Zoo

So Chris had to go out of town again for military trainning. He was gone for a week and I was able to take pretty much the whole week off of work and enjoy some quality time with my little ones! I was able to go to the gym every morning and the kids got to play at the Gold's Gym day care for an hour each day while I exercised. They sure did well and enjoyed having other kids and different toys to play with! I just hope to be able to continue to go to the gym on a daily basis once I go back to work. Anyway, among the many activities we had this past week, one of the best one was our little trip to the Hoogle Zoo. The kids had so much fun looking at all the different animals. We got to see an Elephant show, which was probably Christian's favorite thing!

He also loved the Giraffe. Allen's favorite things were the train ride and the park area, they had a lot of fun!

Heidi's Birthday!!!!

So it's time to celebrate me!!!! My birthday has always been a big deal to me, my parents always celebrated it with a nice party with lots of kidsm, foods and games, just as I try to do for my kids. But now that I'm all grown up and have my own kids's birthday party to celebrate I should just stop celebrating my birthday right? Wrong!!! I'll always celebrate it as much as I can! This year is a special one because I just turned 30!!! I still can't believe it! I don't feel like 30 (most days)! So Chris, my wonderful husband, decided to surprise me with a little going away celebration. He arranged with our Friends Fernanda and Taylor Fisher to have our boys over night so that we could get away for a romantic celebration. We dropped the kids off around 4 and headed to one of my favorite restaurants for dinner: Olive Garden. Chris doesn't really love it so we don't get to go there very often. Our meals were wonderful but it was just the beginning of our party! From there we went to our final destination, The Anniversary Inn on South Temple. He had reserved the Savanna Nights room. For those of you who don't know the anniversary inn bed and breakfast, it's a beautiful and romantic inn in Salt Lake (it has a few other locations) they have theme rooms that are really neat, their website is http://www.anniversaryinn.com/ .

We had such a wonderful time, we watched movies and had cheesecake. They also bring breakfast to our room at the time we schedule it for. They have a selection of movies that we can pic from and watch them for free. We had a balcony in our room with a beautiful view and a very relaxing jetted tub. It was the best birthday ever!! I did miss my boys a lot, but I was happy to know that they were in good hands and having fun with Talan and Ariel. They had their first sleep over! They slep through the night, which doesn't always happen and when we got there to pic them up we got big hugs, kisses and smiles but Allen still wanted to stay and play more!! Thank you Taylor and Fernanda for taking such great care of our boys and allowing Chris and I to enjoy some quality time together.

Sand Box and more

This week we had a couple of really warm days and as usual I tried to get the kids outside to play as much as possible! We have a sand volley ball cort in our condominium and the kids like to use it as a "big giant sand box" so we walked over there with some beach toys for the boys to enjoy the nice day. We played there for a while untill some other kids started coming outside to play too. Allen had a shovel and so did Christian, along with some other toys. As other kids came around they Christian dropped his shovel to go run around with them a little girl came over and picked up the toy Christina had left behind, as soon as Allen saw the little girl he run after her and said: "Hey, that's Bebe's toy!" It was so funny to see his face defending his brother's belongings! I told him it was ok to share because Christian was done playing with it and he then said: "Ok, you can play with it now!" and became best friends with the little girl! That kid makes friends like nobody else! Next time we go to the send box I'll take some pictures.
As some of you know Chris has been out of town since sunday, he went on a TDY to Seattle. It's been a hard week without him, we miss him a lot but we have been blessed with wonderful help from Mindi, Angela, Jill, Nic and Julie who have been kind of taking turn watching the boys so that I can go to work. All of them also work full time and have been spending all of their free time with the boys. Thanks a lot to all of you!!! this trip was kind of last minute and Chris gladly accepted it. His work has been great at giving him time off for his military duties!
The boys are having a great time at the JAM's household and Allen has a new best friend: Nic. He is all Allen talks about since he spent some time with him yesterday. Nic knows the spider man song that Allen had only heard a little part of it and he was so amazed to hear the whole thing. Yesterday he had his Preschool program and only left Nic and Minna with the promise that they would be coming to his program, as we drove off he kept looking back and asking where is Nic? I told him they would come meet us at the school in a little while. We got some food at McDonald's and as soon as he got out of the car at the School parking lot he looked around and asked: Where is Nic? It was funny!
Unfortunatly during the program when he noticed the room gettin full of people he didn't know he called for me and said he didn't want to sit up there. We were able to keep him up tehr ebut he wouldn't sing or participate, he was extremely tired and intimidated by all the "strangers". For what I've heard, he was kind of following on his daddy's footsteps who took part of this same program a number of years ago and cried like a baby before deciding to participate!! Anyway, there is always next time! The program was beautiful and I got a couple of pictures of him sitting up there with his friends. I'll post them soon. We also got to see a self portrate he had made at the beggining of the school year along with one he made now, at the end and we could see great improvement! He has for sure learned a great deal since he started preschool. Thanks Nana and Miss Linda for the wonderful job you both do at Achiever Preschool!

