Outdoors

Well it's still hot, but my kids were tired of being cooped up all summer. I think a typical conversation went something like this: (kids) "Mom can we go outside?" (me) "No I'm sorry it waaayy to hot to be outside." (kids) "PPPPPLLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEE!"
(me) "(Sigh) I'm sorry but no." (kids pouting as they slump off).
So at the first break in the heat, out we went. The mornings are not terribly bad now, so we took full advantage this week, and spent one day at the park and one at the zoo. The zoo was especially nice because when it did warm up the kids were ready to get wet. LOL Tim cracks me up. He found these pictures carved in the rocks, and told me he wanted to read me the story on the rock. So then we got to discussing hieroglyphics and all that. Hey we are homeschooling after all. :)

I actually will admit to forgetting to take Erika's 10 month picture with the bear. This one was taken a day late. This was another time when she pretty much refused to straighten out... LOL It's cute anyway. We have entered a new phase with Erika... she is now cruising around the furniture. It won't be long now I don't think for her to start walking. I am ambivalent, as I want her to grow up... but some days I really miss her being a baby. She is also starting to get her own mind about things... food she does not like ends up on the floor, toys she does not like are tossed aside, and when she is excited about something you know it. She still only has the two teeth, but the top ones are poking through a little, so she has been a little grumpy this past week.

Oh and speaking of teeth. Tim's two bottom teeth are loose. He is excited about getting a visit from the tooth fairy. I am sure it will be pretty funny if he looses both of them about the same time. I will post pics once they come out.

Well, in other news things are progressing nicely on our big news... we are hoping to have something to post in the near future (wink).

So for now, I leave you all with a nice picture of Tim and Lex and we hope you enjoyed the update. Thanks for stopping by.

Updates

Well we did manage to make it to the zoo, the weather has just been to beautiful here to be inside. Here are some of the pics:













We even managed a trip to one of the many parks we frequent:

Hope your spring is looking as promising as ours.

One can never have to many friends

Whew! We have had a very busy week here. After dealing with a bunch of crankiness the week before, this past week was a week of much needed fun and "outdoorsy-ness". We have had spring fever, with the weather being so beautiful. So we have taken full advantage this week. We started off the week at the park. My kids have no problems making friends, and when one of the little girls father offered to let them fly a kite, my kids were all over it.

The next day was also spent at the park with a dear friend from church and her son. He is only a few weeks older than Erika. What a cutie pie!

Then on Wednesday we actually stayed home, but by Thursday the call of spring was just to much and we ended up at another park with even more good friends.

Well by Friday we were kinda burnt out on the whole park scene so we decided to meet even MORE friends at the zoo. We ended the week with a nice sticky snow cone and lots of new friends.
It was a good week.
I hope yours was just a fun and productive as ours was.

Make sure to check back next week as we have another busy week and I am sure there will be opportunities for photos. We will be going to our monthly space class and we have some family coming in and I am sure we will be out side more as the weather looks to be getting a little warmer.

Thanks for stopping by!

Updates and more to come...

Ok I know I promised photos over the weekend...so what else is new... I am late as usual.
We actually had a pretty good weekend... after going to the park on Thurs., we spent Fri. moving things around in the house, and what was supposed to be a one day project turned into a whole weekend project (and to be honest, still is not completely done). But we did manage to find the time to take the kids to see the movie Space Chimps. It was pretty funny... although there were a lot of double meanings to some of the jokes... but most of that stuff was way over the kids heads. There was nothing really bad about any of it. I think it was trying to be like Aladdin and put some jokes in there the parents would get. LOL. The kids loved it, and want to get the DVD... I am thinking Christmas... but we'll see. :)
Anyway, I am hoping to have an announcement tomorrow, so for now, I leave you with a few photos and the promise of some big news tomorrow... so make sure to check back... (hehe I got you all hooked now. LOL)