Two Buck Tuesday (2)

Every Year Thanksgiving Point has 2 Buck Tuesdays where everyone can get into each venue for only 2 bucks instead of the normal $8. Last year we went to the largest Dinosaur museum in the nation and the farm.  This year I really wanted to see the gardens and then we made a return visit to the farm for Phoebs. The Gardens were amazing! They have kids gardens and then real gardens, me mainly blew by the kids garden because they were nothing special and there were too many kids playing on everything already. The grownup gardens house the worlds largest man made waterfalls, which is something I have always wanted to see.  You can walk above and below them.  Here is a shot at th top of them, note non of the kids would cooperate for a photo.

After the falls the gardens are laid out in a HUGE circle.  Next it was the rose gardens where a huge gorgeous wooden trellis surrounds one side of it. 

Besides specific gardens which all have names, such as the rose garden, fragrance garden, secret garden, etc...they just have tons of generic (no named) beautiful panoramic garden setups set around. 

The Italian garden was something to behold with all of its fountains.  I counted it is a 34 teared fountain.  The water garden has more Koy in its pond then I think I have ever seen in one spot before.  The fish have learned that people=food, so when they see your shadow hundreds of fish swim over just in hopes that you will throw a spec of food their way.  Of course Phoebe loved these two gardens with all the water and fish.

At the end of our walk we ended up at the bottom of the falls where they have a huge rolling hill that many kids were rolling down.  Phoebe however just wanted to make us run down it with her and carry her up multiple times.

After the gardens we stopped at the farm where Phoebe was on cloud nine with all the animals. We have always thought that she would be a great vet because she LOVES animals and has very little to no fear of any of them.

I even got to milk a cow which is something that I had never done before.  It was surprisingly easier than I thought it would be. Phoebe found a fake sheep along the way and wanted to ride it, however it set a bad example for other kids who wanted to do what she was doing so we quickly had to get her down. For the last bit of fun at the farm Phoebe got to ride a pony two times.  This was a dream come true for her and she threw a fit when we finally told her that we couldn't ride it anymore.  Phoebe loved that pony and still asks almost everyday if she can ride a pony today.

Cami and Josh didn't get to ride a pony this year, but you as you can see, I don't think they minded.  They were leaning forward in their seats the whole time to take everything in and Cami even was reaching forward to y and pet some of the animals.  I am a mean mom and never let her, but that is mainly because I knew she would immediately stick her hands in her mouth 2 seconds after petting and the thought grossed me out.

On the way out we trued to put phoebe on the farm scale to see if she was any heavier but she refused to cooperate by herself so as you can see Phoebe and I together weigh 300 lbs s much as 3 newborn calves, I don't think the scale is entirely accurate in our defense. Well, maybe next year we will only weigh as much as 2 goats, which would be more accurate.

As a last note, they had this mini jail in the farm and I thought woun't it be great to have one of these at home.  What a great timeout spot it would be!

10 Mos Old!

As of last Sunday the twiners are now 10 mos old.  Holy Cow!  

In the last month twiner have apparently decided on their own that they are ready to eat and now they eat food 2-3 times. They are still only on baby food, but it is really enjoyable to feed children who willingly open their mouths for food and do not scream that you are making them eat. 

These twins are the most mild mannered children you will probably ever meet.  They are happy to do just about anything and let you dress them up just for fun as with the case of these jackets. A neighbor of Cory's mom was having a garage sale and for a gift he gave a these two brand new coats from Old Navy for the twins.  Upon closer observation however, which he apparently did not give, the tags clearly read "Doggie Coats".  The family all laughed and laughed and told me I had to put them in them anyway and take pictures, so here they are.

These two are partners in crime sister is the speedy crawler in to EVERYTHING and brother is the slower patient bronze half of the duo. Cami learned to climb stairs this month and only took a week to figure out how climb around the chair that we use to block off the stairs; UGH this girl is trouble.  Brother has a good paced army crawl and seems happy to stick to it.  He doesn't try to stand or crawl in his knees.  He did get two more teeth this las month, however, and now he matched his sisters smile with 6 teeth in total.

Sister, Sister...There was never such a devoted sister

In the last couple of months as the twins have continued to become more mobile, Phoebe now recognizes two fun playmates.  She dresses them up and gives them toys to participate in her tea parties with (as is the case in the pictures below).

Phoebe enjoys holding the twins and asks for them to sit in her lap; they usually do not cooperate and wiggle out of her arms, so I new sit them beside her.  When we go to the playground Phoebe almost every time directly asks Cami to come play with her on the "twisty" slide.  I always have to tell her that Cami is too little to play on the twisty slide, but maybe next year.  Phoebe then usually says that she will hold Cami on he twisty slide...yeah I am sure that would end well.

Phoebe is our crazy girl, and in her own unique way she shows her love for her brother and sister more and more each day.  At least once a day she sneaks into the twins room where I find her in brother or sisters crib playing with them, unfortunately it is usually during their supposed nap time.  This morning however Cami was in her crib crying and Phoebe brought me her empty bottle and said "Mom make Cami a bottle please."  What a cute little girl.

