I like the ZOO again!

Most of them look happy :)

Now that I know I can handle all the kids by myself I decided it was time for a trip to the Denver Zoo. It really is a great zoo. We have a membership but haven't used it since August! How lame am I? Last Thursday was a nice cool/warm day to go but I guess tons of the schools around thought it was a good day to go also. There was a ton of kids there! Oh well, we still had a good time and since the zoo is huge, there was plenty of room for us all.

Ellie loved seeing all the animals and in between each exhibit kept asking so see more animals. She has been asking about going to see the animals this past week too. So I guess she liked it! The nice thing about having a membership is that you don't have to see every. single. thing. It is just too big of a zoo to do it all in a day without having the parents/kids melt down.

Brayden wasn't ecstatic to be there but he was a trooper. It is nice having a kid getting older and helpful. He was my official "push the stroller with all the stuff" guy. It was nice not to have to worry about that stuff since Ellie was out and about enjoying life.

We had Kennedi's friend Emma with us. She is such a sweet girl. The girls play so good together and are fun to watch. They thought the giraffe house was stinky but enjoyed everything else. Especially ice cream/cotton candy break. We are sad to have Emma move away to Texas in a few weeks. We will miss her and her family!

Look at that guys fro! Wowsers!
That was one of the best exhibits I saw! Hee hee.

It was a happy day at the zoo. I loved the weather. The kids were great and we loved being outdoors! Yeah for the zoo!

Do Not Disturb

This is what I found on my boys bedroom door this morning.


HA! I think they forgot that the 2 year old of the house doesn't know how to read! :)

Wow! Another Month Gone By

I swear that the older you get the faster time goes. It seems like the weeks are whizzing by! So I am going to try to catch up a little with some of the happenings around here. Let us start with today.

The kids are off track and I want to do some fun activities with them. I have been pretty lame with doing fun things in the past because a 2 year old isn't the easiest to take on fun activities. So we decided to go to the pool today. Ellie is so much easier now! She will actually just play in the water and not go far away. Man, that makes my life so much better now. I don't feel like a stress case anymore with her when we aren't at home. Brayden, Kennedi, and Carter loved the big curvy slide and went on it over and over again. You know what the best part was? I didn't have to get completely in the water! But I still have to get in a suit. But in a few years that will just be a memory.

Earlier in the morning when I was getting ready for the day, I heard Ellie scream, one of those scary screams when you know something REALLY is wrong. I ran to her room and the first thing I see is her dresser tipped over. I was searching to see if she was underneath it, but luckily she wasn't, she was actually sitting right next to it. So I guess she had opened a drawer to climb up to the top and it fell over. So scary! It shows you how fast things can happen. Luckily all that happened was she got a bump/scrape by her eye. I am just so thankful it wasn't worse.

Ouch!

Yesterday was a big day for Kennedi. She was so excited. She got her glasses. Her eyesight really isn't that bad but bad enough to need glasses at school so she can see the board better when she sits at the back of the classroom. It was fun to hear her reaction after she wore them for the first time. She could see all the details on the trees and the signs and everything. So nice to see crystal clear!

All clear now!

Okay, so I wanted to catch up more, but that is all I am doing for now! The End.