The Zoo Boo

I almost forgot about our trip to the Zoo Boo this year.  We were invited to go with the Morales family. And we had the best time.

 

 

 I miss my babies being small especially when we do something like this.  Sarah still tries real hard to participate and enjoy these outings.  She does like to "mother" the little kids so I think she had a great time.

 

 Look at this beautiful family.  I always tell Kelli how lucky she is that they are so involved.  Seems like every holiday season there is something that they all get together to do.  I would give anything if my family would be this interested in being with the grandkids and doing fun silly things like this.

 Perfect example of Sarah having a great time doing something that she knows will make me smile.  I've been taking her picture on this ant since she was a toddler. 

 6 more years people and this little lady will be tearing up the roads.

I think she would've carried Jax around the whole zoo if she could've.  I think she's going to be a great babysitter. 

I'm so thankful that we were able to go to the zoo.  It ended up being a beautiful day weatherwise and I always love spending time with the Morales family.  

June Strawberry Picking

 Kelli and I and the kids headed out to Tekonsha to do some strawberry picking.

It was early in the season so there were so many to pick.

......and eat!

 The kids were doing so good at picking the berries until one of us, I'm not sure who, told them that it was ok to eat some too.  It was all over for Mason and Averie at that point.  They might as well have sat down and just ate. 
Mason being the good kid that he was would pick a few, then sit and eat them out of his basket.  So in his mind he sure did help us pick the berries. 

 Jaxson decided he would like to go for a walk so Sarah spent most of her time pushing the stroller.

She was in heaven.  Averie did decide to help her out a little bit by walking with her.

 The whole picking crew.  Jacob did not want his picture taken.  I only got him to cooperate by promising I wouldn't post it on facebook.  Too grown up for a picture with the kids I guess.

I ended up with 8 pints of strawberries.  Everybody helped out and we all went home happy.

I also made jam for the first time, who knew it was so easy.

Another Baby M

So this happened.......

Oh my what a precious boy!

Jaxon Frank

 Excuse me, how did my friend Ms Kelli Morales end up with three of the cutest kids ever????

Who woulda thought it

ha

Just teasing you Kelli, you and Dave have some great genes, just look at these children.

 Big Sister Averie, looking to her mom for some guidance on how to not squeeze him to death.

 Big Brother Mason, look at that smile.  Oh the things he's going to teach him.

Most importantly all the lyrics to the Disney songs.

No doubt he's already started.

 Checking him all out, making sure he's just as perfect as we said he would be.

 He even opened his eyes and visited with us.

 So happy and content.

 What do you think?

Does he look like Mason.....

Or Averie?

 

I say neither.  I think he has his own looks.

I have to say that these three children are the only children in my picasa web picture organizer that have their very own folders.  It was easy to go back and look at their baby photos. 

I look forward to adding to Jaxon's over the years.

Congratulations Kelli and Dave, another folder made in my picture organizer!!

Averie's Birthday

The Morales' had a small shindig for Averies 2nd birthday.  I was alone for the day so I went by myself.
  Nobody pulls together a themed birthday party at the last minute like Kelli.
Only little Averie can be a hot mess and still be so dang adorable.
One boot on one boot off!

 

Here she is refusing to look at me while she knows I am taking her picture.

At least her hair is still done in this photo, so this is before she became the hot mess from the picture at the top.

Oh look cowgirl boots for the rotten cowgirl. 

No really they are soooo cute.  She put them on and was rockin them like the cowgirl princess she was meant to be!

 



 

Storytime with Gigi.  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom of course!

Happy Birthday Averie! 

Mrs. Nicole loves you even though you aren't ready to be friends yet. 

 



Random May Stuff

"olives, cat food"

Sarah's brownie troop uses part of their proceeds from cookie sales to support a charity.  The girls choose to help the humane society.  So Mrs. Becky had the girls meet at Walmart to spend their money.  They spent about $130 on all kinds of things for cats and dogs.  One of the things the Humane Society requests is that the food doesn't have red dye in it.  I don't really know why and I should probably find out since we feed our dogs food with red dye, hmmmm.

Anyhow the girls had quite an issue finding some food without that dye.  I was dying laughing when Sarah said mom look theres a cat food called "Olives, do cats like olives?" lol

looking for red dye

Averie has become very outspoken at school.  I just have to laugh cause I think that Kelli is going to have a little stinker in Averie like I do in Sarah.  Very loving and sweet but a whole lot rotten!!  She enjoyed finger painting with blue shaving cream. 

I was finally able to take Sarah to a school skate.  Seems like we've had a lot of things going on and school skate always got pushed to the back of our plans.  This time Sarah took her friend Kaylie and they had a blast.  It was a warmer day so they were both super sweaty.  ewwww

I hope that we'll be able to go to some Saturday skates so she can get better at it.  It seems like she was just getting good on her skates and it was time to go.

Our biggby here just opened.  They had 5 days of free shots. 

Everyday was a new flavor....I am proud to say I made it all 5 days, lol.

I do like them better than Starbucks but I still think McDonalds has the best Mochas, if they make it correctly. 

I guess enough of the randoms.  I still need to post my pictures from the 30 days of May.  I'm doing pretty good.  I've only missed a couple days.

This is what we did yesterday.....

Happy Birthday to my Favorite 1 year old!!

One of my best friends had her daughter Averie's birthday yesterday.

It was so cute.

The house was done up in the cupcake theme,

and of course little Averie matched with her cupcake outfit.

I truly believe she is thinking "MOM really with this bow"

She was ALL about her cake. Nobody had to show her what to do.....

Eyes closed in pure bliss!!

Shortly after this she decided to get rid of her bow. Her plan, to smear cake all over it so mom would take it off. She's such a smart girl.
Hey Mrs. Mesha, time for my bath.
Sweet baby had it everywhere....

Back to the party, hanging with her dad Dave.

Enjoying her new cup, yes Aunt Heather enjoying it before its been washed....ewwwww!

Quality time with Gigi!

It was a fun party.

Kelli amazes me, always pulls of the perfect party at the last minute.

I'm so lucky to have such a sweet baby and her family in my life.

I often wonder what would have happened if that engagement party wouldve been the goodbye party it was supposed to be.

Everything happens for a reason.....