Wild Animal Park

We went to the Wild Animal Park today! Boy was it hot, 101 degrees when we left at 3pm. This is the first time olivia fed and held a Lorikeet all by herself. We went with our friends from next door, Stacy and J.J. The lions and elephants were the only big animals we went to see. Other things we did was feeding Lorikeets, checking out the bugs, meerkats, flamingos, and the bird enclosure. Next time we'll check out the gorillas and giraffes.

School's Out...now I have to entertain them.

Now that school is out I have to come up with cheap activities to keep them occupied and active. We are so busy all school year with four different sports, Girl Scouts, and Boy Scouts that I refuse to put them into anything that has a time line (meaning a place to be at a specific time). Summer is for sleeping in and going when your darn good and ready to go. So know that I said all that....I took the kids to the Temecula Duck Pond this day. We bought a loaf of bread for 99 cents and feed the ducks and other birds. The pond also had lots of turtles. We walked around the large pond and checked out the statues. It's been a long time since I've been there and the city has put in a military memorial with engraved bricks and a statue. It was really nice.

I wanted one too....

I was hopping all over the internet a few weeks ago and came across a blog of someone I don't know at all and she had one of these set-ups that she saw on Heidi Swapps blog and Heidi saw it somewhere else too. I decided I wanted one too. So, I went to Target and found this serving tray for $4 with matching cups and bowls and pitcher. I got all new crayons, colored pencils, markers, color changing brush markers, and even craz smelling pens. I covered the kitchen table with butcher paper and this is what the kids saw when they came home on the last day of school. They thought it was the coolest thing.

Smores

Daddy with Nathan and Olivia. Olivia has smores all around her mouth. Yummy!

Sleepover....

Emily had her friend sleepover tonight. This is the first time a friend has slept over, Em has been to sleepovers at friends homes, but this is our first time as hosts. For 3 days beforehand, Emily was crazy on our cases to clean things up. I had to threaten to cancel the sleepover just to get her to stop using her mommy voice "Put that away NOW!" Anyway, Marty took them swimming, we got pizza for dinner, and we had a fire in the backyard and made Smores. Yummy!!