Fall Break Staycation!

For fall break we decided to save a bit of money and have a fun staycation.  We had a good time hanging out together, playing, cleaning, shopping.  All that stuff.
Some highlights:

Sunday: Conference and Robert's surprise party

Monday: We just hung out as a family today.

Tuesday:  We went to the movies.  I think we saw the Lorax.  Thank heavens for dollar day at the movies and $1 hotdogs every day!  We all really love eating dinner at the movies! 

Wednesday: We went to Sea Life Aquarium

Thursday: We went to another PARTY!  Emily and Phillip (finally) got married!

Friday:  Robert had to go back to work this day so the kids and I chilled at home and just had a relaxed day.

Saturday: Another family gathering: Phillip was baptized.  It was a wonderful experience for Michael especially.  He has been nervous about being baptized when he turns 8 this upcoming year and he realized there is nothing to be scared of.

Sunday:  Went to Aunt Krista's and Uncle David's for a birthday celebration for (my grandpa) Grandpa Biggs.  It is always fun to spend time with family!

I think the only day we have pictures from is the Sea Life Aquarium:

This picture was taken underwater, that's a shrimp like Jaque from Nemo.  :)

And here is Lilly in the cutest movie EVER!  (She is such a character and she thinks she is hilarious!)


(She says: Oh...Look a fish!  Ah! It bite me!)

Robert's Birthday Celebrations

Some of you may not know that I have an awesome sister who is currently serving a mission in Russia.  She loves emails and pictures like all missionaries do!  So in honor of her, we will be trying to update the blog more for her.  :)  (Yes, I'm aware she can't check our blog but I can send it to her in an email, way easier then attaching pictures!!)

Sister Biggs, I hope you enjoy it!

Here is the fun we have been up to:  Robert had a birthday!  Happy 31st, my love!!

For the first time EVER I kept a secret from him for more than a day, in fact I held out for a whole week!!  AMAZING!  I planned a surprise party for him.  It was at his parent's house and all the family came.  He was very surprised!

Here is the "Happy Birthday Robert" sign the kids and I made the day before while watching conference.  That is Katie by the way.

We had a Mexican food potluck.  He loves his Mom's homemade tortillas so I asked her to make some and then everyone brought something to go with it.  He doesn't like cake so Elisa made him pumpkin pie (his favorite) and I brought brownies (his other favorite) with ice cream, homemade caramel sauce and chocolate sauce.

He counted the candles...And yes, there are 31 candles on that pan of brownies!!

He almost got all the candles out in one blow!

The day before the party we had another surprise for him: a new camera!  His old one stopped focusing most of the time so it was time for a new one.  This one is waterproof for swimming convenience.  Drop proof for kid convenience.  And dust proof for Arizona convenience.  :)


It's a Panasonic TS20 and yes, it really is orange.  It's awesome!





The kids promptly tested it out in the pool:

 Here is a super close up of James:

We also gave him a new Dr Seuss book.  He likes reading Dr Seuss to the kids, he loved it too.

That's about all for now.  Bye.