A Trip To The Zoo

I know what you must be thinking. This picture is blurry. Oh, but you are wrong. You see, this is how we saw the zoo on Wednesday. Preston's Kindergarten class took a trip to the zoo last week. I voluteered to be a chaparone. As soon as we arrived, his teacher told us to break into groups and meet back at 1:00pm. Sounds easy enough. So Preston and 8 of his bestest friends wanted to see the zoo together. Nine boys and free pavement. We RAN through the zoo. What takes an average zoo visitor all day took our group about 30 minutes to see. The moms just laughed. I was just happy to be out of the house. The weather was nice. The air was fresh. Well, as fresh as zoo air can be.

Preston's bestest friends. Me thinks the teacher is not paid nearly enough!!!

One sack lunch and a train ride later, it was time to go. We had fun together. We saw some pretty cool things, even if it was at light-speed!

I'm Still Out Here Y'all

Hello to my fans out there. There are actually more than one of you that miss me. I'm touched, really. Turns out being a SAHM is pretty demanding. Not only did we ditch the childcare, but my trusty housecleaners were also let go. I know what you are thinking. Spoiled rotten. But don't worry, I have a color-coded schedule for housekeeping. I just miss Fridays - coming home to a house that is 100% clean is really nice. Now just parts of it are clean at any given time. But that's okay.

When we last spoke, it was snowing and I had 2 sick kids and a sore throat. That sore throat turned in to strep. For those keeping score, that's 3 rounds of strep since November. One more and I get my tonsils out! Good times. Since then, Bergen got sick one more time, we had Easter celebration on Palm Sunday, we went skiing and I went on a field trip to the zoo with Preston.

Skiing was super fun. During Preston's spring break we were off to Crested Butte with our good friends and their 2 kids. Their parents own a house right near the mountain. This house was totally tricked out. I kept waiting for MTV to show up to do an episode of Cribs. We felt so lucky! Preston rocked his ski lessons. He and his buddy Jack went for 2 days. Let's just say, what Preston lacks in basketball, he makes up for on the mountain. He did so good!! Joe had a hard time keeping up with him!

On Sunday we went to ride snow mobiles. I big puffy heart snowmobiling! It's so fun and the kids had a blast. We rode to a little play area and were able to do some donuts and catch some air. Then we rode up the mountian, had a snow ball fight, made some yellow snow (but not me!) and rode back down. It was a 3-hour tour. Super fun.

Big ups to the Jeff, Ashley, Jack and Eva for letting us crash their spring break trip. They are awesome to travel with - the boys got along really well and Eva had TV Joe wrapped around her little finger.

See? We get snow!

Under all that snow are my pansies. We are getting a Texas-sized blizzare right now. Normally, this would thrill me, but I have 2 sick kids and my throat is on fire. Good times. I'm watching the news. The non-stop news, that is. They are breaking in on Oprah. Women all over the metroplex are pissed. Every shot has kids getting out of school without coats on, wearing shorts. I love Texas. Don't worry kids...it will be 80 degrees next week.