Number 2

Last week, was a big week here at the Mikkelson abode. Brody finally decided that pooping in the potty was the cool thing to do! Let me tell ya, we have been praying for this. And I mean that literally. God wanted him to poop too- He gets it. I promised him that we would go miniature golfing if he pooped and what do you know- he did. Before I get to the gofing pictures, I have to show you these pictures from the zoo. We went last week when it was a littel overcast, but still so, so hot. We went with my sister and nephew for a quick outing. What I did not expect, was to see the elephant family that we have at our zoo- swimming. It was the coolest thing! We must have watched them for at least 20 minutes. The daddy elephant was playing, pushing the kids under water, spraying them with his trunk, and sneaking up on them from behind. The mommy elephant was the only one not in on the action. I like to think that she was taking a small, meditation break while the daddy kept the kids busy- or maybe she needed to pee in private. Anyway, it was so cool. So humor and love these pictures too!

This is the little guy....I love it, he's like "I'm going in, who's gonna get me?"

Here are two on the kids, dog piling the dad!

Spraying! So fun! Danielle and I really wanted to get sprayed- just so we could say. "We've been sprayed by an elephant". Don't judge- you'd want to too. Admit it:)

"Marco" "Polo" Marco" "Polo"....Fish out of water?

"Hehehehehehe....he can't hear me!"

Seriously, the coolest thing ever!

Posing in front of some big ol fish

This one is hilarious.... they both look ridiculous!

Okay, so the zoo was fun. The next day was golfing! It was so flippin windy, but it made the temperature cool way down which was lovely! Brody could hardly contain himself. He was freaking out the enitre way there- loved it! Brody had decided before we even left that he wanted to do the 'castle course', which is different from the first course we did. Needless to say, it does not take too long to golf with the kids. They hit the ball, run down the green after it, and shove it in. We were just trying to keep up! I love how excited they get. It's so fun to watch.

When did they get this big?

Here is the famous castle. They were really excited for this hole!

Loving life at this point!

I don't even know what she is doing here

Brody may be a bit ADD....

These are the freaky ducks. Well, they have never actually done anyting to me yet, but I know they are plotting an attack. You can just tell.

And there's my life. The man of my dreams that will drop everything to go golfing and celebrate poop. That, my friends, makes him a keeper.

Did you bribe your kids to poop on the potty or am I the only stellar parent;)?

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Stage Fright and Cool Cars

Happy Monday! We've had a couple of busy days around here! Friday was the kids last day of Vacation Bible School! They had so much fun! Friday night they have the kids sing the songs they learned all week. Brody really had no idea what he was getting into. I kept asking him if he was excited and he was confidently saying yes! During the week, they would practice on the big stage, but no one was in there obviously. Different story on Friday night! The auditorium was jam packed and when they called his group, The Helium Blimps, I took him up to the stage, kinda pushed him up there, and quickly went back to my seat without looking back. The music started and his bottom lip immediately came out. He did hold it together and did not cry, but he was adamantly looking for us, through teary eyes, no doubt. He stayed up on stage the whole time, but did not sing a note. The camera guys kept putting his sweet little face on the big screen- so adorable! 

Still happy...

Uh-oh.

The. Whole. Time.

Miss Delaney, on the other hand, ran on stage when they called her group, The White Clouds. She  waved to us throughout her entire performance. Once it was her turn to be center stage, she rocked it. She decided that she had given us enough love and it was time to shine. 

After the performance, it was time to play! The kids went on all the inflatables, had some sno-cones and hung out with friends. Now the question is....will I be able to get Brody on stage next year? Hmmm.....

Last week a new restaurant opened near us- this is exciting, y'all. We don't have too many places to eat near us and this particular restaurant includes cars and motor cycles, so you know we there! It's called Hot rods and is pretty cool. Unfortunately, all of Tucson came out to opening night and we could not even get into the actual restaurant, so we meandered around the car show for a bit. {Side note: we did go back a couple days later for lunch: super cool atmosphere and great food}. Danielle and baby Griffin joined us for the festivities and I am pretty sure the smell of exhaust, exhausted little man. 

Delaney and Griffin

Loves looking at cars and trucks with his daddy

Checking out the M&M Nascar inside the lobby!

Delaney was very impressed with the huge Miller Lite.

So there ya...some random pictures of the fam! My menu will be up tomorrow:)

Have a great day!

Family Fun at the Fair!