Allen's birthday party!

Allen is now 4 years old!! I can't believe how fast he's growing up! He's been such a joy in our lives, he's a sweet and loving little boy who loves to play with mommy and daddy and loves to make us laugh. He's also a wonderful big brother who takes good care of his little brother Christian. To celebrate his 4th birthday we did as on previous years, invited his friends and family to a little brazilian party! We had coxinhas, pasteis, paes de queijo, brigadeiros, moranguinhos e uvinhas! The theme for this year's party was Spider Man, one of his favorite action figures, we had little spider man masks for all the kids along with spider man stickers, pencils and a cool spider man cake! The kids had fun playing together and we really enjoyed visiting with our family and friends! Thanks everyone for coming! Allen really understood this year that it was HIS birthday party and that everyone was there for HIM! He also really loved all of his presents, thank you! Pictures coming soon.

The Circus

The Circus came to town and I couldn't miss the chance to take my 3 boys to the circus for the first time!!! We were all so excited! It was a small circus with simple presentations but it was worth it, Allen really enjoyed the animals, specially the elephant, the malabarists, clowns and the bikers. I couldn't believe on the 10 year old boy riding the bike inside the metal ball with three other bikers in there! It was a fun day! The boys got to eat cotton candy and Allen even got to ride on the Elephant! It was the ride of a lifetime!!! After the Circus we went to get some dinner at the boy's favorite place: McDonald's! They love playing on their playground!

Mini Golf

So we decided to take the kids to play miniature golf, we had so much fun at trafalga! Allen really enjoyed the game while Christian had fun just running around! Allen got really good at hitting the ball with his club at the starting point and then picking it up and placing it right by the hole where he'd once again hit the ball and win!!!! Christian on the other hand didn't want to have to hit the ball at all so he'd just walk right to the hole and place his ball in it and celebrate!! We all had a good laugh! It had been a long time since we'd been there. Trafalga was actually where Chris and I went on our very first date after having enjoyed a delicious japanese meal that he prepared. I wish I had not forgotten to take the camera with us! Sorry...

Joke

So, Chris called me at work yesterday and said that Allen had just made a joke! Allen told daddy that he needed something (Chris couldn't remember what it was) and Chris said: Me too! Allen then said: Me three daddy!!!
It was so funny! Our little boy is getting so big! I can' t believe he's going to be for in just 2 1/2 weeks!
Christian is also growing so fast, he is talking so much! He repeats everything Allen says or does! He now loves to watch Diego, it's really the only TV show he enjoys so far. He talks back to Diego and helps him in all his missions! He's also a really good eater, I can't believe how much that little one can eat! He's such a daddy's boy, anytime daddy sits down to eat anything he climbs on his lap to eat from his plate. Allen on the other hand is a big mommy's boy, he has certain things and times that only mommy is allowed to help him with, he makes us laugh!