Mom & Son Jock Hop

This is Brad, and it's my turn to reciprocate with a post about parent/child outings. Lindsey and Noah went to Red Rock’s “Mom & Jock Sock Hop.” Noah had a great time shooting hoops, hula-hooping and even won the “hot potato” game that had $1 in quarters and bubble gum inside the ball. He came home exhausted but with a big smile on his face. I didn’t spend an hour on his hair, like Lindsey did with Elsie’s hair when we went to our dance, but Noah did not mind. Enjoy the pictures.

Backyard-Before

It's funny how you look at a space and think-"hey, this isn't that big, it won't take that much work/time/money/etc. to landscape..." Ha. Joke was on us! However, I'm SO glad we did it, and now it's done and we can enjoy it, instead of not using our backyard at all! Huge thanks to Mike Seegmiller, Grandpa's Ras and Smith, and Uncle Dan (Lawlor) for all your help! It turned out awesome (see below)!

Backyard-After!!

It's been just over 2 weeks since putting in our grass and we LOVE it!! Now it's real grass, instead of just a ton of weeds looking like grass! Elsie, Adam, and I enjoyed a morning in our kiddie pool and running in the grass-a very nice, layed back morning-it was great!

Daddy Daughter Dance

The Daddy Daughter Dance at our school was the other night, and since Brad is a teacher there, he was able to take Elsie! He's taken her to the dance every year since he started teaching, so Elsie has gone every year since she was 1-and she loves it! They had a great time this year, and Elsie came home so happy. She was very excited to tell me that she now knows how to "hula hoo" (hula hoop) and that one of Brad's students gave her some lip gloss. We had a good time getting ready (though, pressed as I was for time, I forgot to get the camera out-dang!) by listening to High School Musical 3 (thanks Aunt JanaKaye!) and giving Elsie a big hand-held mirror...she was very patient! After the dance, and getting on her jammies, and talking a mile-a-minute, she looked up at me with a huge smile and said "and momma, I'm so tired!!"-that's why we love our Elsie.

Zoo Fun

Adam had never been to the zoo before, and since Brad and Noah had Friday off for Rodeo Days, we thought we would go-we had so much fun, and Adam loved it! I love the Tucson Zoo, because it's not very big and you can get through the whole thing in a couple of hours. We got to feed the Giraffe, pet snakes, and see all of the new things that have been added to the zoo in the last 2 years. After the zoo, we went to a nearby park to eat lunch and play, then we went to visit Grandma Rasmussen at the Institute for an hour or so-the kids were in heaven! They all fell asleep on the way home, then were completely wound up when we got home (thanks Grandma and the missionary couple at the Institute for the ice cream, suckers, and licorice-oy). We then planted our little box garden (wish us luck-we'll post pics later if it's successful!), and crashed! It was a very full and fun day.

One Down...

Noah has finally lost his first tooth! It'd been loose for a couple of weeks, but he just wouldn't wiggle it. I got one good wiggle in the other night though, and after the initial shock, Noah was able to pull it out on his own-you'd think as a boy, he would have been more gung-ho about getting that thing out, but apparantly he thought we were asking him to cut off his arm, not pull out a tooth! The Tooth Fairy came, though Noah wasn't sure she would if we didn't all go to bed as soon as possible-he kept asking me if I was very, very tired :) Way to go Noah!

Thomas the Tank Engine's Newest Model

Adam has discovered Thomas the Tank Engine, and is now just a little bit obsessed...

He loves watching the show and got very excited when he found this Thomas belt (I added the hat). It's very sweet when he gets SO excited about playing with all of Noah's tracks and trains-he calls it "shoo shoo" (choo choo), and somehow, having this in common with Noah, all of a sudden Adam looks A LOT more like him!