Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Cheese State and Hair cuts!

We got to spend almost 2 weeks in Wisconsin with my mom n dad, when i say we i mean Wil, Coop n I. We went up there... over there...?... to see my lil bro jake off on his mission!
There was a big party after church after jake's "farewell" They dont usually do big farewells anymore for missionaries but in their ward which is really really small they wanted to make a big deal of it for their young men, so they had my parents talk and jake talk and then the primary kids sang I hope they call me on a mission (which my little Wil could sing along to) Jake teaches the young boys of the ward, there is one class for the like 7-12 year olds i think, mom correct me if im wrong, but those kids really looked up to jake and they were all up there singing, all the kids and jake, Wil wanders up there by my mom who was playing the piano, its a really small building, then jake walks over while singing and grabs Wil and they all sing i hope they call me on a mission, Thats when i lost it. My lil bro all grown up and leaving standin up there in his suit and holding my lil one singin that song. All i could see is doing that one day with Wil..... oh man there i go again, hormones are mean.... Aaaaanyway moving on :)

We took jake to the airport in madison and said adios!

After Jake left we stayed a few extra days to enjoy the sites of Wisconsin Dells and so that we could see my other brother Todd who was headed home during break from BYUI, the next time i see him will be the weekend he is getting married!! but we went to the most awesomest wildlife park in the dells and got to feed all sorts of awesome animals!! the giraffes were by far the coolest!!! you walked up a few flights of stairs to the deck and were right by their heads!!! and seriously their tongues were the size of an arm it was awesome

I have lots more pictures but dont want to make this post too long, we got to feed a little zebra, a baby yak, a camel, a llama.... lots more that i dont remember. And before we went through the park they had a wildlife show where we got to pet a huge turtle, a porcupine, a monkey, a skunk, a fox, and they brought a baby tiger out on the stage! it was really really cool
When we got home i finally broke down and cut Coop's hair.... it was really hard, hes getting too big too fast lol, but it was really scraggily, i didnt realize how bad it was until it was all gone, he looks alot better, poor kid lol and it was only long right on top of his head and on both sides above his ears cuz it all fell out in the back.... it really was time, and now hes a big boy!

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Crazy summer!


This summer is going to fly by faster than i know what to do! My lil sis has been here for the last week and we had a blast! my parents came up for the 4th of july weekend and left her here for a week longer, she is headed home tomorrow morning with my bro jake's girlfriend.

We had sooooo much fun with her here, my kids love her, she fits right in with them! yesterday we went to potter park zoo and saw all the animals and ran around till we were too tired to stand!
We petted (if thats a word, i dont think it is ) lots of smelly animals!

Cooper the lion!! RRRaaaawwwrrrrrr!

Wil conquered his fear of slides!!! We couldnt get him to go home!
he has always been to scaredy to go on slides, even with me, he just crys and we go anyways. but yesterday he got really brave

Smushy Coopy face, love love love it!

Wednesday me n the kiddos are headed up to wisconsin to see my lil bro jake off for 2 years! he is heading to arizona to serve a mission for the church and is totally excited and ridiculously nervous. I'm nervous for the 8 hour drive with my 2 babies by myself. we will be headed home on the 24th then nick is headed to texas on the 25th for the weekend, and then its august already! i'm going to be really sad and lonely for my hubbs but hopefully it will go real fast for us.