Minnie Dress Up

For Halloween this past year, Audrey was Minnie. we hung up her costume in the closet, and she hasn't had much to do with it since. this spring, Audrey noticed it in her closet, and asked to be put in it. What could I say? I love having a little Minnie in the house!

One of the many things I love about my Audrey is that no matter what she is wearing, there is never a bad time to just play in the dirt, which she loves to do. S is content for long stretches of time just playing. She is very good about entertaining herself no matter what she is doing!








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Grant Turns Four!

Grant had a fun day on his Fourth birthday. Of course, our day started off with Grant's pancakes shaped like fours. This is perfect for him since his favorite breakfast these days in pancakes. Since we were getting close to our move, James and I are hesitant to buy anything new for the kids, so we treated Grant to a day at the aquatic center, which he thoroughly enjoyed. James and Grant went down the slide at least a dozen times. Grant also loves fans, so James and I, at our family party, got him a portable fan. It was fun hearing him say, "It's a fan!"













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It seems like a silly gift, but Grant loves it. He sleeps with it every night. He is so funny!

His cake this year was a Jell-O poke and pour which I made myself, with a yummy pudding and cool whip frosting, that Grant enjoyed more than cake. Too fun!






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Ayres Natural Bridge

Kay, so we went to the Ayres Natural Bridge, and I am looking through my pictures, and I realized I took tons of the kids and James, and none of the actual attraction itself! For the record, it was a neat bridge, but the actual park and surrounding area was beautiful. they had a place for the kids to play, plenty of greenness (is that a word?), and a river with benches nearby, so you can watch your kids. It was way fun, and one of the fun last things that we did in Casper. It would have been the perfect place to take our parents, had we of had the idea sooner, but oh well. We had fun as a family.



















James volunteered to spin the merry-go-round, and later admitted that it had made him a little dizzy. Don't think he will be taking on the job any time again soon.




Speaking of being dizzy, I think Grant got a little woozy after being on this as well. He never expressed desire to ride it again.




Throwing rocks and sticks in the river was a big hit. We had to keep offering them to the kids and we couldn't do it fast enough.







I think Grant preferred this old fashioned model instead. I think I would too.











Cute kids. We had so much fun our last Sunday in Casper!

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Froot Loop Fun

Since I have found Pinterest, it is fun just being able to print off fun activities to do with my kids. This is one of them:

My kids were excited to do this activity, just not very patient in the colors. (This would be Grant.) He was quite pround of himself for filling in all the Os, but could not sit still long enough to sort them. Funny kid. Also, most kids love Froot Loops. Not mine. When Audrey eats cereal, she eats Cinnamon Life or Crunchy Nut. She is not a fan of those traditional kids favorite, sugar-coated cereals, which I guess is a good thing. Grant won't even eat cereal, period.







Audrey did okay with hers as well. with her I am looking for the fine motor movement in her hands to place the little O onto the square, however sorting them is our next move.


Fun activity, and the kids loved it...




...while it lasted! Then

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Backyard Fun

Early this spring, we found some warm days, and it was really fun to be in our backyard. especially with the impending move, I really began to feel sentimental about leaving our yard. the kids really enjoyed playing on the swing set, drawing on the cement pad, and just playing in the dirt, since we hadn't completely finished it.

















This was our last family time together in our backyard, and I will miss it, even though we are moving on to better things.
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Play Parks

A favorite thing to do of Grant's these days is to go to "play parks." This is what he calls them, thanks to watching an episode of Dora. This child loves to play outside, and loves to climb on things. He is quite the climber. He will struggle through something the first time through, but one thing I really admire about Grant is that even though something is hard, he will try again and again until he can do it all by himself! I hope he never loses this ability!




Audrey, of course, has to do whatever her brother is doing. She will take on the task, no matter how difficult, but the mom in me sees her take these on, and I have to be right there to spot her. She is still so small to me.




Since we, of course, moved to Cedar, and found ourselves out of a house, with only a hotel to return to, we went to play parks everyday. This park is on McKinley Street, and it has three areas for the kids to play, but they are all spread out, so if someone wants to play at a different area, we need to round up the other one to go. It still is a fun park though!











Our most favorite to play at was PV Park ch stands for Paradise Valley Park. It was very close to our old house, no one really went there, and the playgrounds for little little kids, was really close to the playground to the playground for big kids, and it has swings in the same area too.
We went just about everyday, weather permitting, and the kids played HARD!













Doesn't Grant look so grown up in this picture? I have to add that this was the park where I took Grant for the very first time when he was small.

Time goes so fast! I can't believe that I have a FOUR year old!
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The Only Way to Make to Dinner

Since my kids are a little more grown up, but at a stage where they need to be constantly entertained, I found myself back in the challenging situation of how to entertain them while I get dinner going. One day my eyes fell up on the old spice rack that we never use. some of the spices in that rack had never been touched since we bought it back in 2004ish, and since I was cooking dinner, my little ones are interested in whatever I am doing. So I grabbed some pans and some of my old spices, and let them "cook." It worked like magic!

This was taken on a Sunday, thus the reason for their church outfits.
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