Our Baby is 2!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Makenna!  The first 2 years of Makenna's live seemed to just fly and we couldn't be happier to call her our little girl.  She's blessed us with so much love, joy, and laughs.  We had a full, fun day on Makenna's birthday.  Our friend Grace came over in the morning and went to the zoo with us.  Daddy came home for supper, we opened gifts, and went around the block with her new trike.  And then Kenna's dear friend Berkley came over for a slumber party (while her Mommy was at work and her Daddy was away for military training) and we went out for ice cream!

Our Birthday Girl

Grace, Denver, and Makenna at the zoo, checking out the tigers!

Full Load!

Feeding the goats.

Checking out the monkeys.

 ..and now the giraffes.

Opening her presents.

A trike from mom and dad!

And she had to wear her softball glove from Denver too!

A princess tag junior book!

Eating one of her favorite things...ICE CREAM!

Denver, Kenna, and Berkley enjoying their ice cream.

Mommy and her sweet baby girl!



Happy 30th, dear Sister!

My sister turned 30 on March 2nd!  Since we were going to be in Arizona over the weekend when she was having her celebrations the kids and I decided to make a surprise visit!  I called her when we were about to pull in her driveway and then told her to look out her window.  It was so fun to see the reaction on her face and put the pieces together.  It was such a beautiful day on her birthday we made a trip to the park for the kids to play, but unfortunately it cooled down about the time we got to the park.

The following day we thought we'd be so smart and enjoy another beautiful day outside by going to the zoo.  Of course the weather didn't think it should stay nice and instead we did lots of bundling up and freezing from building to building, but we all still had a blast.  It always fun to watch our kids play together, but it was also a wonderful time for my sister and I to get some good bonding time in too!

Denver was big into hippos at this time so he was excited to see the hippos, but also scared!

The big boys checking out the hippo down below.

 Money see, monkey do!

Denver was awful cautious at the zoo until the very end of our visit.

Denver, Caleb, and Kim checking out the turtle.

1 of my sister's favorite things!

Sharing a juice box with her big cousin!

Kenna and Caleb bundled up to go outside again.

Lunch time.  We found a spot in the Madagascar exhibit to have our lunch, picnic style.

Denver pulling Jacob.  He last longer than I thought he would.



1st Carasouel Ride

We've been running a little too crazy here lately that I'm almost a month behind again!  July 3rd, we took the kids to the zoo.  Since I've already posted zoo pictures I decided to just share the carasouel pictures.  I believe this was Makenna's first carasouel ride.  The only other time I can think of that could've been her first is if we took her on one as a baby at the fair last year, but I don't think so.  According to Evan she was a bit hesitant at first, but I didn't pick up on that.  She loved it once it got going, that's for sure!

Of course Denver and Daddy had to ride too!

Zoo, zoo, and more zoo

I got a zoo pass again this year and I know we will have no problem getting our money out of it!  Denver LOVES going to the zoo and is always asking to go.  The week we got it we went twice and now he saw me going through pictures for this post and he said "Can we go to the zoo right now?".  We just may have to be making a trip there or he might make me go crazy!  Denver loves the bears and tigers.  He also enjoys the fish, monkeys, giraffe, and zebras.  His fascination with zebras has kind of died to what it was like last summer.  They also have a sand "box" to play in so I'll have to remember to take the sand toys along next time as last time he wanted to play in it, but wasn't sure what to do and ended up throwing sand at a little girl...who really didn't care, but her grandma sure did and was quite rude to me about it.  Not that I approve of him throwing sand because I don't, we had a little talk about it, and I made him appologize and then wouldn't let him go near anyone in the sandbox following.  The following pictures are from when we went to the zoo with our friends Ashley & Berkley.


Makenna has little fear...Denver on the other hand is a little more cautious. as you can see in this picture.

Excitement...

...looking at the bears.

Feeding the goats...

...what fun!

hmmmm....can I touch him?

Oh I touched him!

Now what?

Milking the cow...being just like Papa Rodney!

Too busy watching the giraffes and zebras to take a picture!

She's happiest when she's toddling around!  Too busy to be held...and getting to busy to have any time to sit in the stroller.

"I can't WAIT until you can run with me Berkley!"