More Dress Ups

I feel like I post a lot of random dress up pictures.... and it's probably because Kimbri LOVES to dress up. She is always asking if she can get her dress ups out. Then she puts on the whole sha-bang and twirls and dances around the house and asks me to take pictures of her. Haha! So here you go. Some dress up photos of the one and only, Kimbri Stone! 

One of our awesome babysitters, Emily, gave Kimbri the sparkly blue dress in the picture below. Her mom is a dance teacher and Emily said it was one of the old extra costumes from the studio. Kimbri is in love with it!! And the bottom tutu part flips up when she twirls and Kimbri loves that about it. 

Fireman Kimbri

Kimbri got all dressed up one afternoon and came and took a bow in front of me and said, "Your majesty." Bahaha! It was so funny. I guess I'm the queen of our castle :) And then out walked Garrett in a red tutu. I guess we really do need to get some boy dress ups!

Pedal Boat Date

While Olivia was in town, she offered to babysit one night so Rick and I could go on a date. A huge THANK YOU to Olivia!!! It was so fun! We went to Tempe Town Lake and rented a pedal boat for an hour and pedaled around the lake. It was kind of breezy which made it hard to pedal against the wind but it was really fun and relaxing to be out on a lake and just be able to chat with one another without interruptions. And it was a gorgeous evening and great weather that afternoon/evening too!

Yes, my hair was all in my face because of the wind. Haha.

Pool Day Gone Wrong

With the weather warming up we have been going to the pool pretty often. We have a system. Eat lunch, put Garrett down for a nap and Kimbri has "quiet time" and when Garrett wakes up, we go to the pool. It's a good system. But one day it failed. Garrett had just woken up so we gathered our swimming stuff, packed floaties, swim diapers, sunscreen, water toys, etc... You name it. We even packed soap/shampoo stuff so I could just give the kids a shower in the family bathroom so we wouldn't have to do baths when we got home. 

Anyway, needless to say, we were prepared that day and everyone was excited and we headed to the YMCA to go swimming. The instant we walked in to the YMCA the front desk workers, seeing that we had towels and a bunch of swimming stuff, told us that the pool was closed. What?! But this was routine. We come after nap all. the. time! I guess they must've changed their hours without me knowing but the kiddos were devastated. I had talked up going to the pool with them probably a little too much....

It was HARD getting them to turn around and walk back out to the car. They just didn't understand why. And I didn't either. I mean, come on. Closing the pool on a Friday afternoon when all the kids are out of school and want to start out the weekend at the pool?! Ugh... So I told them that since the pool was closed I'd take them to get an ice cream cone. 

Worked like a charm. 

They loved it! 

And they were happy again. 

And so was I :)

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!!