As for this picture, it just shows what a tough girl this wee one is.  We didn't get the seatbelt locked into position so when we took a corner our wee one tipped.  She thought it was funny and luckily we were only about 1 mile from Cory's office so we could get her back upright and locked into position in no time.

Get Me to the Church On Time

The celebration for Megan's wedding started lat Tuesday when we all went and got pedicures at USA Nails (I recommend you never go there). My stubby purple glitter toes are easy to find in this picture, they are the only ones not French tipped

The night before the wedding most of the family gathered together to help setup for the reception that took place in the Fergy backyard.  Phoebe got to spend the evening playing princess with her friend Cassy while the twiners came with us and crawled around in the backyard, until we put them in mom's new, never been used yet, fire pit.  It was the uncles/daddies idea because they thought it was funny. Don't worry, they only sat in their for the duration of this picture, then I went and retrieved them.  After setting up it was time to head home and prepare for the next day, which included putting Phoebes hair in curlers for the night.

On Saturday Meggie and Blake got married in the SLC Temple at 9:40am. The same sealer as Ashley and Luis had performed the ceremony. Afterwards it was time to head out for TONS of pictures.  Here is my little "Shirley Temple" with the Megan the beautiful bride and with her uncle Dennis.  She refused to take off her "sunny eyes" aka sunglasses because it was too bright for her outside.  As for the twins, they had to be woken up for picture time and were still a bit groggy, so Daddy and uncle Luis carried them around  for pictures.

I thought these two little girls, Phoebe and cousin Emma, walking hand in hand with curly hair was really cute.

Here are the cute newlyweds posing for their pictures on the stairs of the temple.

The luncheon was in a beautiful reception hall called the Canterbury Place.  It is a redesigned old LDS church house that now caters to weddings and parties.  It was really pretty inside and this picture doesn't nearly do it any justice.  

Here are a few snapshots of the backyard ready for the reception before ny of the guess arrived.  Megan's colors were yellow and black and her flowers were Calla Lilies which really made for a beautiful and elegant look.  Her "cake" wasn't a ckae at all it was a large Rice Krispy treat which was beautily decorated.

Right as the photographer arrived it began to downpour, so we had to pose in the front yard under the big redwood tree.  Luckily, the rain only lasted for about 15 minutes then the sun came out and it was beautiful again, so we could move outback and resume pictures as large groups where we had originally planned to take them.  

Here are all the Fergy clan dressed up and looking beautiful in their yellow and black.  Below is Grandma&pa Fergy with all 11 of their grandchildren & a picture of Phoebe insisting on carrying Meggie's train around for her.

Once the reception started and after a brief nap here is how the twins spent most of their time, sitting on cousin Afton's blanket playing. Cami didn't even try to crawl around that much because she hates attempting to do it in dress. As the evening wound down Megan and Blake cut their Krispy cake and then Megan threw her bouquet while Blake threw the guarder. After that the couple said a few short words thanking all who came and then quickly changed and then were off in their stinky decorated car.

After they left it was time to quickly clean up and head home ourselves. All the kids were great troopers, it had been a very long day from 8:30am-10:00pm on the go with no naps. Packing up to go home, Phoebe insisted she still wasn't tired, but after 2 second in the car on the way home she was asleep.  She was in fact so far gone, we were able to change her into her pjs with her barley even stirring. Everyone had really enjoyed themselves and partied themselves right out.

Packin' in the Fun in the beginning of August

On no now we are in trouble! Both the twiners are crawling and this little girl now can stand and has tries to master the art of stair climbing whenever we forgot  to put the chair down. Unfortunately, she even has experienced some stair falling too.

Since Cami is instantiate on growing and not staying permanently small like her older sister, I had to try to get  a cute picture of these two in their matching dress since they are my favorite and Cami is about to grow out of hers.  I couldn't get both to cooperate at the same time so here is the happy medium of them both. 

Last Monday, our complex had a big BBQ. We met at our new playground/basketball court and had tons of great food. We also had the mayor, the police department with sidekick crash dummies and the fire department who gave tours of heir truck, if you came to see the truck you also got a sticker which Phoebe was sure to cash in on.

Last week our neighbor lent us their pool which excited Phoebe to no end. She loved the pool and wanted to spend all day in it and also lay down nap in it too. She went between the pool and chalk drawing all morning.  Phoebe prefers to draw with the chalk when it is wet, I guess that it draws with more vibrate color then. The next day as I filled the pool up in the morning so the water would be warm at noon Phoebe was too impatient to wait and she went right outside and got climbed in in all of her clothes. She then came back inside to show me as if it was something I would be happy with, which brings us full circle to why we no longer own a pool.

Back in April when grandpa/ma Potts came to visit they brought Phoebe a sunflower kit to grow herself. The seeds in the pot never grew because Phoebe wouldn't leave them alone, but 3 sunflowers of the sunflowers hat we planed in the yard are now beginning to bloom. All three are now in bloom, but the picture below is one of the first days that  the first one opened up...my mom and I laugh that these sunflowers grew to be about 4 ft tall and yet they cam in the smallest 1 in clay pot to plant them in.