Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Seoul Grand Park Adventures

A couple weeks ago for Spring Break we went to Seoul Grand Park with Hope, Taylor and Amber. We had a great time and of course many adventures. (This is the same friend that I was with when Logan had to "make a snake" on the bus ride home from the water park.) We never have a dull moment, but enjoy every minute.
The kids couldn't figure out why it had a baby under it's paw? Look at all the pretty flowers...it was really pretty. I'm sure now it looks even better with the blossoms and trees in bloom.

Logan the turtle.

We had a fun picnic and enjoyed our afternoon together.

We rode this ski-lift down the mountain. It was fun but a bit scary for me holding both the kids, bags, camera and being up so high over the water. I was worried that I was going to drop something. But we made it down fine and Logan loved it!
Smurfs...I had to post this, they also had some Peter Pan stuff I'm sure they got Disney's permission :-). This is the rose garden. The kids loved walking thru it even without the roses. I can't wait to go back!
Logan & Taylor are good buddies. We 're sure going to miss her and her family. They leave us next month along with many of our friends. This military thing is hard; you make friends, and then before you know it, it is time for them to leave.
Logan loves these "corn things". I don't know the real name but that is what Logan has named it. His favorite reason for riding the subway is so he can get them. They are in the shape of corn on the cob and they are filled with jelly stuff....I don't know but he loves them.

This is what a subway should look like.....lots of people. Hope & Amber were kind enough to let me take a picture of them so you could see the people. (This was before Amber threw up all over her own feet once in the park before leaving and YES once in the subway....I'm telling you... never a dull moment.) This is only one of the crazy experiences that day. The next is explained below.....
This is not what a subway car is supposed to look like. Yes, we were on this subway car and nobody else was. Two stops away from Seoul Grand Park, everyone got off. I looked around and told Hope it felt a little spooky, like something wasn't right. In fact I pulled out my camera to take this picture to show Spencer because this has never happened to me before!! I kept thinking to myself; are we going to fall off a cliff or what? Then 3 young men jumped on, so I thought we must just be going where most people aren't. Then we heard a Korean woman speaking over the intercom. Neither one of us know Korean hoping if it was really important they would tell us in English too. Nope the boys jumped off...we tried to follow but before we could get up and ready to get off the doors closed! The car began to go and then it stopped we looked out both sides of the subway car and it was wall on both sides. We were trapped in a hole. Laughing, we wondered what we were going to do. Then some people who were cleaning the subway car found us and went and got a manager. He did not speak English so we showed them where on our map we were trying to go. They nodded and took us back one stop and let us out. We then transferred to another car and made it to our destination. It was crazy. I never thought I would experience that in my whole life. Spencer said that during the morning and evening times when people are commuting they pull out more trains and then they take them away when they are less busy....we missed the memo!
Here is Addy enjoying her books seemingly oblivious to the adventure of the day.

Monday, May 03, 2010

Knitted scarf/hat

This is a "Manly Scarf" I made for Spencer. It is so soft and heavy but he is happy to have it. I finished it in March so he only was able to use it a couple of times. But next year in freezing Korea it will be nice.

Logan has been begging me for an "elf hat" forever! Probably since I started to knit. He picked the colors and was so happy when I finished it for him.
Logan had just cut his finger and is relaxing with Spencer. Look at those sad eyes.
I love this picture...almost everything is too little for him, but he is using his good imagination and having fun.
Addy and Logan love play mobile sets and this is the RV one they have all the people set up for dinner.
I love this face!

Easter Egg Coloring

We were a little slow this year in our Easter egg coloring but it worked out perfect because Grandma Dana & Grandpa Allen's Easter package came the day we were planning to color the eggs. Thanks a million the kids loved the aprons and they were very useful as you can see.
This is Addy's first year in really helping to color the eggs...and help she did. Addysen did it all herself needless to say we had a bunch for making egg salad.
They were so excited they couldn't resist a little scream.


Logan loves traditions and he looks forward to them just like we do! I am so glad he enjoys it. This year he was getting fancy and doing 2 colors. He is a blast.
Addy got a little bored at the end and decided to cook pizza for us instead.
Logan on the other hand was so happy to have egg fights and then eat his eggs. I am really surprised that he will eat the hard boiled egg like this. He takes after his daddy!

Easter Sunday All Dressed Up

My boys all dressed up and handsome. Easter in the states was General Conference but here in Korea we do Conference the second weekend so we went to church and enjoyed celebrating the Resurrection of our Savior.

Had to get Logan to laugh!

My flowers as you can see they are even prettier and they smelled so good!

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Easter Egg Hunt

It was so bright...here is Addy's pirate face and Logan trying so hard to smile with his eyes opened.
Addy loved finding eggs...look a little patch of grass!
Logan being a monkey! Thanks Grandma Cottrell for the pillowcases they worked great for the Easter egg hunt too.




Logan was happy to see the Easter bunny and Addy was so afraid she was holding on to me for dear life.
Logan was excited to see his friend Daniel from school. He doesn't speak much English and at first Logan wasn't so sure about him so it was fun to see him run over and give him a hug.
Addy doesn't cry much but when she does get mad she is MAD! That cute little face, she was angry because I needed her to move from her little table to the chair. (Too many shadows on the table.) Maybe she is a bit stubborn like her mom. :-)
Logan was so happy about his dinosaurs he couldn't resist wearing his T-Rex shirt.
Addysen telling me to "take a picture" Yes she actually tells me that! She loved her new butterfly outfit.
We had a fun Easter, Spencer was helping with an Eagle scout project in the morning and met us after the Easter egg hunt and we played some more outside!

Easter Baskets

I love this picture...candy on the floor, Logans dinos, I sure love these kids they make life fun!
I love Korea! I went to the flower market and got all these Easter Lillie's for under $15! They were so so pretty and got even prettier when more bloomed.
The Easter bunny came on Saturday morning and the kids had a blast!
Addy thought every time she found an egg she needed to open it and put all the candy in her mouth all at once. It was so funny, she finally figured out the candy wasn't going anywhere...crazy girl.
Logan was so thrilled he loved finding all the eggs.
We love new books!
Our Easter bunny was tricky and hid the joint basket in the dryer.

He was nice and gave them some clues.

Easter baskets hidden under the table.
Addy loved her Snow White toys.
Logan was super excited about getting more dinosaurs. We really had a fun Easter, the kids are a blast.