Food & Fun!

On Mothers Day we went to my parents house for dinner! For dessert we had cherry pie & pink cake made by Cassie! Yummy!! :)

Elena & Rachel (cousin) loved the dessert! Here comes the vacume, moocher, cleaning crew, whatever you call a child who will eat anything anytime, crawled up for the leftovers!
Zander begins with the spoon to show even though he's on top of the table, at least he has some manners!
The spoon was too hard & slow though...
"I can't believe my mom is letting me do this"

This is how it went!

Luckily Zander is happy in the swing too so he stays out of trouble! In fact he's pretty much happy no matter where he is- except sitting in church!

Rejuvenating Mothers Day Weekend!

Motherhood is great & has many rewards! Motherhood is also very difficult & tiring! Cassie, my wonderful Sister-in-law & I decided it was time for us to have a couple nights away to rejuvenate ourselves! We found an inexpesive hotel with great amenities- full breakfast, pool, hottub, comfortable beds, quiet, no children or husbands... Sorry guys but we all need vacations!We were pretty giddy even though we were only 15 minutes away from home, but having a hotel room to ourselves, yummy food to eat & chick flicks...Who wouldn't be excited!

After sleeping in till 9:30 we ate a free waffle & sausage breakfast, we went swimming then casually got ourselves ready for the day. We then went & helped Megan pack & organize for her move to Alaska in 3 weeks. After that hard work we plus Megan & her friend Carri, who also needed a night off went to Tuscanos. It's a fun & tasty Brazillian style restaraunt!

We also celebrated Megan's birthday-the waiter announced to the whole restaraunt how old she was then had her stand on a chair & shake a tamborine- she obviously didn't mind!The fun didn't stop there! We went to the movie "17 Again" but before we ran into some die hard "Trekies". The movie was pretty funny & had a good theme but did have a couple parts at the beginning that didn't need to be in there.

After the movie & being gone from our families for 1-1/2 days it was time to go home. Or was it?... After dropping Megan & Carri off, Cassie & I grabbed a steamed milk then went back to her house & watched one more chick flick! (Mike had to go somewhere & fix something and the kids were in bed so it was still a girls night!)

We had a great time & felt ready to be happy moms & wives again!

Thanks Cassie & Meg for partying with me & being such great friends/sisters!

Trip to the ZOO!

Gabe's kindergarten class all did reports on animals in the Boise Zoo! Gabe did the Amur Tiger- which was definately the coolest! He can tell you all about it. We looked up all the information then printed away. Gabe told me what to say, then he cut, colored, & glued! His teacher hung all the posters on the wall for everyone to see!

Then his class had a field trip to the zoo so Elena, Zander, Katie (cousin), & I went along for the ride!
They loved playing on the animal statues!

Zander wasn't allowed out of his stroller-poor kid- he still had fun though at least he didn't fuss or anything! The penguins were so fun to watch

We all took a ride on the carousel to finish the fun day!