I was excited about this idea because Jaxon has been obsessed with guns for the past few weeks and loves to pretend to be a cowboy. We arrived at the park in the middle of one of their live, role-playing cowboy gunfights. It was towards the end and that was just fine because I'm sure the whole thing would have been too much for the boys. Jaxon immediately shut down, closed his eyes as tight as he could, and put his hands over his ears.
Kodee was loving it! It was pretty neat, I've never seen anything like it.
Afterward, the cowboys offered to take pictures. Jaxon was not happy about posing with them at all.
I think the whole park was a bit too much, too soon for Jaxon. He was being pretty whiney and didn't want to do anything. But then he saw the train! 
This train, Reno, is one of the oldest engines in America, and the most filmed in all of the westerns. He LOVED it, that's when he started to perk up a bit.
They also had a mini train on tracks that went around the whole park that gave you a tour of everything. The boys loved that and had to ride it twice.
There was a go cart track, with old fashioned looking cars that Jaxon got to drive all by himself! They both rode a real horse,
and then a carousel. They got electric blue cotton candy ice cream that stained their mouths. They LOVED it!
One of my high lights was finally being able to take an "old west" photo with the family. We took one of these back when I was about 9 or 10 in Nauvoo and I loved looking at it. It's always fun to dress up in old fashioned garb and put on a smug face!
I've never laughed so hard as when we watched NeeNee and Ariel take their photo. NeeNee was concentrating so hard on being serious and not smiling, and also keeping her eyes open. . oh my. . .the photo is CLASSIC! We laughed about it all the way home! Ariel dressed up like a bar/floozy girl, and little Zane looked as cute as ever. There was a tour of a haunted mine that had little robot skeletons pop up and smoke and fog stuff that the boys went through. Kodee cracks me up. Still, to this day he'll comment on "Scary monsters. . ." he must have said it over 50 times while we were walking through that tour. There was one part where a tunnel was spinning, but we were standing on a catwalk grate, and there was black lights and florescent paint. Jaxon clung to the railing on that catwalk like he was going to spin out of the stratosphere. It was hilarious! His little legs were so wobbly.
NeeNee bought Kodee and Jaxon fake guns, and Kodee proceeded to shoot every cowboy he'd see on the side of the street in the park. They were so fun and would act like they were dead or dying. He LOVED it!
This really showed me how overwhelming big parks are to Jaxon. I'm not even sure he would like Disneyland or anything like that right now. He gets really freaked out by too much going on. Kodee couldn't be more opposite.
(Within minutes of leaving the parking lot.)
They still talk about some of the things they saw there everyday, especially Kodee. I think he goes through that memory every night before he goes to sleep because he always says things about that day. He's so funny. His favorite colors are purple, green, and blue. But he's not sure which is which. So he'll try to say green, when it's purple. . .makes us laugh.
Jaxon is loving pushing Kodee's buttons right now. If they play together usually within minutes or seconds we hear Kodee scream or cry. I really hope that he will be a big helper when baby sister comes. We can tell they're both really excited about it.
Ari's hanging in there! I know she's excited to have her body back. For the most part she's been feeling great this pregnancy with the help of her miracle pill that helps her not be nauseated, but the past few days even that hasn't been stopping her from feeling icky.
We loved watching conference. . .although it is a little hard to feel the spirit and truly soak up the message when you're yelling at two rambunctious boys to quiet down and be reverent. It seemed like every time I would scream at them to be quiet the speaker would say something about parenting your children with gentleness and love. I felt so guilty that it was hard to listen to:) We're trying, that's all I can say. I just pray that these boys don't grow up to be menaces to society and that they serve others with love and kindness. I guess in order for that to happen, I have to be the example, huh? Any tips from anybody?
We're in full blown spring over here. The boys are turning on the faucet outside everyday and getting very muddy,
or sometimes don't even want to go outside because it's too hot. They had a little bout with a fever/flu bug on Thursday and Friday, but it passed very quickly. Got to get this house healthy and bug free for baby! Think we're close to pinning down a name and finally deciding on it, but part of me thinks we truly won't know until we see her.
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