It's a Wonderful Life

Last Thursday, I was able to chaperone Jackson's field trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C. Erik took a half day of work off and watched Anna and Wyatt (he brought them to work for a few hours). Because there were so many parent chaperones, I only had two kids in my group: Jackson and his good friend Sam!  I was quite relieved when I found that out.  We loaded up in charter buses and made really good time to get to the zoo. We decided to join groups with Hunter and Hunter's Mom (they didn't have any other kids in their group!).  It was fun to get to know her (surprisingly her name is not Jenny.  I swear every Mom I meet shares my name with me.  Curse of an 80s child, I guess :)  The weather was perfect!   Seriously, we couldn't have ordered better zoo weather.  I told Jackson it was my first time visiting a zoo without a stroller since I was a little girl!  It was so much fun to be with Jackson (OK if I'm being ...

This girl LOVES bandaids and doctoring.  If anyone gets hurt, she will be the first to grab the first aid kit (or whatever she can find) to administer relief.  All of the hours she has spent watching Doc McStuffins is paying off I guess :)       We were getting ready to go Seminary graduation a couple of weeks ago, and Anna was in her new dress and I was in my new skirt.  So I thought (naturally), "Hey, let's take some pictures!" Hmm, this must have been from a Costco trip.  We usally go there once a week or so and inevetable will grab some lunch while we are at it.  This time I totally splurged and let them get a treat along with their shared slice of pizza :)  Those treats lasted all week with them though! Wyatt likes to have the double the google protection when swimming :) Last week, Jackson had his running club awards ceremony and breakfast.  It was a lot of fun.  Of course, Anna and Wyatt loved ...

                                      Ok I guess I should explain why I took a picture of the bathroom at the splash pad.  So this bathroom is pretty cool.  The door automatically opens once you put in a quarter and then once inside, there is some nice elevator music, it talks to you, the toilet paper dispenses out with the push of a button, basically the kids were thinking this was some kind of ride!  They loved it so much; for some reason Anna "had" to use the bathroom like 4 times in one hour!  The next time we took a trip to the splash pad, I was a smarter and told them that we were taking ONE bathroom break so they had better make it count.  And they did. :)     I will also say, that after our fun time at the splash pad, Erik came and met us for lunch at Snow White Gril...