Thursday, February 27, 2014

This Week's Randomness

We finally got our garden spot in our little community garden. 
It started out full of weeds and we will see how it ends up! I can't wait!!
 We spent a weekend afternoon this last weekend riding bikes, playing handball and riding the wiggle rider. Macey's getting good at bikes and Cody's getting good at handball!
 Sunday night I helped with the baptism preview for all the kids turning eight this year. I am so excited for Cody to do this next year! 
And on the top of those strawberry shortcakes is Trader Joe's real cream - AMAZING.
 Mackayla and I went on a walk one morning. We found this little bush with tons of these fluffy plants that look like something out of Dr. Seuss' books. 
Too cool. {the plant and the baby}
 During Macey's dance class we watched our little friend and watched all the cars. It reminded me of Cody at two and how we had to comment on every truck, bus and plane that passed. It's so sweet and fun and boy.
 Speaking of boy, Cody has been catching lizards on our walks home. These are blue bellies.
  Earlier this week the kids were all huddled around something on the stairs. I asked them what they were doing and they said watching a spider. It was huge! So I stayed calm and freaked out and told Cody to throw it in the toilet or else it would make babies and we would have tons in our house. He announced, "Oh! I think it was making babies on the stairs." I stopped and asked, "How do you know?" "Because it was sitting still in the corner over there." We're good. on all counts. And he threw the spider in the toilet.
 Macey's preschool class went to Chik fil A today. She loved it. 
I dropped off Mackayla at a friend's house while Macey was at preschool and Cody was at school. We are doing a babysitting swap...the most ingenious thing ever invented. Why have I not done this before? Actually last year I really tried and it never worked. I went shopping BY Myself at Target
and then went to Cody's class to be a mystery reader!
It's the little things.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Zoo and Safari Zoo

Our passes to Sea World and the Zoo also got us into Safari Zoo, but we didn't have time to do it with our whole family, so the kids and I swung over after school one day before they expired.
It was a quick visit and probably our favorite animals were the baby lions Ken and Dixie.
We saw all the animals on the tram ride.
I needed a zoom lens.


 We got back just in time to see the cheetah run.  
You can barely see him behind the fence - he's running 70 mph!
This is his best friend a dog named Yeti - they are together 24/7. He runs the course first to show the cheetah it's safe.

 Macey is imitating the hidden bird behind them. 



This is San Diego Zoo - we went there first with everyone, but the pictures loaded backwards and I'm feeling lazy.
 The koalas are so cute curled up in a tree sleeping 
 There are only four zoos in the US that have pandas. It is pretty cool to watch them eat as they peel the outer layer off the bamboo.
 The baby panda wasn't quite as good at it
 Ben made so much fun of me for wearing this everywhere. It's like a fanny pack for your wrist. But it is perfect for traveling at a park - it carried our tickets, my license and a credit card and some cash.
 I barely caught a picture of these two


Monday, February 24, 2014

Sea World, the Beach and a Birthday Party

On the pier to Ruby's we watched enormous bubbles float down to the beach below
We watched the sunset from our table
and tried to decide if there really is a green flash before it disappears.
We got a picture, documenting my wearing of pajamas in public. because i'm cool.
Cody was not amused with the babies breaking his sand castles:)
Uncle Luke builds cool sand castles
Sea World!

 My favorite show was the Pet Show

 The kids love petting the rays


 Macey had been wanting a pink whale with a jewel pink heart on it forever. So when she saw she immediately knew that's what she wanted with her valentine's money.
Cody and Lucy have birthdays in the same month so we had a double birthday party.

 We did a shark/sea party.

Cody was most excited for prize punch - punch through the tissue paper or shark to get a prize. (Bowls were taped on the back with little prizes inside.






Happy Birthday Cody and Lucy!