February Photo Dump

I know I did a January photo dump but I need to do a February one too in order to catch up on the past couple of months! So here we go again! 

Pretty sure I've mentioned already how awesome the weather is during the winter months is. I love it. That means we can go to the park, color chalk out on the driveway, and go on walks all the time, whenever we want, all winter long! Yay!

Kimbri tracing her foot.

"Rufio" the bull. We go on walks to see him often.

Garrett, Pearl, and Kimbri on our way to Garrett's well
child check-up.

These awesome discs you can build with that we got at DI.

I had just finished Garrett's bath when Kimbri decided she
wanted a bath too so she hopped on in.

Daddy and son taking an afternoon snooze

Wild crazy hair after nap time!

Look at those cute chubby cheeks!

Kimbri chillin' in the rocking chair, laying on Garrett's stuffed animal dog, with a tutu on, leg propped up and enjoying a nice cold sippy cup full of milk. That is the life.

Playing kitchen with her tutu on. She loves getting all dressed up in her tutus!

This picture of Garrett in the swing makes me laugh so hard! He loves swinging and was eating a cracker at the same time, or rather just holding the cracker part way in his mouth while having the time of his life swinging! 

I love those big brown eyes of his!

Garrett loves to be sitting all the way up when in the stroller so he can look out and see what's going on around him.

Our back porch swing is a favorite

Pearl and Kimbri playing dress up. They ran into the
front room and asked me to take a picture :)

Another walk to see Rufio the bull :)

I made blueberry muffins one morning and Kimbri ate probably 5 of them. But she ate the middle out and then wouldn't eat the outer shell part. Maybe they were a little too done for her? I don't know but it was funny. And she LOVES blueberry muffins! 

February was a great month in Arizona! Looking forward to March when the POOLS open! I still can't believe we can go swimming in March. Yay!!

Zoo ~ Part 1 & 2

The Zoo: Part 1

This past Monday my friend Tara and her daughter, Pearl went to the Phoenix Zoo with us. The husbands were in school so we decided to make a trip to the zoo with the kids! It was really fun.  

Kimbri kept turning around every time the animals would walk away,
and ask with a very sad expression, "Where's he going?!" 

We had a ton of fun seeing half of the Zoo that day. We saw the zebras, tigers, giraffes, monkeys, and countless other animals. Somewhere in all of our zoo fun Garrett dropped his sippy cup. How did I not realize a big green sippy cup fell out of the stroller, probably making a big thud? I don't know. But we retraced our trail part way and then checked lost-and-found on our way out and nothing. I left my phone number and name in case they found it and we went on our way home.

About halfway home I got a call saying our green sippy cup was turned in! We decided not to turn around since the kids were so tired by that point and were ready for naps. It would've added like 30 minutes onto the drive! So I decided to just go pick it up the next day... which brings us to....

The Zoo: Part 2

We only did maybe half of the zoo the day before so we decided to check out the other half (and we still didn't get to everything... it's a huge Zoo!). 

They have an amazing children's section of the zoo and we had a blast!! It seriously was SO fun.

Apparently Kimbri decided she want to sit and watch the ducks for a little while... 

She called this the "Ariel Shell" like on the movie
"The Little Mermaid" - she wouldn't sit still for a pic.

Kimbri being a turtle

We called him Pumba

And this was Simba

This slide was a little too steep and fast... Kimbri came
flying out and fell down right after I took this picture

They have a little petting farm where you can go in and brush the goats' hair. Kimbri was not shy at all, going from goat to goat, brushing their hair. She loved it!

In the above picture, Garrett was looking up, so intrigued by what is in the picture below. It was spinning around and around and he was totally in a trance by it.

So we went to the Zoo twice in two days... it was great! 

Gilbert Temple

The Gilbert Temple is beautiful! I'm so excited for it to open so soon! The dedication is this Sunday so it's coming up fast. We had the opportunity to take some friends to the open house. It was a really cool experience to take some non-member friends through the temple and answer all the questions they had. 

On another occasion Rick went and volunteered at the open house with the Elders Quorum and took these pictures:

Valentines Day

On Valentines Day we got heart-shaped pizzas from Papa Murphy's! It was delicious. And the kids of course loved it too. We had a fun little night as a family at home and then Rick and I went out on a date the next night, when we could actually get a babysitter. We went to Texas Roadhouse. It was SO yummy. Why have we not gone there sooner? It was always one of those places that we had heard about and heard great things about but never had tried it. I can now say it is so yummy. Did I mention yet that it is yummy?? Haha :)

And Rick got me some beautiful flowers. I should have taken a picture. He also ordered the Frozen piano music for me! The Frozen piano music is fantastic!