Visit to the History Museum

The children’s part of the history museum recently moved, and we finally made it for a visit.  The boys had a great time dressing up (although Ari wasn’t too sure about the hat!) and checking out the new exhibits!

Looking out the window…

He climbed up by himself to check out the view, it’s a good thing we have no neighbors outside that window quite yet.

A Little Bit Spoiled

How to Eat Ketchup

 

When the fries are gone or when you’re fingers just don’t taste ketchupy enough, you can always just pick up the container and drink it!

Back to Destin

 

We headed back to Destin this weekend, Ari helped me pack for our trip, I don’t think he wanted to be left behind!  We stayed somewhere different this time and enjoyed traveling up and down 30A exploring.  We also were able to meet up with some friends that were on vacation in Destin, we spent a nice afternoon swimming and then had a really good Italian dinner!

Asa wanted his picture taken on the butterfly bench…

 

He also made this funny face in the car…

 

We enjoyed eating lunch at a taco place, except it was super hot out!

Before we headed back home, we had lunch at a place on the beach.

Sharing Mommy’s Drink

For the first trimester, I have been craving slurpees (although we don’t have a 7-eleven).  The gas station by our house has the best flavors…cherry with a little bit of coke is my favorite.  Ari enjoys sharing them with me :)

Handsome

Memorial Day 2012

Since we moved across town, we’ve hardly made the drive over to Destin.  So when Nate was invited to speak at a conference there, we decided it would be a fun weekend trip.  We spent Memorial Day weekend enjoying the beach, pool, sun, and of course the crowds!  Most of the time we spent in the pool since it was easier than carrying everything down to the beach.  We discovered a fenced-in kids pool at the hotel, it was a lot easier to watch the boys and they had a great time playing with other kids that showed up.  We also ate at a delicious Italian place and overall had such a nice time that we decided to make another trip to Destin in the near future.

The Boys

Ari was having fun, although it’s sort of hard to tell from the picture! Afterwards, he looked so cute sleeping in the car…

Baby Cardinals!!

Right outside our dining room window is a bush…and in that bush is a little nest.  Unfortunately, the nest is positioned just so the inside of the nest can’t be seen unless you look at it from outside.  We peeked, and there were 3 little eggs in the nest.  A few days later, they hatched!  The pictures are blurry because I didn’t want to get too close and wasn’t able to see the birds as I took the pictures.  They started out pretty ugly but in less than a week, they had left the nest…and I missed that picture :(  Most of the time they were in the nest alone, occasionally I saw the mother, and we saw the male cardinal the day they learned to fly.

Kaden’s Lego Birthday Party!!

Kaden was really excited about his birthday party, we had to postpone it almost a month because of our trip, but it finally happened!  We came up with a lego theme and he was thrilled with the lego-like cookies I made.  The cookies were yummy and were gone by the end of the party…but I think the M&M’s on the top were the reason for that!  There was also a big bowl full of M&M’s that was a hit, Ari even had a good number.  We had cookie dough cupcakes too, and there was a veggie tray and fruit just to balance things out.

We had quite a few kids at the party, it looks chaotic in the pictures but really was lots of fun.  The older kids made lego creations, there were duplos for the little ones.  We made pompom shooters and had them try to shoot their pompoms into buckets.  In the end, I think Kaden had a great time!

Stairsteps

Kind of blurry, but a cute picture of all three.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Since Nate had to work on Mother’s Day, we stayed home from church and waited for him to get off to spend the rest of the day together.  We had a nice lunch at Bonefish and followed this up with some pictures outside.  We never got the “perfect” picture where everyone looked at the camera at the same time, but each picture had the boys making some great faces and looking happy, which is perfect to me.  Since we came in two cars, Nate took the boys to run some errands and I drove home in a quiet car.  It’s not often my car is quiet, so I decided to drive around the neighborhood, I turned down one street and saw the largest snake, looked like a rattlesnake, stretched at least halfway across the road as it was trying to cross to the other side.  Of course I didn’t take a picture, I don’t need a picture, I can still see it clearly in my mind…and when Nate asked why I didn’t run over it, I had 2 very good reason…first, it was big enough that the thud would have made me sick, and second, I would have had to get back on the interstate for an hour to make sure it was completely off my tires!! Instead I drove home and have no intention of walking on that side of the neighborhood any time soon (since this is the 2nd large rattlesnake I’ve seen over there, plus I also stopped to talk to a neighbor who told me that she sees them all the time on that side and just turns and walks the other way!!)

Last Day of Our Trip

We were supposed to come home today, but after spending an afternoon getting Ari’s stitches, we decided to extend our stay by one more day…and we sure made the most of it.  More swimming in the pool followed by dinner and milkshakes at Downtown Disney. Ghiradelli’s milkshakes are delicious!! Kaden gave me a serious face, but he was enjoying his milkshake too.

We ended the day with a trip to the Magic Kingdom, we skipped the fireworks/parade to ride as many rides as we could.  I decided to take Kaden and Asa on the racecars by myself since Ari is still too little.  When we walked up to get on, the guy there told us we could go around twice so each of them could have a chance to drive.  This sounded like a good idea, until I realized that neither of them could push the foot pedal…turns out the pedal is pretty stiff and takes quite a bit of effort to push down. Plus they needed help steering, which was somewhat awkward trying to sit between the boys, push the pedal, and steer just enough to keep us going!  We rode on Buzz Lightyear, the people mover, It’s a Small World (where Ari made the funniest face!), and more!  Lots of fun, we were sad to see the week end!