Cleveland Zoo

We had to take advantage of the weather yesterday, so we went to the zoo. It was a blazin' 55 degrees! The highest we've seen in a while.

The camera died before we got to the actual zoo, but we got some pics in The Rainforest. It was pretty cool.

The spider monkeys came right up to talk to us. They were cute! The alligator wasn't so cute, he just stared us down. They had a LOT of different kinds of monkeys, I think they were the favorites. They are behind a screen so the pic isn't very good. It's certainly not my photography skills to blame....

It's always funny to go up to an exhibit and have to search for the animal. Here's a couple of frogs, and they're actually pretty big. And also a couple of kids on a frog...

See him now??

I was so excited when I finally got a pic of this face!! She is such an animated little baby, it was funny to see her get so excited at seeing the animals. This face also has a sound effect to go with it, you can imagine! She always does it when we go down the girlie toy aisle at the store, cracks me up!!! I think the fishies were one of her favorites too.

Can you see the lizard that was looking at her?

Of course we couldn't get out of the zoo without a souvineer. I don't know what posessed me to take a pic of their toys, I guess because I thought KynnLee's little Elephant was so cute.

NASA

We took the kids to the NASA space museum on Tuesday. It was pretty cool, it's fun that KynnLee can run around and enjoy this kind of stuff too. You have to be a US citizen with photo ID to get in. And they searched our car, it was a little weird. You would think it was the federal reserve or something, in fact, they didn't even search our car at the federal reserve in Kentucky. They did, however, tell us to not slow down or take pics... so we did =). Anyway, the space museum had all kinds of space suits, rocket models, and hands on stuff for the kids.

When we told Jaden we were going to the space musum, he had to go get his little Buzz Lightyear toys (below) to bring along. You know, so the space man can go into orbit... =).

Jaden thought the "space motorcycle" was pretty cool (above right).

And of course we can't make it out of there without a souvineer, so we let Jaden smash a penny. He thought it was pretty dang cool. He also got a super-annoying propeller thing that he spins between his hands and it flies up into the air, and lands on our heads, and in our faces. It's just fantastic... (there should be an annoyance warning on these kind of toys!).

Valentine's, Birthdays, and Spring Break, OH MY!

Valentine's Day 2009:

We had a great Valentine's Day. We had Josh and Dina, and Dave and Melissa over for a little dinner and some games. Here's a few pics of the par-tay, I didn't get pics of our guests, I'm so rude...
I tried my sewing skills again and made the table runner. It was kinda fun. Pretty easy, just took more time than I had remembered.


We got out the fancy dishes and gold flatware. It was fun to eat on them. We haven't used them in a LONG time.


As most of you know, it is our birthday month. All of our birthdays are within a month... KynnLee 2/19, Trevor 2/24, Karie 3/12, Jaden 3/23. Well, 2 down, 2 to go. Here's how the princess's first birthday went down...

A couple weeks before her birthday, I consulted my "cake specialist" (Laurie) and we decided that the princess needed a castle cake for her birthday. It was pretty cool, if I do say so myself. I don't own any fancy cake stuff, as a matter of fact I don't have ANY cake stuff. So it was a little rough around the edges, but it was fun.
Since both kids were still kinda sick, we took it easy all day. But what else do you do for a first birthday? She thought it was pretty cool when we all sang to her and Jaden helped her blow out the candle. She got a doll stroller, and a kitchen set for her birthday. Fun, fun!

Trevor was lucky enough to have his birthday during test week. He spent the ENTIRE day studying. His friends and I surprised him at school with pizza and cupcakes (a BIG thanks to Dina and Julie!). And then he decided to pull an all-nighter and study all night. I don't know how they can function like that.

Well, test week is all over and now it's SPRING BREAK!! We'll be sure to get lots of pics of our adventures. Today we kinda took it easy, did some cleaning, had to have Trevor's lemon... I mean car... towed. Sounds like it might need a whole new engine... thank goodness for warranties. Now we're going to eat dinner, put the kids to bed, and watch THE BACHELOR! Yeah baby!

Coming soon...

Birthday pics, Valentine's pics, updates, updates, updates. It's been a rough couple weeks with the kids having walking pneumonia, EVERYTHING got put on the back-burner. Maybe it can get done tonight. It seems like the more pics I have, the more I procrastinate...

5 Lucky people!

Another fun blog game!

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make! (Though I hope you will!)
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year. {might be a little while}
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. I don't even have a clue what it's going to be.
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a homemade gift! It may not be great, but it will be fun!!
* * *Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!* * *

I'm seriously wondering if I will get 5 comments, most of you call or email after you read my blog. So make sure you leave a comment too!! :o)

All about me

A great big thank you to my phenomenal friend, Ashly, (whom I miss dearly) who gave me an excuse to blog about something different. It's picture tag. It's all about things we love.

3 things I love right now:
Trevor's Computer


To keep me warm this frigid winter.


3 places I'd love to go:
Boating at mom and dad's

Hawaii

A really good dance class


3 things I'd love to have:
Lexus RX350, or any SUV really

My own pink MacBook

A gigantic master bathroom


3 books I love to read again and again:
Duh...

The whole series really

Actually I'd like this book to get finished so I could read the whole thing.


3 things I'd love to learn more about:
Building shelves for the garage, basement,...

Cooking

Quick Money Making


It's picture tag, and you all are it! And we all know that family, the gospel, and friends are on the list...those are givens...so you can't use those things!. Let's see what YOU love.

Midnight Entertainment

So the KynnLee girl got a touch of the flu (thank goodness she got a flu shot) and woke up the other night at midnight. I'm SORRY! Call me a MEAN MOM!! I couldn't help it!!! She had a bath before she went to bed and it does magical things to her hair....




If you're going to get up at midnight, might as well enjoy it a little. But no matter how messy her hair is, she's still my gorgeous little princess.

She was back to her mischievous little self today, getting all the toothbrushes and toothpaste out of her favorite drawer, digging out tupperware, cookie cutters, you name it, if it's within reach, she's got it out. And no, I don't enjoy doing her hair every day, not one single bit...



Jaden likes to get Phoebe's leash out and hook it to random things. This is his latest snatch...

He was pulling her around and she was just sitting there looking at a toy in her hand, it was hilarious!! It didn't last long though...

Crazy kids.