Miss me?! One might think I suddenly had a full time job or another child…neither is true. I have just be incredibly busy the last month or so! I always have big plans of updating my blog with a little something or another each and every day, but more often than not lately, the days are getting away from me and there are no updates! Yikes! I’ll work on doing better this week!
So, since my last update on Wednesday, things have been busy, busy, busy! You know, the usual. Breaking up numerous fights, dragging out the Resolve and scrubbing the carpet 15 times because Gentry has suddenly decided {after doing well for a few days} that she is too lazy to go to the bathroom to pee so she just goes wherever, working on Christmas gifts, lots of other randomness I won’t bore you with…and a trip to the outlet mall! YAY!!!!
Yesterday morning I loaded up the munchkins and we headed out for a little bit of shopping fun and a whole lotta park fun! We hit up this park which was AMAZING!!!! It was quite a haul to get there from our house, but boy was it fun!! We fed some ducks a few of our fries, rode the train and the kids played for TWO hours!! As great as it was, I really don’t recommend going down a small tube slide that has a horrid turn at the bottom to anyone over 10 years old who is toting a purse, camera and child. Now I know why my kids have issues with them…they really are NOT all that fun!! I definitely came out in worse shape than I went in!!
This has to be my favorite shot of the day…he is so genuinely happy!! I showed the kids the pictures of the park on the computer before we left yesterday morning {they needed to know WHERE they got to go if they were good while Mommy did a little shopping at the Gymboree outlet!!} and Huntler could hardly contain himself! Apparently the train looked like Edward to him and he wanted to ride on his coal tender!! Anyway, he was on cloud nine, as you can imagine!! He was beaming the ENTIRE ride!! And Gentry was pretty excited too, but she had to hang on to one {just one} of my fingers for the trek!
So after a long and exhausting day {we were gone for hours!!} I stopped here on the way home. I saw this little piece of fabulousness on our way, but I was on a mission so I waited until we were on our way home to check it out!!
Meet my newly found picture taking paradise {minus the trash…I snapped these from the car once I was back in after checking it out}!!
It may not look like much to the hundreds of people who drive by it each and every day, but let me just tell you that I fell in love with this place…it reminds me so much of Kansas! I keep calling it a “place” because I don’t really know what it is!! A bunch of rustic, weather, tattered wood with ancient fence posts and tall grasses {weeds} out in the middle of vast expanses of desert with mountains in the background!! Oh and there are cactus too {found some prickles in my pants cuff last night — OUCH!}. And probably home to rattle snakes, lizards and scorpions as well. And large rocks. I may or may not have ran over a rather large rock that made a horrible clunk underneath the mini van {startling the kids and me} while driving through the desert to get here. I’ll let you be the judge of that one!!
I absolutely can NOT wait to take the kids out here! But, I do have to wait until after Christmas! I got Gentry this dress at the outlet {for Christmas…but she was wearing it around after we got home yesterday…she is only two, she’ll forget how much she loved it!!} and it totally strikes me as a “Sassy Cowgirl” dress with the denim and her pink boots. Hello cuteness!! {Sorry it is so tiny…I took it off of a website and that is as big as it gets! But aren’t the buttons fun?!}
There will also be some polka dot leggings involved and a green shirt under the dress…and the boots of course!! I can hardly contain myself with all of the ideas I have!! And no worries…Huntler got a dapper little sweater that will look great too, but I can’t find it anywhere online!!
So the Christmas jammies from a couple of posts ago made it this week too! I got really lucky and it looks as if they will both fit! The shirts will be snug, but that is just the style. Funny thing…my kids only wear the really loose fitted pajamas…never the tight ones. Is that weird? What do your kids wear? After Gentry was somehow mistaken for a boy last year at the Polar Express I will most definitely be making her some fabulous hair accessories to match! She most certainly looks {and acts} 110% girl, but I have something really unique in mind I want to give a try!! It won’t be this week though…maybe over the long holiday weekend!!
I guess I should get back to work! Sis and I ran errands and were out for about 5 hours today and I got NOTHING done!! So, I need to make the most of this next hour I have before I crash myself!!
Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!!
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by Bethany
Love the new photo location! Definately Kansas looking! Have fun!
LOVE the picture of Huntler! He does look like he is in heaven. Pure joy. The park does look amazing and with the train, it was right down Huntler’s alley. Good job, Bethany! Sorry I missed your invitation to chat today. Have a great day tomorrow! Love, Debbie