"Go Park"

There is nothing that Natalie loves more then the park. If you ask her what she wants to do she will almost always say "Go Park". We spent so much time at the Draper park (which I love because of all the big shady trees) last summer. And now here we are with the best weather in weeks and I have spent everyday since Saturday at the parks. We try to frequent several so I don't seem like a stalker.

We recently had gone with Natalie's friend London to the park and kids there had a bunch of sand digging toys. All Nat wanted to do was steal them and cried when we made her give them back. So I was at Target and found this bucket and shovel for a buck. Its been the greatest...she shovels piles of woodchips and pours them on slides, while I get to read my much anticipated 9 novel series of the Tudors (by Jean Plaidy). And did I mention I have Zack almost all the way sold on taking me to London for our 5-year anniversary this summer. Oh how I dream of walking around pretending that Court life still exists. Not really but I am super excited to see the sights of what I have been reading so much of for the past 5 years.

Dino Museum

Natalie loves to wear my sunglasses so I finally bought her some of her own. Crazy but she will actually keep them on. We met up with Mary yesterday and her daughter Ellie to go to the Dino Museum at Thanksgiving Point.



They have a play area with all these plastic dino's and puzzles the kids can play with. Natalie would bring them over to me and line them up on a bench. Then she would have them kiss and tell me which was the mommy, daddy, and baby.







And below is Natalie's favorite thing of all...the sandboxes where they can take brushes and brush the sand off dino bones. We have spent more then 20 minutes in there on previous trips...its so hard to get her to leave without a fuss. Luckily we promised them ice cream to leave.

A trip to Wonderland & Easter fun!

Zack and I decided to visit Denver over the Easter weekend and attend Lydia's birthday party (our niece). Megan (my sister-in-law) has a habit of throwing big themed birthday parties and this year Lydia wanted to be Alice and do Alice in Wonderland. (Last year it was all about Dorothy and The Wizard of Oz.)

Below is Carly, Lydia's sister.

And here is our little one giving us the worst evil smile ever!

Easter hunting....

The best part about visiting Denver is the time Natalie gets to spend with her cousins. She has so much fun playing with their toys and running all over with them. She has been so tired from all the fun that she has been taking a nap sometimes as early as 9:30am. Ridiculous I know but the same thing seems to happen whenever she travels. When we took her to NYC she was reverting back to 2 naps a day and in Vegas she had an almost constant drugged look in her eyes. I must admit this little girl has been on more airplane rides than anyone I know. Pretty soon we will have to sign her up for airline rewards.

Precious Moments

I haven't been blogging lately, mostly because nothing exciting has been going on. If you can believe this I haven't even finished a book in probably two months. (For anyone that knows me I usually read one every week or two.) This is because between marathon training (having to squeeze in runs almost everyday), mudding and sanding the room from hell (which the mudding is done, sanding was finished last night), and my work emails I have to get done daily, there just doesn't seem to be enough time. My soap operas have been backlogged on the DVR for sometime now. I have to get with it! Sheesh

Well anyway, I have some really cute photos of Natalie over the past few weeks I thought I would post.

Yes she is obssessed with that pink hat I got for a $1 at Target. She wears it around the house all day. And wearing pretty pink dresses which is what she refers to the poodle skirt outfit as.

The sunglasses are the other obssession. The minute we get in the car she knows the pocket on the ceiling they are in and starts pointing and asking for them.