It seems as if April and October are two of the busiest months of the year. It just so happens that those are the months Delaney and Brody were born in. Seriously, though, there is a crap ton that goes on during those two months. So much so, that I had to wait until May to post about it. The Pima County Fair comes to town each year in April and we love to go. Now, I am a big chicken when it comes to rides. Like a big chicken- like the Big Red Chicken that is on Dora big. I have this unheatlhy ability to freak myself out and then get freaked out about the possibility of something freaking the kids out. Ugh, freaky deaky. Moving on.... we headed out to the fair. This was our first time sans the stroller . Daylen was with us, but had hurt his back and wasn't going to ride any rides. The kids were awe struck. They were looking around, walking into people's crotches (totally eye level people- so funny), and begging to go on rides. We bought our "tickets" (which is just a card they load a number on, which I find rather difficult because who wants to do subtraction at the fair? I would much rather just count how many I have left) and headed straight to the merry-go-round. Delaney is big enough to ride by herself on many rides, but we had to ride some with Brody. So Eric and I loaded the kids on the ride and I braced myself for the lovely circular motion paired with the smell of fried food and sweaty people and I try not to vomit. I soon forgot all the crap that was going on around us and just watched the kids and listened to the squeals and I was good.

We made our way to the petting zoo. Last time, the goats were munching on Delaney's hair, so we made sure to prepare for that ahead of time. Once we were in, we immediately noticed this totally pissed off pregnant goat. She was head butting everything and any one that got her way. She was seriously mean! There were these cute little prego pot belly pigs and she was shoving them too! We did not stay too long in there.

This is actually the tiger exhibit thing

Petting the babies

A jackass and a cute little donkey (just kidding babe...luv u)

We made our way to kiddie section. The kids were totally excited. The Bumble Bees were there again this year and Delaney begged to go on them. I believe this ride needs to be retired or at least severely maintained. It was scary sketchy. The ride grinded (way loud) the entire time. Eric and Brody's bee may or may not have made it completley to the top and when the ride did go up, it squealed like the bee was about to fall to it's death at any moment. I realize it doesn't make me 'the cool mom' to white knuckle it on a kid's ride, but this one was way freaky folks. Brody spied the Monster Truck ride while we were on the Death Bees and quickly made it known that he wanted to ride them. He really wanted D-man (Daylen) to go on it with him, so being the good big brother he is, he climbed in and endured the bumpy ride (yes Eric and I seemed to had forgotten at this point about his back, so we felt awful, but I know they both had fun).

Not excited at all!

On the freaky bees

This thing hauled booty! Poor Daylen, but Brody was on cloud 9

Pilot Brody

Flying the helicoptor

At this point, we had made it through half the fair with no incident. I should have known. We decided to get something to eat and as we were walking Delaney let out this bloody murder scream. For reals, the Piggly Wiggly people came out to see what was happening, there was a small crowd staring, wondering what the hell was going on. I immediatly pick her up and am searching for a scorpion, a bee, a wasp, a snake even. I ripped her shoes off of her, rubbed her down basically, all the while she is purple and passing out (cuz that's how she rolls) and Eric is involved in the search. What was it? A grasshopper. Yep, one of those jumping grasshoppers jumped onto her leg and she flat out freaked. She kept reliving it until Eric "stomped on it" (it has since jumped onto another unsupecting kid) and then she was fine.

Not into the 'music'

Delaney was in awe of the mega drop

We got some amazing sonoran dogs and fries and sat down to listen to the music. The music was awful. I guess it would've been nice, if you enjoy that screaming kind. The kids hated it too, but we pointed out the Mega Drop ride and they were enamored with it. We decided to walk over and watch it a little closer. I do not know how people ride that ride. Staight up crazy. Speaking of crazy, Delaney and Brody saw the big, enormous slide and wanted to try it. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I agreed, but we headed up to the top. In case you don't know me, or remember, I have a slight, paralyzing fear of heights. We had decided that Delaney would sit with Eric and Brody would be with me. About half way up, I began to have 'the fear'. I comtemplated turning around, leaving my 3 year old and heading back down the stairs, but the line behind me was too long. So instead, I pressed on, yelling at poor Brody the whole time to hurry up. We get to the top, Eric sits down and they load Delaney on. I sit down and my heart was pounding. They put Brody on my lap, and the crazy slide lady tries to push us! I watched as Eric and Delaney FLY down the slide and completely regret my decision to be brave. The lady tries to push me again and I hang on to the rail until she tells me to let go. Special moment, let me tell ya. So there we go- sliding down the mammoth hill and poor Brody is grabbing my jeans so tightly as I was trying to slow us down by pushing my legs out. Needless to say, we made it. Delaney LOVEd it. Brody, not so much. He and I decided no  more slide.

We ended up back at the kiddie area and Delaney wanted to go on the kid version of the enormous slide which was still ginormous. Eric told her she could go by herself and I was less than pleased. I imagined her getting half way up, her legs freezing and her wanting to turn around (oh wait, that was me). Well she shocked the you-know-what outta me. I watched her as she pranced her cute little booty up the slide with the sack thrown her over her shoulder, watched her sit and then watched her fly down the slide. I was shocked. She was so flippin brave. She actually cried because we did not have anymore tickets and she couldn't go again.

There she goes....all alone....

I was still shocked at this point

Big. Ass. Slide.

THere she goes!

Made it!

Such a big girl

The evening was topped off with some fried Snickers and enormous ice cream cones. The fair delivered, but I would expect nothing less when it comes to my family.