The Zoo!!

We went to the zoo for a preschool field trip last Wednesday and it couldn't have been a more perfect day for it! The weather was so mild and comfortable and it was overcast so no sunburn. Yay! A couple of friends and I decided to be brave and ride the DART rail because it would drop us off literally at the front door of the zoo. That and I hate driving on 35 into Dallas during rush hour! The kids had a great time, we had to run to catch our connection, but I think the kids thought that was the best part since we told them it was a race lol!


I just love those sweet cheeks! Is it horrible of me to hope she never out grows them?

We pretty much never leave the house without notebooks and pens. The girls spend a LOT of time drawing!

Once we got to the zoo I handed my camera over to my friend Caryn and boy am I glad I did! She got some really cute pictures.

There are these giant statues all over the zoo of different animals that the kids can climb on. I wish I had zoomed out a little on these so you could see just how high they were. It took the kids all of about 5 seconds to NOT be ok with being that high. All except for little Katie. As you can see they're all panicking and she's ready to go for a ride! I swear nothing slows that kid down!

Caryn took her boys over to see the giraffes and got yelled at in the process because they were feeding them leaves. It was worth it because she got some awesome pictures! My girls weren't there when they did this because they were having a snack. When they saw these pictures they were SO mad! lol!

Seems like a small harmless puddle, right? Wrong! That silly puddle caused us so much grief! We moms were trying to decide where we wanted to go next and it seemed like every five seconds one of us was yelling at one of the kids to get out of the gross muddy water. They pretty much all had wet feet before we got away from there.

This gorilla was being so funny! He had this huge wooded area to play in with all these toys and snacks and he chooses to lay in the corner and make faces at the kids. There's a glare on these, but I love the looks on the kids faces! At the end he was lounged out with his and and feet folded and would turn his head every so often and make a face at the kids. They were loving it!

I almost didn't include this one since it seems like I'm as wide as I am tall right now, but I plan to make this blog into a book eventually. I figured this would be a cute one to look back on no matter how wide I was :)

Silly Melody was striking a pose all day any time someone pulled out their camera. She's not like Jared at all is she?

I think I may have this last one framed. She's turning into such a beautiful young lady! Now if only I could get her to act like one.

Easter 2011

RAIN!!

We had tornado warnings all day yesterday so my friend Caryn and her boys came to hang out in our nice brick house. She lives in a trailer and is always afraid a storm is going to come through and carry them off lol! We made ties for her boys for Easter, so it was time well spent. It started raining right after I picked Jared up from the train and the kids were having a great time trying to catch the rain off the porch so Jared went and put on his swim trunks and took the kids down to play.

I took these after it had stopped raining, but the puddles left behind were awesome! I love the looks on their faces!

That's my girl!

I know I've posted a lot of pictures documneting Melody's fashion sense, but I want to share with everyone how completely awesome she is! I would document every amazing outfit if I could, but she changes clothes too often :)

She spent all day dressed like this! I asked her if she wanted to find something that matched a bit better and her response was "Why does it have to match? I like all these things so I wear them." I had nothing to come back with so I decided just to pat her on the back for being willing to be her very own person.

I hope she never loses that! Jared tries to bribe her to change when she dresses like this, but nothing he says or does makes and ounce of difference with her. I figured as long as she's modest and it's weather appropriate why should I worry about it.

A day at the park

I took these pictures a couple of weeks ago, but our house is in disaray because we're trying to get ready to move, so getting them from the camera to the computer was more work than it was worth! Every Friday we try to meet up at a park with the other momies in our ward and let the kids run themselves silly, this is one of our favorite parks because there's so much to do. One thing I have learned to love about this area is all of the parks. They are everywhere!

My friend Caryn has two boys the same age as my girls and for some reason they are both so taken with Katie. Especially Cadyen! She convinced him to push her as all the adults had lost interest.

And once he lost interest she moved on to collyn. I'm afraid Jared is going to age a lot the years these two are iin high school!

At the first sign of warm weather I stocked up on chalk and bubbles and jump roaps and all other thing that make the park trip last that much longer! The kids had a blast until someone else showed up with MUCH better bubbles! I may have to go get one of those wands, just because they're awesome!