BUSY!!

This post is going to cover the last 2 weeks, so buckle up! We've been having so much fun and staying busy! 

It's starting to get too hot and humid to really go out after about 11am, so most of our afternoons are spent reading, doing things like play-dough or painting at the table and watching videos or playing "baseball" on the Wii.

 This picture is Brynley going her new alphabet puzzle. It matches upper case and lower case letters. You put the upper case letter on a white spoon and the lower case on the clear spoon and she puts them together. She had a good time with it, but it was so much she had to take a break half-way through!

 Last Friday we went to the library to see "The Creature Teacher" and she had some fun little animals. She let all the kids pet a chinchilla. She also had some chirping cockroaches! She had some lizards and other fun things, like the tree frog below.

 We now have an In-N-Out about 15 miles north of us!! I LOVE In-N-Out!!! Last Saturday we took the girls there for dinner on our way up to a fun night time opening at the Dallas Zoo. We had lots of fun!

 I'm not so sure what Mariska is doing in the picture above, but they had lots of fun putting the stickers on their hats. They played with these hats for an entire week. I love that my kids are easily pleased!

 Mariska suddenly turned gangster.

 The night time zoo opening was super fun. We didn't do any of the bounce houses or face painting or anything because it was SUPER crowded... but the animals were really active and it was fun. I wish they were open at night all the time. I don't get why they aren't...

 The lion was roaring most of the time we were over there. 

 The gorilla got our hearts racing when he jumped up and pounded on the window! He did it a few times and it made us jump pretty good!

 Brent is so funny! He makes us all laugh all the time! Mariska is trying to save him by hitting the alligator.

 The monkeys were all over the place!

 This picture above is the girls walking down the "Gorilla Trail". It was really cute because Brynley would do everything Mariska did. If Mariska skipped, Brynley skipped. If Mariska hopped, so did Brynley. Super cute. Brynley sure looks up to her big sister. It was so funny, this week Brynley had some serious attitude and talked back to me really rudely, I told her not to and to talk nice and Mariska says, "She gets that from me ya know." - No kidding!!! It was pretty funny.  

 Brynley has become obsessed with playing baseball on the Wii. We just play the game where you hit the ball and try to get home runs, we don't actually play ball games, I don't think Brynley would find that as fun. Last Sunday we took pictures because we thought it was funny that Brynley refused to get dressed for some reason..

 I have finally started my CNA (certified nurse assistant) class!! It's Monday - Thursday from 8-12. This last week Brent also had his principal training, so for 3 days the girls went to a friend's house and had the time of their lives. On the first day I forgot to call when I was 10 minutes away to warn the girls I was coming to get them and I had to take Brynley out kicking and screaming... I didn't make that mistake again!

 I brought home a few gloves from my class and the girls had a great time with them. They are so much fun. 

This class is a lot different than the one I took in Utah, what - 8 years ago!! Yikes... the last one I took set the bar pretty high. It was really thuro and hands on, we had homework and tests, ect... this class, is not so much. This one seems to be more like, you read the books, learn the stuff yourself, practice at home and then class time is more just a review. She's even giving us the tests to study from... the actual tests, not just a study guide. I'm kind of disappointed because I was really excited to take real tests and have real homework and such... but oh well. I've just got to get it done. 

 I'm also kind of irritated because I can't take my State Boards until August 16th!! Then I have to wait for my license to show up before I can start applying to jobs. So it will probably be September before I can, which is seriously frustrating!! But, what can I do? Not much. So I'm just reading my stuff and going to class and eventually it will all get done. I'm really excited to get back out there and earn some extra money being busy doing a job I know I can do well and enjoy. 

 At the end of my test on Thursday they asked: Why do you want a career in nursing/healthcare? - My answer was, "I like taking care of people, I enjoy medical/anatomy knowledge (education) and I like a busy job!!" - although I was temped to put "because pretty much everything else is boring" - but I thought they wanted more details than that. - If all goes as planned (fingers crossed) I should be going back to school to work for my RN degree either next August (2013) or January of 2014.... hopefully sooner rather than later, but we'll see!

This is a random wild sunflower we've got growing in our yard.

We had fun at the library activity today, but I didn't take any pictures. It was a spanish lady doing puppets and singing songs to teach some simple spanish, like counting, saying "how are you" ect... Brynley loved the songs. Mariska actually knew most of the numbers she taught.... at the end they did the Macarena, except they spun around at the end instead of shaking their booties, which I appreciated!! It was a good time.

That's pretty much it for now! I'll probably blog again after the library activity next week.