June 28, 2012

legoland trip today!!

brennan wasn't too scared to meet the lego man this time!

 the day started with a ride on the fairy tale brook

 then the sky high cruiser (which we hadn't gotten on since the very first time we came)

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we then promptly went to the water park.
we spent about 4 1/2 hours there!  holy cow!
and i would say 4 of those hours were spent in the water.

we started off by riding the raft 'orange rush' two times, then through the lazy river two times also.
then they played in the slide area.  for a l.o.n.g. time.
brennan went down one of the slides (tube-like one) EIGHT times in a row.
he was in love with the slides.
i simply had to spend a lot of time going back and forth from left to right, making sure i was at the bottom on the way down.
we ended up also going down the raft THREE more times in a row!

 we went to fairy tale brook again, and saw this same centipede (or whatever it is) again.  ok.  probably not the exact same one, but dashiell was convinced he is.
(there were alos several others squished and dead that he saw.  oops)

EDIT:
so i searched online, and this is a mourning cloak caterpillar...
which, believe it or not turns into the mourning cloak butterfly!
that's not the most interesting part...which is that it is the Montana State Butterfly!
we're going to have to look more closely for these butterflies next time.
there were A LOT of them around the fairy tale brook area.  Wonder if we can bring some home next time.  Hmmm...

 the misters were on!

 waiting for the safari ride.
this is what i get for asking them to both look at me and smile.

 brenny took driving really seriously.
he wouldn't let me "drive", either.

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we went through the aquarium, again, and then headed to panda express for dinner.
i decided we needed to eat in, so that the kids wouldn't fall asleep eating in the car.
good thing, because they both ate a lot...
brenny ate all the honey (walnut) shrimp on his plate with noodles, plus 3 of mine; dashiell ate all of the orange chicken on his plate, plus 6 pieces from brennan/nana's plate.
once in the car, brennan was asleep in less than 10 minutes.  dashiell fell asleep about 20+ minutes later.

derek carried them both in, and they are still sleeping.
WHAT A GREAT DAY!

June 27, 2012

pretend city today!

it was all about nature this morning

 look at dashiell, raising his hand and answering questions =)

 dashiell drew a praying mantis and brennan drew a bee

 dashiell read to me the mama llama book.
so sweet!

June 26, 2012

 not sure why, but brennan had to pose just like this without his hat on

 dash tried to put it on him, and that's not what he wanted

 he had to pose like this, and had to approve of the picture after i took it.

June 25, 2012

getting off the plane in missoula for matt's turn to spend time with gramma and grandpa

 brenny!

 showing me his hat on the plane

 showing me the cheese gramma gave him that he's going to eat

 looking out the window before taking off

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back at home, playing with brother

 surprise!
a new bike for brennan (which i think is the same one that gramma got!)
enjoying his new ride...

June 24, 2012

toc game 3

loss against whitesox (although matt started off a 6 run rally)

 dim sum with jackie and raquel

June 23, 2012

toc game 1,
 loss against heartwell royals

toc game 2
loss against the ...?  ack!  i forgot who they were.  =p

June 22, 2012

Movie date and frozen yogurt afterwards!
We watched Madagascar 3 =)
Dashiell had a ball being the only child for a few days...

June 21, 2012

woke up to a kitty in matt's suitcase

maybe she wants to go to MT too? 

dashiell's last day of kindegarten!

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kelly came by my room this morning with a big PINK box with a little red bow on it.
but apparently i could not open it until it was 4th period.
it had me worried.  =p

 there were a series of boxes...
choosing the wrong box led to a post it that said "heh heh" with an evil smiley, and some dead batteries.
the "right" box contained my present, which was a new lanyard she made for my keys  =D

chs graduation 2012
my favorite student, emily!

 christina and i are ready to go (well, not really)

 johnny and me

gramma texted me about skyping while i was out on the blacktop waiting for the procession to start.
so i turned on skype and saw brenny.
they couldn't see me though because i don't have the iphone that has a front facing camera =(
it was good to see him though!
he got a little cowboy hat!!

kelly (again!) as part of the honor guard
she was supposed to wear light colored clothing, and she chose brown.  everyone else seemed to be wearing cream.  hmmm