Anna Kate and I had a blast on her spring kindergarten field trip with her friends!

Legoland is amazing!

 

Anna Kate loved driving the bumper cars!

Our city made out of legos!

Welcome to the lodge!

 

Holding the reunion tower in the palm of her hand!  She thought that was such a fun idea!

I love her little expression in this picture.  Peek-a-boo!  We were in this room all by ourselves and had so much fun hanging out together!

 

Malia, Anna Kate, and Dirk!

 

After lunch, we spent the afternoon in the aquarium.  It was equally impressive!

 

Beware of the sharks!

Anna Kate and Malia being silly, as usual!

 

Fun sea life!

 

  

This was my favorite field trip memory ever!  Anna Kate has been fascinated with sharks for a while now.  She always watches science documentaries about sharks on her iPad.  She was staring this shark down.  He swam right up to her and she jumped up and slapped the glass where he was as hard as she could.  Then she turned around and said, “I slapped a shark!”  I started busting out laughing and said, “Yes you did!”  She is so funny!

 

The new behind the scenes area was so fun for the kids to see!

 

Anna Kate was thrilled to get to touch a star fish!

We were even lucky enough to see a shark feeding and learn all about the process of how it works, which is much more complicated and organized than I would have thought.

Each shark has a station they get fed at every time.  They all get fed at once and the employees were each positioned at a station around the tank.  The sharks know which side of the tank is their feeding station and after each time they are fed, there is a white board with their names, and they keep track of how much each shark gets.  It was very cool to learn about.

Such a fun field trip date with Anna Kate!

  

 

 

  

From our family to yours, we hope you have a joy-filled day celebrating the moms in your life!  My heart overflows with love for these precious girls who made me a mom!

 

2015 (4, 6, 8) & 2013 (Ages 2, 4, 6)

 

Here are my 6 year old cuties!  My hair color in both pictures is natural but crazy that it has darkened so much!

 

This is one of the few dresses that I will be keeping!  Here are our precious 4 year olds! 

Mike and I decided to take the girls to the park for some fresh air a few weekends ago.  The weather was gorgeous, and it felt so good to be outside and play in the sun.  We are so excited spring is finally here and summer is on its way! 

 

It was such a beautiful afternoon to explore the great outdoors!

 

Such a beautiful monarch!

We had fun feeding the turtles our left-over sandwiches.  There were so many out today, and they snapped the bread right up!

 

I was scared this plant was poison ivy after I noticed one of the girls brushed past it with their legs, but no one started itching, so I guess it wasn’t poison ivy after all. 

The girls said the creek looked like Willie Wonka’s chocolate river today.  Sure would be fun if it was!

 

This girl loves her cat hat!

 

My parents dog, Jax, stayed with us for the past two weeks while my parents were on a cruise.  We love him so much!  He’s such a good dog.  I think we said that 1,000 times while he was here because it is so very true.

 

I love and admire Rose’s sense of adventure and “I can” attitude about most things in her little life.  She motivates me to push my limits and hang in there! 

Happy Spring!

You are so truly beautiful, inside and out, Noelle!  Happy birthday, princess BAE!