Monday Night at the Ripley's!!!

So Monday was a different day for us. Zach finished taking a huge neuro/bio test and so came home early!!! HOOORAYYY!!! So we took advantage and Zach and the kids went out onto our newly mowed lawn and played some soccer! The girls are getting so big, it was lots of fun watching them play. Afterwards we had dinner, and then the neighbor boys asked zach to play basketball with them. So we put FHE on hold to watch Daddy play. Zoe was Zach's personal cheerleader...kale helped by getting in the way while he played in the puddles. :) Afterwards we drove to Dairy Queen and read stories from the friend for FHE. It's one of our favorites...All in in all it was a great day. The best part was getting to spend some much needed time with Zach! :)

Easter 2012

These are a little late, but here are some pics from Easter morning! The kids woke up and had a blast picking up the candy and finding the eggs that the Easter Bunny left. Kale picked up REAL fast how the candy thing worked...the hardest part was keeping him from putting all the candy in his mouth! After all the candy and egg hunting it was time for church. The kids wore the new dresses that grammie made for them, they were so pretty!!! Zach just has one request for next year...no glitter on the dresses!!!!! It stuck to everything! :) Zach says he looked like he went to a strip club first and THEN went to church! BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh well...they looked good!

Getting Ready for Easter!!!

Today was a busy day for the Ripley clan...Zach left in the morning to go study for a HUGE neuro test that he has monday...and the rest of us went to go try out the easter egg hunt at the high school football field. While the kids had fun, they were kind of disappointed that after sitting through the hosting church's sermon that when it came time for the egg hunt they only got 3 eggs a piece. Probably won't attend next year, hoping to maybe put on our own. :) The rest of the day was spent playing outside, riding bikes and playing with the next door neighbors new black lab puppy Maddie. Zach was able to come home to watch to watch the kids dye easter eggs. Zoe and Brielle are pro's and had tons of fun. Zach and I spent most of the time trying to keep Kale from making of mess of things. We finally gave him a plastic cup of water with a spoon and plastic egg to he could "dye" his own egg. Unfortunately he caught on after a while...but it was fun while it lasted.

Spring Break

Well it's only been like 3 years since I updated this...my goal is to start posting a little something each day so it can be kind of like our family journal. We recently went back home to WA for Spring Break. It was lots of fun! The kids got to ride a quad, go swimming and their favorite was probably picking out a new puppy. Brielle's is named Lexie, and Zoe's is named Ziva. They were 7 weeks old when we got them on 03.31.2012.

Camping at Mt. Charleston 2009

So here are a couple pics of our campin trip. We got there late due to car trouble, but the kids had fun playing in the dirt. Their favorite game to play was to throw rocks in the trees. They even did pretty well on our "hike". We found out however that they HATE being cold. I mean HATE it! But all in all....it was a great break and fun little trip. We'll have to do it again...but next time in July or August when it's warmer! :)

Pioneer Day '09

These are some of the pics from the Pioneer Day parade this year. Even though it was crazy humid here we still had a good time. Zoe got to ride on the float that our ward put together and throw candy. She completely snubbed her family as she drove by, which as fairly consistent to how things go around here.

Chuck E Cheese

The other night we decided we were bored and the kids were sick of the house so we decided to go to Chuck E Cheese's. It is a pretty cost effective way for the kids to run off some energy as long as they don't eat! Brielle and Zoe pretty much enjoyed all of the rides except the one with the monster truck shown here. That is genuine terror in their eyes.