You the best mommy ever!

Hallee always tells me that I'm the best mommy ever, it is so cute.  She says things like that to all of us, I love it! 

Hallee and Wyatt love to go up to the top of the street and play in the rocks by the water tower.  They like to look at all of the little rocks and climb on the big ones.

Wyatt prefers his big wheel, but he rode his bike for a little while the other day.

I have got to know Gaven's mom, Brittany, pretty well.  I really like her, she is really easy to talk to.  She was taking her boys to the zoo and invited Jonah and I to come along.  She invited all of us, but they could only get two people in for free and I was too cheap to pay for the rest of the family. 

It was great for Jonah, he had a great time showing off!  He loved playing with Gaven and his brothers.  They ran all over and burned a lot of energy!

Jonah was being a goofball for all of the pictures.  We keep thinking about getting a zoo pass.  We haven't for the last few years because I don't know how much we would actually use it.  We might need to think about it again, I really want to take Wyatt and Hallee up there again.  They love it.

The boys were always ahead of us.  They ran down to see the gorilla and then all of the sudden they all came running up to us screaming.  I guess they were teasing the gorilla and he started pounding his chest and then hit the glass.  The boys were scared, but not enough to leave the poor gorilla alone.  It was really funny to watch.  After the gorilla pounded on the glass he would go in the corner and sit like this and then he would come back over and pound on it again.  At one point a little girl was standing at the glass and the gorilla just sat there, but as soon as she left he started pounding his chest and hitting the glass near the boys again. 

 We had a lot of fun and it was really good for Jonah.

Hallee and Wyatt like to play Uno.  They do pretty well with it.  Hallee gets so excited when she has the right color.  She will get a huge smile on her face and start dancing around.  It is really cute.

Here she is turning around because she is so excited!  I love Hallee's hair.  It is so long and pretty.  I love the color of it.  It is a beautiful brownish red. 

The kids love to pretend to be dogs.  They made a dog house under the kitchen table.  Hallee really gets into it, sometimes she licks me!

They also love to play horse and give piggy back rides.

Yesterday was a little chilly outside so we found things to do inside.  Painting in the bath was a big hit.

We also went to Sam's Club.  Wyatt and Hallee were thrilled that I let them get their own drink.  We met Mel there for lunch.  It was nice to get out and visit and the kids were really good.

At one point I looked over and Wyatt was kissing Hallee, it was adorable. 

Jonah had his blue and gold banquet this week.   We have been passing sickness around the family, so I stayed home with the other kids and just Keith and Jonah went.  They had a lot of fun!

My dad called me this week and asked if it would help if he talked to Caitlyn.  My parents have been worried about her and how much she is struggling lately.  Caitlyn was so excited.  He came and picked her up and took her out for ice cream.  Talking to grandpa really seemed to help Caitlyn.  I think just the extra love and attention was great, but he was able to say things that really helped her with the struggles she has been having over Jen's death.  Poor Caitlyn is very mature and worries about things that most kids wouldn't even think of.  She has been struggling lately because she thinks she could have helped Jen if she had known that she was struggling before she died.  She seems to be at peace with that now.  It meant so much to me that my dad did that.  I can't describe how much it means to me when people love my children.