Las Vegas Highland Festival

Jeremy won some free tickets to the Las Vegas Highland Festival on Twitter.  We met his boss and family there( I was excited to have Heathers company) and enjoyed ourselves in the heat and amongst all the bag piper music that rang all around us.  If I would have been thinking about it instead of starving I would have taken pictures of every-bodies good eats~there was bangers & mash, haggis, and meat pie(all a bit Americanized but good none the less).  
We didn't get to see the athletes throw any cabers but the kids got to try:

Here is Cameron in action...he was LOVING it he kept wanting to try.

Terrilyn gave it a try but it hit her arm when she tried to toss it and she cried.

Hannah gave it a try.

I love this action shot of Emily she too got it in the arm.

They had a tug of war rope for the kids...love Hannah's face (other rope was Terrilyn, Emily and then Cameron)

There were some people dressed in time period clothes (I think they were crazy it was getting so hot I think it made it into the 90's)

The location of the games had peacocks everywhere.  The ones in the trees were way high above our heads.  I was surprised how blue they were the ones I remember at the Denver Zoo growing up weren't nearly as beautifully colored.

Cameron tried on this real piece of chain mail (he is looking over at Hannah maybe worried about what she thinks? ;-) it was really heavy.

Ok, even looking at this now I cant help but giggle a bit.  Who knew that cowboys wore kilts?  or that a Scotsman wears a cowboy hat?

Jeremy is always looking for a reason to wear his skirt...oh I mean his kilt.  (he did leave his blouse at home it would have been to hot to wear it he said and had to leave his purse..oh man did it again I mean his sporin(it needs a longer belt)) horrible picture of me but shows the kilt

Here are most of the kids Terrilyn, Emily, Hannah, Cameron and Hailey in the back(baby Gage asleep in the stroller and my younger too were cranky and beyond cooperation)  Hannah and Cameron went around collecting sticks all morning.

Thoming family Heather, Mike, Hannah, Hailey and Emily

The End of Spring Break

Saturday night we spent at Jennifer's house and Karen and her kids stayed a while too.  There was a lot to do with 12 kids around.

Here are Terrilyn and Alexander riding their horses(these were a big hit with the kids)Alex is on Cookie and Terriyln is on Milkshake.  Terrilyn was so funny because they would be racing bouncing up and down as fast as they could and then she would announce "wooo whooo I won" and that would be he end of the race.

Seamus and Kaleb hanging out with Lacey.

These 2 were so funny they were born the same year and they connected instantly Jack followed her around asked where his "brill" friend was, combed his hair and asked if she liked it.  Well Jennifer had gone upstairs and found them in Jack's bed and asked them what they were doing just to be told that Terrilyn was Sleeping Beauty and was asleep in his bed and Jack needed to rescue  her so he had crawled in to kiss and save her.  How cute is that?

Here they are again...they should end up the best of friends...right?

These guys were all born int the same year...Mason, Livy, and Cameron.

We had a really good time we went from family to family trying to fit everyone in.  We squeezed in some friends that used to live in Tucson and haven't seen for 3 years(the Helquists) man I realized how much I missed Julie (of course the camera never came out and the kids played and played and we did lots of visiting.  Maybe now that it is only a 6 hour drive as opposed to a 12 hour we will get to see family more? 

Lemon Gathering

While in Utah we got together with all but one of Jeremy's siblings in Brigham City(Nathan had a fight that weekend). In between sessions of General Conference on Saturday the kids(all 12 of the Lemon grandkids)had an egg hunt and we got together for food and enjoying one anothers company.  We got to see Grandpa Lemon and Great Grandpa Lemon.  **WARNING** lots of pictures but I did narrow it down
 
Cameron, Terrilyn and Alexander going after the eggs and candy.

Uncle Jared was the ride for a bit...good thing his feet are so big so they have somewhere for those little bums to sit on.

These 2 were so cute with all the maddness of children running around Alexander would throw the ball to Seamus and he would roll it to Alex...so sweet watching them play together.

Our nephew Kaleb and a goober mouth.

                                                     A four generation Lemon picture

                                                                    All the Lemon men

                                                                and all the Lemon women

                       here is a progression of what these boys have/are/will look like(Jeremy, Kyle, Cameron)

 Here is all 12 grandkids together for the first time.

Alexander and Charlie

Terrilyn and Livy.  Terrilyn was so excited to have girls to play with and even better was that they wore glasses too  :-)

 Terrilyn and Jack(he was hysterical all weekend kept calling her his "brill" friend)

Lacey, Cameron, Mason, Alexander, Jack and Terrilyn

Seamus and Grandpa Bob

One night while we were there Seamus and Grandpa played a game of put the paper in the bag. I thought it was so cute and Seamus was really enjoying it.

Terrilyn's Glasses

On Thursday Jeremy had set up with his cousin Jessalyn who is doing beauty school to cut and die my hair.(he didn't realize that beauty school takes longer to go along with the cheaper) While we were there a bunch of girls around Terrilyn's age came in for a "princes party" they were getting their hair curled and then their nails done...she begged and pleaded with us to get her hair and nails done. Luckily the gal next to Jessa's agreed to do Terriyn's hair(a miracle really because she has yet to let me curl her hair with and iron) It turned out so cute...and I thought it was a perfect opportunity to debut her glasses. She is very proud of the fact that they are Dora the Explorer glasses and they have "sparkles" on the sides of them(and she will show off the Dora face on the inside of the ear pieces to you). Sooooooo with out further adu here is Terriyln with her glasses...isn't she pretty?

SNOW for Spring Break...gotta be kiddin me.

We went to Utah for spring break to spend some time with Jeremy's family. We love staying with Grandpa Bob up in Woodland Hills, but never expected that he was gonna have to plow the driveway so we could leave for the day. My poor desert rat children were so excited to play in the snow. I thought it was beautiful it has been so long since I have seen snow falling from the sky. The kids were in a hurry to eat breakfast and go play in the snow. Alexander went outside and before I could get myself and Seamus ready he was back inside and hung out with grandma Mary.

Here is the van covered in snow.

Grandpa pulled out his 4-wheeler(also the snow plow) and tied up some sleds and took the kids around the driveway. The first time worked out real well they loved it laughing the whole time and then the next go around Terrilyn lost her balance when grandpa gassed it a bit to get up the hill and face planted it into the snow.(she was done) We did get video of it but i think the funny part is that she is crying because she is cold.