Grandma Ivins' and the zoo

Last Friday we got to go to the cemetery with some of Doug's family to celebrate Grandma Ivins' birthday. Here's the girls cleaning the headstone.Here's a note Sophia wrote for her.Balloons from Doug's mom.

Everyone attached a little note to their balloons and then we let them off.Notes headed to Grandma.Grandpa watching our notes soar higher.That night we asked Sophia if she thought the letters got to Grandma. She was pretty sure that she was reading them right then. She still prays every night that Grandma got our notes. After that Doug's parents were nice enough to watch my girls while I went to Salt Lake (alone!) to celebrate my SIL Lexie's birthday. It was a lot of fun and nice to have some peace and quiet. The girls also loved having alone with with Grandpa and Grandma and enjoyed a yummy snackand books with Grandpa. His head makes the best foot rest.

On Saturday we were crazy enough to venture to the zoo with Tonya and Sam! It was pretty cold but still a lot of fun.

Of course the highlight was riding the carousel

Mabel enjoyed it too. The best part was that Doug joined us! We loved spending the day with him.

Afterward we stopped by Doug's parents house for a minute. Mabel loves this book end and is pretty sure it's a chair. If only she could figure out how to sit in it.

Here's a Lincoln Log house Sophia built while we were there. She hid this little bear inside.

Today Lilly and I went to "From Van Gogh to Play dough" at the BYU Museum of Art. We talked about families and looked at paintings of people in a family. Then the kids got to paint/color their own set of family paper dolls. It was a lot of fun. She loved it!

Here she is stamping with a toilet paper roll onto the mom's dress.