Gila Valley Temple Open House

At 2pm today I realized that it was half day for Beth. (She got out at 1:30). Then I decided to get in the car and drive my three kids to Safford, AZ for the temple open house going on this week. Mapquest sucks. It said it would take 2 hours 27 mins to get there. It obviously did not factor in three potty stops (one of which was in the dirt on the side of the road - in dresses!), gas, and a pizza from little ceasars on the way. Oh, and Sophia screaming that her tummy hurt the whole way. (I think she has a bug. Yuck. Triple yuck to the Circle K in Superior. I will NEVER go there again. - The rocks on the side of the road were WAY cleaner.) So we just got home at 10 pm. I'm praying they'll sleep in until 6:30 tomorrow. Who am I kidding?
Upside was that my kids are thinking lots about the temple. I can't believe that I was a teenager before I ever got to go in a temple. And Sophia at 2 has been inside 2 open houses. Super cool. The only really odd question I got out of them was when Kate wanted to know if you go into the temple with your baby after you have, or while you're having it. Nope, no delivery rooms on the temple tour...

The final bonus is that since we booked our tickets to Boston in November to visit Lynz, I'm thinking we might be able to really do the Macy's Day Parade. We're just building stamina here, people. :)

Busy Busy - We're not even in May!

So we've been plenty busy around here. Our neighbors has a garage sale and the girls decided to sell my hard earned sugar cookies.
The girls saw the butterflies at the Botanical Gardens. Kate went around with the guide book identifying each one. She was a SERIOUS butterfly hunter. Also, Dave wore his gardening hat. $2 from a walmart - and he's making such a fashion statement! I should be grateful that he doesn't want to die from skin cancer. :)





Oh, and Sophia has decided that she is the family photographer. She only took 300 pictures since my last download of pics. Such a cutie. Here is one of her pieces. She takes a lot of shots of the ground. Oh, and people's bottoms. I really didn't want to know what mine looked like from her angle...


Zoey met Cobra Bubbles. Cobra charges. Zoeys runs away. Pretty awesome nature show in our own back yard.
The girls chose and decorated their own flip flops. I could do art projects all day long around here with these three.
Here's Kate and her friend Edynne at the zoo. Preschool fields trips make the zoo fun - and affordable. :)




Kate performed in her "Video Killed the Radio Star" dance performance. She was a ROCKSTAR! Dave contributed some mad dancing genes to this one. Makes me feel coordinated just by association. :) I will say, I got to contribute the tutu. I was SO grateful Kate is less picky than I was as a kid. Anything my mom ever sewed for me I would cry about and say it didn't fit. Kate didn't care about fit here - she just loved that it was PINK.