A fantastic week!

We had an amazing Sring Break week together, I am actually sad that it is over and Addyson has to go back to school. We had great weather in the upper 70's-low 80's all week long. We had a week full of playing outside, playdates with friends, and sleeping in. Ethan has been so happy to have Addyson home with him to play with. He said, "Mommy, I wish every week were Spring Break." Although I am loving this weather, it really made me excited for a summer full of playing and swimming.

One of the things we did this week was The Dallas Zoo. I have never in my 4 years of going to the zoo seen so many people, especially on a week day- it was crazy. Maybe it was a sign of the recession, more people stayed home this year? Despite my disdain for crowds we still managed to have a really fun day.

We have not been back to the zoo since March of last year when Ethan broke his arm. We had to visit the infamous ostrich statue where he broke it. The funny thing is there used to be a much higher railing, which he fell from. I wonder why they cut it down?

We didn't see a lot of animals at the zoo, by the time we got there the kids were hungry and all they really wanted to do was go to the Children's area with the birds, farm animals, and this creek. As soon as Paige saw the water she kept saying "bath" and trying to take her clothes off.

I wouldn't let her take her clothes off so this is her mad face.
She eventually decided she could get in with her clothes on and had a blast! The kids got soaked and unfornately I didn't think to bring extra clothes- oops! They were still happy though.
Addyson finally got enough guts to ride a pony. She is always so afraid to try new things but she has gotten so much better over the past year, I am proud of her. Maybe we really will be able to go back to DisneyWorld someday.

Ethan is finally old enough to participate in some sports just like his big sister, so I signed him up for soccer this season. He has been so excited and so dang cute! He has been forced to follow big sister everywhere for her activities and now he finally has something of his own. Dave signed up to be his assistant coach, which has been great- he needs all the time he can get with his dad. I am bummed at the schedule though, 8:00 games almost every Saturday- that sucks! Ethan does not like to wake up early and I teach an 8:30 step class on Saturdays. I was really sad that I missed his very first game this weekend, but Dave says he did great and even scored a goal. Go Ethan! Our Soccer Stud.
Addyson is getting older and soccer is getting more competetive. She has really come a long way and is doing well in the games, she scored a goal this weekend too!

My little entreprenuers

Addyson has been wanting to try and "sell some stuff", as she would put it, for a while. She usually wants to try and sell toys or whatever stuff she can find lying around to make some extra money. Since our crappy HOA won't allow us to have garage sales we can't really "sell some stuff". Then she came up with the idea of selling food, except she wanted to try and sell food from our pantry like canned goods, bananas etc. I suggested she try and bake something to sell and so she had a plan. She baked cookies, with a little help from Ethan (and I cleaned up, of course), made this awesome sign, and set up her post. She had originally wanted to charge $1 for each cookie and I told her that might be a little steep so she decided .10 cents would be better They were very cute sitting out of the curb using their superb selling tactics on everyone who walked or drove by. Their first sell was a car that bought 5 cookies, they were so excited! We don't really live on a busy street so business was not booming but they did manage to make themselves $1.55 in about 45 minutes, not too shabby!

Aren't they cute?!
Paige managed to swipe a few for herself when they weren't looking.

Boy do I feel like a loser?!

Some of you may remember my post (here) about a year ago which I "said" that I was going to do the Body for Life challenge with my friend Chrissy from work. Well, even though I professed it to everyone that read my blog it still didn't happen. I am too cheap to buy all of the protein bars and shakes and well I will spare you the excuses- I guess I am just too weak! She is a rockstar and won with her husband!! They will be picking up their $10,000 check in May. Maybe after this next baby I will have to give it another try, maybe:)

Now I know all of the secrets to taking a before and after picture.

You can check out their story on the Body for Life website (here).