The Capital

We stopped by the State capital. And sophie found a dandelion that she was very proud of. She carried it with her the rest of the day.

Hotel Swimming

After the zoo we went to Chuck-a-Rama for dinner. The kids loved picking whatever random foods they wanted.
Then we finally got to swim in the hotel pool. The kids had a blast!!! Maddie was swimming from one side to the other all on her own! Everyone was pretty worn out when we finally were ready for bed around 10PM

Hogle Zoo

We let Maddie skip school on Friday and we headed to Salt Lake for a special birthday weekend for Maddie. Our first stop was Hogle Zoo!

On the train

They had mechanical dinosaurs all over the zoo that Garen and Sophie didn't like very much. But Maddie scared them off-

Garen is not much of an animal lover actually he is terrified of about all animals. On the car ride he hollered out, "who hates dogs?" and followed it by raising his own hand and yelling "me!"

But he did like the giraffes as long as they stayed a safe distance away-

Maddie liked the tigers even though they were sleeping-

Sophie loved all the animals and was anxious to get close and say hello and then goodbye when we moved on.

Sophie's first ride on a carousel-

baby elephant was my favorite-

Maddie enjoyed being incharge with the map-

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End of the Year Pincnic for CDC preschool

We went to Garen's family picnic this morning. The Child Development Center has been so good for him this year and we have seen so much progress! He'll get to go again in the Fall.

Garen was to busy running around with his friends I only got this picture of Sophie doing bubbles at the picnic.

Preschool Pool Party

Today was our end of the year pool party. The kids just swam and had fun together. Garen had a blast. I am now ready for Summer Break!!!

Garen acting crazy as usual as he showers off-

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Preschool Graduation

Preschool graduation was on Monday. I will miss all my little cuties! I had 17 preschoolers on stage and it got a little crazy but we made it through. Garen was Mr. Class clown. He was acting silly and saying strange things in the microphone like, "I want to be a pencil when I grow up" and instead of saying his part about butterflies he said "butterflies have nothing" followed by "boo!". At one point he burped really loud and continued to do the actions to each song incorrectly. All you can do is look at that spunky little boy and laugh.

Andy took pictures and videoed for me, since my hands were kinda busy with a stage full of kids. Garen is on the far right side being as silly as always-