San Diego Zoo!

Today we went to the Zoo!!! I love the Zoo, but mostly I love going places and having adventures. My sister-in-law home schools her kids so they got a great deal on tickets and invited us to come along with them and some other home schoolers. Yay! The morning started out rocky.... first we had to leave at 7:30 in order to meet everyone there at 9:30am no problem...wrong...I got everything ready the night before that way the girls would just have to eat breakfast and go:

6:30am: I wake up shower (Ky helps load things in car)
7:00am: Wake up the girls/ dress/ feed
7:20am: Brush Kylie's hair while she eats, Kylie spills cereal all over clothes, Kylie starts crying, I stop brushing Kylie's hair, Kylie changes clothes, Kylie goes potty, Kylie gets a bow in her hair instead of two french braids (bow never makes it to the zoo.)
7:35am: Running down the stairs with girls in tow calmly frantically telling Kylie to hurry, Kylie walking as slow as possible.
7:43am: Pull out of parking spot
7:46am: Turn back for forgotten sandwiches, Park car sprint up stairs grab food sprint back down stairs.
7:51am: Start trip for real.
8:20am: Hear barfing noise from back seat, Kylie notifies me that Maddie has gross stuff everywhere, I begin to smell the throw up, think about whether or not I should keep driving or stop, of course I stop.
8:25am: Pull off on the side of the road, clean throw up off Mads, put gross clothes and blanket (I decided to give her on the way there) in trash bag, put clean clothes on Mads, clean out the huge chunks from car seat.
8:45am: Continue on our way to the Zoo, call Bonnie to let her know we will be late.
10:05am: Park at Zoo.
10:11am: Receive call from Bonnie telling us that we all have to go in together as a group, the whole group had to wait for us to get there.
10:20am: Everyone is at the Zoo!!! And we had a great time...thank goodness...

That was kind of long I don't blame you if you skipped right to the pictures.

I love her fake smile.

They are under a giant statue of an elephant.

Again refusing to look at camera.

I love this one. Isn't he cute.

I feel like doing this sometimes. Kick back and munch on a snack.

Kylie said her favorite things were the sheep and the monkeys haha.

At the petting zoo.

Maddie LOVED the petting zoo. Don't worry I washed her feet afterwards.

Dinner after the zoo. Pancakes. Look closely at her onesie.

We were all talking and then looked over at Mads and saw her stuffing pancake inside her onesie. I think the heat was a little too much for her.

Prom 2012

Serious

Not so serious.

Trying...

Perfect.

Kyle was a chaperon at Prom this year. I just wanted to take a picture of him for the big night haha. He took it a little overboard.

15 Months

In California they have you take the kids in at 15 months (they like to be different). I thought I would just throw in Maddie's stats. Weight: 18.2  Height: 29 inches The face above was pretty much the face she had at the doctors. She finally has her second tooth coming in which is pretty much perpendicular to her other tooth. A little little little bit of hair coming in. Right now she looks like a cute hillbilly.

Easter Fun!

Saturday before Easter we went to Bonnie's to do egg hunt, BBQ, etc. here are some pics.

I made these sock bunnies for the girl's from this tutorial. Except I bought my socks at the dollar store.

Easter dresses from grandma.

Mom & Dad

For Spring break my mom and dad came for a visit. I actually did not take many pictures because we were having too much fun. It went by way fast, but we enjoyed them while we could. We were able to go to LA a couple of days and spend time with my mom's family, relax, have dinner with Ky's parents, watch some movies, go to Redland's market night, took them to Oak Glen Apple Orchards, the turtle park (Kylie's favorite...there are no real turtles...just one little statue), and talked. Here are like the two pictures I took.

Hiking!

So we splurged with our state tax return and bought a backpack carrier. Totally worth it! We went on a family hike this past Friday and had so much fun. We got out later than we wanted to so Kylie got to ride in the pack. Usually she will be walking and Mads will get the sweet ride. We decided to start a new family tradition and go on a weekly hike. (We'll see what happens with that...) I loveeeeeeeeee hiking, backpacking etc. and have not done much of it since I got married. We all loved it. A friend told me about a fire road/trail in Yucaipa....it is awesome. It took us about three minutes to get to the trail head from where we live. Here are just a few of the pics we took.