A Week With Dad

This week Ky had his Spring Break! Oh man it has been such an amazing week. Got my teeth cleaned, new glasses and contacts, I got to sleep in one day, we went to the Baltimore Aquarium, took a trip to the Washington DC LDS temple, read some books, made some drastic changes to Kacen's life (in a good way) and have seen notable improvements in his behavior, made a snow fort and played in the sun, oh and Easter festivities (ok mostly just dyed eggs). We loved every minute of no school and no work, but tonight Ky is back to the grind. He heads off to work tonight and starts school on Tuesday, by the way, he is doing amazing in his classes right now! Only one month left in this semester.

 Kacen helping with walking lessons

 Too Cute! Kacen kept trying to get her with squirting water out of the rubber ducky

Dying Easter Eggs, he loved it!

 I went a little overboard on the egg thing and boiled 7.5 dozen, then I set them outside on a cold night and forgot about them the next day and they set out in the hot warm sun, so now I have 7.5 smelly, but colorful, eggs.

 Andie and mama

 Creepy baby eyes

We drove down to Baltimore for the Aquarium, I love touristy big cities.

 The aquarium was great!

 We met up with some of our favorite people, Henry, Amber and Henson.

Kacen became attached to Henry and Henson was my little buddy by the end of the day. The two boys didn't seem to really care about each other. And Andie of course loves anyone that will hold her.

The worst part was there were no strollers allowed. So we all took turns carrying our Andie babe.

 Yeah we didn't take time to figure out the camera settings so the photos are not that great. But Ky is standing in front of the sharks.

 Kacen had two favorite parts, one was the divers in the Coral Reef exhibit. A lady standing near by said, "isn't it ironic we bring kids to aquarium and their favorite part is the humans?" Too true.

 And his next favorite part was the escalators, because the aquarium is in the city the space is compact so you travel up and down escalators from exhibit to exhibit, and Kacen loved every second of his escalator riding. I guess we could have saved $70 and just went to the mall instead.

  The coolest part for me was the Dolphins, they have a dolphin show! Too Cool. We sat in the "

Splash Zone." Luckily we didn't get wet.

 

The whole clan. Nana and Uncle Ian came too. And Kacen loved having his nana there cuz she would ride up and down the escalators with him and Ian would "race" him around because that is his new favorite thing.

 It is just way too cool watching their amazing feats. It sort of puts you at awe with how amazing all the creatures that roam our planet are, they are all truly beautiful in their own way. Cheesy yes. But I was really moved as I watched the animals and thought about how amazing each one is and how individual and diverse they all are.

And last but not least, Andie girl sea turtle.

Hurray for Spring Break, it was so wonderful to spend time together as a family. And take time to do some special and fun things. Now it is back to real life, school, work and the family all just got a cold. But at least we still have each other. Hope you all had/have a great Spring Break and Easter.

Marchy March March

Haha totally posted this on the old blog yesterday thinking I was putting it here. 

Ah March, good times.

It started out with a snowboarding trip! Yay! Kyle and I headed out with the siblings and our buddy Derek to catch some night skiing. It felt so good to be out doing something that I love, (something I did before I had kids). Kyle, Ian and Maddie all went in early cuz of injury but Ky's back is better now. 

 March has been snowing on and off one day we brought the snow in to play with. 

Andie didn't care too much for her sensory bucket.

 But Kacen loved painting the snow with colored water and a dropper.

 One day I left Andie in her crib while I went to the rest room and when I came back she was nearly standing up! She is getting so big!

 Wacky wack picture of Kacen out with Grandpa shoveling the sidewalk. Monday we got a ton of snow at night so Kacen and I headed out to cease the moment and play play play in the snow, bed time came and hour late but I would do again in a heartbeat. Make snowmen and letting Kacen be near his grandpa and uncle serving others is totally worth it.

 Yesterday I went to open Kacen's door during his nap and found him in the toy bin, haha.

 Crawling lessons. I seriously can't believe she is that big. Man I love my fam damily.

I also gave Ky Ky a sexy hair cut but have yet to get a good picture of it. 

Man this huge sports complex is opening in Manhiem and I badly want to apply to their rock climbing gym. Someday it will be the perfect timing for me to work at a gym again, right now just isn't it. 

And March isn't even over yet! We still have a trip to the aquarium and Easter coming up.

A Silly Day

Motherhood can be a silly thing.

5:00 a.m. Crying because I was awake with a crazy baby who didn't want to sleep, and I was so miserably tired.

2:00 p.m. Laughing about how silly I was that morning because my kids were making so happy to be their mama. I mean look at them.

8:30 p.m. Nearly ready to cry again because I can't believe how wonderful it is to have these two.
8:32 p.m. Ready to pull out my hair because once again little miss Andie doesn't want to sleep.
9:02 p.m. Listening to baby cry through monitor

Oh another note, happy Fat Friday, or is that just me? Caramel popcorn for lunch and cream cheese chilli dip for dinner. Followed up with more caramel popcorn.