Childrens Museum

Last week Tiffany and Briona invited us to go to the children's museum with them.  I mentioned it to Jill.  It was a lot of fun because our friend Melinda was visiting with her 2 kids.  We met up with the Jill and crew to take the train to the childrens museum which the kids loved. Our plan was to meet Tiffany and crew a bit later.  Well we all ended up meeting up but mainly hung out with Jill and crew.  It was so much fun and Kade loved it.  He could have played at the water tables all day but we did explore the rest of the museum too.  Its awesome because its pay as you go so you just pay however much you want.  We also ended up running into our friend Katrina and her daughter Lux.  We will definately go back especially when the weather is crummy.

Rex loved the shark.

Kade loved playing with the balls in the water.  You could put them up high and then they float down the table.

Ethan playing in the water too.

Rex and the beloved shark

Jill held Seth while I took pictures of the kids.  Good thing I didn't get one of Chloe...sorry Jill. Seth is staring at our friend Katrina.

Some girl splashed Kade!  this face makes me laugh

Melinda holding Lila and Jill holding Seth.

Kade loved the water I'm pretty sure he would have stayed in this section the whole time if I let him.

Kade and Ethan doing some painting and Seth (my bad I mean Rex, thanks Jill) running off behind them to another table to paint.  I decided trying to hold a camera and a kid and have Kade paint was too much work.

Miss Lila was all smiles

Have to end with this pictures because its just priceless.

Picture taking time

I've been busy the last few days which has been fun.  I offered a few mini photo sessions for Father's Day and had a blast taking pictures of these cute families.  It really is a blessing to have friends that support me.  A huge thanks to everyone.

Memorial Day

Brothers...not sue what they are look at there is no one else in the room

Oh goodness can you believe Seth is 3 months old today! I can't I'll get his 3 month pictures up soon.

Best $9 I've spent in awhile.  Seth loves this thing and Kade has been playing with it too.  I love seeing them play together.



This is more typical of how they play.  Kade will play near Seth but not with him.

Saturday we went with the scouts and activity day girls to put up crosses and flag at the cemetary for the veterans.  Kade helping Isabel

Kade's job was to take out the little white flags before the girls would hammer in the cross

Helping the girls.  (I know not good for the flags to be on the ground but these girls were learning)

It was a fun morning and we put up lots of crosses and lots of flags.  I hope that we can do this every year because it was fun and hopefully a nice new tradition.  We are grateful for all those who have served our country especially our family members.

Washington Park Arboretum

While dad was here we went up to the Washington Park Arboretum to check out the flowers.  We walked along some nice trails and the weather was beautiful. 

Kade kept tripping while eating his apple so he had to ride in the stroller for awhile.

We picked lots of flowers

Dad and grandpa

Swinning boy.  Look how straight his legs are.

He had to stop and play with the cone.  He out rocks in it and the would yell into it.  Such simple pleasures.

The flowers were so pretty.

Seth was so good just chillin in the stroller.  He is getting so big and fat.

While my dad was here we planted my garden.  I wouldn't have gotten it done without him and we took a couple of trips to the nusery and home depot too.  We got horse manure from the stables behind our house to add it to our soil.  I hope it works.  Next step in the yard is to seed it and put a boarder around the garden...that will happen one day but for now Jesse and Kade are working hard on the deck...pictures to come soon.

We got about 30 strawberry shoots from a lady in our ward.  They already have strawberries on them so I'm super exicted.

Pumpkins on the left and cucumbers on the right.  Both pumpkin plants have sprouted and are doing really good.

More strawberries along the house.

The rest of the garden.  I planted a cantelope just because I had the seeds and thought why not.  Then a yellow bell pepper, 4 tomato plants, peas, and green beans.  Hopefully they will do good here along the house and get the warmth that they need to grow.

This cute boy hung out in the yard with us and even fell asleep

He's got the best smile and now laughs a lot

While watering we found a massive web with thousands of baby spiders.....I'm not kidding.  My dad went and sprayed spider spray on them after we removed these and he said they just kept falling.  So glad we got rid of them.

And how can I have a post without this guy.  We have been making lots of smoothies and he loves them!