Palmer's Field Trip

 I always love it when I can go on a field trip with one of my boys.  It is hard to leave McKay with someone all day so I try not to go too crazy with them.  I got to go on this one with Palmer a few weeks ago.  We went to a nature reserve by our house and they learned some good things.

 Can't you just see all of the learning going on?

 There were a couple of HUGE pelicans on the pond that day it is was really neat.  I don't think I had ever seen a pelican close up before.

 They did some really fun activities including a scavenger hunt.

 This is Palmer's awesome teacher.  We stuck pretty close to her on the nature walk and learned some really interesting things.

 Cloud watching.

 They drew very detailed pictures of something that they had seen that day.  I didn't get a picture, but Palmer's was so good!  He has been very into drawing lately.

 Love to get to hang out with my boys one on one.

 After the nature preserve we headed to a farm.

 There were tons of baby animals and it was fun for the kids to see them close up.

 How adorable are these chickies!!??

 This was our little field trip group.

Loved being with my cute boy!

Hill Air Force Base Air Show

We sure love the air show at Hill Air Force Base.  The pilots are just amazing and we are always left in awe and with a greater appreciation for our military.  The last time we went to it was a long time ago.  You will have to forgive the pictures as I didn't want to get my good camera out in the rain so they are all courtesy of Instagram (follow me at emily7n).

 This year we were so excited to go with the boys and this morning when we left it was a bit cold.  All of the boys were wearing shorts and I debated even bring a jacket...

...well, it ended up POURING on us.  I was teasing my MIL and Josh because they had "over packed" for the day, and it turns out that if they hadn't we would have been drenched like crazy.  Turns out my MIL brought an awning for us and so we stayed mostly dry, even though it was FREEZING. 

As the rain poured and poured, most of the crowd left.  We sat under the awning and tried to hold it down from the wind blowing it away.  We sat like that for a long time.  I don't know if it was because we were determined to see the air show (which had been postponed until the weather cleared up) or because it was too we to try and get us all back to the car.  But we ended up shivering and trying to snuggle up to stay warm.

 After 3 1/2 hours of wet, cold and wind, the air show resumed and by then we had scooted our awning up to the FRONT.  We were so excited to see things "up close."

It was amazing as always and we were constantly in awe (this was taken at the beginning of the day...most of these people had left).

 The Thunderbirds are so worth watching.  We all waved to them as the taxied by in their planes.

The show was so LOUD that McKay kept saying "is too loud."  It really was the cutest.

He, and the rest of us ended up loving it all and glad that we had stayed (even though we were so soggy!)

Palmer is dying to be a photographer and has finally shown interest in this camera he got for his birthday long ago.  He has already asked for a "real" one for his birthday.  He took A LOT of pictures.

McKay was EXHAUSTED by the end of the day and thanks to the sun coming out he was cozy in the stroller as he slept all the way back to the car.  We ended the day snuggled in our pjs watching the new Muppet movie.  I think the boys fell asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.

 Here is yet another thing we have done, that I never got around to posting. 

 It snowed for a bit one day weeks and weeks ago and I gave each of the boys a spray bottle filled with food coloring and water to go and "write" in the snow with.

 I didn't really get any great pictures of what they did because...I didn't want to go outside...yep I stink, but they had fun.

 I will have you note that Hunter is in shorts and mismatched boots.

 I guess whatever works right?  For some reason I didn't get any pictures of Palmer...

 Our fun neighbors had this beautiful baby bird in a nest in one of their trees.  It was so fun to see the new sweet little bird.

And here is just a cute picture of McKay eating some of Josh's amazing chocolate chip cookies.  Have I mentioned how good Josh is at baking?  Consider it mentioned :)

Batting Cages

I just found some pictures that I never posted on the blog from Spring Break.  We had a great time and did some fun activities.  We went to the batting cages one night.

McKay always finds things to do.  He was very interested in the batting helmets and the many different ways they could be worn :)

This picture is so funny, Palmer's eyes are shut because there is a baseball flying toward him!  I don't even remember what the outcome of that was.

The cute daddy showing Hunter how to bat.

They all did so well. 

The Josh showed them all how it is done :)

And some how I ended up hitting.  I don't think I did very well...

Burrrrr

 Our lives have been invaded by baseball season.  On any given night of the week you can guess we are at some baseball field or another.  I took a couple of funny pictures last night on instagram (I am Emily7n if you want to follow) and thought I'd share.  We brought blankets because it was so cold and Josh put some of his jackets on Hunter and McKay, they were a little big...hoping it warms up tomorrow!!