Zoo Days

During the last little while we have headed to the zoo a few times. My kids need to get out and they love the zoo. One day we took our friends the Anderson's with us and another day we took our friends the Mecham's with us.
This was zoo day #1.

 We saw the bird show.

 We played on the playground

 And we watched Rizo the polar bear. She is always one of the favorite stops.

 

 

 A few years ago when we were at the zoo one cold winter day we stopped in the reptile house. They keepers had Daisy the Skunk Weasel out and the boys found out all about her. And since then Seth always likes to stop by and tell her hi and make sure she had her favorite pink blanket. This day she wasn't there. So he asked about her and they said she had pasted away. She was a very old weasel. He also asked about the Crocodiles mating because they had been busy last time we were here. The keeper was so nice and went and got him an egg that didn't make it and a tooth for them to feel and told them all about what happened.

 We then of course rode the carousel. 

 Stopped for a few more photos and then we headed home.

There is more to life than....

 Sometimes there has to be more to my life than this....

My kids will know that I loved school. They will know that I am educated. I will have a skill that I can use if anything ever happens to Sam. They will have something to be proud of me for.

But I never ever ever want them to forget that nothing is more important than they are.

Life

These are the randomness off my phone. 

Sam and I went on a Date I don't even remember what we did. I just remember we were both so tired. 

Sometimes a girl just wants to wear a tutu for no reason and glittery shoes. 

When we discovered that the nectarine tree contained something she liked. 

Chris was so proud of his block track he built while we waited at an appt. 

Sometimes instead of a  tutu you just wanna be a cat. 

 Days at the park 

 The rope swing at Gymnastics... I have a pic of Chris too I just don't know what happened to it.

First day of school 

A single picking from our Garden. Yep that's a bushel basket. I picked every other day. We have so many tomatoes. 

 The block party. 

The splash pad in Hurricane, and she had to have a tiara. 

Tiny Ninja

Rivalry week

The poor girl has no normal princess dress ups she gets all the costumes her brother's wore. 

Seth doing his student of the week at school for his Birthday. 

Just a cute messy face

 More Park Play time

Christian's sidewalk chalk drawing. 

 Playtime with Brothers. She adores her brothers and the good thing is that most of the time they adore her right back.

She walked up attached herself to my leg and would not let go, so the dishes got to wait and we cuddled. 

Christian's version of a pillow pet.

Seth got to wear his Utah clothes to school for rivalry week. He laid them out the night before just to make sure he didn't forget anythimg

Random date night. We went to the Haunted House next door to this store and stopped in there to look and Sam found this lovely white suit with purple pinstripes on clearance for the minimal price of $400. 

Sometimes a girl just wants to get dirty. 

The wind blew the top of our tree off. It hit the porch. I was so glad it didn't come through the front window. 

We tried sponge rollers. She left them in but her hair is so fine the curl didn't stay long. 

So that's the randomness off my phone. Other than that our life is pretty boring. I got a job. And by job I mean something that take minimal effort on my part. I am going to be teaching/assisting with the Boys Gymnastics class. It is only 2 hours a week. (two hours I would have been sitting there anyway) It gets them a significant discount on classes and Lexi's class as well. And my hourly rate covers the rest of the class cost and the gas to get there. So it was either help teach and get paid or sit there and watch them and pay them money. I figured why not. But who would have thought this rollypollie body would ever be teaching gymnastics. The things I do for my kids.

School

I will survive the semester.....
I will survive the semester....
I will survive the semester.....
I will survive the semester....
I will survive the semester.....
I will survive the semester....
I will survive the semester.....
I will survive the semester....
I will survive the semester.....
I will survive the semester....



My house might not...
My reputation of being an involved mother at the boys school might not...
The neighbors thinking I have it together might not...
The wife worth keeping thoughts of my husband might not....
And a million other things that are going by the wayside so I can study for this stupid class (and the 4 other ones that I'm taking)

But I will survive the semester and get at least a B. That's my goal at least a B out of the in depth anatomy and physiology of speech class. over 60% of the class is taking it for a second time because they didn't pass it the first time. The professor tells you to expect to study about 15 to 30 to hours a week for this class, But I will survive. I will memorize the 200 vocab words with their definitions, locations, functions, layouts and correct spelling for each of the 20 units. (that's over  4000 words) I will build the models of specific body parts of out clay with accuracy. I will not get extreme anxiety over the tests and drop low in the middle of them.
The power of positive thinking right?

I will survive the semester.....
I will survive the semester....

Christian's Birthday

So normally Sam takes the kids' birthdays off so we can go play. But Christian's birthday he was stuck at the church office building. Which is fine. He needs to work and what he was doing was important and he felt so bad.
Christian wanted pizza to take to school for his class. He goes to preschool in the morning. So I was just going to buy a few cook them and then run them over. But I ended up at a Dr's appt that morning so I just needed to pick some up. Only problem is pizza places don't open before 11. So I called Costco and asked if their pizza counter place would make me one right when they opened. I got there 5 minutes after they opened and they were serving my pizza to someone. So they quickly made me another one and I ran it to preschool. We handed it out and they ate it all up and then went home. I am going to show up another day with pizza to surprise him and make up for the rushed birthday.
After school I asked Christian what he wanted to do. He said he wanted more pizza. So he ate more pizza and then he wanted cuddles. So we cuddled. We built trains. We did whatever he wanted.
When Sam got home he took the boys to play laser  tag, well they were going to  but the wait for laser tag was 2 hours long so they decided to go jump instead. Lexi and I stayed home she was cutting a tooth and was not being very fun.

The boys had fun. Sam  took a few pictures. He never takes as many as I do. But at least he took a few. 

After all the jumping fun they stopped and picked up pizza on the way home because that's what Christian wanted. He didn't want ice cream or cake. So he blew out his candle on a piece of pepperoni pizza.

I felt a bad about his birthday. I really did try to do something fun and make sure he knew he was special. It just wasn't as put together as I wanted it to be. But he will get his fun day with Sam. And him and I went out on a Mommy Date and he got to pick out what he wanted. He picked a Thomas the train set that went with his super fast choochoo train he got in Hurricane. So he was happy.

Happy Birthday Booboo Bear!