Fred the frog

Last night we found the biggest frog on our driveway. The kids thought it was so cool, except Holly didn't want to touch it at first. We told Holly to kiss the frog and it will turn into a prince-she didn't believe us! That's the picture of her crying and getting mad because we told her to kiss the frog! We named the frog Fred and put it down at our pond.

Saturday fun day!

We had a busy day last Saturday-15th. We had to clean our church building at 8 am and then we went to the Oakland city wide garage sale. The garage sale was a big event this year-we walked around for a couple hours and didn't really buy anything. Then we went to Wildlife Safari for Amy and Soozee's B-day. There was so much going on that day since they were celebrating the Cheetah's Birthday too. We got to feed the Giraffe-that was so cool, but I was almost gagging with how the Giraffe stunk! Then the guide that took us on the Giraffe feeding said we could go see the Lion training for free! That was so awesome! We got to see them up close and the dominant male was growling at the other male-it was neat! Then we had a lot to do in the village with face painting, eating lunch, playing on the playground, riding the train. It was such a hot day-it was great! We had a fun afternoon. Then that night Chris and I took the kids to the Races at the fairgrounds. The races were great-but we didn't take any pictures of it! We had a fun filled Saturday-which I think it was about time we did.

Mother's Day

For Mother's Day I had a relaxing afternoon. Chris made lunch, dinner, got the kids down for a nap, mowed the lawn, and got me a fancy new camera. I have been wanting a nicer camera and it has been fun to take pictures with. Chris got me a Canon EOS Rebel XS-which means "nice camera." I need to learn how to use it, but it takes great pictures. Happy Mother's Day to me and to all of you mothers!!!

Monster Truck show

We had to go to the Monster Truck show at our Fairgrounds. BigFoot was there with a few other trucks. We went with the whole family and also had some friends come along. Carson was very excited about the show, but I don't know about Holly. It was Thomas' (Thomas is Amy and Rustys' 5 yr. old son) first time ever going to a Monster Truck show. Thomas had a great time!!! We all did and I liked the Jet car meltdown the best! It was so loud it hurt-I had to hold my stomach because it radiated throughout your body with how loud the Jet car was!