Showing posts with label Reid Park Zoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reid Park Zoo. Show all posts

Friday, March 29, 2013

Spring Break Fun

I love being a teacher. I love spending my days teaching 5 and 6 years old. I honestly think it is the best job in the world. Kids adore you, tell you how much they love you everyday AND you teach them to read, write, add, tell time...  
But the best reason to be a teacher is Spring Break. And Fall break, Christmas break, Summer break, Thanksgiving break and all Holidays off. 

I mean really? How isn't that the best job EVER! 

We are in the middle of Spring Break and we started with a little getaway. Just Brian and me. Nothing terribly exciting, just up the road to Scottsdale to sit by the pool, have quiet, uninterrupted dinners and visit IKEA. 




Brian bought a counter top for a house he is remodeling.
The counter was a long as the car.
We drove with a nice barrier between us.
 Reese and Jaxon enjoyed 2 days at Lola's and Abu's  house. They did some relaxing of their own.

I am seriously in love with this face!



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Once we came back it was time for the kids. 
So off we went to tee-ball
Jaxon's new Spring league is the Giants.

This one may be cute, but she's trouble on the baseball field!
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Since Movers & Shakers is over, I've been thinking of signing Reesey up for a Mommy & Me gymnastics class. I thought I'd see how she liked the gym I was thinking of by taking her to an open gym time.

She so wanted to dive right in!


Not exactly sure what is going on with the uni-bomer hood,
but he's adorable. 





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We also have done our fair share of shopping & lunching.


This is just a fraction of what Reese has gotten this break!


Excuse me? But when did my  babies become big kids?
They both have grown so much! Sniff sniff




We made a pit stop at the 'little library' as Jaxon likes to call it. And he's right, it's little. Dude calls it like he sees it.
This was Reese's first time in a library, with good reason...




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Jax and Lucy have tried swimming. He actually got into the (unheated) hot tub and promptly jumped out! 

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Reesey loves to shower with me. She will sit or stand outside the shower and 'chat' with me. It's good girl time, even if it is kinda creepy.


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And what is a break from school if we don't visit the zoo? This week we had the pleasure of being joined by Ms. Courtney. 


I believe Reese was eating the carrots meant for the giraffe,
you just can't see it.


Yes, that would be the giraffe's tongue around Reese's hand! 



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We also helped the triplets celebrate their 4th birthday by going bowling. 
It was surprisingly fun! The best part was how excited the kids were to watch the ball being returned instead of actually watching the pins fall! 




This picture cracks me up! 

I was shocked at how high their scores were!
Especially when the ball didn't go faster than 2 MPH


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And of course there was a lot of playing at home
Reese is wearing earrings that I wore as a child





Friday, November 2, 2012

Howl-o-Ween

For the first time, we took the kids to Howl-o-Ween at the zoo. We were told that it was bumper to bumper people and quite crazy. So I planned on being at the zoo about 20 minutes before it opened. Boy, was I proud of me when we were in the zoo parking lot 35 minutes early! Yahoo!! We are NEVER on time anywhere, much less early.

We had a super fun time. Our timing was absolutely perfect. We waited 30 minutes in line, but once inside, the crowd was pretty mild so we were able to enjoy the displays and stroll along at a leisurely pace.



 The cutest strawberry I've ever seen!

Ironman 





Waiting, waiting, waiting






Entering Candyland, which happens to be our favorite board game at the moment.


Reese is totally thrilled about the Pirates.


Still not impressed.







 Jaxon was in complete awe with Batman. He cannot stop talking about meeting Batman. 



Dancing with the Mad Hatter

Seriously, Reese could not be bothered.





Showing off his '6-packs of muscles'

For us, Howl-o-Ween is a definite must do again next year!

On Halloween night, we weren't sure if Reese would be up for Trick-or-Treating. We ended up taking her to just 3 houses on our street to show her off to our neighbors, then Brian and Jaxon went to the neighborhood across the street to get some loot. They were out for an hour and had a blast. Jax came back so happy and excited about Halloween!





Showing off their muscles!

First house!

Waiting at the 2nd house

Off to the third.

And... Reese is done. 

Woot woot! His pumpkin was overflowing with goodies!
Good ones too!
For the first time this year, I feel as if we did a good job with a holiday. Whew! I'm on the right track, just in time too.