UT: Seaver Home Fun

Between the extreme heat and rounds of runny noses and coughs we spent a lot of time hanging out at my parent's house. 

After Jake flew home (the second half of my trip) Berlyn & Braxtyn came and camped out at Grammy's house.  SO FUN!!!!!  The girls had never seen Harry Potter OR Doctor Who!?!  So they had a sci-fi indoctrination!  We were talking about Dr. Who and Braxtyn's like "I've seen Doctor Who.... Oh wait... No, I've seen Doctor Phil"  hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  The girls were so helpful!!!!  And we had so much fun!!!!!!

Berlyn got me saying "Oh shnap!"

The twirls were introduced to the world of Fruit Ninja.  It became their obsession.  The can open the app and even navigate to dual player mode!

Aunt Jami and Berlyn rocking the twirls to sleep (while Braxtyn was cuddling Scarlett until she fell asleep).

Braxtyn taught Scarlett "Whip it Nae Nae" 

Here is the original music video if you're not familiar with the dance - he's kind of like a hip hop square dance caller, haha!

Kandy doing her classic "blowfish" trick!!!  Brings back old memories!  She would sneak outside while we were sitting at the kitchen table and she would do the blow fish on the sliding glass door - it scared the pants off of us!

One night I had a dream for a business idea: LOC.  In my morning fog I was confident that it was a golden idea.  As I came to my senses... well... you tell me what you think of it.  LOC stands for Little Office Charms.  It's a company that sells silver and gold charms that you can give to your employees at the end of the year.  A pair of scissors for cutting the fat out of the budget.  A little clock for getting the program back on schedule.  A dollar sign for increasing sales.  A dad holding hands with his daughter for Take Your Daughter to Work Day.  You get the idea.  The charms can be attached to your ID badge or on a special key ring.  I know, the idea is amazing.  Unfortunately I don't have time to pursue this idea.  But, as you can see, it's a gold mine.

After a long day of playing.  Scarlett wanted to give the twirls a ride on her shoulders.

Grammy spoiled these girls so much!  Look at those messy, happy smiles!

Leg warmer fun!

An evening of Monopoly and rainbow mosaics.

When we try to put the twirls down after holding them, they will often coil up their legs so that you have to keep holding them.  Grandma Seaver told them: "you need to put your landing gear down."  I love that cute phrase!  I'm going to use it again!

Grumple got called to be a member of the stake presidency.  Before he went to girls camp he practiced his object lesson on us, then on Grandpa Hanna.  A piece of memory metal.  You bend it, then if you put a current through it, it will return to its original shape.  My dad and I first came across this when we toured the University of Utah's Engineering building.  It's funny to think how different life would be if I went to the U.  The best thing I got out of my BYU experience was my super hot husband.  I'm so glad that I picked BYU!  (and I look better in blue than I do in red).

Jaide loves kisses - she gives all her animals kisses and often kisses photos around the house.  Siena loves tickles - she often will say "ticka ticka ticka" and it barely takes anything to get her in a full blown belly laugh.

Jaide calls Siena "Nena" and Siena calls Jaide "Sissy" not sure where that came from?!?

Jaide says "a ya" a lot when she says yes.  Siena says "stuckey" when things are stuck.

Siena put herself in time out.  I found her in the corner counting "1-2..."  haha!  And Jaide found this Iron Man mask...

Right now Scarlett says she's pretending a lot: "My favorite color is pink, I thought it was violet... I'm just pretending" or "We are running fast on the road" (Me: "No we're not, we're driving.") "Just pretending we are!"

Since Jami is a germaphobe there is hand sanitizer all over my parent's house.  Scarlett fell in love with it!  She loved not having to get her hands wet (cause she often has a band-aid on from picking her nails and the water makes it slip off).  Anyways, Scarlett called it "hanitizer!"  We call it that now.

Scarlett found James' old game boy and had a blast playing with it (except she kept trying to touch the screen).

One day James was over at my parent's house doing work.  He was heading out to the store so I asked him if he could pick up something that was kind of vital: tampons.  James is not shy about picking up feminine hygiene products (we started him at the young age of 12).  This was our conversation...
James: "Without getting too personal, did you want Playtex Sport."
Me: "um... yes."
James: "And the box that's half regular and half super?"
Me: "....??? yes."
Haha!  I guess James does more feminine hygiene shopping than I thought!

James: "What are your favorite foods?"
Scarlett: "Popsicles and donuts."
James: "Why two kinds?"
Scarlett: "Democracy!"
Haha!  No one could have expected that!  I don't even know where she learned that word!

This video shows Grumple organizing the girls into a jumping game:

More fun with Grumple!

The refrigerator was open and the twirls saw an opportunity to go shopping.  They pulled out these lemon and lime juice containers.  I have noticed that they always gravitate toward yellow or green.  I guess they have noticed all the color coding!

Here's the video evidence that they drank the whole container.  Weirdos!  How sour!!!

Sweeties:

The girls loved wearing these capes.  I think that the twirls look like hobbits from behind!

Using their imaginations!  I found the twirls running around with their strollers full of french fries.

They love shoes!

Jaide singing "Let It Go!"

Aunt Jami snuggles...

The girls all got new shoes (darn those kids, they're always growing!)  They got Twinkle Toes and they were in LOVE!

This video shows how they figured out how they could jump and make them light up:

While Papa Hanna was in town he went on walks - I went on one walk with him and it about did me in!  The guy can move!

Playing with Amy (one of the family friends that lived at my parent's house during school).  And the girls playing with ants - gross!

Bubbles and sun glasses.

The girls were running out front and being hilarious:

The girls attacking Uncle James:

We had a front yard sprinkler party:

The sprinkler was a little too scary for the twirls:

One day James and Hailey brought Oliver to play in the front yard of my parent's house.  Scarlett never touched him, but she touched his toys and it was enough to bother her allergies.  Poor girl loves puppies so much!!!

So one evening we stopped by James and Hailey's house to visit Oliver safely from inside the car.  No allergies that night!

James and Hailey bought the girls stuffed corgis.  They all have a glittery collar with a bell on it - green, pink and yellow.  We call them "Oliver Pink" "Oliver Yellow" and "Oliver Green".  And James made Scarlett this little Lego version of Marshall - complete with actuating limbs and a fire hose backpack that collapses perfectly into his uniform.  AMAZING!

Jake and I are very progressive.  We've decided to raise our children as "trans-species" if they relate more with puppies than humans then who are we to hold them back?

These girls LOVE their puppies.

The often snuggle their puppies and they make the puppies kiss their cheeks. 

They call their soft puppies (not Oliver) "agaga" not sure where they got that name.  I guess it's from their twin language.

One day we had a puppy parachute party:

After this game their puppies were all in the entry way.  My mom came in and asked "Who littered the entry?" haha!!!

We had so much fun visiting family and friends in Utah and we can't wait to go back next summer!