The Zoo with Friends

Our husbands had  break on a Monday so me and a couple of friends decided it would be fun to take the kids to the zoo. They do free train rides on Monday and so that is always a bonus when we take our kids on a Monday. Aubrey got to feed the birds and thought that was pretty fun. She also enjoyed feeding the goats. Good times with great friends. :)

Temple trip

We had a "branch" temple trip this month and we took the kids. It ended up being a small group of us going, but that made it nice for our friends who were in charge of babysitting the kids while we went into a session. Our temple is the Winter Quarters Temple in Omaha. It's a really pretty temple that has lots of stained glass windows. The kids had fun and we had a great session. We miss not being so close to the temple like when we lived in Utah, but being out here you really appreciate it a lot more. It's such a special place and while our kids aren't able to go inside yet, I know they can feel how special it is when we visit it.

Pausing to Play in the Puddles

We had the first of what we thought would be many rainstorms this spring (we actually had a terrible drought this year), so I let the kids play in the big puddle in front of driveway. Aubrey loved it and was soaked by the time she was done. I caught myself cringing about the dirty water, but hey I did it when I was little and survived right? I love watching them just be kids. They are so carefree and enjoy the puddles that we as adults try to avoid. Love my kids. :)

Morgan lost her second tooth!

Morgan lost her second tooth!

Turning 28...

For my birthday my sweet friend Danna took me and the kids to the zoo. :) It happened to be the day that all the elementary schools had their last field trip of the year, so it was super packed! I mean we were parking in places that weren't meant to be parking lots. haha. We had fun and kids always have fun at the zoo. It was a good way to spend my day and it was nice spend it with a great friend who is so thoughtful.

Mother's Day

This mother's day I woke up to this sight. All my babes working in the kitchen making me breakfast and beautiful roses. :) Luckily for Mike a friend had bought the roses and sneakily got them to Mike for Mother's day. Mike had been on a crazy rotation that had him work long hours where he wouldn't get home until 9 or 10:30 at night, and it was family practice.

I am a lucky lady to have these crazy, funny, and sweet people in my life. Being a mom has it's hard moments, but I am so lucky to have all the wonderful moments in between. Happy mother's day to all the great mom's out there!

Mike's 29!

Wow, Mike is 29! One more year and he will be the big 3-0! This year we celebrated Mike's birthday the day after his actual birthday because he had been on a really busy rotation. We invited a few friends over for cake. Since Mike isn't a huge fan of cake, I made him an ice cream cake because he loves ice cream. :) It turned out pretty yummy.

Looking at pictures of his birthday this year I can't help but remember his first birthday that we celebrated after we had been married. We had been married about 9 months and a friend of Mike's asked if we could house/dog sit for his future in-laws. It was a super nice house and we thought it'd be fun to kind of play house in a real house and get out of our 500 square foot basement apartment for awhile. We were in charge of two dogs and they liked to sleep in bed with the owners usually. So we tried that the first night and we got no sleep. The second night we were determined to get some sleep, so we put the dogs downstairs and they barked all night long. Mike's birthday fell on one of the days we were there and I didn't have anything to decorate the cake with, so it didn't look all that great, but at least it tasted yummy. Flash forward to now; I am so grateful to all the birthdays and experiences we have shared together. We've traded two dogs that kept us up all night for two beautiful girls who have their daddy's eyes among other things. I couldn't be more happy! Happy birthday Mike! I love you.

Poor Morgan

Morgan had been riding without training wheels for 12 days when she got this battle wound. It was her first real accident of any kind. While riding her bike, she was moving her handle bars back and forth and it caused her to lose her balance and fall on the pavement chin first. She was screaming of course so I ran over there and quickly picked her up and took her to Mike who was outside with us thankfully. The cut was really deep but we decided that she would freak out if we took her to get stitches, especially since she was hysterical already. We borrowed our neighbors super glue and glued it shut. This is what it looked like after we had glued it. It didn't look great, but it has healed nicely since then. Poor girl.