Jumping Monkey!!

We had so much fun today at a place called the jumping monkey in Greenville, it was really cool and the kids had a great time! Actually so did i! the only sad part was that i wasn't allowed to jump too!! Here are some videos from our day, they really did have more than just the slide, i just forgot to take picture after a while, i was too busy chatting with everyone! But sidebar, check out my other blogs because i finally updated them after what i think could only be defined as forever!

White Rabbit

So if i were a disney character, this is probably who i would be. i am always in a rush doing something, it seems like there are even times that i feel rushed when i have absolutely nothing to do. don't get me wrong, i am not complaining, i love doing all of the things i do. Teaching RS is one of the best callings i have ever had, doing preschool with landen (and carson joins in too) is super fun, running the playgroup for the city of rocky mount has me wondering why i wanted to be a high school teacher when i love toddlers so much, my own toddlers keeping me cleaning all the time, and can't forget that i still have a be a wife and mom too! Breathe

But in all of my running around, I have to work hard at remembering to not miss all the small and simple things. Because all of those things melt my heart and truly make me happy! Here are some of my favorite things:

Landen's Laugh

The way Carson hugs with his entire body

Carson's gappy teeth!

The way Landen jumps up and down when he gets excited

The way Carson copies everything Landen does

The fact that Wayne is Landen's hero

the fact that Landen is Carson's hero

The way Landen says I love you

The way Carson says 'et tu!' after i tell him i love him

Landen's extreme southern accent

Carson's sweet voice when he babbles and learns new words

The way landen thinks he is sharing when he gives away carson's stuff

The way carson says high five and holds his hand back until someone gives him a high five

Landen carrying around his bobble head of a hockey player

Carson's favorite phrase 'ma mits' which translates into more milk

or in other words...

I love these kids!!!

Post 2: The Birthday Party

This is going to be an extensive look, at the work behind the scenes for throwing a four year old jungle party. Many pictures will not be shown, because I was so busy throwing the party that there were somethings I forgot to ask for a picture to be taken. Pictures shown are credited to Ashley Cone and Myself, I don't remember which picture is which. Thanks for your help Ash! Side Note: Please ignore weird spacing I tried forever to fix it, and had no luck!

The Invitation

The Craft (The binoculars were to be used for the safari at the end of the party, when they when searching for their goodie bags) we also did wild animal coloring pages and animal name tags

The Menu

So just in case you can't really see the picture here is what the menu for the night was:

Live Worms (sliced hot dogs)

Beetle Wings (potato chips)

Dried Ants (dried cranberries)

Snake Eggs (green grapes)

Croc Teeth (apple slices)

Jungle Juice (green kool aid, which did not go over well, I thought all kids liked kool-aid, oops)
AND...................................

The Cake

The Brother(down under this picture!!)

The Other Friends and Family (below)




The Games [This is only one of the games, the tree frog toss, it was the one that I was running, so I didn't get to take pictures of the other ones, which were: animal charades, feed the lion (which was throwing balls into a bucket with a picture of a lion on it), and elephant ring toss (which was throw rings trying to hook them on a blown up elephants nose)] I also regret not taking pictures of the tree frog layout, i made vines out of paper bags and cut out leaves from green card stock, and the kids threw sticky frogs and tried to get them on the leaves, it was really fun!!!! There were also sticky frogs in their goodies bags later!

The Presents (Landen really got a lot of great stuff and we literally didn't leave the house for a couple of days just so he could stay home and play with them all!! Thanks everyone!)

The Goodie Bags (inside was candy, a balloon, safari animal stamper, safari animal stickers, sticky frogs, and a safari animal notepad)