Children's Museum with Daddy

It's not often that daddy gets to join in on our trips to the zoo or the children's museum so it's always extra fun when he can come :) The kids took a nap on the way there. Kimbri hopped out of the car and squealed with excitement! Here are some pics of that trip:

 

Mother's Day

I really got treated good on Mother's Day this year!  Rick got up with the kids when they decided to get up early and let me sleep in! We don't have church till 10am so it was nice to sleep in a while. When I finally did wake up, the kids and Rick (I'm sure mostly Rick, haha) had been slaving away in the kitchen to make me waffles, with fresh fruit and syrup and scrambled eggs with a glass of orange juice. It was yummy! 

Then we all got ready for church and tried to get a picture of the kids on Mother's Day. I guess I should've jumped in the picture with them since I'm their mother. Oops. It was really windy and Kimbri's hair was going crazy! 

The ward gave all the mothers chocolate, which I am not a fan of, but I didn't have any problems getting help eating it when everybody else in my family loves it! Haha!

These pics were taken after church while Kimbri and I were waiting by the car for Rick to come out with Garrett and the keys. She was smelling the flowers :) 

Sick Garrett

The week before we went to Utah, Garrett came down with some major dehydration because he couldn't keep anything down. He was more than willing to drink, which is the important thing, but as soon as the liquids would hit his stomach, back up it came :(

That morning Garrett had woke up on his floor. He must've thrown up during the night because there was throw up all in his bed so he moved to the floor and fell asleep! I can't believe he didn't come wake us up! I felt so bad that he slept with throw up on him for who knows how long. 

This is how Garrett acted all day:

He would just go to the rocking chair, the couch, his bed, and just fall asleep. Finally that afternoon, since he wasn't keeping and food or drink down, we made an appointment with the doctor. We went in and after seeing him she suggested we go to the ER and get some fluids into him. 

Waiting at the Dr office.

Waiting at the ER.

He wasn't feeling good AT ALL.

We finally got checked in and into a room. They wanted to try giving him some anti-nausea meds first  before giving him an IV, to see if that would help. So they did that and we had to wait to see if they would kick in. 

View from his bed.

After a while they came back in with some blue powerade and crackers. They had me try and get him to take small sips of the powerade over the course of 30 minutes. Then they offered him the crackers which he slowly nibbled on. After about an hour of having the meds in his system he began to perk up and was doing MUCH better! I had never seen him so lethargic and sickly looking. Poor guy! They sent us home with a prescription to get some additional anti-nausea medicine and we went on our way. 

After another day or two of recovering, he was doing much better when this happened:

Yes, Kimbri came down with the same thing but because we had just went through it we were able to get Kimbri some of the same medicine and kicked the sickness in the bum before she threw up too much! Thank goodness!

Fort

The fort we made one afternoon. The kids had a ton of fun exploring their fort and taking loads of toys and books into it!

They also like to empty the hallway toy cupboard and climb inside... Yeah, they think it's hilarious and so awesome but it makes a mess! But how can you resist that mischievous little smile?!

Random Zoo Trip

One morning we randomly decided to go to the zoo. We have a pass and it's only about a 25 minute drive so sometimes we decide to go last minute. This was one of those times and we ended up having a blast! The kids always love a trip to the zoo.

This turkey just about gobbled it's head off for us. And the kids were laughing so hard and gobbling right back at it! It was hilarious! 

The Komodo Dragon was up close to the glass this time!

Looking at the Baby Orangutan with it's momma. Usually it is SO crowded and it's hard to get a good glimpse of the baby or it's far away and not close enough to see. But the day we went we got there early and there was hardly anyone around! The kids got to walk right up and watch the mommy and baby orangutan. 

All worn out, resting and drinking their smoothies!

Kimbri & Her Veggies

The other day Kimbri opened up the fridge and got out the carrots and peas, got herself a spoon and opened the lids up and started eating the leftover veggies, cold and everything. Haha! Carrots and peas are by far her favorite veggies, however, the carrots have to be cooked! In Kimbri's words, "I don't like crunchy carrots." She is too funny. So I took some carrots out of the tupperware and warmed them up in the microwave. Other favs are broccoli with cheese and she loves salad... which is funny because it took me till my senior year in high school to like salad. Ha! 

But don't worry... she LOVES desserts too!!! This was at the the Young Women Fundraiser dinner where they served awesome dessert after the breadsticks and spaghetti dinner and she gobbled it right up and asked for more. So I gave her the rest of mine ;) 

And just for fun, here is a cute pic of Kimbri with Daddy. She always has a hard time when Rick has to leave for school/studying and this particular day she asked me to take a picture of her with dad. Cute! She loves her daddy!

Scorpion Traps

It's that time of year... Can I just say GROSS?!?! And I just have to get it out there and say how much I HATE scorpions. No, I have never been stung by one, knock on wood, but I just hate everything about them. Except that it is kind of cool that they glow under a black light. But even that kind of creeps me out. 

Anyway, I stocked up on sticky traps and loaded up all sides of our garage with them. I have a love/hate relationship with these traps. Every time it catches one I think, Yes! it caught the nasty little bugger. But then I think, Sick! Why are they even in our garage in the first place?!  I'm glad that the traps do their job so well but it grosses me out every time it catches a scorpion. 

Tis' the life of living in Arizona.