Piper, Hudson and I have a new goal. Our mission being to make Josh fall in love with St. George again. Josh grew up in St. George, so to him it never really feels like a vacation. I, on the other hand love going, and we are lucky enough to be able to go every couple months to visit his grandparents. It's a dream vacation for me, we get to relax and do nothing for days + Josh's grandma is the best cook in the whole world. However, our kids are getting older and its getting harder to just keep them around the house for days, so we have decided to get out and about a little more while we are there. So, of course, I turned to Pinterest and Google for some fun places to visit. The first place that caught my eye was Glitter Mountain! Just the name alone had me sold! I have the worlds biggest glitter lover / rock collector daughter there is!

We had found several directions to Glitter Mountain, and even a google map to the location which I insisted on using because our phones know everything right?!.... Wrong! The whole time I was telling Josh where to go he kept saying I'm pretty sure I know where this is, and this is the wrong direction. After the phone told us to turn on a road that didn't exist, I turned my phone off let the man do his driving. To my surprise, we passed sooo many people who were so lost and couldn't find it either! Josh took us straight there though and it was exactly what we were hoping for... expect the mountain part! It was more hills and a pit than a mountain...but maybe we are just spoiled with the mountains near home. I decided to make some directions in hopes that it helps some other lost souls who depend on their phone for everything like me!

Staheli Farms

Under over pass, turn on first right.

Old Cattle Corral

Cross State line.

I would definitely recommend bringing a bucket and a little hammer or something to chip away some rocks.The kids love just being dirty and playing... rocks and dirt are all children really need after all right? Although we only let our children leave with a child sized handful of the "crystals" for memories, they sure loved filling up the buckets and lugging them around. We all left wonderfully filthy, and my car is still red from all the dust and dirt, but Piper still talks about it, and that's a win in my book!

1. Piper has been busy being a hand model for Pebbles in my Pocket a lot this month, and she only ever has one request which is to be paid in glitter! So after each mini photo shoot she does she gets to pick a color of glitter from mom's craft room to do a craft with. This girl is the definition of all things glitter!
2. Princess play date! Piper got to have her friend Sadee over for a play date. The two of them decided they wanted to have a tea party and dressed up in dresses that my sister and I wore for Halloween when we were their age. It was absolutely darling!
3. Josh accepted a new job at his work and is now Lead Welding Instructor of the MATC Welding Department! I've convinced Piper to call him "Headmaster" which drives Josh crazy, but is positively the cutest!
4. Amy's Eggstravaganza! I got to spend the night gabbing away with my sweet girlfriends and paint eggs! It was a much needed night out and was full of laughter, creativity and friendship.
5. My same friend Amy put together an awesome St. Patrick's Day party for all of our little kids. I can't even believe how fast the kids are multiplying and growing, but getting together is always fun!
6. Piper is a big girl! I mean really! When I was pregnant my mom gave me a box of clothes that were mine when I was little, a lot of them being stuff she and my grandma had made. I halfheartedly accepted the box and stuck it away with the feeling that Piper would never be big enough to wear them! Well, I forgot about the box and then got a friendly reminder from my mom saying that she was pretty sure Piper is big enough to wear some of the clothes, so I went and pulled it out and to my surprise she does!! Some of the clothes were even to small! I can't even believe how fast she is growing! She gets so many compliments when she wears the crocheted sweaters that my grandma made. Crocheting/Knitting is definitely an art one that is often over looked but is still much appreciated!
7. One Saturday before I had to go into work, we went to Chipotle and grabbed food and had a picnic at the park! Piper had been begging to go for weeks! It was just what our little hooligans needed! They played their little hearts out and both took a well deserved nap afterwards!
8. A trip to the aquarium! Hudson's new word is fish! Although it comes out more like "ishie" he has been saying it all the time ever since we got our two little fish for Dr. Seuss's Birthday, so we decided that maybe he was old enough to actually appreciate the aquarium. He did! Both the kids ran wild and pointed to every single fish in the whole building.
9. In an attempt to make Hudson like going to nursery better, we bought some bubbles for him to play with in the back yard seeing as the nursery leaders always let the children play with bubbles to distract them while the mom's and dad's slip out quietly. We so hoped that he would love them in nursery long enough for us to sneak out, but unfortunately he didn't. He sure loves them in the backyard though and we love watching his shocked face every time he touches one and it pops!

Since Easter literally starts in just a few minutes I thought I better play a little catch up and at least post our St. Patrick's Day! (I'm realizing I'm pretty bad at this consistent blogging thing!) We had an awesome St. Patrick's Day this year! We got lucky and got to celebrate the holiday with doing little things all week long, starting with going to a St. Patrick's Day party with friends. That party really fueled Piper's excitement for the holiday this year. She even remembered going on a hunt for a leprechaun at the end of the rainbow that we had done last year with her Joy School friends, and kept asking if that was going to happen again this year. Three year old Piper is so fun! I love that she is remembering things and that she is starting to get so excited for special days!

According to Merriam Webster, Spring Fever is "a feeling of wanting to go outdoors and do things because spring is coming and the weather is getting warmer". Count that as a ü for all of us in my family! Spring some how has a way of playing with my heart as it gets warmer, we all get excited to spend a miraculous day or even a week outdoors and then the weather turns, and it gets cold again. My family and I are beyond ready for the permanence of warm weather, followed by the consistency of being able to get outdoors and enjoy some well needed sunshine and not freeze our fingers and toes off. With the local forecast telling us that we will once again be having some colder days, we decided to take a little drive to Tibble Fork Reservoir and have what Piper calls a "family adventure", but really it's just an short outing to mentally prepare us for a few more "playing indoor days".

In some attempts to be a more fun mom and make ordinary days be a little more entertaining, Josh and I decided to celebrate Dr. Seuss's Birthday with the kids. His birthday is March 2nd, and to be completely honest I didn't know this was even a day to know until spending the afternoon with a friend and she shared that they celebrate it every year. This gave me two days to come up with something to do in order to make the day special, but I also just wanted to keep it so simple! I got on Silhouette and typed in Dr. Seuss hoping that someone out there had already made something that I could just use, and to my surprise my sweet friend Amy Robison had the three cutest Dr. Seuss die cuts on there! Hallelujah!