Trip to the museum with the Mapp's!

We had a blast playing with you Mapp Family. Glad you came and joined us over spring break.

When you go to the musuem, you have to have dinosaurs. So this would be the first thing we had to venture over to. The kids loved sitting in the foot print of the dinosaur. They are so big that the kids can sit inside it. The musuem was sooooooooooooo crowded. There were millions of people there. So it was moving around like bumper cars. Overall we had fun though. THANKS Mapp Family!





Here are some pictures from the big kids play room!








They have this really neat kids room. In this room, you can build, pretend to be a nurse or doctor, pretend to grocery shop, or play in the water outside. We weren't able to go outside since it was raining. But we have been back since and they love the outside unit. This room is the overall favorite of our children. I believe it is the overall favorite for every child. It is the most kid orriented room in the musuem. What fun times.




This is the tinker toy room. They have this really cool sand machine. You put sand on this wheel and it spins around. Then you can use tools to make different strokes on the wheel. There was a long line waiting to play on this cool toy. Also in the tinker toy room they had a shadow box. You go in this room with about six people and stand against the wall. Then this light flashes. Afterwards you can turn around and see your shadow. I took a picture of the kids, but they didn't really come out since it is a black room. Oh well. It is a neat exhibit though.






There are these rooms with things to do on the way to the tinker toy room. The kids love these rooms because they get to make things. So in this room, they are exploring with wind snakes and wind mobils. They also have spin tops that have markers on the end. These make neat circles with all the different colors. Then another table is a race car with markers attached to it. You get a remote to drive the car around and make different pictures. This happened to be everyone's favorite over all. Some other rooms that are available are making a movie, building different structures, and working on computers. Such fun to explore on your own.






There is an energy movie in the musuem that is 3D. Cole loves it and calls it the Dinosaur movie. We all had fun watching it. Make sure you watch out for the dinosaur spitting on you. YUCK!

Headed to the Muesum with the Mapp Family

We are headed to go enjoy the new musuem in Fort Worth over spring break with the Mapp family. They are a blast to hang out with. We had fun! As you can tell in Emma's picture she wasn't a happy camper. She has started pouting this year and giving us ugly faces. I sure hope she lives to see 7 years old, haha.

A Great Trip to the Fort Worth Zoo

By the time we got to the giraffe section, the kids were exhausted. They were getting whiny and ready to go home. We weren't finished though, so we continued to venture up to the lions. OH MY GOODNESS, there were millions of people up there. That is when we decided to pass everyone as fast as we could and go home. We didn't even get out of the parking lot and our little man was fast asleep. Man I love peace in the car!



This picture is for my hubby. He grew up on a farm and as a farmer's child. He loved it, but sure has turned into a city boy. I talk all the time about moving out to the country where it is quiet. He doesn't like that idea at all. He always tells me it is to far from everything else in the world. Makes me sad at times, but then glad at times we aren't stuck in the counrty as well though. I loved this picture and it was takend in the Texas section of the zoo.


At the zoo, they have this neat exhibit in the Texas section. While we were in there, they had to sit in the tunnel. Oh what a mess my two kids are, but a blast to have around at times even when I want to adopt them out.






We rented a two person stroller. That was the best thing we did. Cole is only three so he can't make it forever walking, but neither can Emma who is six. She eventually got tired and it was nice that she actually had a place to ride. Sure hope they have something like this at Disney World or we are going to be in big trouble.






The kids are sitting on this huge lizard in the new exhibit. They really liked it.




Over spring break, we decided to hang around the metroplex and do things here with the kids. We took them to the Fort Worth Zoo. Wow, there were millions of people there. Too many and we won't be returning there over spring break ever again. Hopefully anyways. The kids had fun. They are standing right here in front of the new exhibit. They had to go in and their daddy survived. He isn't a snake person, but he did survive the exhibit.

Amarillo Trip to see the Smith's and their beautiful home!

We had a great trip up to Amarillo in March this year. I am really late in blogging because oh my gosh has our life been CRAZY this semester. We left Friday night, but about midnight we arrived about two hours from their house and couldn't go any further. We were exhausted! So we stopped at a hotel in Childress. Everyone slept in a king size bed. We sure won't be doing that again. NOT AT ALL! Josh and I both felt like we were being slept on top of by two children. YUCK! It was hot!

So we got up Saturday early and finished our trip. We were so excited to finally make it and see everyone. Later that day, Heather and Jackie surprised us with going to the museum in Amarillo. Neither one of us have ever been there. It was a blast! Especially to go with the Smith family. THANKS for taking us. There were so many fun things to do there. We enjoyed it so much that we decided over spring break we were going to try out the new museum in Fort Worth. We loved that so much that we became members. When we finished the muesum, we went to the park and feed the ducks bread. I think the ducks were feed so much bread from everyone else, that they really didn't have a desire to eat our bread. Cole thought the bread was for him to eat. YUM! He is a little bread eater though. Then we walked over to the playground and played.

We had fun sitting and visiting with the Smith family. They have a great church. We got the opportunity to go to church with them on Sunday. We have a really hard time when we wait till really late to go home and then have to go to work the next day. Especially now that Emma is in school. So we left right after church. I hate that we didn't get to spend much time up there. Hopefully this summer we will get to see our niece Taylor and spend some much needed time with Heather and Jackie.

We love all of them!