Trip to the Zoo

This past weekend we took our "Annual" fall trip to the zoo. (I say Annual because we just decided recently that this is a very good idea to do every fall hopefully we can keep it up!) It was Kambri, Kaylee & Kimber's first trip to the zoo. :) The kids absolutely loved it - the monkey's were a HUGE hit I think the kids loved them more than anything. I was lucky and thought ahead before we took our trip and invited my best friend Steph and her family to join us! They were able to make it and it was good getting all our kids together so they could hang out - it doesn't happen nearly often enough.

Shari, Karen, my mom & Shari's kids were saving us seats in the bird show when Steph & her family got there me & my kids went to the front entrance to meet up with them and they ended up not letting us go into the bird show. So we wandered around while they did that and after the bird show we all met up for lunch and headed off again. We got separated from the group again and Addi, Kambri & I went into the Reptile exhibit and wandered around well when we got out I was putting the kids back in the stroller and all of the sudden Addi screamed bloody murder! I was like Addi what the heck happened?! She's holding out her hand and screaming and I look and realize a bee had stung her - I didn't have anything to pull out the stinger so I just used my fingernail to get it out. Since that was the first time she'd ever been stung I hurried and gave her a dose of Benadryl (luckily I had a whole bottle!) and had her put a cold drink on top of it. I then found my mom and gave Addi a tylenol and a lady that works at the zoo overheard us talking about the sting and got me some cream to put on it. Then Karen remembered the penny trick and Addi put the penny on top of it - I'm not sure what worked exactly or if it was the combination of everything but that bee sting went away faster than any I've ever seen before. Within 2 hours you couldn't even tell she'd ever been stung.

All in all it was a very fun trip - thanks Mom for making it happen! Thanks, Shari, Karen & kids for coming along and thanks Steph for coming to see us it made it very worthwhile!!

Our Dream Home

Last Monday when we were in Parowan for the parade & the fair we decided to drive around the new subdivision and look at some of the houses that were for sale there. We have been looking for houses for a while and actually put on offer on another house about 2 weeks ago - well we had been going back and forth with the seller on the offer and hadn't heard much from them for a little while. So, I drove back towards the house on Wednesday when I was in town for Addi's clogging and decided to call the recording on it. Well, they didn't have any information on it so I hung up and just kind of dismissed it - on Thursday morning the real estate agent that is listing the house called me and I started asking him questions about it and held my breath as he told me how much they were asking for it. It was in our price range!! I thought.... no way it is not but as he explained to me the situation it actually hit home that we could possibly get into this absolutely gorgeous house! Jake had Friday off so I scheduled the appointment to look at it for first thing Friday morning we both fell in love with it the second we walked inside. It is an absolutely beautiful home and something we could be in for a very long time, the yard needs a little work but I am definitely willing to make it just as beautiful outside as it is inside. I'm really hoping that everything works out and we can get in very soon !

Little Buckaroo Rodeo

On Thursday we went to the Little Buckaroo rodeo in Parowan - I signed Addi up for the Mutton Bustin again this year. She was SO funny, my dad put her on the sheep and they let her go. She lasted about 5 seconds fell off jumped back up & told my dad "GRANDPA!! I didn't cry!!" Hahaha this is because last year she only lasted about 2 seconds and she cried and I told her Cowgirls don't cry. So this year she wanted to be super big & of course be an awesome cowgirl that didn't cry! Jake & his dad Randy were able to make it to watch her, she loved having everybody there it was a blast! I think she's going to do it again this weekend hopefully she'll last longer than 5 seconds. :) We're still proud of you little miss Addi.

Last Hoorah!

This last Saturday we decided to have a fun day because it was Addi's last weekend before school started! We had movies and McDonald's Friday night - then we got up Saturday morning and went to lunch & headed up to the Aquatics center. Well the swimming pool was closed so we went down to Wal-Mart to look for a Kiddie pool they didn't have the round plastic ones so we found this. Let me tell you this little pool was  A LOT of work - we had a pump but it didn't pump because the needle was to small so we blew the whole thing up with just our air.... we were really light headed by the time we were done! And of course right when we finished up my dad said.... well why didn't you hook it up to the compressor? HAHA of course when we finished he would point that out! The kids swam and played for a few hours then Kambri laid down for a nap while my dad & I ran to the store to get him a new pair of work boots. When we got back we took the kids up the mountain to do a little fishing and get a load of wood. They had a blast even though it was short lived - thanks mom & dad for letting us tag along!

Kindergarten!

Well it finally happened.... my baby started school! She is the best kindergartner EVER!! :) She absolutely LOVES school - her teachers name is Mrs. George and she is a very nice person & I love how organized she is! I didn't think I would be emotional at all and I really wasn't until I dropped her off, got back in the truck and started to drive down the road. Then it hit me my little girl is grown up & I have no idea where the time went. In just a little over 3 years I'll be doing the same thing with my little Kambri, it's insane to me how fast time flies!

I love you Addi you're going to be an amazing student & you'll always WOW your teachers the way you WOW me! :)