Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Class trip - pumpkin patch style

Mya's pumpkin patch class trip rounded out my days home.  It fell perfectly on a day off!  We headed to Giamarese farm, same as last year.  The girls got right onto the hayride with one of the student teachers.
SMILE (Mya, Anna Julie and Lia)
Love this little girl so much.  
Smelling peppers that Farmer Jim passed around to show us.
We can't leave a farm without Mya wanting to put her head and smile in these things, lol!
Time for snacks (Lia, Anna Julia, Addison and Sophia).
These 2 cuties
Mya, can I take a pic of you with the farm behind you?  Sure mom.  This is what she did, lol!
I can't believe that next pumpkin patch trip you'll be in Kindergarten.  That's if they do that in Kindergarten.  Love you booboo.

Zoo time

Onto Tuesday of my days off.  We woke up and took a nice run to the post office and park.  SO NICE to be able to do that in the morning.  We met a cutie at the park too, who happens to live a block over from our street.  So the girls even had a little friend there named Harper.  We were there for a good 1.5 hours, LOVE those days.  Then we headed home for lunch and to go to the Turtleback Zoo.  We were going with Mags too so waited for her to be done with her classes for the day.
Both girlies napped on the way there, score!  But we got there and they wanted to ride the train first, which was closed for maintenance.  BOO!  It didn't ruin our day, no worries.  So we headed uphill first.  They do look a little ticked though, don't they?!  LOL!
We ran into this guy on the way uphill.  
We went to see the leopards.  LOVE them, seriously just so beautiful.
We were so focused on the one pacing around this guy that he blended in.  Mya pointed him out to us, for reals.  Look, there's 2 in there, Mags and I were like, ummm no there's just one, where's the other?  RIGHT THERE MOM!  LOL, ohhhhhh, yes you're SO right.
Llama llama
The chunky piggie.
Mags wouldn't even look into see the pig.  LOL!  But she did pose with Ash.
After we saw the big horse take a nice giant poop on our way down to the pony rides.  Mya got on this little pony. 
Ashley's turn.
The bird sanctuary is usually my favorite part.  However, since the park was so dead.  It was like they just gave these birds some sort of crack and they were ALL over us.  It started to freak Mya out, then me.  Mags was already a little hesitant about it to begin with.  You buy this stick that they have bird feed on, if you hold it out, the birds will fly up and sit on it to eat.  Well, this particular day, there were like 2 birds trying to get on and if you were just walking to another spot, with the stick by your side, they'd even try to land on it then.  Not to mention some of them like fighting on your stick to get the food.  WACK!
This was right when we got in though.  Mya was helping Ash.
Ash loved it.

Mya did too at this point.
All done, onto the next stop.
A little photo booth action before moving on.  We did the 4 of us, then the girls did one alone!  TOO FUNNY! 
 The cheetahs were out today!  I love cheetahs and leopards, just such beautiful animals.  When we got up there, one of them was literally pacing back and forth behind the glass, the girls were loving it.  I was thanking god the glass was there.
Seriously looks like the cheetah is staring her down.
My little
Mountain lion was next and it was his nap time.
More fun!!
Check out how huge that turtle is.
Watching the wolves, they're crazy looking.
Cheese
This may have been their favorite part.  I think they went 3 times.  The animals are just so cute on them too, all zoo animals, not really any horses I don't remember.
LOVING IT!
cuties
lol
The dragon got some lovin too (so maybe not all zoo animals).
The girls love this turtle and try to catch a ride every time we come here.
So much fun with my girls.  Thanks for joining in Mags.  Love you girlies.

Monday, October 28, 2013

Jenks with the girls

I had a few days off the week of Columbus day.  In addition to getting off on Columbus day, Mary and Joe went to Punta Cana for their 25 year wedding anniversary (Happy Anniversary!), so with the help of my mom and Mags (thanks a million guys), I only had to take 2 days off.  SO, I was off Monday-Wednesday!  It was SO nice to be home with my girls and the weather couldn't have been more perfect!  Monday we decided to head down to Jenks after Mya got out of school.  We met Char and the girls too!
We got the strollers out and the big girls wanted to get in Char's stroller.
 So the littles came in ours!  Not to mention the fact that Brookie walked right over to me when she got outside to give me smooches! *MELT*
 Hi fishies!!!
 big, huge hugs.
 Ash was enthralled with the turtles, probably could have stood there all day.
 Peeking in the hole to see the penguins swimming
Love this little munchkin to pieces.
Climbing up to see them all.
Upstairs to the sting rays.  They just ate so we weren't allowed to pet them.
These 2 cuties checking out the seals.
AND, ending the day with the penguins again.  They are just too cute!  The tank was getting cleaned too so the girls were hysterical over the guy in there.
So much fun with you girls.  Love you.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Terhune

This is our 3rd annual Terhune trip.  This is the first year little Miss Ava joined in also!  SO MUCH FUN!  It was a nice, crisp autumn day and we headed out for a late morning visit.
Ready to roll!
They have some pumpkins right when you walk in so we tried to get a shot of the 3 girls.  Couldn't be so lucky to get them all to cooperate though.
Ash wouldn't even freaking look.
We headed over to see the animals next.  Dewey was showing Ava the roosters.
This part was HYSTERICAL!  The girls were so into it.
...so was Pete!
Nonna and Dewey even joined in.
Then Ava was putting her head in all the faces.
Mya just wanted to be the horse, but I think this is the goat, lol!
COME ON!!!
Lets run around the hay!
Ava just wanted to chill in the hay.
Ash kept jumping off the hay...


Next up, horse rides.
Mya LOVES the horse rides.
my big girl.
Ash was uber excited too!
Too stinkin cute, saying giddy up the whole ride Ry said.
Ashley's horse was going so much faster then Mya's.  She actually finished before her!  Story of my life, Ash is always a mile a minute!
Hayride cuties.
The Cipot crew.
The Bea crew (Ash was already gettin down on her donut).
cousin love
Time to pick our pumpkins.
...and off she goes!
The perfect day to be picking our pumpkins.
Trying to get pics of these 2, well of Ash.  Let's face it, Mya is always ready to pose and smile for a pic!
...still not looking.
So, lets just focus on My!
My oldest, getting so big.
Ava wants this one.
Gimmie a hug.
She was dancing to the music.  This girl is always dancing when music comes on, I love it!
Next stop, the apple fields.  Pete, Shell and Ava left to get back in time for the Jets game.  We went to get some apples with my parents (and still made it back in time, HA!).
Getting the ones up top.
Daddy with his little ladies.
big hugs for their daddy *melt*
HIGHER!!!!
in the fields of apples...
sissy's helping sissy's
LOVE LOVE LOVE this pic!  I can't even get enough of it.
And this one too!  I guess Ash makes up for her 10000 non looking ones with gems like these!
Of course, Mya wanted to take a pic, so here she goes.  With my mama and pops.  Love you guys! 
So much fun.  Love this family tradition we started.  xoxo