Sunny Day

(This is Annika's kissing face! She gives some great kisses!)

Today was such a nice day! We spent the day outside working on the yard. The garden is now most of the way in, we actually planted it on Tuesday night. We ripped out two trees in our yard one in the back and one in the front. They were both dead. They didn't have any leaves growing and we decided we should just pull them up. So... today we worked on the yard. We went to home depot and bought some trees and flowers. That store was so busy today! Our fence has been broken since we moved in and Brian fixed that today. It feels so nice, to get some of our to do list accomplished.


Our ward also had a fund-raising garage sale today, so we decided to go. I think that I am addicted to finding good deals. I get so excited when I find great things at very low prices! Today at the garage sale we found Annika a little kitchen set. It is so cute. She has been playing with it all day long! What a little girl she is.

We have some great neighbors that live across the street. They have a little girl named faith who loves Annika. She always comes over and asks if Annika can play. And whenever Annika sees faith out side she runs straight over to her. It is really cute to watch. But Faith had a little tikes car, that she has outgrown and she gave it to Annika. Annika loves it. She goes out in the garage and says car-car. She opens the door and gets in, and starts moving. Tonight Brian was pushing her back into the garage and she said beep beep. It is pretty cute! I love that her and Brian now have matching cars! :) ha ha! ( I really think that they are the same color!)

So we had a wonderful day, working on and accomplishing projects and just spending time together as a family!

Hogal Zoo

Yesterday a group of us got together and took our kids to Hogal Zoo! It was so much fun! There was Heidi, Karen, Neisha, McKell, Kennidee, Britney, Ava, Talia, and Turner. We wanted to get an early start on the zoo so we were there when it opened at 9:00. We went in and played at the playground for a while. Then we headed out to see some animals.
We saw some elephants

And of course we had to take a picture by the famout gorilla. (I told Annika to put her arms out and she folded them, so this was the best I got!)

We got to ride on the Merry-go-round! It was alot of fun! Annika rode on the zebra and she loved it, she cried when I took her off.

When we were up looking at the lions and tigers they had this bronze one. I had Annika sit on it, but it made me laugh because on time when I was younger my family went to the zoo, and they have a big rhino like this one, and my sister Jen sat on it and it was hott and she tried to jump off! It was funny (you probably had to be there) but putting Annika on this brought back some great memories of when I went to the zoo as a kid. By the way she loved sitting on this.

Annika looking at the giraffes.


I got a picture of McKell drinking out of the lion drinking fountain, but annika never drank out of it, but we always got this shot, when I was little. thought I would keep the tradition alive.

We rode the train at the end, but by that point, Annika was in breakdown mode. She threw a fit and hit her head on the cement while we were waitin for the train so we don't have any pictures. I thought that all of the kids did really good. It was a fun and tiring day!

I need to be better at blogging! We are still here, and I just thought I would catch up on what we have been doing. Jen graduated the beginning of may, we went up to her graduation, but I don't have any pictures of the event. I was taking them all with her camera. Then Heidi graduated. We went to her graduation. Since she was graduating in dental hygiene she bought some nasty looking teeth, and her and her friends took pictures wearing them. (pretty funny!) Well Heidi gave Annika a pair, and Brian got pictures of her playing with them.

Annika is getting so old! She is starting to do so many things. The other day I was out weeding the flower bed, and something happened that has never happened before. Annika went and played by herself! She can climb up the ladder and go down the slide all by herself. I taught her how to swing on her belly so she is set! Here are just a couple things she likes to do.
She likes to help me cook!

She likes to help me clean the sink! (Not really but it was pretty cute!

She likes to hold as many binkies as she can!

She likes to cross her legs when she sleeps

Just a picture in case everyone wanted to see how pink her room really is!

We went to a REal game on Saturday night. Annika wasn't feeling very well but she was a great sport and had lots of fun! AT one point she was even yelling like everyone else in the crowd! It was pretty funny!

We went Swimming today! Her cousins (Abe and Henry) gave her a pool for Christmas and we finally got to use it today and she loved it! So much fun!