well, at least it's not mascara

he never ceases to amaze me. he always seems to find the permanent markers no matter where we hide them and lock them up. i like to look at it as if he is expressing his creative side.







i love this colorful and creative and sweet boy of mine!

five years ago...

five years ago we decided to take a drive down to las vegas. we're not much gamblers, but that night we decided to gamble on us. at times the odds definitely seem to be against us.

but five years later, we're still benefiting from our winnings.


Happy Anniversary! Here's to celebrating many more five years!!

eighty

today my grandma celebrates her eightieth birthday. when i spoke with her on the phone she was pretty excited about it. she is an amazing women and i am so thankful that she is my grandma. she taught me how to garden and cook. she took my sister and i on many fun camping adventures and shopping trips. i love my grandma and so do my kids. so with that, we would just like to wish her the happiest of birthdays today!

Happy birthday grandma!! here's to many more!

my funny girl

Ever since Sabrina got her new winter hat, she insist on wearing it. all. the. time. I have to hide most times but I love the way she looks when she has it on.

She makes the best faces!

will you look at that

it does snow in Kansas City!

I laugh as I write this post. Thinking how I just posted how wonderful and warm the weather has been thus far, only to wake up to a fresh coating of snow and some really cold temperatures. I honestly didn't even know we were expecting snow till I was driving late last night to book group and started to see a few scatterings of tiny snowflakes.

Anyway, the kids were excited to see the white stuff.

baby, it's so not cold outside

we've been told by the locals that this weather we have been having isn't normal and that it isn't usually plus 60 degrees in the winter time, but we aren't really complaining.

no. we are just loving this winter so far.

i have this skateboard since i started college. it's traveled with me to northern colorado, arizona, utah and now kansas. the boys just love playing with it. they take turns sitting and pushing it, until one gets brave enough to actually sit and the let the semi-slope of our driveway take them for a quick ride.

lately, Fisher has been quite the daredevil. he loves going down the drive way fast, with no hands, just flying off the curb. i love watching him do this. it makes me proud and excited. i mean, this is the kid who hated swinging at the beginning of every summer!

but we have absolutely been loving our afternoons outside. just enjoying this perfect weather.

and check out the misses. she was born to be outside and she begs to go out every day. she takes off and just wonders/runs everywhere. she likes to stop and watch the boys, but most of the time she is on a mission, a mission to get somewhere fast!

Hope you all are enjoying your january so far! i know we don't have much more of this beautiful weather, but we will take it while we can!

the kansas city zoo

Lately the weather here in Kansas City has been amazing. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I was really hoping for a white Christmas this year, but I am not complaining at the 60 degree weather we have been having this winter thus far!

We love spending our days outdoors, so when Wayne called to tell me he was getting off work early on Friday, we quickly loaded the kids in the van and headed out to the Kansas City Zoo!

We love our new zoo. It's big and there are so many different animals to see and different places to play. But because it is so big it takes a whole day to visit the whole park, so we opted for a few places and animals to visit and that turned out to be pleanty for our kiddos.

Fisher loves the Polar Bear exhibit and this winter weather was the perfect time to see them play and swim and have a lot of fun. We watched them for quite a bit and I think Fisher could of stayed there all day to watch them.

This first picture just makes me laugh. Now that we have Fisher potty trained and we are working on Chase they are both curious about other things that go potty. Thank you "Everybody Poops!" So yes, they are pointing out where the polar bear potties.

We love having fun with all of the picture opportunities!


Save the polar bears!

The kids really love the sea lion exhibit. They love watching these creatures swim and play and we actually kept coming back to see them because they are just so much fun to watch!

The Capybara. I don't know what it is, but this thing just creeps me out. It could be the fact that it's the worlds largest rodent or the fact that it looks like a giant guinie pig, and to me that just aint right. But whatever it is, this thing just stared me down the whole time we were there. Creepy!

I love watching my kids. I love how they watch the animals play and run by. I love the expressions they make.

She was just so fascinated by all of the monkeys! She just loved watching them play.

Towards the end of our trip, Chase was getting bummed out that we hadn't seen any snakes yet. Thankfully we walked right by this large snake play thing and Chase just lit up with excitement! He was so happy to that he got play and run through it that he actually forgot about seeing real snakes. It was a good thing too, because by the time we got the snake exhibit they were already closed for the night.

It didn't take long after we buckled the kids in their car seats that the whole van became completely silent. I looked back to see three very tired kids all asleep in their seats! So sweet!

We had such a fun and wonderful day as a family at the zoo. I love days and times like these and I wish we could do this every Friday afternoon.