Mikayla's First Field Trip

A few weeks ago Mikayla had her first field trip to our local Fire station. Seth loved it the most. He was so excited and I think yelled Wee-OO-Wee-OO the whole time! It was cute. It was fun to learn all kinds of things about the fire house. The firemen made sure to tell us that they pay for the huge flat screen T.V. and all of their food- not our tax money! In my opinion I think they should be able to get nice things every once in a while- they work hard and for us!!! Anyways we also learned that only Dr.s and Firemen have the ability to make decisions on patients with out their permission. And that they always have to travel together in case they get a call. If they are at the grocery store and get a call the grocery store workers put all the food they had in the cart into a big freezer until they can back and get it. Our fire house has a huge area to cover and are always busy they have 3 different teams that work the different shifts A-B-C and they have 3 of everything to keep organized!We had Team A (the best team- but I think no matter what team they would have said they were the best)And they were busy they were late because they were on a call. Then we got to see the firetrucks. They showed us all of the parts and how things worked and then they let us walk through (both of my kids became very shy and would not walk through) and then we took pictures. It was very cold but I made them stand there and take pictures and then Mikayla wanted all of her friends to be in the pictures as well. Then they got another call and had to leave so we got to watch them drive away with lights and sirens! Overall it was a great time.My favorite was that Mikayla did not have to ride the bus! I don't know why but I am still worried for her to do that! I'll be ready by the time she is 30=) Enjoy the pictures!

Seth Mikayla and EmmaEmma Tyler and MikaylaJovanna Mikayla and Emma

Spring Break

Ok so not meeting my goals of posting every week but I am doing it when I have time. Mikayla has recently discovered webkinz and is on the computer all the time. It is kind of cute! And yes I could use the iPhone but I don't know how to put the pictures up on here from the iphone=( and really who looks at this hoping there are no pictures? No one so here is what we did for our spring break- Billy has not been at his new job for a year yet- soon but not yet so no vacation yet! But we go to do some pretty cool things. We went swimming dyed Easter eggs tried to go to the Denver zoo but was way to crazy so we went to Utah Park and feed the ducks and played in the sand. And we saved the funnest trip for last we went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs.
Swimming was fun but the kids are ready to be outside and so am I! Utah Park was fun they have made it really nice. Grandma Auntie came with us but unfortunately the camera did not=( But we had a great time and tasted some yummy sand cakes made by the fabulous pastry chef - Chef Mikayla. Of course we had to get ready for Easter. Billy was out of town in Dallas Texas for work so we went to Grandma Auntie's to dye Easter Eggs! It was a lot of fun! This year Seth only threw one egg into the dye and it wasn't that messy!For some reason we could not get the purple to work and that was the only color Mikayla really wanted! But we made some really pretty eggs. On Friday we went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo(CMZ). All week I practiced what I am learning at Journey Higher and focused on positivity and good thoughts for good weather. At the beginning of the week it was going to snow then in the middle of the week it said rain and Friday morning I woke up to sunny and chilly with some wind. I was so happy that I didn't just focus on the bad weather- or maybe the outcome would have been much worse. We bundled the kids up with hats and gloves and coats and headed up the mountain! We went with Amie and Lucas and Logan. We had a lot of fun. First we had to feed the giraffes. It was windy but the sun was out and we got to feed Giraffes! The whole reason we went to the Zoo was to feed the giraffes. It was so much cooler than the Zoo in Jacksonville Fl. We were so close to them I got to pet them even though they did not like that! The Fl. zoo had them kind of far away and we were not allowed to touch them at all. We also could only feed them leaves. At the CMZ they were so close to us and we feed them giraffe crackers. We felt their tongues and ears and noses. It was so fun. we also saw some other really cool animals- the elephants were getting their feet cleaned and the Monkeys were so funny and so monkey like!! There was one problem ... Seth... We were in the hippo area and were watching them walk into the water pool and we heard a splash. Amie freaked out and thought he threw my iPhone in there- I said no I have that so I looked in and could see that he picked up a rock (conveniently placed in a potted tree pot right next to the pool) and threw it right in. I yelled at him and said "Seth we don't throw rocks into the Hippos" and all he said was "Splash Momma Splash" It was cute but I thought we were gonna get kicked out. It did not hurt anything- thank goodness. Plus that was about the time we were ready to leave so we did- but we had to feed the giraffes one more time! It was an awesome trip! A great way to end our spring break!