Baby Animal Days

We love going to Baby Animal days in Logan every year. This year was the best yet. The weather had just gotten nice that day. And somehow we picked a less crowded time to go. My animal loving kids had a bawl.

Does it worry anyone else that they let thousands of kids a day hold these baby chicks? These were the highlight of the event. Leah said hers slept when she cuddled it close to her.

Say goodbye to these sunglasses. Because right after this photo Ronan managed to drop them and step on them.

There was so many baby animals to see. Horse back rides, wagon rides, a mini-train ride., and more.

The special guest this year were 3 baby bears. They were quite darling and worth the wait in line to see.

Always happy with a day at the farm. My three rug rats.

SCORE

Conversation before going to the soccer game today. Leah lamented, "I really want to score a goal. I am the only one in my class that hasn't scored." This has been a wish of hers for the 2 years she has been playing soccer. Last year I bribed her to kick the ball more than a few times in a game. This year she is doing much better but the competition is too. The cute thing is that she loves to play. Smiles the whole time she is running up and down the field. Last year she would run circles around the bunch. So imagine my surprise today when she scored in the first quarter of her game. It wasn't by accident or a lucky shot she worked for that goal. It took her a minute to realize what had happened. And when she did had she ran half the field to me on the side line and gave me the hugest hug. There may have been tears in my eyes. In fact I am tearing up typing about it. One I am so happy for her excitement and success. But two I don't think I will ever forget that I was the first person she thought about after she scored. Thank you Leah for making me feel like the most important person in the world.

Vegas Trip

We were lucky enough to spend the weekend at our good friends the Wirths house in Las Vegas. They are in trouble because we had such a good time we are definitely going back every few months. Our kids get along so well it is like they were all split at birth. Ronan enjoyed playing outside every second of the day from the time he woke up. Leah and Truman had a ds playing marathon. And Kate and Eva played all day. The adults enjoyed some Clearplay movie watching at night. Dave and Joe golfed. We had a babysitter and went out to dinner and a movie. Oh and I wont forget the spray tan that Dave and I got from Suzie. I have never been so tan in my life. And while we are talking about Suzie she is an amazing cook so each meal was like eating out. And the best discovery of the trip. Our kids can drive long distances now without driving us crazy. The kids have added the captions below.


This is me Eva. I was jumping on our vacation in Las Vegas. And after Easter egg hunt we came home.

This is us at our Easter egg hunt. Me, Leah got 3 money eggs. I gave two away. The last one flew away.

Here are the kids looking for the money egg. This is Truman, Leah's buddy.

This me and Leah and Kate and we were on our Easter egg hunt.

This is me Leah. You see my Easter egg basket. This is all the eggs I got. You see how I have a money in there. That was before it flew away.

This my egg I found but I really wanted the money dollar. Then my sister decided to give me one of hers.

Ronan here, "I got more than that see. I got that much ok"

Ronan, "that me."

This is our dad when were going on our Easter egg hunt. Me Eva is doing it.

What to do when your Spring Break is covered in snow

I am ashamed to say that I haven't taken my kids sledding yet this year. But mother nature gave me one last chance. Plus my kids are driving me crazy inside and stir crazy. It is Spring Break after all..

Happy Birthday Ronan

I can't believe my baby is three. He is the most athletic, funny, wild, long haired boy. We are always laughing at his silly antics or cursing him for his craziness. Underneath all that I just adore him and cant wait to see how he turns out as a grown up. I am sure some sports are in his future. Dave and I are counting down the days until we can watch him play in a soccer game.
All he wanted to do for his birthday was go to Chucky Cheese.

The girls bought him a remote control car. Davy and I got him a bike. Which only took him a few days to figure out and now he is all over the place. Nana & Papa got him his own Zhu Zhu pet with a hamster wheel.

One happy boy with his Spiderman cake. The kids were dyed with red and blue frosting, perhaps Sams Club should cut down on the amount of food coloring they are using.

