A Touch Of Tyrell

You'd think she was a teenage boy or something. 

 We went to Washington for a week.  Just kidding. Washington came to us for a week. It was awful and cold and gloomy and depressing.  So very un-Arizona.  But with a Victoria Secret umbrella and a shopping cart in tow, we headed to the park to make the most of it.  I'm really not sure how I survived 5 years like this in Washington! It's a miracle and apparently I'm still recovering from the bad memories of too many gray days because after 5 consecutive days of cold/cloudy/overcast/foggy/rainy days I was already sinking into depression.  Of course all the Arizona natives loved it and were sad when the sun came out today.  But I couldn't have been happier!

Jake has been working SOOOO much lately. It's exhausting.  + Everett doesn't have preschool anymore + I have parental ADD, which ='s We HAVE to get out of the house or I get "stay-at-home" depression.  So Saturday afternoon I took the kids to Schnepf farms. I didn't know what we were going to do but it's free so we just went. And it's 5 minutes from our house.  Turns out the goats just had a bunch of kids :) Now, I'm not really an animal lover. At all. I know, I know.  I just don't speak "animal" and neither do my kids. We're just kind-of afraid of them for no good reason.  But we tried our best and by the time we left we actually enjoyed ourselves! LOOK! Breckie even touched it! The first time I asked her to touch one she kind-of punched it. The kids were so cute. All of them! Everett went back in a few times and each time he worked up a little bit more courage and t...

How many times must I post the same thing, right?! Well, if it's cute every time then… We went to Ikea and Breckie found herself a bed and made herself right at home :) And rocked on the rocking moose and sat in nearly every chair... And then the frozen yogurt. A trip to Ikea without getting frozen yogurt is like going to the grocery story and leaving without buying groceries.  I can't help myself but to take hundreds pictures of Breckie while she eats the frozen yogurt. She kills me!! 

I took these two to story time the other day… for the second time ever.  Ever, ever.  Everett hated the one time I took him before Breckie was born and has never participated in group activities (think: parks and rec, etc…) but now that he isn't in preschool anymore I'm desperate to get him out of the house.  So story time we went.  It was actually a huge success! He participated and listened to the stories and sang the songs and did the craft and I. WAS. SO. PROUD!! He has matured so nicely the last two years and it makes my heart so happy.  And my little Breckie was cute… just sat there and played with her name tag like the kid next to her. I swear she'd lick the bottom of her shoe is the kid next to her did!