Ry's field trip

The third graders took a field trip down to the children's museum.  They learned alot about balancing money, having jobs and playing adult this year.  So they took a field trip to kidtropolis, which is a mini town that lets the kids pretend to be adults, well the fun parts of being an adult. 

They started with a picnic in the park and all the boys played games while the girls sat on blankets and chit-chatted.  This whole year I have noticed that the girls and boys really seperated themselves.  Whenever I would go to lunch with Ryan, his whole class voluntarily seperated themselved into boys and girls.  The boys all sat at one one end of the table, then there was a huge empty area and the girls were clear down on the other end. 

After the picnic and games we went to the museum.  Ryan really likes the newsroom.  He likes to preform in front of people.  The one thing he likes most at the children's museum is to gather money on his "debit card"

He runs from one job to the next collecting as many paychecks as possible.

I found Ryan often in the bank being the manager, that way he had access to all the money.  He likes to get money.

This is Ryan with his friend Matthew.  Matthew was a great friend for Ryan. The funny thing about this picture is that I had my camera and asked Ryan is he would like me to take any pictures of him with any of his friends.  He said no, in a mom quit embarrassing tone.  So I asked if he would like to use the camera to take any pictures himself.  He gets all excited takes the camera, walks over to Matthew's mom and asked if she will take a picture of him and Matthew.  Wow, what a blow to me, the un-cool mom!!!  JK, I thought it was very silly!!!

Day Trip to Brennam, TX

We took one Saturday and drove up to Brenam, TX.  It was a very quinte little town.  We started the day browsing through the old town town shops and eating at a cafe.  The food was very southern, and good. 

Then we went to the Blue Bell factory.  It was Saturday, so no tours, but we did see a shot film of a tour and then ate some yummy ice cream.  It was only $1 a scoop and they were huge scoops.  We all tried a different kind and this is the day I tasted my most favorite ice cream.  BLue Bell banana pudding.  It was a flavor the Sawyer tried and I loved it!!!!

After the ice cream, we went out to a minature horse farm. There were a lot of new babies.  The kids really liked it.....

especially Ryan.  He loved touching and petting the little horses.  It was hot and humid and I was totally grossed out.  I mean look at how gross those horses look.  Anyway, the kids loved it and did not seem to be bothered by the gross-ness of it!!

This little horse was taking a lick of Julia's foot while she was looking at me for the picture, and she is still not grossed out!!

Even the flies, note the one on Sawyer's forehead, did not keep the kids from spending way too much time touching the horses.  The horses were cute, but the atmosphere was not grand!!!

It was a great day.  I love taking little trips places to see new things.  I love to travel!!!

playing hooky

                                             

I think I like the kids skipping school more then they like it.  I told them that we could skip one day of school in May and have a lot of fun.  So we started off the day at the zoo.  There was a brand new(10 days) baby elephant that we really wanted to see.   SUPER CUTE!!!!!

 

After we were done at the zoo, seeing all of our favorite animals, we went over to Hermann park and rented a paddle boat. The kids loved this.  We saw a lot of turtles and fish and one really cool big blue fish.

After the paddle boat ride, we ate lunch at Hermann park and the took the train over to The  Museum of Natural Science. 

It was fun, but more for big kids, Sawyer was not really enjoying it, that is until we came to the seashell exhibit.  He thought it was so cool and never wanted to leave the area.  WE also paid a lot extra to go to a magic show.  I assumed, since we were paying more to go to it, that it was going to be amazing.  it was not amazing at all.  Seriously, even Julia and Sawyer could see his tricks.  Lame-o Lame-o!!  

We did, however, get to look for fossils and such at this area.  The guy was a little grouchy about how "careless" Sawyer was being with the tools, but Ryan and Julia loved the attention that he was giving to their "skills".

After the museum, we went to the Miller Outdoor Theater to roll down the hills.  I never get the fun in rolling in grass, but the kids sure enjoyed it.  We had a great day, and it is days like this one, that I am reminded how LUCKY I am the Dennis goes to work each day, so I can stay home and be a mom and play with the kids!!!

