We love our library!

We love our library. This is the second year (that I know of) that they've had Safari animals on exhibit there. And the kids can TOUCH them!!! We went 3 times to go see them, and each time the kids acted like it was the first they've ever seen them! (I have to figure out what size to take the pictures in on my new phone-sorry the pics are a little small) but you'll get the idea. FUN! Adam and I taking a pic with an arctic fox. hahaha. This one was my favorite though. And I had to slip in some cute pics of Preston of course. He's almost 7 months!

Priceless! Liv did not know what to think of the bear!

PythonThe kids all put antlers on.

This is a croc eating a deer of some sort. Ashton thought it was very cool.

I wish I could have zoomed in on Liv's face. Hysterical!

Aaron liked the Hedgehog

We had soooo much fun! We're all hoping the library will make this an annual thing.(The kids wouldn't mind if it was a weekly thing!)

Boys will be boys.....

This is what happened when Adam, his dad and Shayne went to drive to the caves. I asked him if it was muddy drive and he said, "A little." hmmmmm................

I asked him when he was going to wash it and he said, "It took work to get it THAT dirty! That's an accomplishment!" That's right hun.

FUN museum and Adam's Birthday!

We just discovered something wonderful!!! And it was free!!! And it was kid friendly!!! It's the Idaho Museum of Natural History at the college. What a FUN place to go. We're definitely going back soon!
The kids were FASCINATED by pretty much everything there. These are animals in jars. They thought it was the coolest thing ever. (Standing next to the 'do not take pictures sign') haha oops. They had a huge room of HANDS ON kid friendly everything. These were bugs in cases that they looked at with magnifying glasses.

Ashton was LOVING it.

Fun masks!

A giant clam shell.

Look mom a rock!

Adam looking at fossils.

Ashton thought this was soooo cool! A horse skull!

The boys looking at sea shells

More rocks. Seriously....Kid heaven.

More masks!

And Preston hung out in the stroller. Lucky boy! (He still loved it.)

And we celebrated Adam's birthday!!!! One year older and wiser too!!! (And even more handsome if I do say so myself!)

Ashton and Liv giving Adam a good morning birthday hug!

The kids were very helpful handing dad his presents. (and opening some of them. )

Lookin' good in his new shirt! Happy birthday Adam you are very loved. :)

"Spring Break"

Our Spring Break this year has come and gone....(It was only a couple of days) but if that gets us out of school by the end of May, then whatever. We still had a great Spring Break. :)
Adam scored free tickets to a Jazz game so we met up with our great friends Shayne and Kim and went to the game! It was so much fun, and a really good game. Plus we got to have a fabulous dinner with Chris and Marla- what a fun night! It was worth pulling a late night for. How Preston managed to sleep for half the game I have no idea. It was soooo loud!

Then he was awake!

First Jazz game for Preston!

Then on Monday I took the kids to a free petting zoo. They LOVED IT!

She really wanted to ride in her "pink"stroller. :) Such a girl.

They could have stayed all day watching the goats. Except I started getting cold because Aaron stole my jacket!

Ella feeding a goat or ram, or whatever they're called!

Ashton was pointing out that this was the goose that bit his finger last time and he was NOT going to stick his finger through the fence this time. (He actually didn't. He probably wanted to though).

And Aaron staying nice and warm in MY jacket. :)

Then on Tuesday it had snowed (not a whole lot) but we had to go sledding!

This is Ashton and best bud Dylan.

See what I mean....hardly any snow, but they still had FUN!

Liv all dressed up for serious snow.

I'm glad we could still have a fun spring break, even if it was short. I really can't wait for SUMMER!!!! Come on warmer weather!!!!

First Surgery!

Aaron was our first kid to have a surgery! (Wouldn't it be great if it was the last too) I'm not holding my breath though. Aaron had his tonsils and adenoids taken out. And sorry for the cell phone pics, but we had to document this somehow. :)
Adam ended up being the one to take him....it was SO hard being at home waiting for news. I would text Adam about every 5 minutes to see what was going on!
Here's Aaron before surgery.....trying to be so brave! After surgery! Still trying to be so brave!

He's been recovering really well. Mostly watching movies and coloring....and of course lots of Popsicles. (We'd loaded up on ice cream and yogurt and then realized most of his medicine says you can't have "dairy products" within an hour before or after of taking). That's great. So any ideas on soft foods that aren't dairy?! Poor kid can't live on Popsicles.

His friend Spencer got him a balloon and made him a......duck? We weren't sure, but Aaron's been wearing it as a hat! LOVE IT!

Here's to a quick recovery Aaron!