celebrate.

Smoked pork dinner, a quick tribute with a video slide show and DANCING!

I was put in cub scouts.

I am over the webelos.

We needed to go on a hike and I don't have another leader with me to help so

Bro. Goodman got to come with:)

Mam oh man do boys have lots of energy!

We had a Monday with no school so we took the kids to see Kung Fu Panda 3 at

FatCats. We got there kind of late so most of the seats were taken, so

Lindi and I squished into one chair.
She fell asleep!
But only for the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Awesome.

Casey took the boys to the arcades while I watched the clean up crew attack the theater

that looked like a popcorn machine had barfed all over while she slept.

Mr. Lane is all grown up and has a metal mouth!

I was worried braces wouldn't sit well with him once they were actually on his teeth.

He proved me wrong!

I didn't hear one complaint.

In fact, he would ask me before he would eat anything if it was ok.

Pretty sure I told him no on some things that were ok:)

I  have been growing out Lindi's short bob for a little change.

After a bath it looked long enough to pull all the way back in a pony.

After I did it, she looked in the mirror and said, It looks like Avery's hair.

(the girl next door who always has her hair in a pony tail)

We all got a good chuckle.

Papa turned 60!

Grammy reserved the big room at Mi Amigos, one of their favorite places!

Stephanie had all of these shirts made for the grandkids to wear as a surprise.

One morning, Lindi came walking in with her blankie down her shirt saying she had

a baby in her tummy. I think that mixed with her high heels gave me the chuckles.

She totally looked prego!

Oh girl, you wait on that, Mmk!

The whole gang went to the Supercross!

It was also a little birthday celebration for David.

It was waaaaay the hay out in Glendale.

We figured we better get there first to beat the traffic and then eat.

Lucky for us, there was an Island's right by the stadium, a Lindblom favorite!

Boo that the one by us closed down and turned into a Hooters.

Not too far behind us were the Toy Haulers and tailgater's that had been boozing it up in the parking

lot all afternoon. Some people have interesting lives.

I'm sure they say the same for us:)

I had a pretty crazy weekend.

To top it off I got the flu that wiped me out for 8. flipping. days!!

I had never been sick like that in my life. 

I was pretending I wasn't sick,

or thinking I would bounce back the next day.

Anyway, Friday Rusty had a field trip to the zoo.

I didn't take any pictures, lame!

Probably because the whole time I was trying to make it to the end

without passing out.

My first symptom to being sick but not realizing it.

We didn't get home till later in the afternoon.

That night was our ward party.

Casey was in charge of decorations, which meant I was in charge of decorations!

It was a western theme.

Simple enough.

I had Casey bring home wood pallets from work to paint the menu's on.

I called the lady in the ward that has every kind of décor for a party.

She gave me 20 cowboy hats.

I went to the dollar store and had peanuts on the tables like Texas Roadhouse.

The best, I busted out my old cd case and found some high school country mix's.

Oh ya, a blast from the past!

I had them playing all during the night.

I actually liked the songs so much I am still listening to them in the car:)

We brought IBC in glass bottles.

I was worried somebody might get offended.

You know, "beer" at a ward function.

But they were a hit!

I couldn't find any babies breath at the stores.

I remembered seeing pretty wild flowers along the canal on one of

my runs.

I grabbed some scissors and voila!

Free even:)

It was a fun night!

Everybody came dressed up in their cowboy duds.

The bishops wife but together fun games.

Everybody got split up into groups.

She had about 5 yee- haw games.

We had to put together movie titles.

Good thing I had Connie on my team, she sure knows her Westerns!

We smoked everybody out of the water.

Shooting range

Balloon "horse" round up

There were more.

I stole these off of the ward newsletter:)

We cleaned up and I went home and crashed!

The next morning I peeled my eyes open at 8 and sent Casey a text

saying that I thought I was dying a slow death.

He was at work but came home and took care of everybody.

We had workers outside getting things done on the house.

We ripped out the front yard and it was a construction zone.

I was worried because I was hosting a favorites party that night

with all of my Udall cousins.

It had been planned for a month!

I did not want to cancel.

I really needed to get up and going, but I just couldn't.

Finally at 1pm I fell out of bed.

I pretty much just laid on the couch until I needed to get

some Tylenol at Walgreens and pick up my bread pudding from

Crackers I was going to serve as dessert.

I came home and vacuumed, set up a few things.

Barely did my hair and makeup.

By then I was feeling ok.

Once again thinking I was recovering and I would be fine the next day.

Everybody brought a main dish, dip, salad, etc. that is their favorite.

We had a good spread!

I had a "soda shop" station for drinks.

We ate then had our favorite things exchange!

We put our name in our bowl.

Whatever name you picked out, you got their favorite thing!

Of course we chatted until late in the evening.

I think I might have to do this every year!

We missed a few that couldn't make it.

Like Stephanie who was home dying with the flu.

Welp, I didn't get better until Thursday the next week.

It was misery!

The absolute worse thing ever.

I went to the doctor Tuesday.

I had a sinus infection and the flu.

It gives me anxiety to think that I might get it again next flu season.

I will be doing everything in my power to make sure I don't!