Boise Adventures Part 2

While in Idaho we got to go to the Boise Zoo which was a lot of fun. It is much bigger than the Tucson Zoo and they had a lot of fun animals.

They had a wallaby walk about which was really cool. You could go in and walk through while the Wallabies hoped around you. Sadly I did not catch wallaby in this picture...

The penguins were my favorite...

Lydia would get so excited when one came close

Cute Miss Amea loved them too

Then we went and fed the goats. Ty-kell was so excited for this. He asked every few minutes if we could go feed the goats and we would tell him not yet. He would get sad and then a few minutes later ask again. what a cutie...

Then we went into the Butterfly room. It was so cool. The Butterflies were everywhere and they landed on a few of us..

Can you find the butterfly?

During our trip Aimee and Tyrone were nice enough to let us stay with them. I know I have said it a lot but it was so much fun! Sophie was so excited to play with Ty-kell again. She has told me several times since we came home that she wants to go back to "Ty-kell's Idaho house".

When you go outside of their house most of the time their is a flock of ducks on someone's lawn. So one night we went out and fed them...

and more and more ducks kept coming....

This made me miss the lake and feeding ducks in Grandma and Grandpa's backyard.

 Stay tuned for more!...

Boise Adventures Part 1

Last week we got to spend time with family in Boise, Idaho! It was so much fun and we did so much that it is going to take a few posts to go over everything. Sophie was so excited to finally get on the airplane. We had a layover in San Diego and she ran around telling me she couldn't find Idaho!

At one of our stops the Pilot let Sophie check out the cock pit and even "fly" the plane...

Once we got off the plane we got to eat at Chad's cousin Heather and Will's Creperie. It was so yummy! And we finally got to see our green grass we have been dreaming of!!!! Oh how we miss you already....

At the Family Reunion Grandpa Clayton let us drive in his awesome 1929 cars that he rebuilt. Now there is a 1929 Woody Station Wagon in the making!

We stopped at a buffalo ranch halfway through the tour....

It was so much fun riding in these cars. Grandma and Grandpa invited us to go on "date night" with them on Friday. Each couple got to pick which car we wanted to take and we drove to the local Sonic for dinner. Several people from the Model A Club do this every Friday. It was fun to see all of the different old cars parked at Sonic.

The day before was Chad and my 4 year anniversary. So this was our anniversary date and it was really fun! I can't believe it has already been 4 years. Being married to Chad has been amazing and I can't wait to spend the rest of eternity with him.

This Week

So I have totally fallen off the band wagon and haven't posted anything. It has been crazy with both my jobs and getting ahead in school so we can go on vacation tomorrow! We are really excited!

This week I got an email from pull ups where you can have a Disney Character call your kid for doing a great job going in the potty. I thought Sophie would love this so I scheduled Cinderella to call her.(it is just a recorded message but she liked it).

She talked about it the rest of the day. How Cinderella said she was such a big girl.



 Do you ever get the feeling that someone is watching you? Lately I have.....

Instead of napping she does this and crys forever because she can see me. It doesn't work well when I am on the phone. So when we get back from Idaho it is officially time to move my office out of Lydia's room. 

Dreaming of Green....

In the midst of work, children, and school I have begun dreaming of the color green. When you live in a place like this:

You tend to dream about big green tress and thick green grass. You know green. The real take your shoes off and roll in the grass green!  

We are only a week away tomorrow from going to green!!! Yay Boise here we come!
(as you can tell I am not excited at all).

Happy Half Birthday!

It is crazy to think that my Lyds is 6 months old!

She is scooting everywhere now and gets into crawling position and rocks back and forth..oh dear I'm not ready. Lately she has been such a happy baby, more happy than her usual serious self.

She also can sit by herself for awhile until she reaches for something and then she falls over...

She adores her big sister who takes such good care of her.

When I went to take this picture Sophie was resting her head on Lydia's and they were both smiling but once I got the camera Sophie got mad at me for taking a picture.

Happy Half Birthday Miss Lydia!

Laundry Day

Today is laundry day. Sophie loves putting away laundry which is awesome.

Problem:

Some days she doesn't wait for me to fold them and starts grabbing clothes out of the basket and stuffing them in drawers. Then there is Lydia who scoots halfway across the living room and grabs the shirt at the botom of the pile and knocks it over causing me to have to re-fold.

Solution:

Sophie: Hey what did I do?



hey mom can I have a shirt to chew on? you know im cute....


Feel free to use this tip the next time you get ambushed folding laundry.

Summer Craziness

Chad and my Summer craziness is under way. We have amped up our college pace so we can get done. This semester we are both taking 2 classes that are only 8 weeks long. Not only that but one and a half of those weeks will be spent in Idaho! Wow we are crazy. Between work, school, and family (plus for Chad and his calling he is out with the missionaries every week) we are doing a juggling act.

Chad and I are taking Biology together though which is nice. Every class we take together he beats me grade wise. I have a feeling it will happen again. We are so excited for our vacation in just a few weeks! Even though we have to take an exam and do a bit of homework it will be a nice break from the desert.

We are a week and a half down in our craziness and so far so good. Wish us luck! We may need it.