Wind in our hair

I will post about Easter here sometime. Right now though, I needed a little color and green and happiness from these pictures. It's snowing here. I know.
Monday I took the kids over to my step mom's parents house. That would be the easiest way to say that I think. I was thinking of writing my dad's-wife's-parent's, or my kid's- great grandparents in-laws. Wait, I don't think that's right. Whatev, you get what I am saying right? So many options. They have a beautiful garden, house, yard. Lots of space to run and frolic. Not to mention it was a BEAUTIFUL day!








She definintely has red in her hair, but I do think it is a little exagerated in some of these pictures. Don't get too excited mom. :)


All Ada really wanted to do was hang out with the puppies. She is very cautious of these puppies and I think she took advantage of the fact they were tied up. She could be close and look at them, with out being kissed to death.







And we come to James' new favorite place. Inside Pappy's new truck.

I said I promise!

I will get back into some more in depth posts soon. I hope. Until then, I leave you with some dancing, plastic, and kissable faces.



Ada has always LOVED music. Dancing, singing, anything. I finally somewhat captured her in her groove. And James doing what he does really well, Lego building.


Pictures like this equal love for me.

The sweets

Busy

I am busy busy these days. I am making blogging a priority, but still figuring out how to fit it all in. So while I get my shyte together, I leave you with a few pics.

LEGO KidsFest!

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The majority of James' play is spent snapping together different colored LEGOs. He makes cars, houses, construction sites, and seriously so many other things that he comes up with in his little head. I love this so much. He is using his creativity and a lot of other skills to play with these Legos. It's just fun. I love Legos.

I am SO excited to be able to take him to this years LEGO KidsFest. It's coming to our area (Twin Cities) May 20th-22nd.

Straight from the LEGO KidsFest website: "LEGO KidsFest brings all of the creative hands-on, minds-on fun of LEGO building and experiences together in one activity- and entertainment-packed family event for children of all ages and builders of all skills and interests."

There is so much to do. I am so excited to see James' reaction. And Ada's too. They have a whole DUPLO building area as well for the younger kids and I know Ada will love it. She tries so hard to play LEGOs with James and gets really mad when we won't let her. There is a whole list of some of the activities on the website. They include a model museum, activity theater, construction zones, and much more. I am excited for the retail store. James' birthday is just around the corner and that is all he is asking for is LEGOs. I am sure the retail store will have a wider variety of LEGO sets than any other store around here.

Tickets are on on sale now!


Oh, I should also add that I will be giving away 2 tickets in the next few weeks, so stay tuned for that!!

Last Wednesday

I get these ideas in my head of fun things to do with the kids. As the weather gets warmer, I conduct a list of super fun things I want to do, time passes and winter rolls around again. I really want to make it a point to actually do some of these things. I am thinking every Wednesday I am going to get out with the kids and do these things. Unlike a lot of my other plans, I hope this one actually sticks. Last Wednesday I took the kids, spur of the moment, to the Como Zoo and the fun didn't end there. This was Ada's first time at the Zoo. We saw the monkeys first. The second we walked through the door to the monkeys, Ada started yelling with joy. They had this really cool tropical exibit going on at the time. It felt so so so good, the heat and humidity. It just so happened at the time we were walking through the exibit there was a zoo lady talking about amphibians. James stood and listened with all his little heart. Ada was a little antsy at this point so I turned her around facing a tank full of tropical fish. The lady was taking about frogs. She presented this little black and blue frog. There were quite a few other kids there listening as well, she asked if we had frogs that were black and green in Minnesota. Everyone quietly answered with a no. She then asked what color the frogs in Minnesota generally were. Nothing but silence, until a couple seconds later when Ada yelled out, "GEEEN." Ha Ha! I am almost positive she wasn't really answering the question. But man alive, it was funny. The lady asked if she just said green. It was pretty funny. After our zoo venture, we ran to Target and bought some lunch stuff and went to a park and had a little picnic lunch. We had a little friend that tried to find some dropped food. The kids loved it. We then played on the swings for a bit and went on our way. I love that the ground of the playground was made out of recycled tires. So cool and cushy. After the park we headed over to my friend Tiffany's house for a little play date. Ada was right in there with the big kids playing. Ugh, my baby is becoming a not-so baby. The fun doesn't end there. While at Tiffany's I noticed something behind Ada's ear. A big a$$ wood tick. Yuck. Gross. Ick. The head was nice and stuck in. I ended up bringing her in to the urgent care to get removed. I am REALLY hoping this isn't a sign of things to come this summer. We came back home and within 15 minutes, this was James...
What a fun, eventful day we had! Love it!
I had another fun adventure planed today, but sickness in the house forced us to stay home and cuddle. Well, besides the 3 hours spent at the doctor's office and pharmacy. Ada has some sort of virus and Strep. She is miserable. :(

We be walking

These pictures don't really have anything to do with this post. Well, I guess it is about walking and there is a picture of my feet. Uh. Yeah. Last Friday was the last day of this weight loss challenge I have been doing for the last 12 weeks. It was an online based thing. Caleb did it with me and we rocked it! I think I failed to mention that I won it! Caleb wasn't officially in the challenge , he would have totally won it otherwise. Now that it's over, I am trying to think of things to keep me motivated or to make me accountable for. So, I have been thinking about walking. I have walked 10.5 miles the last 2 weeks. Only 3 walks at 3.5 miles each. I thought it would be fun, for me I guess, if I kept an on going tally of how many miles I have walked on the side of my blog. This way I am not blogging a ton about my weight loss journey... boring...but still, it's out there for people to see. Anyone want to join me?