willow park zoo

I've felt like being out of the house lately, and yesterday I decided was a good day for our annual visit to Willow park zoo. I just love that the kids have such a good time and it's so cheap.

2 weeks

I can't believe that we've had this sweet little babe for 2 whole weeks. She's already growing up too fast. I took her to her 2 week check up today and she weighed 6.13 and she was almost 20 inches.
Things are finally starting to calm down. The kids are getting more used to Hailey being around, so they don't want to constantly hold her. Don't get me wrong, they're still crazy about her and most of the time they don't leave her alone... it's just not as often.
We've had to incorporate something new into our daily routine... you know right when you sit down to feed the baby, the rest of the kids think it's time to go wild and get into everything? Well that's usually Carly. She knows when I'm feeding Hailey I don't usually get up to stop her from doing something naughty. So now we watch AFV (Americas funniest home videos) every day at 4:00... which happens to be the time when Hailey eats. I purposely time it to be when she eats. AFV is the only thing that Carly will watch. She's never watched T.V. before, until Luke started watching AFV at my Mom's house. Now Luke and Carly look forward to 'AFV time'. Abby usually sits on the couch next to me and feeds her baby while I feed mine.

This is Carly's new cheesin it face.

The other day my Mom stopped by, and I guess I must have looked pretty run down, because she offered to take Luke and Ab to her house to play for a while. So after they left, I put Carly down for her nap and Hailey was sleeping so I thought I'd fold the mountain of laundry on my bed. Well it only took me a minute to realize both the girls were sleeping and I was working... So I plopped onto the laundry and took a 2 hr. nap with Hailey. (I know, glamorous picture...)

I captured one of her awake moments, she's a pretty sleepy baby. Not that I'm complaining... she did sleep for 7 hrs. straight last night.

My Mom, my brothers, Luke, Ab, Hailey, and I went to Lagoon yesterday. This was the best Lagoon experience yet, Luke and Abigail are the perfect ages. They had such a good time.

I don't know why I thought it'd be fun to have Abby go on the terror ride. I could hear her screaming before they came out. She keeps talking about the scary vulture.

No matter how old I get I still love Lagoon.

50 great years

Happy Birthday to my Mom!

She turned 50 last week. We had a surprise party, and oh she was surprised! I was worried I would be in the hospital with Hailey over her birthday, but we got released Saturday morning, and we were able to be at the party Saturday night. It was a great night being with everybody (we missed you Jed). My favorite part was after the initial 'surprise', she was hugging all the grandkids, when she realized Luke and Lisa were sitting on the couch (they live in Montana). She let out a little surprised scream, and that's when the tears started. She hadn't seen them at first with everything going on.

There aren't words enough to say how great my Mom is. She's always there when I need her, she's so loving, sweet, and thoughtful.
I just happened to have some fun pictures of when she was a girl, so I thought I'd share what a wonderful lady she is.

Happy Birthday Mom, we love you.