We are officially OKLAHOMANS

Well we did it AGAIN!!  We have moved to Oklahoma.  We have been here for about a week and it is very nice.  We are renting a house right now until we find a place we want to call home.   This is potentially the last move that we will make, therefore we are forever OKLAHOMANS!!  We look forward to a more rural life, well I might miss the urban life, but I know the kids and Dennis and ready to plant some country roots!!  I am trying to get caught up with my blog, so I plan on putting 2-3 posts a day until I am all caught up.  Hope you enjoy!!!
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Talent show

For the talent in our ward Ryan and Julia both decided to show off a talent.  Ryan played the piano.  The piano was turned around and you could not see him, therefore no picture of him.  He did a great job though!!
Julia's talent she chose was jump roping, she would only participate though if a friend joined her.  So her friend Maddie jump roped with her.  Sawyer was so bummed out that he was not doing anything that we decided that he could dance in the back corner while Julia jump roped.  Have you ever seen Sawyer dance?  He is quite the little dancer.  Anyhow he stole the show.  He has such good rythm and I have no idea where he gets his moves, but the little guy can dance.  While Julia was jump roping, which she did an excellent job at, the crowd started to chat Sawyer's name.  I was a little worried that Julia would be upset, but she was fine.  Afterwards everyone was commenting on Sawyer's dancing, even one guy who did a Vanilla Ice reinactment, was wondering where Sawyer got his moves.  It was tooooo funny.  I have a vidoe of it, if I ever can learn how to put it on here, I will!!  (Sorry the picture is sooo bad!!!)

Dancin in the Rain

Texas rain is so warm, making it alot of fun to dance in the rain.  Ryan and Sawyer had a ball playing in the backyard while it was raining.  It was really coming down, making large puddles all over.  They did not get to play very long because it started to thunder and lightning, so to be safe, they came inside. 

I love this picture, it shows how much water was falling from the sky and also how happy Ryan was to be in it!!

Good-bye buddies

The last time we had our little co-op preschool, we had some water fun.  The boys ran through the sprinklers, played on the slip-n-slide and jumped on the tramp. 
They had a lot of fun.  This picture is one of my favorites. 
It really shows off their personalities and the great freindship they all had.  Sawyer really had some great friends in Houston. 

Horse loving Julia

Julia really enjoyed taking horse riding lesson this last half year.  This was her last day and I
 was upset because they practiced in the covered arena, so the pictures are awful.  And to make things worst, the time I took pictures of her outside, I was using the messed-up camera card, so they are all gone!!

Each time she gets to lessons, she must brush her horse down, take care of the horse's mane and clean out the horse's shoes.  She enjoys this and is often talking to the horse.

I love her determination in this picture.  I rarely stay in with her when she is getting the horse ready to ride, and I must admit I was surprised by all that she can do.  This whole time I thought the teachers were helping her get the horse ready, but she was doing it herself. 

This is how she was the whole time she was at lessons.  Happy, Happy, Happy!!!

mentos volcano

Awhile ago I purchased this mento volcano kit on clearance.  The kids of been begging forever to use it, but I needed to get a 2-liter soda first and I just kept forgetting.  Well I finally purchased one and let the kids have fun.  They did not know what to expect.... I told them to stand back and they just laughed at me.  Ryan pulls the pin and then....

They went flying back, each was so surprised how high it went.  Fun times!!!

This is after it went off and it was already cooling down.  It really was SUPER awesome!!1

morning walks

I like to go for walks in the morning after I take the older kids to the bus stop.  Sawyer does not love it at much as I do, he says that he gets bored.  Also the fact that he gets hot.  So....

I started to bring bread so he could feed the ducks and the turtles.  The first few times we went, the ducks were a little shy and the turtles just hid under water and never came up. but after a few times...

