Category Archives: cousins

AZ Natural Museum

"I've been waiting for this my whole life." This is what Kaylee told me LOTS when I informed her we were going to the museum to see dinosaur bones. She was beyond excited. One of her big life dilemmas is trying to decide if she should be a archeologist or paleontologists. Such problems my five year old has. Needless to say she was in heaven.

 

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We missed the four cousins who had school. Boo.

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It was pretty neat getting to see the bones of some of Kaylee's favorite dinosaurs. Regan was pretty excited about it too.

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Kaylee had a near accident because she was so wrapped up in working the dino bone pit. They had these brushes for the lids to use like paleontologists do. She LOVED it. so much.

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Regan got thoroughly soaked panning for gold. Good thing I had spare cloths for him.

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Shannon was behind me striking poses for the children to mimic. I love how these group shots came out. The kids are so funny.

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Post outfit change running out of the "scary" mine tunnel.

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Zombied out to the dino documentary. 

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Dino documentary stated talking about dino poop. Faces are priceless.

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I think Shannon and I were more excited about the meteorite. We watched a planetarium movie about meteorites the last time we were at the science center.

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Regan was DONE (nap time), but perked up to check out the orange rocks. "WOW. Orange ones Mom!"

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She kills me. In a delightful always cracking me up kind of way.

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Regan’s 4th Birthday Party

Regan's birthday landed on a Saturday this year. So we had family and friends over for a Batman/super hero party Saturday morning. It was so much fun having LOTS of children running around, and Regan had a blast.

Regan has been in a "I'm only going to wear jammies today." phase for a monthish now. We got some really cute super hero hand me downs that he is LOVING right now, and insisted on wearing all day long. He wore these jamies for 36ish hours before I peeled them off.

 

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I love how his pinata turned out. I made it EXTRA tough so that ALL 13 kiddos could have a wack at it.

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Regan picked out his candle this year.

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I made this pin  the bat on Batman game.  Black and white engineer blueprint from Staple, and then colored it in myself at home.

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I used the pinata as the table center piece until it was smashing time.

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We played musical squares. I didn't have enough chairs, but had plenty of party napkins.

 

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Our little stud.

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"I'm FOUR!"

 

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For dinner we took him out to eat. He LOVES the french fries at Red Robin. LOVES.

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He said he had a great day. Can't ask for anything more than that!

veterans day 2013

Science Center fun. Shannon and I got a sweet deal on season passes so we have SEVERAL trips planned out already for the Science Center. Today we got to take the kiddos to the Imaginate exhibit. SO AWESOME! My camera was having some issues that I cursed and blamed Jon for for several hours of photo taking, and trying to figure it out (He used the camera last…).

Turns out the camera issues were NOT his fault. Sorry babe. And also thanks for spending an hourish figuring out and fixing the issue. So today's photo are kinda crappy, and also WAY out of order, but I am far too lazy to go  fix the order. Enjoy anyway.

 

 

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Regan making a stop motion video.

 

 

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Group photos taken right before we headed home.

 

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Just before we left to go have so much fun.

 

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Planetarium. 

 

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Regan did bot last an hour in the Planetarium. So he and I ducked outside and had some water fun while everyone else finished up.

 

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Lunch time!

 

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Favorite thing in the Imaginate Exhibit was this wind tunnel. We had to pry most of the kiddos away to other things.

 

 

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Kaylee and Regan at the "Build a flying thing for the wind tunnel" station.

 

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Regan saw some boys making swords, and demanded that he make one too. It didn't fly so well, but he was thrilled with it.

 

 

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Kaylee's "Silly Hat" flew beautifully.

 

 

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Such fun! I loved not feeling like we had to see and do everything in this trip, and the kiddos were okay with leaving because they know we are going back. LOTS. Good times people. Good times.