The Magic House

This past week Brindi and I went on a little Daddy-Daughter date to the Magic House. It was there annual free family night. Celeste was busy with a young women's sleep over and so it was just us out on the town.

The Magic House is such a cool place that is a complete hands-on educational museum with secret passages; stretchy boards; a 3 story and 2 story slide; giant blocks; and a giant ruler.

The water section was probably Brindi's favorite part and it was difficult to pull her away. She seemed to have spent almost a hour playing in the water.

There was also this giant 3 story bean stalk that you could climb up and down. Brindi was a little too small so I spent my fair share of time climbing through small little passages as I helped her climb to the top.

There is also a section just for Bob the Builder. This is where we spent the first hour of the night. Picking and planting flowers, cutting wood, organizing balls, sliding, and playing in all the construction equipment.

There were several walls through out the facility covered in chalk boards. Brindi is getting pretty good at writing her own name. You can somewhat make out the letters. She gets so proud of herself.

We are so lucky to have so many fun activities to do in the area. It was my first time to go to the Magic House and I was pretty impressed. We didn't even make it to the bubble room or even the 3rd floor and we spent over 3 hours there. A pretty cool place. It was Brindi's second time to go there. She went there a couple weeks ago with Celeste and some friends and the next morning she woke up so excited and came running into our bedroom saying "we need to get dressed mom and take dad to the magic house." I am so glad she was able to take me. I love the time I get to spend with Brindi. We have so much fun together.

Smiles and Bubbles

Brooke LOVES the bath!!! Her smiles say it all. Her and Brindi have so much fun together. Brindi plays with her like she's her baby and Brooke just sits there and coos and smiles while Brin's doing it.

St. Patrick Day Parade

This past weekend Brindi and I headed over to Cottleville for the annual St. Patty's parade. We found a little clearing towards the end of the parade route and took up camp. Brindi kept asking where our chairs were because everyone had chairs except for us. She was quite concerned about the whole thing. Because we were at the end, we had plenty of time to play around as we waited almost an hour before the first float came by. The spacing was not the greatest between floats either, meaning we watched pavement more than floats but Brindi did not seem to mind. She did ask several times where the candy was. One of the sad misfortunes of being towards the end is the fact floats run out of candy by the end. She did get a little bit of candy but was showered with green beads, a clover hat, flower planting seeds and sunburned cheeks. It was quite the fun little daddy-daughter date.

Brooke's Blessing

Brooke's blessing was very sweet and very promising. I hope the blessing her father gave her helps her to become all that the Lord wants her to be and all that she wants to be. It was a great blessing and our little family of girls is so blessed to have a father and husband who stays worthy to hold the priesthood. It truly has been a blessing in our lives. With that being said... We thought we would be blessing her during sacrament the first week of March. Well I was sitting in church the week before and they announce that we are having a broadcast stake conference. I was a little taken back since we just had Elder Christoferson(spelling??) come to our stake in December for stake conference and when I talked to the bishopric about blessing Brooke that week they said that would be great...Well....after hearing this we ended up blessing her after conference in the bishop's office. I was so glad that Grandma and Grandpa Lovell were able to come...it would have been pretty lonely in that office with just us and the bishopric. The other plus of it being Stake Conference was having the stake president there. Brooke is one special girl. It meant the world to us to have Gma and Gpa there. Brindi of course ate them up and she only wanted to take a picture if Grandpa and Grandma were in the picture........finally we got her to take one with Brooke, but failed to get a single good one of all four of us.