Archive for August, 2009

Cows, goats, horses, and… dinosaurs?

Monday, August 31st, 2009

I took advantage of $2 Tuesday in August at Thanksgiving Point this year. My sister and I took our kids to the Farm, and the Dinosaur Museum on the 3rd Tuesday, and then my mom and brother came to go on the last Tuesday and we went to the Gardens again.

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Look how lovingly Zeke is petting the cow, how sweet :)

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Feeding the goas

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Evan feeding the tricky goat

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The whole time waiting in line, I was hoping Zeke could ride this horse, it was the smallest. I thought he looked so darling riding it all by himself!

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Brave little Zeke walking under a huge dinosaur.

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Just moments after this picture, Zeke fell backwards off the rail and into the exhibit. He didn’t get hurt because he swung down and caught himself, but he was terrified thinking that the shark was going to eat him, poor guy! He cried until we went around the corner to the jr. paleontologist digging area area.

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Kaela, Zeke, and Evan

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Zeke really needed a haircut, finally Jimmy cut it last week. I cut Zeke’s hair when he was a baby, and it turned out bad. I think I’m going to find a picture and post it on here.

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This picture was even a few weeks after, but you can still see how bad my haircut skills were. I kept getting the neck line uneven, and it ended up almost halfway up his head, and it was still crooked. It was right before we moved here, Jimmy was pretty embarrassed,  I was even more, because I did it.

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Zeke in the Noah’s Ark splash park at the Children’s Gardens.

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Uncle Adam and Lilly, everyone loves to hold her!

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We went a different way in the gardens today, and found more beautiful things that we weren’t able to see the first time. I love this place! You can walk for miles and miles and everywhere you go there are flowers, and beauty all around you! I felt like I was almost in the Garden of Eden!

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Adam and Zeke trying to rescue a fish that had swum upstream

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Grandma and Zeke feeding the fish.

We are going to miss Summer!

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

This Summer went by way too fast! I love the Summertime, here are some of my favorite pics of the recent summer fun-

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Zeke flying Daddy’s new toy. Jimmy has wanted a model airplane for a long time, so we splurged and got him a $30 one from Target.

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Soon after this, Zeke tripped with the remote, and broke the antenna :(  poor Daddy. Luckily, Jimmy is really smart, and figured out how to clip the antenna part off that was broken, and fix it.

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Zeke and my friend Carly’s little boy, Wyatt, playing on the slip and slide. It barely fit in our little backyard :)

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taking a drink

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We love going to the parks! Zeke especially loves it when friends come too.

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Ethan, Zeke, and Jace.

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The 3 boys, and my friend Hannah holding Lilly. I like how Zeke is doing a stunt with his arms out in this picture.

Zeke and I had a picnic. We bought 2 Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers from Wendy’s after grocery shopping, and ate them in our backyard with chips. Before our picnic, I fed Lilly, and put her in her crib for her nap, when I came down, this is what I found-

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Zeke’s burger on our doormat with the lettuce, and tomato taken off.

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Zeke later picked his tomato up from the grass, and took a bite :)

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Isn’t Zeke so cute with his big boy hamburger!? These are some of the reasons why Summer is my favorite season!

Lilly is 3 months old!

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

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It looks like Lilly is waving, and holding her sign :)

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Smiling at her big brother. She adores Zeke, and loves to watch him. The other day, she thought watching him take a bath was the funniest thing ever!

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I know I should have just picked the cutest shot out of all of these “3 month” pictures, and posted one but I couldn’t help but post all 4.

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Jimmy was playing with Zeke, and Lilly loved hearing them :)

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Daddy’s shoulder must taste pretty good!

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