our petting zoo and the actual zoo

i have been thinking lately with all the animals we have been seeing at our little apartment complex that i should open a petting zoo. seriously!

here is the new addition.

we have also seen ducks, geese, bunnies, all types of birds, dogs, cats, i think brett called it a blue herron and now a squirrel. the girls are loving it.

we also went to the indianapolis zoo. thanks megan.

mom-we did go in the aquarium where the dophins swim all around. we will have to go when you come to visit!

it was really fun and the girls and kale loved to see all the animals.

we went to the elephant show and you could "pet" the elephants if you wanted to.

olivia was all over that but mallory was...ah a little shy.

here is the elephant. he was 41 years old. who knew they could get that old??
here is brave liv petting the elephant.

soo cool.

homemade raspberry ice cream!

YUM!

we have had an ice cream maker for a while but haven't really made any ice cream yet. our friends gave us the idea to make raspberry ice cream. so we thought we would try it.

umm, hello. i don't think i will ever store bought ice cream again.

it was so good.

hottie hubby who made the ice cream for us.

look out hell's kitchen, here brett comes.soooo good. the girls loved it too.

thanks brett.
i love summer!

a little late...

but better late then never??

kale is 4 months old, on the 29th of may.

he is 15 lbs 15 oz

almost 26 inches

and totally adorabledoesn't he look like such a little man??

i love this shirt.the doctor said we could start feeding him "real" food, if that is what you want to call rice cereal. he seems to be hungry. he will watch you eat and is very interested in dinner time and what is going on. so, here is the first feeding. we started out in the little chair sitting up to the table, but he was too wobblely so he got transferred to the baby chair. this is the after. yeah, that's right...no real clean up because

HE ATE IT ALL!

HE LOVES THE MUSH!

WEIRD.

the girls both HATED mush.

i guess he was hungry.

he is yet to roll over again but loves to be in on all the action.
he will watch the girls running around and shake and want to run with them.
he already loves being outside-what a boy.
he is talking up a storm, loves to be kissed by his momma and thinks his sisters are hilarious!
his favorite thing to do is put everything in his mouth, especially his blanket!
(oh and don't mind the pink bib...i don't know where the blue ones i have are!)

minnesota

a.k.a. one million pictures.

again.

here is my hot hubby driving us to minnesota.

me. so excited to see family and friends.the girlies. they both got to sit in the back!

mallory felt like such a big girl.cute kale. what is sweet face!sleeping beauties.a fabulous photo to show to any boy who wants to date her.

we are gathering ammo already.

we got to stay with our favorite friends, allison and dave and their two kids, adam and emily.

these kids LOVE eachother. adam and emily have made several appearances on this blog.

i use to watch the kids while allison worked and they are the girls best friends.

it was so cute to see them get to know eachother again. of course, right when we got there the party begun. we had pizza and another family, the jacksona came over. allison and dave have an awesome house with a great backyard, so the girls where in heaven. kids and grown ups playing and eating outside.adam with the chex mix we couldn't get enough of. allison i still need the recipe!!more ammo.the little girls at the park. we went back to the "mom's group" park we use to ALWAYS go to. it was so fun and nice to get out and play. we still love that park.
so cute. love the glasses.

liv and adam. i don't think they fought once!

i just love that face.

thanks again to the pattberg's for finishing the basement just for us! lol. it was so nice to see you again and you were the best hostess/host. thanks for everything! we miss you already.

we also got to stay a couple days with uncle greg. he was also a fabulous host and we had the best time with him. mallory is still asking where uncle greg is!

mallory had greg read to her every spare moment. thanks greg.

we got to see the ehlerts too. after a fabulous sunday dinner, the kids (including brett) went out to jump on the tramp and play. xander ended up pulling out a little pool, turning on the hose and filling up the pool. he is such a boy. liv and mal were loving it, needless to say they got all wet and then brett threw them in the pool. him and joey even ended up in the little pool. it was very entertaining to watch!

we had a great time in minneapolis and want to go back already. it was so surreal for me to be there. i felt so at home in wendy's house, our old neighborhood and old ward that i thought our life in indy might just be a dream. i thought we could just go back to our place in coon rapids and life would be normal. not so...but it felt like we never left. we also got to go our old ward and a ward party. it was so nice to see everyone and get caught up on all the new happenings. minneapolis is definitely a place we would move back to. thanks again to allison and dave and greg for letting us stay with them. we had a GREAT time.

to end some sweet pictures of our babies.