Utah's Hogle Zoo

We decided to get a Zoo pass this year and we have used it a few times to go with other people we love! We have been with my best friend from High School, my sister, my mom, Mike's company's party, and we plan to go still with my college roommate. When I went with my sis I let her take all the pictures so I will have to get them from her and post them later.
The theme at the zoo this year is dinosaurs. It was actually really great and realistic! They move and even spray water. Eliannah was afraid of all of them, even if we said that they were herbivores. lol Silly girl!
The picture above is with my good friend's daughter. Tsadakah really likes her a lot! I am so glad that they have been able to get together and become friends because it is a friendship that I intend on keeping forever!

There is a sand box where the kids can dig and pretend to work like the construction workers who are building the new area for the Polar Bears. It is a great idea! My kids love it there! This time that we went we were there the minute it opened so we got it all to ourselves! Doesn't MiKaylah look so cute up there?!

Another perk to being there as soon as it opens is that you get to see them feed the animals. I usually think that the Rhinos (which Mike loves) are pretty boring, but this was really cool! The zookeeper was there too so we asked them some questions. Tsadakah noticed that one was bleeding and she was really concerned. The zookeeper said that they like to play by fighting just like puppies or kitties, and sometimes they can get too rough with each other. (I wish I could have been there to see that! When does this happen? Cause all I have ever seen them do is stand there like "duuuuuh!")

There were also my favorite animal! I don't usually see Squirrels at the zoo cause it is too crowded, but because they were used to people they let us get right up next to them. It was so awesome. I soooo want one as a pet! Mike reminds me that they are considered vermin. Uggg! that brings down my dream pretty fast. lol

But they are beautiful animals and I love how fast their movements are!

My adorable girls have had so much fun at the zoo with cousins, friends, celebrations, and us! It is the number one way that we spent June!

Swim Lessons

We did swimming lessons on June 6-16. It went really good! Tsadakah liked all of it except "bobs" which is when they have to dunk themselves under the water. She was the only girl in her age group. lol I thought that she would love that, but she didn't make friends with any of them this year. She actually was all by herself in between learning, but she didn't seem to mind so I didn't. Here she is practicing her front paddle.

Here she is getting ready to jump in from the side. At her Kindergarten check up Dr. Gould said that she has FINALLY caught up to an average weight. Didn't look like it helped in keeping her warmer, she is still cold!

Tsadakah in her back float. I think that this was her favorite/best drill.

Here she is doing bobs. She was such a trooper, doing things that she didn't love. It was a great experience this year!
She caught me taking her picture. I just love the fact that she is still young enough to get excited about seeing me in public. She was so excited to wave to me when she realized I was watching her and she even told someone in the class "That's my mom!"

Eliannah was a little more of a pickle! :) Still participated some of the time, so I can't complain.

In this exercise she was supposed to be running to get the ring when the teacher threw it, but she grabbed it out of the teachers hand before she could throw it and started to play keep away fro

the teacher. lol

She is such a beautiful child! I love her serene moments.

She is so funny because she would get out of the pool and jump like a frog for a minute and then get back into the pool. She is obsessed with frogs right now. We have already checked out every book at the library about frogs, and its not the cute little stories that she is interested in. Oh, no! She wants to read about and see pictures of real frogs. She was so thrilled when she learned that frogs have sticky suction cups on their hands to stick to things. lol

The other funny thing! She doesn't like to have water on her hands. At home I have to use hand sanitizer instead of washing (whenever possible) because she hates her hands to get wet. At home in the bathtub, if her hands (or bath toy) get wet she goes balistic! So, every time her hands would get wet she would climb out of the pool and shake her hands as fast and as hard as she could. Then she would get back in, but they would get wet again right away, so she was climbing out again and again!

I love this shot. She is playing peek-a-boo with me over the edge of the pool!

Where was MiKaylah this whole time? She was scaring a woman half to death by playing on the cement steps. Seriously, I see this woman downstairs on the pool in the opposite corner come sprinting across the center. I'm thinking oh no, someone must be seriously injured for her to be panicking like that. She ran all the way through the locker rooms and up the stairs to get MiKaylah. (who already knows how to do stairs) When she found out I was her mother she apologized. It was pretty silly. I know that I am a laid back mother but it seems like everywhere I go people make comments. Am I the only one? What about you? Has anyone ever said anything to you about how you are dealining with a situation?

Soooo much has happened!

Since my last post so many wonderful things have happened! I finally got what I wanted, A NEW HOUSE! We put our offer in on my DREAM house in June. Before a month was over the told us that the bank went with the other offer! Most of July was spent beating our heads against the wall trying to cram every other house into our expectations and longing for that beautiful house! Then right as we had put our offer in on a house that we were just settling for my agent called and said: "Do you still want that house?" I was so super excited! I couldn't stop giggling with glee! Right there on the phone with the agent! lol So we got the process going and boy was that a fun rollercoaster ride!
We found renters right away for our other house and they said that they wanted to move in Aug 1 but then the day of closing on our house started to get pushed back farther and farther! It came down to the wire for sure! We ended up having to make a few threatening calls! It was majorly stressful! When we finally closed on the house we had 3 days to clean it, move into it, and prep the other house for renters. I tried my very best! for three days...well actually for 8 or 9 days, I woke up as early as I could and worked and worked and worked staying up as late as I could. Still, with all of that energy that we put into it the feat was just impossible.
We had so much help too! We are so thankful to all the family members on both sides that gave up their Saturday to come and help us. Thank you all!
In the end we still had to called the renters and tell them that they couldn't move in for another week. Adventually, we lost our renters. So, if anybody knows someone who wants to live in a small but darling cute house in Tooele, let me know!
but back to the wonderful part of this blog, I LOVE MY HOUSE!!!! Every day I wake up so happy! My husband has literally made all my dreams come true and I could not be more grateful to him for all of his hard work. That is how he shows his love so how could I not feel like I am the most blessed loved woman in the world. I am thankful to God for ALL that He has given me!
We haven't gotten the pix on the walls yet or I would post some pictures of our gorgeous new domain!
I also need to catch up on all of June (mostly includes the drama from the house) July, AND august! lol I would now but my June pix are all on the other computer. *sigh