The Zoo

A few weeks ago I decided to take Mara and Jackson to do something fun before I had to go back to work.

So the first thing we did was ......

the ZOO

Mara was our tour guide
she was so excited to be able to sit on the "talking Elephant" Mara took this picture of the baby giraffe
Mara took this picture - I wanted a picture of her with the gorilla, but she wouldn't get near it!!
Mara had just yelled "look mom I am on a spider coming to get you"
this is Mara being bounced to the sky by this little brat of a kid....

this is a teeter todder, Mara had just gotten on it and asked me to come help her, I was just grabbing the baby to go over there and help make her go up and down. when this kid ran up and jumped on the center of it, I thought okay he will do it. well he was going back and forth so violently that Mara was being bounced EVERYWHERE!!! she started to scream because she was getting hurt. I ran over there and pulled her off while it was still moving. he wouldn't stop when she had started to cry/ scream. I had said something to him as to the effect of " why didn't you stop" his response was

"she shouldn't have been on here, then!!" dumb kid!!!

** Mara doesn't cry very often when she gets hurt, so when she does she is either really tired or it really hurt**

then a few minutes later his brother pushed Mara out of the way on the steps up the the slide.

Some kids have no manners!! shame on their parents ( their dad was there watching it, and did nothing)

We left the playground right after the second incident.
we then went to ride the train.



sorry it was sorta hard to take a picture of all of us.

sorry I forgot to download all of the zoo pictures, of course the ones of Mara and Jackson together! I will add them later.


After the zoo we went to Grandpa Bob's work to say HI!! we love Grandpa Bob:)


the other big thing we did before I went back to work was last weekend we went to "The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian"



Mara has been so excited to see "Narnia", she loved it. Although Mara fell asleep at the very end, I think she was just a little to comfy leaning on my shoulder.



The theatre was so packed, there were probably only 10 seats in the whole theater that were empty, none of them next to us. oh well we had a great time

random pictures

Random pictures of my cute little ones..

just stretching

we went on a drive to find a good camping site , mara found this swing she thought it was great
my sleeping little boy

this one Jackson, was about to spit up ALL of his lunch- on me!!!! Mara's new dress up, she has been putting this thing on daily since she got it ( three weeks now)just hanging out on his activity mat Mara found a blue candy cane - that she inhaled before I could get it away from her
on our day of fishing --mara and jonah love to go, so we ( me and Jackson) tagged along
this was taken at the West Jordan Park. Mara loves her little bike
funny story on this picture....

mara got these guys ready for their wedding, using ripped up wipes. look at the beautiful wedding dresses.

Prince Charming is quite lucky two brides, or maybe he is not so lucky:)

My Mothers Day Suprise!!!

First off I am so blessed to have my two sweet babies, and I have a husband that I completely love and admire.

I am so lucky to have Jackson and Mara- I am greatful for this everyday!!

( Jackson is looking at Jonah like whatever dad!!)

I recieve a Mother's Day present this year.



This is the first year I recieved a present for Mother's Day ( well from someone else besides myself)



2004- I bought myself a rocking chair - that I repainted in preperations for my little Mara to be born

2005- flowers for my yard ( just a little late) Audrey and I went on a plant shopping spree -- I needed to finally do my yard- we were going to sell the house

2006-I bought myself something I can't remember- I think it was clothes or something

2007- a yard/beach canopy

2008-

okay here is my present............................
Jonah bought me a new wedding ring, since I lost my ring in October. It looks very close to my mom's wedding ring that Annie has now.

Spring Program

Friday May 16th was Mara's Class Spring Program. She did a great job ( a little distracted though)

Jonah and I were both able to be there, this was Jonahs first program that he was able to attend.

see below......

here are some of her FRIENDS

Sanjena
Carmen
Allie and Brooke

Mara's teachers Miss Andrea and Miss Missy

Back to Work

Today I came back to work:( dang!!

I love my job and I love where I work, but I definately would like to be able to be home with my babies more.

It was very nice to be home, I thought that we ( Jonah and I) would get sick of each other but we didn't. I missed him today:) I missed my Baby boy and Mara too!!!