Zoo field trip

Towards the end of the school year Tannon's class took a field trip to the Wild life zoo. I had been wanting to take the kids, so it was fun to go finally. Tannon wanted to invite her Grandma's and she was excited they could come. Uncle Christopher was on break from school and he was able to come too!

All the kids in her class!

Aunt Stephanie and Krew were able to come too!

Looking at the animals

Mrs. Carrie and the kids in Tannon's class.

It was so crazy that there was just one rope between you and the Kangaroos.

There was a baby bobcat, it was so cute!

Here is a baby lion too!

The white tiger was my favorite, they are so beautiful.

So my camera died right at the beginning of the day so these are all the pictures I took. The zoo was so much fun! Tannon got to ride on some rides and feed the giraffes, the giraffes lick the food right out of your hands which is pretty crazy. We had lots of fun.

Service Project

A couple of months ago, I want to say about March sometime, my brother was down from school and he wanted to do a service project so he found this lady that was putting together an exhibit at a farm and needed lots of trees and bushes planted for it, so I thought I would be a nice sister and help him out, we had a lot of fun but hard work digging holes, plus I learned a lot about taking care of plants in Arizona and the correct way to plant them. Also you always feel good doing service for others.

Having Fun

A couple of months ago my other kids came to visit, the reason I call them my other kids is because I babysat them for about three year Morgan was 2 and cooper was 2 months when I started watching them and so they were like my own kids, I love them so much. They moved about a year ago to New Mexico and I have missed them so much, especially Tannon, so it was so good to see them.

The kids love play-doh I think they have like every accessory for play-doh so David and I are always get yummy play-doh food made for us to eat.

St. Patricks Day 2011

So for St. Patrick's Day 2011 we set our trap to try and catch the leprechaun. I did it last year and Tannon had a lot of fun with it, so I thought I would make it a new tradition. This year Barrett got to enjoy the fun and understood what was going on.

This is our trap, with lots of gold treasures inside!

This is the next morning! And he got away again with our treasure! Its funny the kids kinda get nervous to look to see if they caught him, I guess a tiny, green leprechaun would kinda be scary to find trapped in a hamper basket,lol!

He may have escaped but he left his tiny green foot prints leading to the closet and the kids found some fun St. Patrick's Day surprises that he left them.

Looking through their surprises!

He got them some green to wear so they wont get pinched, what a good ideas I thought.

My boy turned 2!

On March 13th, 2011 Barrett turned 2! I can not believe how fast time flies, I wish they would grow slower.

Barrett loves balls so I decided to make his party baseball themed, which he loved!

Here is a close up of the cake and cookies I made, the cake is actually two cookies put together. Barrett also loves cookies so that's why the cake is cookie. It took a lot of work but I think they turned out cute, the things we do for our kids!

Tannon was so excited for her brother party, she was such a big helper and great big sister.

Me and my happy birthday boy!

Barrett with cousin Emma!

Opening presents! He wasn't a big fan of opening presents so his sister helped a lot.

Barrett for sure got spoiled but he did get lots of clothes which he needed.

A hug for his sister! I just loving having a boy and girl, they are so different but its so fun to see how much they love each other.

My boy is two, that is just so crazy! Of course he is 2 1/2 when I posting this because I am such a slacker when it comes to blogging but he has grown so much! I am so blessed to have Barrett and Tannon in my life, they make my days so much fun and I just love them so much!

Newport Beach and Disneyland

So after Barrett's procedure we headed to Cali for a much needed vacation. The kids in the car on our way to Newport, California.

So we got to Cali pretty late on Tuesday so we went straight to bed once we got to the beach house seeing we were going to be at Disneyland all day the next day.

So the first day we headed to California Adventures and the very first ride we took Tannon on was The Tower of Terror which was a big mistake because she didn't want to ride any rides after that and she just kept asking to go home, but she relaxed a bit throughout the day.

Walking out of Tower of Terror we saw Chip and Dale and I was very surprised Tannon gave them hugs because she normally doesn't like the whole character thing walking around.

Family picture by Tower of Terror

My happy boy hanging out with Grandma

So after the Tower of Terror we decided to take it easy and do all the simple kid rides.

The kids sitting waiting for us to figure out what we wanted to do in Disneyland, we didn't stay at California Adventures very long because they didn't have much kid rides.

Taking a break!

The kids loved the buzz ride.

The kids were so excited to just ride the carousel and when we would ask what ride they wanted to ride next they would say the carousel:) It probably would have been cheaper to just take them to the mall if thats all they wanted to do:)

Tannon and Minnie Mouse!

Family picture with Pluto! Barrett was not to sure about Pluto!

Our second day in Disneyland!

The Safari ride! The kids really enjoyed this ride because they both love animals!

The Nemo ride! This ride made me nervous, first of all there is hardly any space and they fit so many people in there and plus I am manager claustrophobic, so I couldn't wait for this ride to be over.

We needed a break from walking around so we decided to take the train that goes around the park for a couple of laps.

Daddy with the kids on the tea cup:) Barrett didn't like this ride very much!

And the last ride of the day the Dumbo ride! We did so much more but I didn't seem to take that many pictures. I am not a very good picture taker. We did have like 6 churros in one day and I think I ate most of them, I think that was my favorite part:)

And the rest of the time we just hung out on the beach since it was right out our back door! The kids loved going on walks with Papa they would bring back so many sea shells.

Barrett was loving the beach but just playing in the sand, he is not a water boy!

Everyone hanging out on the beach, the kids loved it!

Tannon had fun playing on the beach, my sister in law Stephanie's sisters came and hung out with us one of the days and they brought their kids so Tannon was loving playing with other kids!

Isn't this such a cute picture, I love it!

Well we had an awesome time and it was so nice to get away from our regular routine. I can't wait to go back again, I'm thinking I want to make the beach annual thing.