Strawberry Shortcake

We've had a busy couple of weeks. Logan's had a rough week in addition to our busy schedules. We were dealing with a minor case of heat rash last week. So most of our time was spent inside and he played in the tub once a day. It's finally cleared up except for a few spots where he itched it. Then yesterday he got sick during naptime, and threw up all over himself and the bed. Once he and the bed was cleaned up, he spent the rest of naptime, laying on the couch watching Bolt (which is an adorable movie if you haven't seen it). We're pretty sure it must have been something he ate. He didn't have a fever and was fine all afternoon. Running and playing as normal. Then last night while running he slipped and fell face first on the floor and cut his lip. Rough day for him.
On Mother's Day, Dan and Logan made strawberry shortcake for dessert. I'm just getting around to posting them now. Here's a couple of pictures of them getting the strawberries ready. The pictures aren't great. We have the sun coming in the back door in the afternoon and the blinds weren't closed so they're pretty bright.

Slicing the strawberries using an egg slicer.

Logan helping Dan core the strawberry.

I think the next few days we'll just spend at home and rest. We're going to an Isotopes game on Sunday. Hopefully Logan will have a good nap Sunday and he'll be nice and rested to stay for the whole game. They're supposed to do fireworks at the end. We'll have pictures of the game next week.

Another Zoo Trip

Another day, another trip to the zoo. As long as the weather's nice and since we have zoo passes why not. There were a lot of people this trip. I think all the schools were taking end of the year field trips. Here's a few shots of our trip this morning.

Mountain Lions.

Polar Bears. When we got to the polar bear exhibit the bears were in the water playing or fighting. It was kind of hard to tell, there was growling and biting so I don't think it was all happy play. Then they walked back to their den and they were friends again so who knows what was going on.

Then we saw baby ducks, and these were little babies, probably just learning to swim. They were so tiny and cute. And stayed very close to Mama.

Pine Cone Bird Feeders

We brought back some pine cones from the park in Las Cruces so that we could make some bird feeders. We finally got around to that today after the pine cones have been sitting on our counter in a bag for 3 days. We spread peanut butter on them then covered them with birdseed.

Here's Logan after we hung them up outside.

We're becoming the best bird feeding spot on the block.

Here they are again.

White Sands

Last weekend my sisters and parents all met in Las Cruces for a family reunion.

We left early on Friday so that we could stop at an outlet mall outside of El Paso. It's a pretty new outlet mall, but very nice. They had a Carter's outlet so Logan got a couple of new PJ's and some summer outfits. They also had a Bath and Body Works outlet so I was pretty happy. Everyone else arrived around dinner time, Julie and her family were a little later.

On Saturday we drove to White Sands for the day. We had hoped to spend most of the day there but our trip was cut short due to the wind. It got pretty bad around lunch time. You can click the pictures to make them bigger.

Here's all the kids, well everyone except Logan. All the kids got buckets and shovels with their initials on them. Getting them to stay put for 1 minute while we took the picture was a little challenging. Elizabeth (in the center) was already putting her shovel to use.

Logan had no interest in climing the dunes, so he stayed at the bottom and dug, played with trucks and buried dinosaurs.

Dan carried Logan to the top of one of the dunes.

Hold on to your hats, here comes the wind.

Here's Elizabeth, the youngest of the 7 cousins, determined to make her way to the top.

Some scenic shots of White Sands.

The rest of the weekend was nice. Saturday night was dinner with everyone at Dions and dessert at Scoopy's (a yummy frozen custard place, wish they had one here).

Sunday we spend the morning at a park, then William and Andrew got to open some birthday gifts, they're birthday's are both next week. Then it was lunch and everyone hit the road. We were home by about 3:30pm.

New Bird Feeder

Logan and I found these cute bird feeders at the Dollar Tree a while back. Just now getting around to filling them with bird seed. But since we have the birds have loved our yard. It's a little difficult to see the birds in the picture's but they're there. We had to take the pictures through the window inside since they are frightened easily. You can click on the pictures to make them bigger.

There's the bird on the ground, just to the right of the bird feeder. He blends in nicely with our rocks.

This one the bird is on the feeder on the left side eating.

Since our yard has become a nice snack time for the birds, it's also attracted some neighborhood cats. Who like to wait for the birds and then hunt them. I don't think any birds have been caught yet. I don't think that the cat that stalks our yard is a great hunter, he/she is a little clumsy and usually isn't real quiet when sneaking up on the birds. But I was able to get a picture of the cat watching the birds.

The cat is white, hiding behind the tree in the top center. There's two birds on the ground on the left side of the picture.
About 5 seconds after I took the picture the cat charged at the birds, but got no where close to catching them.

So that's been our entertainment lately.

Sesame Street Easter Eggs

We haven't posted anything in a long time. We just haven't had any exciting adventures. Lately we've been spending most of our days in doors staying out of the horrible wind. It seems this spring is windier then usual. We always have wind but it seems much stronger this year.

Yesterday we went to church for the Good Friday Kids Activity Day. Logan is still to young to participate, so he played in the nursery while I helped with a craft. Logan did come down to do some crafts but only wanted to do one, the jelly bean one. I did wish I brought my camera yesterday since there was a bat in the church which would have been fun to get a picture of. We're not sure how the bat got in the church but he was found sleeping in the corner of one of the rooms.

So today after a trip in the pouring rain and hail to the post office, Sams Club and Walmart we spent the day watching baseball and dying Easter Eggs. We found a really cute Sesame Street egg dying kit that Logan loved. It came with a ton of stickers. Logan only wanted to use a few. He wanted to save the rest for later. We used white crayons to draw on our eggs before dying them.

Here we are drawing on our eggs.

Hmm, which color?

Looks like we choose orange.

Even Cinderella wants to get into the egg dying fun.

Here's the finished eggs. Some of them have stickers, some don't.

The kit came with stickers to make Abby and Elmo.

Finally a picture of Logan that he agreed to. Could his camera shy stage be over.....?

Daddy holding the Abby Cadabby egg.

Happy Easter.

Zoo Trip

We took a trip to the zoo today. We finally had some good weather after 3 days of windy, windy, weather. We had lots of leftover stale bread so one of our first stops was to get rid of it and feed the ducks. Good thing we had a lot of bread, because there were a lot of ducks.

This duck was so patient and waited for some bread while the others fought over it.

Swarming for one piece of bread in the middle.

Logan feeding the ducks.

Baby Camel. A little difficult to see but there's a fluffy grey one sitting next to the mama. Really cute.

Hard to see through the glass but there's a chimp swinging from the rope.

Gorilla having his lunch upside down.