Grandma came to visit!!

Last week, my mom came to visit. It was so much fun to have her here. The kids loved all the extra attention they got. We pretty much just hung around the house, but it was still nice to have some family around. Shaun and I even got to go out to eat without kids, woo hoo! The weather was nice a few days while she was here, we got to go to the park and do Janalee's favorite thing SLIDE!! We couldn't get her to stop moving long enough to get a good picture. She was having fun.

Even Parker got a turn on the slide!

We made some yummy cookies, Janalee even got to help. She is sporting the top-less look these days, haha.

I am older now too. I had my birthday last week and my mom made me some yummy cinnamon rolls!!! Shaun even added a sparkler on top, we didn't have any candles. Aren't I loved!

Dang I have some cute kids, if I do say so myself! My mom is pretty good looking too :)

Thanks Grandma, we had a blast!! Come back soon!

Week off with Daddy!!!

Shaun had his first vacation week last week. It was great to have him home to play with our little family!! Janalee was loving life! We didn't do a whole lot sadly because of the weather and I wasn't feeling very good by the end of the week. We did get some much needed shopping done so that was nice to have hime around to run after Janalee in the store :) We went to the beach one day, but it was FREEZING! Someone told Shaun that even when it is chiily outside the ocean is still warm. They lied to him. I was a little sceptical about it, but we got Janalee all dressed in her swimming suit and Shaun was ready to get in the water. As are driving, there were more and more clouds and it was getting windy. By the time we got there it was pretty over cast and seriouly windy. It was really cold too. We did a short walk on the beach collected some shells and called it good. Poor Janalee was really sad that she didn't get to go swimming. Luckily the next day our neighbor let janalee and Shaun come over and swim in his huge spa.

On saturday we went to the zoo though. It was cold, but Janalee had tons of fun! I got to try out my new stroller too. We traded in this crappy double stroller that I got off craigslist into babiesRus and got 25% off a nice new one. I love it!!!!!!!! One of her favorite things was the giant snake!!! I think she watched this snake for a whole minute- that is a long time for Janalee and then came back to watch it again. We arrived at the perfect time to watch these chimps. They just got feed and were putting on quite the show. I have a video of the female here just screeching away. we all thought it was pretty fun to watch them. They had this cool sting ray petting place. You were able to touch the sting rays. Shaun and I thought Janalee would love this, but she would not put her hand in the water. Wouldn't even come close to touching it. haha Shaun and I loved it though, they were really slimy feeling! This was my favorite part of the trip. They had this cage that you could walk into and the birds were flying around you. I didn't even think about it, but janalee had some animal crackers in front of her in the stroller. This bird was being so cute and friendly, it was watching Janalee and getting closer and closer. Then all of a sudden it flew up and snatched a cracker from the stroller. I thought it had pecked her hand or something, until I saw the cracker in it's beak. I don't think animal crackers are on their diet, whoops! Too funny though! This is how Parker spent most of the time at the zoo! He did watch some of the animals, but mostly he just liked to people watch. What a cute boy he is!!!
Janalee loved feeding the giraffs. They only had a small space where you could stand and feed them, so I was trying to hand her the lettuce and film at the same time, so sorry about the poor footage I got. She seemed to really like it though and was all smiles afterwards.
All in all it was a really fun day at the zoo. We were all tired when we left. It hope to go back again soon when the weather is nicer.