Zoo with Olivia

We had a blast at the zoo with Olivia! It was perfect weather too! Here are some of the pictures we took: 

Eagle

Garrett loved all the snakes, frogs and lizards!

Lion

They love milking the pretend cow...

And riding the tractors...

And petting the goats...

The Phoenix Zoo also has a couple splash pads so we decided to take the kids' swimming suits and let them play in the water for a while. Garrett wasn't too fond of the water randomly splashing up in his face so I wasn't able to get any pics of him at the splash pad because he wouldn't get near the water. Kimbri LOVED it though!

* Olivia and Kimbri also got to ride the camel at the Zoo but I still need to get the pictures from Olivia. So when I get them I'll do an update! And also, Olivia took Garrett to do the "Giraffe Encounter" where they got to feed a giraffe up close so I need to get those pics too!

Week with Olivia

It was SO fun to have Olivia visit us for a week! She came down here for her Spring Break from school. We picked her up from the airport that's about 5 minutes from our house and a blast with her for the next week!

We had a free Bahama Bucks from using our punch card and we had a buy one get one free so we all went and got shave ice and one strawberry banana smoothie that was delicious!

Getting creative, waiting for our shave ice to be made... haha.

They loved it!

We also went to several garage sales on the Saturday that Olivia was here. Olivia found some rabbit cages that we are going to bring up to her when we go to Utah in June since they were to big to take with her on the plane. I also found some cute little girl shoes to buy for baby girl due in August :)

After going to some yard sales we decided to head over to the outdoor mall and see the Easter Bunny. We weren't allowed to take pictures with our own camera unless we bought their photos, which are ridiculously over-priced... so we don't have a photo of them and the Easter Bunny but oh well. Kimbri thought it was awesome to sit on his lap but Garrett, of course, was terrified. He doesn't like "characters". 

While at the mall we stopped in at a few of the kid stores and also let Kimbri and Garrett play on the little outdoor playground they have there. It was a fun day!

We also were able to do a few other fun things while Olivia was here, like go on a "girls night out". Rick was having to study for an upcoming test anyway so after getting the kids in bed, Rick just studied at home while Olivia and I went and did some shopping. Olivia found some really cute dresses at Old Navy! I found some cute clothes for the kiddos, including a matching outfit for when the baby is born for her and Kimbri that were on a crazy good sale! And we also went out to eat at Chili's. Yum! 

There are a few other things we did like go to the zoo, etc... but I'll post about those separately :) It was SO fun to have Olivia in town! We love having visitors!!

Easter

This was at our Ward Easter Celebration. They served a yummy breakfast of muffins, fruit, yogurt and juice and had a fun Easter Egg Hunt afterward. The kids each got to find 10 eggs and they had a blast doing so. Kimbri missed the ward Easter party last year so I think she was having extra amounts of fun this year :) 

Easter bunny glasses from last year!

Dying Easter eggs! The kids thought it was pretty cool to make the eggs change colors. And it was fun to have Olivia here celebrating with us since she was visiting for her Spring Break!

Easter baskets! Got some stuff at the dollar section in Target to put in their baskets. Kimbri and Garrett love stickers so we got a couple pads of stickers for them to do in church along with candy of course :)

No basket for Rick but I still got him some treats.

We hid one smart in each plastic egg. Garrett was ecstatic!

Found some smarties in her basket.

Finding the Easter eggs.

And this is what our front room looked like after Easter morning!

Kimbri working on painting her Easter egg piñata.

We had enough roses from our rose bush in the backyard to make a small bouquet for Easter! They smell divine!