A day out at the zoo.

A good family friend, Kelley, took us to a wonderful zoo near our home. It was so great because it showcased the animals that are natural to our region. We got to ride a train around and see the animals right up close. We saw:

A bear (this one was enclosed),

some buffalo,
an elk (it is an elk, right?),
and lots more! Kelly, who loves the outdoors, showed us a plant that has leaves that grow like a butterfly! FeFe loved it!!
This was the view from the train at the highest spot in the zoo! What a wonderful day for a fun zoo trip!

In preparation for...Hawaii!!

Since we are going to Hawaii this fall, we thought it best that the kids have some water exposure. The kids LOVED their lessons and were sad when they ended. One of their favorite things was zipper - airplane - rocket, which FeFe is demonstrating below (check out that form!!).

NayNay learned to do all kinds of strokes and by the end of 6 weeks was doing all of them without help of any kind!! What a fast learner!
They loved jumping in, almost too much!! Kinda scary for a mommy!

But most of all they loved free-time. Hawaii, here we come!

For the love of BLANKET!

As long as she has her blanket, she can sleep anywhere!!

~Who let the leprechan in?~

Can anyone guess what day in March this happened on? The kids woke up to find that their oatmeal and milk had turned green!! What a surprise!

Did it stop raining?

Flash back to February. This is what I find in my home. "Mom, can we go outside?" Boredom sets in. There are only so many ways you can play tea party or make your transformers fight.

Then a nice day comes and we head for the park! It's been so long since we've been outside or seen the sun that it's a little bright on the eyes. Next time we'll have to remember sunglasses.

We finally made it! Now we need to get four months of crazy out because it's going to be that long before we get another nice day again.

Party like it's 1993?

In recognition of Curtice's 35th birthday (we didn't celebrate his 30th due to the arrival of Bug into our lives!) I threw him a totally awesome 90's bash!! I thought for sure he would know what was going on but he had no idea! Yep, I'm sneaky!! This is him arriving home from work to find a house full of people!

**Notice his lunch bag in his hand.

As part of the party, everyone was SUPPOSE to dress up in 90's grunge. To my surprise, no one got the memo -- either that or all our friends are lamo (yeah you heard me, you're all lamos!!).
We had all Curtice's favorite things from the 90's! Movie: Dumb and Dumber; Video Game: Contra on an old school Nintendo; Food: chips, more chips with dip, meat balls, mountain dew, and cheese cake. This was what FeFe looked like when she realized she couldn't have any cheesecake because of nuts.
It was a totally tubular party that rocked all night! Thank you to everyone who made the surprise and the night a blast!! And happy 35th birthday Hottie! I love you even though you're old!

A First for FeFe!

At the beginning of the year we went to a good friend of ours to cut FeFe's hair!! FeFe did a great job sitting still for her first hair cut EVER (yeah, you heard me, she's three and she's never had her hair cut before). As conservative as I am, we just did a trim. Maybe next time we'll chop it. What do you think?