The Jurassic "Grand Slam" - Day 1

We had planned to head up to the great white north for an extra long weekend, but instead the cousins came down here (they are more mobile than us at the moment, and they don't have to bring strollers, playpens, and diapers) so we could go on a couple little dino adventures around here :)

Adventure #1 ~ Drumheller

First Stop: Royal Tyrrell Museum
Super fun, super hot, super busy - next time we go on a Tuesday :)

 I am SO sweaty in this picture...so sweaty

A little picnic lunch pre-museum

 Sweet Baby A ♥

 



Heading inside...

 

 

 Adventure #2 ~ Dino Splash Park!

 ARGH!  Run from your life!

 Our little Party of Five

Adventure #3 ~ Reptile World!
aka my own personal nightmare, basically the only thing that would have made it worse would have been if there was like a bunch of sand all over the floor (sand is not my favorite)
Alex getting ready to hold a snake - the snake guy was AWESOME!

 My oldest baby...

 so grown up, he loved it

sigh ♥

 This was Mack at Reptile World last year....he seems so little :)

 

This was the best day....

Out at the Corn Maze....it was by far my best day this summer.

Now if you follow me on instagram or you have read this blog, or you know me "in real life" you know that our Matea has a speech delay.  For lots of kids that means lots of things, but our Matea is just not a talker...like at all.  She communicates, but instead of saying "Hey Mommy thanks for the super cool Nutella sandwich, can I please have some more?"  She will take my hand, we go to the pantry and she grabs the Nutella, and then goes and gets a knife and sets everything up on the counter for me.  Speech delay :).

So at the corn maze when she fell in love with the goats, I am so thankful that we had the opportunity to hang out with them for an extended period of time...because Matea and I....we had our first conversation ♥

 This was REALLY hard for me....shudder.
Not a barnyard animal fan...I know this puts me in the "terrible mother" category

She took a particular liking to this sweet baby goat...he was the topic of our first conversation ♥

He had a little house that he climbed up into and we could feed him grass and snacks.

Matea asked a million times for me to keep lifting her up so she could see the goat.

Me: "Say up please"

Matea: "Up please"

The tenth time I hoisted that 48 pounds up so she could look at that baby goat, and see his little house, she looked me right in the eye and said...

"How he get up there?"

I darn near dropped her!

I started explaining that the goat had a teeny tiny ramp that he climbed up whenever he wanted to see all his friends....she was looking at me like "what?!?"

So I showed her the ramp and said "goat climb"

She had a big smile, and I didn't have to lift her up anymore.

(my little bro and I commemorated the occasion with a selfie)

And we moved onto the chickens....

It was the best day :)

 

 



3rd Annual M & M (and Asher too!) Super Fun Summer Party!

Last weekend we celebrated friends and family with our Summer Party, the weather held out until about the last 20 minutes of the party - which I thought was awesome :)

Two fun bouncers!

A little obstacle course

 Super fun pirate ship with a big slide :)

 Friends and Family Fun

Aunt Joyce, the GP cousins & Grandma Schurman

 Friends and cousins

 Alexandra

 Corbyn

 The Schurman's

Auntie Kyla & Uncle Jer loving up Baby Asher

Bampi & Sweet Baby Asher

 Being the cool kid

 The set up

 

 No climbing up the slide Matea!

 Nana & Alex

 Sweet Sadie Jae

 Oh and of course THE BEST picture of the day!
♥ you Tracy!

 My littlest little getting lots of love

 Our Atlanta cousins came too!

 Everyone had a super fun time :)