Finally Getting to See Dinosaur Bones

Evan started asking to go to the Museum about 3 weeks before the end of school. He wanted desperately to see the dinosaur bones. With Chris and I so busy with end of the year school stuff, we decided to wait until we were finished with school and Chris was finished with his contract before going so that we could get the most out of our trip. We finally made it to the museum on June 14th, and it was so much fun that we bought the yearly family pass!!!

It was really cool getting to see their reactions to each of the sets of bones. The Museum really did a great job at setting everything up!! Evan is actually still talking about "the time we went to see the dinosaur bones." 

I just love this picture; it looks like she is running away from the dinosaur, when in reality, she is just running away from me. :)

After looking at the bones, we took the kids to see the Cockrell Butterfly Center. It was so neat!!! There were literally thousands of butterflies flying around from the moment we walked in. Poor Evan was terrified of the butterflies, though! I hope that he grows out of this fear of flying things as he gets older, just so that he can function and enjoy being outside more easily.

The butterflies really loved me! I think it was the shirt that I was wearing (a green shirt with flowers on it), because 4 different butterflies landed on me while we were inside! Either that, or they liked my pregnant belly. :)

This was definitely a fun summer trip that we will hopefully be making again soon!

Summer Fun (2013)

So far this summer, we've just spend a lot of time getting ready for Evan to start kindergarten, and for the new baby to arrive. I feel like we're finally getting a handle on everything... except house work! I feel like I have to start out every day cleaning the house again before I can actually start the days agenda. But, I guess that's life when you have kids. :)

Aubrie just chillin', boots and all :)

Kiddos hanging out in the play room while I work on the nursery.

My attempt to get a head start on the kids' artwork before Evan starts kindergarten... It's still a work in progress..... I'm hoping to take pictures of everything and put it into a photo book, but we'll see how far I get with this one...

The nursery closet before I went through all of the baby clothes...

The kids have loved swimming this summer! I'm so proud of both of them. Now if I could only get Evan to practice swimming a little bit without his floaties on, I'd feel better with him around the water.

Aubrie just felt like laying down one day. :)

Story time at Grammy's library.

Popsicles at Grammy's house.

The snake guy came to the library, and our kiddos loved getting to see the snakes. Aubrie even volunteered to have the big snake put on her shoulders!!

We've had so much fun being together as a family this summer. I'm really enjoying the time we've had. I'm also looking forward to school starting back up again, mainly because I'll barely be there before the Elise gets here, and I'll have basically the entire fall semester to be home! That is exciting since Evan will be in kindergarten; I feel like I'll be able to adjust to him being in school a bit better this way. :) The kids are just getting big so fast, and I'm trying to soak up every second of it.