How do the Irish Celebrate the day

We hosted our first ever Annual St. Patrick's day party. Every year Patrick's day comes and goes and we think. We should have thrown a party. So this year we did it. Invited a group of friends from our neighborhood and had a blast. Dave came up with a gigantic list of games all having to do with the phrase ____ like an Irishman. Here is Dave and Jordan showing us how to Dance Like An Irishman.

Fight Like An Irishman. Behind the hair is me throwing a pretty good punch. The boys had to stand still and not fight back as us girls got to have 30 seconds of punching. It was very fun.


Kiss Like An Irishman. Body trying to kiss the Blarney Stone. The real one is a lot bigger and at the top of a castle. But it was the best recreation we could come up with for our family room.

Drink Like An Irishman. Kyle downing a glass of chocolate milk.

Shannon taking a good shot at Dave.

Eat Like An Irishman. We had an awesome pot luck of amazing food. Dave's mom came down and made a traditional Irish trifle for us. It was so good I ate it for days.

Me, Shannon, and Amanda all have birthdays the same week. It makes for some great celebrating.

The kids dressed in all their holiday gear. Never mind the fact that Ronan looks like a little girl in his headband.

The Leprechaun came to our house and made a huge mess. He left the kids a note say, "Better luck next time I was too tricky for you. Tell your dad hi from Shamus." Dave meet Shamus while living in Ireland so he likes to come visit on St. Paddy's Day. We had green pancakes for breakfast. Then the girls made a booth to invite all the neighbor kids to come meet a real leprechaun which was them.

Preacher Boy

Outside yesterday getting ready to go run errands. Ronan looks up at the sky arms reaching upward. He yells at the top of his lungs, "JESUS CHRIST ARE YOU UP THERE?" He said it 3 times so yes I am sure that is what he said.

Eva Turns 5

My beautiful sweet Eva is 5. I can hardly believe it. She is such a darling girl. We are so blessed to have her in our family. This year we are celebrating with family parties. We had cake and presents on Sunday. Then on her birthday we went to Boondocks, her favorite place.

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Leah and Ronan bought her Barbie Potty Training Pups. It was a big hit.

Davy and I bought her a new bike. It is a big improvement from her barbie one that constantly felt like the brakes were on. No wonder she couldn't ride further than a block last year.

Hope all your wishes come true sweet girl.

A Telephone Call to Ethan

Putting Ronan to bed the other night. I put him in his room then sit against the inside of door so he can't get out. He is very upset by the thought of having to fall asleep. Ronan finds his play phone or in his words a real cell phone that really works. This is the conversation, "Ethan come and get me my mom is trying to put me to bed. Get on your bike, go on the secret path, you see my house, then you bust me out." Ethan is really Ronan's favorite person in the world. He says Ethan is soooo coooool. Anytime he talks about a friend it is Ethan. I wish we could just adopt Ethan to come stay at our house but I don't think his mom would go for it.

Kids They Say the Darndest Things

First of all sorry for the no posts for awhile. Reason being there has been nothing good to post. I feel like I have spun into a deep hole called January. Where the weather stinks and then we try and do all our New Years resolutions. January should be the month to start more bad habits not get rid of the ones you like. All the kids all had croup. We were home from everything for 2 weeks. I nearly lost my mind. But now we are back to the land of the living and feeling much better. I just really need a vacation somewhere with sun and a beach.

So moving on. Driving home from school the other day I overhead the funniest conversation. We car pool and had neighbor A. who is very sensitive. Leah asks, "who here like Barbies." Neighbor A responds, "I do." Leah says, " I don't I am a bobby boy (her way of saying a tom boy). I am a lot like my mom she was a bobby boy not a girly girl when she was little." Neighbor adds in, " I am a lot like my dad." Eva chirps in, "You mean your dad is a girly girl." We all are in stitches laughing while poor neighbor A is in tears in the back seat. I try to compose myself to not hurt her feelings. But then Ronan continues with his Simpson laugh ahhhhaaa haaa. And I just give in to the giggles.