The Zoo

Our friends invited us to the zoo one day, and we were excited to go! P1 enjoyed climbing on all the animal statues.

We got to see the elephants do tricks! 

We even got to ride the train this time, which the kids enjoyed. And their favorite animal was the giraffe! They have a baby giraffe at the zoo, and they also have some cute lion cubs.

Odds and Ends: May

P2 found her brother's kimono, and decided she wanted to wear it. She was pretty adorable in it!

 Sleeping beauty:

We found a fun Thomas hat for P1 at the store. So we pulled out another hat for P2. It's a hat that P1 has never liked. But of course, as soon as we let P2 have it, he threw a fit!

P2 always puts her hats on backwards. Just cool like that I guess.

P1 was assigned his first primary talk. So we have been practicing this week. We built a podium for him, and he really likes it. All day long he will pretend he is in primary. He likes to pretend to be the adults in primary and give announcements, etc.

Funny story. So P1 likes to chew on his shirts a lot. One day I kept telling him to stop, to no avail. Finally I told him that if he didn't stop then I would put hot sauce on his shirt! He said "No mom, that would be a bad example. That would be making a bad choice." Isn't it fun to have little parrots in the house? 

Our Very Own Park

We love having our very own park. Well....sometimes we do.

This is P2 pouting...at the park. A frequent occurrence. The park provides us with lots of happy moments, but also many sad ones. P2 gets mad when I stop going down the slides with her, or stop swinging with her on my lap. P1 has been such a good brother, and tries to get her to play with him. Sometimes it works....sometimes.

We've made lots of friends at the park. And P2 loves to tell everybody all about the park. She gets so excited about it. When we walk over to park, she runs and screams "PARK...PARK...PARK" at the top of her lungs.

P2 finally learned to climb this green ladder by herself. I used to have to lift her leg up to get her started. One time, I was chatting with another mom, and I noticed her by the green ladder. She was standing there tugging on her pants because she was trying to lift up her leg. It was pretty funny.

 

I always count when we go down the slide. In this video you can hear P2 counting. However, she will only ever say "3, 4, 3, 4" no matter how many times I try to get her to start with 1 and 2.

Anniversary: Celebrating 8 Years

We celebrated 8 years of marriage in style! With crazy socks and matching t-shirts, we went to PE's first work party (at his new job) that was on the night of our anniversary. We figured we ought to go, and meet all the families of PE's new coworkers. 

The party was a fundraiser for well-loved man in the office that was diagnosed with cancer. It was a "Sock It to Cancer" fundraiser, hence the crazy socks. The event was at TopGolf, a brand new golfing experience in Utah. This was a soft opening, and it officially opens May 20. It was a lot of fun, and family friendly. It's like bowling, but with golf.

It was fun night, not to mention free! We really like the people at PE's new work, and I love that they do family friendly work parties.

PE also brought me beautiful flowers! 

We have been very blessed in our marriage. I am so grateful to have a wonderful husband by my side!

Wedding

We went to my cousin's wedding on Saturday. We are very happy for him and his new wife! It was great to see extended family. P1 and P2 really enjoyed the water features, blowing bubbles, and eating treats.

 

Mother's Day

P1 has been learning Mother's Day songs in primary. During the week, he would tell me to sit down in the chair and he was ask P2 to come play the piano. And then he would sing his own Mother's Day songs. It was pretty adorable. The only words I could ever catch were "Mother's Day", "12 apostles", and "Team Rocket".

P1 made me the cutest card in primary. I guess he thinks I paint a lot. And we have never eaten chicken and eggs together, so go figure...

The back of the card were circles of colors, so I could paint with my card. (Similar to his book "Mix It Up!")

I love being a mother. It's challenging, but oh so rewarding!

Home Ownership

We love our new house. Here are some pictures that were on the listing.

Before moving in, we did some work on the house. PE is quite the handyman. We had a fun adventure of installing canned lights in our living room. Replacing the light fixtures in the dining room and master bedroom. Installing a medicine cabinet in the bathroom. We also installed extra cable ports so we don't have internet cables all over the house.

This was our first meal at our new house:

Installing canned lights:

They work, yay!

They put in brand new park equipment just for us! We have a park right by our house, and they finished installing the new equipment the day before we officially moved in. 

We also scored a new dishwasher. Home warranty plans are great!

The kids love the park, and we go there once or twice a day.

We are very happy with our house and the neighborhood. We love it here! Our ward even helped us clean up our backyard on our ward service day. We filled a trailer or two with tree branches, bushes, and weeds. We are so grateful for their help!