Leprechaun traditon

Did you know that Leprechauns love treasure? Did you know that they are tricky, sly, quick creatures? Well they are! All around the internet I've seen "Leprechaun Traps" (see here) but I'm here to tell you, You CAN'T catch a Leprechaun! No matter how smart or tricky you think your trap is, they'll always find a way out. The only way to get what you want from a Leprechaun is to trade. That's why I taught my son the truth:
First:
You need to make a place that Leprechauns would feel safe. They love green, grass, leaves, anything that reminds them of their home in Ireland. We used our green blanket. Then you need to leave something that the Leprechauns would like to trade for. They like shiny coins, gold, money. You get the idea. We put some pennies in a bowl.


Second:
You need to not be around. If Leprechauns sense you around, they wont come out. You could put it out over night or you can go for a walk or go to the grocery store like we did. And when we came home this was left for the Little G.


There was green glow sticks, army men, green bouncy balls, and chocolate gold coins. Sometimes they even bring gold dollar coins (if they can find them).


G was so excited when he saw what was left for him. We had some much fun eating chocolate gold coins and playing with his bouncy balls. Thanks Leprechauns! See you next year!

Date with Nate- Week 3

This week's Date with Nate was... Frisbee Golf! Before little G was born, we would go play at least once a week. It's free, super fun, and you can act really silly while you play. This is a great park about 5 miles away in the town just North of ours with a great Frisbee Golf Course and we decided to go there. After dropping G off at "Bopba's" House, we met our good friends Jesse and Serena to double date with us.

Aren't we a cute couple?!

Serena and Jesse

Jesse and Serena are really fun and we had fun trying to out frisbee each other. We are good at all but when everyone equally suck it's really fun. There were "Pro" Frisbee-ers playing while we were; they had different frisbees for the distance they wanted to throw and one guy even had a golf bag that folded out to be a chair. They were intense.

Serena's first throw- It didn't go that far.

He should pose for a Greek Statue

It was raining earlier today and I thought we were going to have to reschedule but an hour or so before the clouds lifted and the grass dried and we were able to play. It was cool but once we started moving we warmed up real fast.

I had to stretch for my big throw

Told you- Big Throw

There was a serious Frisbee Golf accident and Serena lost her leg, but she's ok now.

This is his sad face after a really bad throw

Serena finding her frisbee

We did have a few mishaps. A few frisbees went to far or high and got temporarily lost but in the end we found them all and were able to finish the game.

Stupid Tree got in my Way

Jesse threw his frisbee in this bush 3 times

We had a great time. Serena was First, Nathan and Jesse tied for Second, and I was Last but that didn't bother me. Winning wasn't the point of today, having fun was and man did we have a good time. We are really going to have to double with these guys again. If you have the time, try frisbee golf. It's great!!

Labor Day, Great Day (Part 1)

Today was Labor Day! We usually just sit around the house on these holidays asking, "What should we do?" Today we decided to get out of the house and do something that G would like. We were debating between the Living Planet Aquarium or the Dinosaur Museum both of which my in laws would love so the night before we called them and asked if they wanted to go with us. Of Course they would! They came and picked us up this morning and off we went to the Aquarium.


We got there about an hour after it opened and spent about 3 hours wandering around, taking pictures, reading about the fish, and watching a movie about the lake. I was really fun.

G with the Toad

G looking at the Toad

Daddy and G
(They both stopped smiling right when I took the picture)

I really liked this fish
( I don't remember what it was called)

One of the Penguins
(the other ones were too fast to take a picture of)

A South American River Stingray- Super Cool!

Me and G
(this is the easiest way to take his pictures-He really liked the fish)

As a family we collect Christmas Ornaments from places we've been. I like the ones that say where we were and the year but they didn't have any here. They didn't have anything that said the Living Planet Aquarium so we made a squished penny and are going to turn it into an ornament to remember today. If you have the time and are in the Sandy area, Check it out! We had a great time!

Labor Day, Great Day (Part 2)

After we left the Aquarium, we grabbed some lunch and headed to our next spot...The Dinosaur Museum! G loves the show Dinosaur Train so we thought that this would be the perfect place for him (I think my father in law was excited too!). The museum starts with some displays of how we find fossils and then goes through the different ages of the planet. It was really cool. There are lots of hands on displays and I think I touched them all.

G and Daddy before we went in the Museum

When we first walked in there are dinosaur fossils and a large flying dinosaur above you. I tilted G back in his stroller and I was showing him the flying one when he flung himself back and I kind of dropped him. The braces on the stroller hit the ground so it protected his head but it scared him a lot. That's why Nate is holding G in the picture above.

There were lots of fossils and G loved them all.
This was one that I thought was really cool looking.

They have a kids area that you can play in the sand and water and build things. Nate liked this better than G did; once he got sand on his hand he FREAKED out! What can I say, My son doesn't like his hands dirty.

G and a Dinosaur

T-Rex

I asked everyone what their favorite dinosaur was, my father in law and I both like the Triceratops.

My mother in law and Nate both liked this thing. It's the biggest turtle ever found, it's called an Archelon Ischyros. Whatever it is called, It's big!

Cool giant fish

At the end there is this huge shark and we just couldn't pass up a chance to take a picture. All in all today was a great day! We decided that we may go and visit with my in laws all the time but we need to DO more things with them. I think this was a great start and there will be more day like today!

Date with Nate- Week 1

A couple posts ago, I showed you my Date Night Jar and I got a great response from it. On Sunday, the hubby picked the first date. Spend $10 at a Thrift Store and pick out crazy outfits for each other. Thanks to my SIL watching G, we were able to go today. We went to Deseret Industries. To make it a little more fun we gave each other a time limit. We had 15 minutes to search the endless rack for something the other person would wear. After our allotted 15 minutes, we met up at the register. We had some scary looking outfits. I think the one I picked out for Nate was better than the one he picked out for me but I'll let you decide.

Before the Shopping Spree

Nate- Stripped shirt, Polk-a-dot tie, Blue sweater vest, and floral Hawaiian Hat

Jessica- Hot pink terry cloth jumper (that were shorts), couch looking skirt, and not pictured my lion purse.

After we changed our clothes we decided that we couldn't waste all this attractiveness so we went to the food court in the mall for lunch. School just started so there weren't too many people to stare at us but the people who were there really gave us a double take. This was a really great date and I am so happy that I was able to spend some fun alone time with my honey. I love you babe!