Some pics at the aquarium in Utah

Everyone who knows us knows that we love going to zoos and aquariums. Here are some pictures of us at an aquarium in Utah. The shark tank was really cool and who can resist siting on a giant frog. Myka's favorite thing was the different jelly fish. We got to watch them get fed and she thought that was awesome. Adri's favorite thing was the river otters. They were so playful coming up to the window and touching it where the girl's hands were on the glass. We even got to touch different kinds of star fish, horse shoe crabs and get a shock from an electric eal. It was a fun trip.

Perfect Cooking Weather

This week is turning out to be perfect cooking weather. We made home-made pizza on Monday, I put together six lasagnas on Tuesday and I made homemade chicken noodle soup for dinner last night and my house was so cool that I wasn't sweating over the stove! My greatest reward for cooking good meals, my girls and husband ate a lot of good home cooked food. Plus I have a few lasagnas in the freezer for those days when it's too hot to be over the stove. Awesome.

Fishin' with Grandpa in the rain and ridin' 4-wheelers with my Girls

Busy Busy

We had a really fun weekend! Friday night I went on a date with my hubby. We ate at are favorite authentic Mexican restaurant then we waddled (seriously we ate so much yummy food!)to the movie theater where we watched "The Avengers." Great food, awesome movie and a great looking guy who is all mine = much needed husband and wife time. The only downer for the evening was that we paid more for the babysitter than we did for our food! Saturday we got to meet our five new nieces and nephews that my brother-in-law and sister-in-law adopted and they were such amazing kids.  Our new nieces and nephews are black so we had to explain to the girls before they met them that their cousins were just like them they just had pretty dark skin instead of pretty light skin. Can I just say that our girls were wonderful, they couldn't care less and accepted their cousins for who they are, parts of our family. They did think that their new girl cousins hair was really cool and that I was mean because I wasn't going to put Myka and Adri's hair in to hundreds of tiny braids.  Little Ceder is Myka and Adri's age so they played in the water and had so much fun they even tried to bring him home in our van. After our fun visit we rushed back home to change, then we went to one of my cousin's wedding reception. It was nice to see them so giddy in love and catching up with family. And Sunday after church we went up to the hospital to see our friends and their brand new baby. Adri and Myka thought that the baby was so cute and loved petting her hair and kissing her head. Our friend shocked us by even letting the girls hold the baby and I wish that I would have had a camera to catch the girls in that moment. They were so adorable. Afterwords the girls told us that they "already loved that baby" and asked me and Lance when we were going to get our baby. We told them that we hoped it would be soon and that we needed to keep praying for our baby to come to us. Waiting to be chosen to adopt is so hard on everyone, even on our girls. --All in all it was a great weekend and I can't wait to see what this week brings!