Father's Day 2012

Father's Day we were in Dallas.  We took Dad to see Jersey Boys.  Mom and I had seen it in NYC and we knew Dad would love it.  So Saturday night Shaylene kept the kids and we went for a pre-theater dinner to The Dallas Fish Market.  The food was really good but the dessert was even better!  We had really good seats on the floor.  The music in the play is so good you just want to sing and dance the entire time.  We were right Dad loved it!  We had such a good weekend together.  I am very blessed to have the most wonderful, supportive, fun Dad ever!  Happy Father's Day!

Maggie's New Bed

 Maggie got a new bed delivered last week.  Mom thought she was ready to move up to a big bed.  I thought she was ok in her toddler bed.  She convinced me otherwise.  This bed also has a trundle so her friends or BFF Darby Kate will have a bed to sleep on now when she comes to stay with us.  Maggie has not gotten out of bed one time to come into my room.  Anyone who knows us knows this is a huge revelation.  I am so proud of her and she is so proud of her new bed.  Turner really likes to read books in Maggie's BIG bed.  I am so proud of my Big Girl Maggie!

Maggie's first nights sleep in her big bed.

Pintrest Fun

 We have had some free time this summer so I thought I would take a few ideas from Pintrest and make something fun with the kids.  We started with Slime!  Very easy and lots of fun to play with.  It was not messy at all and stayed fresh when we put it in a jar.  We have made a few different colors and will keep making this fun slime!

Next I saw where they put paint in a bag and taped it to the table with a piece of white paper under it.  The lady said it kept her kids busy for hours.  Well my kids thought it was lame and played with it maybe 5 minutes.

Last I love canvases with hand prints and foot prints!  So I saw this American Flag canvas and we made 2.  We made one to give to Babe and one to keep ourselves.  We will keep searching.  Let me know if you have something fun from Pintrest (or not from Pintrest).

 We made pink slime first.  The pics are from my phone so the quality is not so good.

Fossil Rim Fun

 Fathers Day weekend my parents were in town and we needed something fun to do.  I suggested that I really wanted to go out to Fossil Rim again sometime soon.  I love going out there and feeding the animals.  It always brings back memories of when I was little and we would go to these places.  So we loaded up after Maggie's swimming lesson and headed out to Glen Rose.  I'm not sure that they realized it was 1 1/2 hours away and in the middle of nowhere.  I have never laughed so hard in all my life (well maybe once) at my mom and the little comments she had about where we were going in the middle of Texas.  We stopped at Dairy Queen in Glen Rose and by the looks of the people there it confirmed we were not in the Metroplex anymore. Maggie had to use the bathroom at the DQ really really bad and someone was in there and taking a really long time.  Babe asked Maggie what she thought they could be doing in there.  Maggie said "Maybe they are dying in there because doesn't that take a really long time Babe."  We all laughed really hard about that.  We never saw the person come out so not real sure what happened.  Poppy finally took her to the men's bathroom (we all know how dirty those can be). After our 3 hour ride through the park and all the laughs and smiles it was well worth the drive.  We had a blast!  I am so glad that we went together --- great quality family time in the car all day long!

 This little guy gave us lots of laughs.  I have video on my phone that my kids have played over and over and over of us all laughing and screaming when he came into the car to get food.  Then Poppy put the bag of food real close to me and he came in and got the entire bag.  I'm pretty sure we held up the line of cars playing with this Ostrich.

 Up close and personal

 Maggie was not scared to touch any of the animals.

 Pretty sure that big ole tongue licked Turner and left a lot of slobber on his hand.  I kept putting food close to Poppy's head while he was not looking so that the animal would lick him.

 Had to brush out those rats in his hair.

 This was the half way point and the overlook is very pretty.  Perfect place for a family picture.

 3 of the 4 are looking at the camera.  Thats not too bad.

 The giraffes were not interested in our bag of generic food.  I wonder why?

 But the Zebra had no problem eating it.

 Poppy and I were playing and trying to get our pictures made with these animals.

Precious Babies

 My friend Shaylene was babysitting Father's Day weekend while went out to see Jersey Boys.  When I left my kiddos were looking kind of rough.   She sent me these pictures out of the blue and I was totally shocked by what I saw.  I absolutely love these pictures!  Thanks a million Shaylene!

Swimming Lessons

 We were back at Ms. Harriett's this year for swimming lessons.  She takes for 2 weeks and then on the last day it is show day and you are allowed to stay and watch.  All the other days you have to leave or at least go to the front yard.  Maggie did fantastic!  She improved so much every day.  I was really impressed when I went to get her and saw her jumping off the diving board and Ms. Harriett was not even in the water. Mimi came with me for show day.

 She makes them jump in the water with their clothes on to prove to them that they can swim even with clothes on.  They have to tread water for 10 seconds and then float on their back.  When they jump in the second time they have to try and get their shoes off while under water.

 They had to dive to the bottom of the pool and pick up 3 toys.

She was very proud that Mimi came to watch her.

Mesquite Rodeo

 We went with the Morgan's to the Mesquite Rodeo last weekend.  My kids loved every single minute of it.  They sat still and talked about the cows and horses the whole time.  Maggie really liked the clown.  Turner has talked about it all week.  If you ask him what he wants to ride he will tell you a horse, cow, bull and sheep.  It was a lot of fun!  We will have to go back again soon.  Thanks Nicole for letting us tag along.

 A snow cone helped keep them seated and happy for a while too.