You're going to the ZOO ZOO ZOO, can we come TOO TOO TOO?

We took our annual trip to the Hogel zoo last week, but this year with our growing family we decided to become members and get a year pass. If we go just one more time in the next year it will pay for itself, plus we might want to go back and see that baby elephant next month! So, if you're headed up there let us know, we'd like to come too! AND we can bring a guest in FREE with our new pass so it might be worth it for you to invite us along! Amelia, Kylee & Sydnie

Amelia playing African music to soothe the Elephants soul...
Almost the whole group shot.

Amelia turns SEVEN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my biggest helper Amelia Elizabeth. Yesterday she had a wonderful birthday, I wish that I had the pictures to prove it! I got a new camera that I haven't taken the time to figure it out and the pictures really... suck. Sorry Milly.

Amelia had a bug party! Amelia is a real party planner so this was all her doing, she made the cutest invitations with glitter leaves and bugs. She made a spider web on the deck for the kids to find their goody bags, they played cocoon and wrapped kids up in toiletpaper, made bug magnets and pom pom worms and ate mud cups with smashed oreos, chocolate pudding and gummy worms, YUMMY!

At our house the birthday kid gets to plan the whole day, so after Amelias birthday party we went to Carls Jr for lunch and to the dinosaur museum for a little entertainment.

Amelia wanted her Grandparents and Auntie Brookie over for dinner last night. She planned the menu-- corn on the cob, watermellon, cheetoes and KFC chicken. We finished off her day with the bug cake she decorated and her favorite ice cream, then she was off to sleepover with Grandma Dudley.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMELIA!

We love you so much!

Birthday Babe!

No more babies for me... Ainsley is turning ONE! I love you my little Birdie!

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY AINSLEY MAY!!!

Can you be arrested for post stealing?

Today it is one month since I posted. I suck. I really have a lot to post about, but no time to do it right, therefor no motivation to do it. So, I'm going to guide you to my Lil' Sisters post on our Spring Break trip. We all went together, so you can see what we've been up to. The only difference is that we just had to skip out on the Calf Creek Falls hike due to Ainsley having a fever. Thanks Sara!
http://danielolsonfamily.blogspot.com

April fools!

Looks like an ordinary cup of juice...Actually it is a cup of orange and lemon jello with blue and red food coloring in it. The kids were surprised when they went to drink their grape juice this morning, and Ainsley was thrilled that they left their cups of jello on the table and mom was too busy dressing, combing, and gathering homework to notice that she had gotten the jello and was squishing it through her fingers. Ainsley was SO mad at me for taking the jello away! She couldn't have been more sticky, even if she had attacked a jar of grape jelly! WARNING: Lemon and Orange jello with blue and red food coloring is, so far, not coming out of the white shirt. Do not use this April fools trick in your home! Hamburgers were our after school snack. Jason just called and said he was on his way home, but he was going to stop and get a hamburger because he had missed lunch. I told him I had hamburgers here... he's going to be disappointed! I thought they were cute, but Grady cried because he didn't want any 'salad' on his.

My favorite was the sack lunch I sent to school with Amelia. It looked normal from the outside, but inside there was a can of sardines, a baggie with mushrooms, a bar of unsweetened baking chocolate, and a teeny tiny banana inside. I brought her real lunch, a happy meal, about five minutes after lunch started. When I got there the whole table of kids were all huddled around the can of sardines, they said they looked like frog skin. I shared the 'candy bar' with all of the kids on the table, and some of them actually ate it! Amelia loves mushrooms, and had taken a bite of one, but they weren't washed and she said it was a little crunchy. YUCK!

I've enjoyed laughing at the reactions of the kids, but I haven't enjoyed all of the mess I've had to clean up today! I'm not sure that it's worth the work to fool, the joke may be on me!

Hope you all had a good one!

It's in your Genes... Jeans?

My sweet sister Brookie teaches first grade at Amelia's school. Amelia is the lucky ducky who gets to stay after school and help her Auntie put stickers on papers, cut things out, and clean the floors with the little push broom... all the things first graders do when they are playing school at home. She loves it, and Brooke is a good sport to let her tag along.

My Artistic Mommy decorates Brooke's classroom door every month, just to brighten the room, and the hall. She does a fabulous job! The door is always so cute, and nobody loves it more than Amelia.

One afternoon after helping Miss Auntie Brookie in her class after school, Amelia and Brooke were leaving for the day and Amelia was staring at the newly decorated door. She told Brooke that the door was BEAUTIFUL, and she wished she could do beautiful things like Grandma. Brooke told her that one day she will do beautiful things like Grandma because it is in her genes.

Amelia just stared at Brooke, paused a moment and said,
"The only thing in my Jeans are my Panties!"

This is why the laundry isn't done!

I TRIED and TRIED to feed her the noodle soup, for 15 minutes I TRIED, then I gave in and just gave her some scrambled eggs I was making to put in the fried rice for dinner. I went downstairs to change the laundry and Ainsley decided she wanted the noodle soup! This must be the reason they have seatbelts in highchairs!