The ducks started to swim to us when they would see us coming and the turtles got a lot more brave.  If you look closely you can see one turtle coming all the way out of the water to get a piece of bread.  The funny thing is Sawyer was always so disappointed that we never see the turtles, and the time that this one came out of the water he turned and started running toward me, he was scared.  Funny guy!!!

Stingrays

After the Space Center, which turned out to be a short trip, due to lack of interest, we went to Galveston, 20 minutes away, to go to the beach.  I will say that everyday that we have gone to the beach it has been cloudy weather.  I t makes me so grouchy, it has been warm, just cloudy!!  Anyhow, this trip to the beach we were swimming in the ocean and Dennis thought he saw a fish, which we discovered later was actually a stingray.

They were just little ones, but they were all over.  Nobody knew why they were there, maybe spawning, no one knew because they had never seen them there before.  Some people though it might even be the oil spill that is pushing them to differrnet places, who knows.  Anyhow, we did see some people catching them and were able to get a close view.  It was a lot of fun, although it did keep me on the beach, I did not want to get stung.  Dennis and the kids still swam, but I stayed on safe ground, I am afraid of fish afterall. 

Some fun pictures of the cute kiddos!!

Houston Space Center

In a rush to see everything that we want to see in Houston before we move to Oklahoma, we have been busy visting numerous sites.  This weekend in May we made a visit to the Space Center.  It was fun, but probably more suited for older children.  There were some great exhibits, but the kids were more into the playland.  Also the whole space thing is not as cool as it was when I was little. 

Ryans did get a kick out of laying on this bed of nails.  Everyone, execpt Julia, tried it.  I will say, it looked really scary, like it would hurt, but it did not hurt at all.

We all did get to touch a real moon rock, I found that to be super awesome. 

It was a place I am glad we went, I would like to bring the kids back here when thay are older and maybe have more interest in space stuff.

Jumping!!!

Ryan's new favorite trick.  To stand on the fence around the pool and jump in.  He thinks he is pretty cool, and so does Dad.  I get super nervous everytime I see him up there.  Boys will be boys. 

and then there is Julia, loving to jump, but loving even more the opportunity to get her picture taken!

Sawyer was also enjoying jumping in the pool, but I love this picture a ton!  Sawyer loves his daddy.  More often than not, Sawyer chooses Dennis to be his helper, pal, sleeping buddy, and wrestling partner.  I love the relationship that they have.  I love my boys!!

Picnic in the park

One night the beginning of May, the 3rd, we decided to have a picnic at the park for dinner.  I had went with Sawyer earlier to this park and I knew that the older two would love it.  It was huge and had a long obstacle course.  I was right, they loved it!!!  The only downer, it was soooo hot.  (Well at least I thought it was tooo hot, now that it is June and I know it gets this hot, I was crazy to think it was hot then!)  We had a lot of fun.  The kids love tire swings and Dennis did  a lot of pushing, while I took some pictures.

This was part of the obstacle course and Julia was having a lot of fun. 

Super cute picture of Sawyer.  Probably the only picture that I have of him lately without some goofy pose.  I guess when your hands are busy holding you up, you cannot use them to pose.  Note to self, take more pictures of Sawyer on a swing!!! ha ha

Dennis and the kids!

The kids and I, oh and also Dennis's legs!!

And a picture to show how hot it was.  Do you see all the wetness around their heads? it was Humid and HOT!!

Julia's field day

The 1st grades teachers were smart and had their field day in April, when it is not torture to go outside.  It was a beaustiful day and the weather was perfect.  Julia and her class rotated through numerous stations, where they got to do different activities.  I think the three-legged race was her favorite.  It is an athletic event, which she likes and she gets to do it witha  partner. 
She is so social.  Sawyer came with me, which is the reason we left early.  A boy was not being nice to him and Sawyer decided to call him stupid, which is not acceptable at school.  It was all down hill from there, so we left with him crying!!  Julia had a great day though!!!!!