Our last days with Steph and Sydney

Tuesday after we picked Nate up from school, and Miley took a little nap we went over to Tule Springs to have some fun with the kids. We would go there more often, but you have to pay $6 to get in. Well we brought some bread, which next time I'll bring even more since we all had such a great time feeding the birds there.

Here is the birds going crazy over a big piece of bread Nate threw to them before I showed him to break smaller pieces.

We found out that the peacocks and ducks would even eat right out of your hands, which was quite fun. Nate was a little skittish about them eating right out of his hands. He would jump away from them, scarring them a little, when ever they got one out of his hand, that is if he didn't jump away from them before they even got close enough to get the piece of bread from him.

Miley, on the other hand didn't understand that the bread was for the birds, not her. She would think about throwing the bread to them but would always change her mind and take the piece and put it in her own mouth.

There was so many peacocks too, and they weren't scared of us at all.

The babies sure had grown since last time when we came here in the spring with mom.

So after a while of feeding the birds we were going to head over to the horses, goats, and chickens area, when we turned around to get the stroller and here is what we found, lol, there was a bunch of peacocks checking out the stroller looking for food. I don't think they wanted a ride, I should have asked them.

Here's our white peacock friend again...he was a little more stand-offish then the others. We went to see the chickens next, Miley really liked them and Nate kept acting like a chicken and trying to make their noises. He is so funny.

These chickens always remind me of my pet chickens. Good times!

The goats were next. Below I got a picture of two of my good friends, Steph being one of them and Billy the goat the other. Billy is always so friendly and always comes out to say hi to me.

Here is Nate's horse, or at least the one that he got to ride last time we were here. Thank goodness he had lost his winter coat, unlike last time.

The horses were so pretty, of course I love horses so I'm a little bias. They are such beautiful, graceful, and magical animals if you ask me.

Here we all are hanging out with our horse friends, in the shade.

Bob here, at least that is what we called him, followed us around where ever we went. He was really friendly, or hungry, or both. He was really gentle and sweet, he even had to say hi to Miley.

I got to feed Bob and some of his friends, Bog is the horse above Miley.

After we said goodbye to Steph's cowboy we walked over to the ponds to feed the ducks the rest of the bread we brought.

Miley had to stay in her stroller for this. She would have dived right into the water to get close to the ducks otherwise, and I didn't really want to get wet.

We had to keep our eyes on Nate and Sydney too. We started out with 2 or 3 ducks, and before we knew it we had a ton of them, begging and squawking for food.

This big fellow and his friend were the loudest and most demanding of all the birds. It was so funny to here them begging for more bread.

Here he is right next to Steph honking for more food.

And here is Nate begging for some crackers from Steph, because he had used up all of his bread and thought she owed him some crackers.

Here is Miley saying Please over and over in sign language, begging for more bread. She says Pees, Pees, Pees, while she signs please, it is supper cute and I have a hard time not giving her exactly what she wants when she does this. It's super cute!

Some cute pictures by one of the little streams that join all of the ponds together.

As we were leaving the area were we were feeding the ducks, the Three Amigos swam acrossed the pond to where we were leaving, got out of the pond and came right up to us honking for food. They wouldn't take no for an answer.

They even asked, or begged, by flapping their wings at us. It was funny.

We kept walking and they kept following us.

They where very persistant, and it did pay off for them. Steph found them some crackers and they ate out of her hand, they even let her pat them on their backs.

In the meantime Sydney had a blast being able to push Miley around in the stroller. Her and Nate took turns doing this.

Miley just love walking around, checking everything out. It was so fun to have her out, able to walk around, have fun, and to see the twinkle in her eyes as she explores the world around her. She loves the outdoors and animals. She can't get enough of animals. It will be fun to take her to the zoo next year. I can't wait to see the adventures she has in her life.

Nate is so cute and fun to hang around too. He has so much life and energy. He can talk you ear off if you let him. It's fun to get out with him were he can be crazy and have lots of room to run and be free.

We all had such a great time playing at Tule Springs. Feeding the birds and animals, and walking around in such a beautiful place, with great company.

Wednesday we said our goodbyes and I took Steph and Sydney to the airport so they could fly down to see family and to meet Justin when he flew in to Arazona on Friday. We had a great time and can't wait to see you next Tuesday with Justin.

Sydney and Nate, saying goodbye before Nate went to school.

Steph and Sydney's Visit

We had a lot of fun with the Steph and Sydney while they were with us here in Las Vegas. Nate always likes a friend and Miley thought Sydney was pretty neat.

Here is Miley eating her first Twizzler all by her self, using her new teeth. And then there's Nate acting goofy in the garage before I took him to school.

Nate took this picture, and no that is not a diet coke in my hand at 8:40am. Lol

Here is Nate at School with his girlfriends...Mandy, Evy, and Micky...he loves these girls. They are so fun to be around.

Well after we dropped Nate off at School we went back to the Disney store and The Children's Place in the mall. Miley tried on some more Halloween outfits at The Children's Place that were so cute and such a good price.
Here she is in the witch, and a lady bug costumes.

And then the lady bug and the fairy costume. Which do you like the best?

At the Disney store I also put her in the Alice in wonderland dress, which with her blue eyes was so supper cute. She is such a cutie!

We also hung out in the play area for a little bit. There was some ruff and crazy boys there so I didn't get to sit and rest like the other moms, since Miley kept being pushed, squished or ran over by them. I even had one little boy that followed me around, wanting to see every picture I took, which was fine, till he pinched me in the lower butt area...that was a little weird.

The girls had fun, and so did Steph and I. That night Jared, Steph, and I played Phase 10, in which Steph kicked our butts....but we all had fun. The night before we watched Bill Cosby Himself. If you've never seen it, YOU NEED TOO.

Nate's First day of School!

Nate went to his first day of Kindergarten today. Last night he picked what he wanted to wear today, and we laid it out, so he could dress himself when he got up. At 6:05 am he came into our room, dressed and really excited to go to school. I got him to snuggle with me for a little while before I was told I needed to get up and ready to take him to school.

We all got dressed and Dad said goodbye after he said a wonderful prayer for Nate. Nate gave his dad a great big hug, and told him to have a good day with his workers...lol.

We went down and got breakfast for the kids. Nate said a cute prayer for the food, he also payed that he would make friends, that his teacher would teach him good stuff, and that he would have a good day.

At 8:35 we gathered the kids, and Steph, and got in the car to fight traffic going to the 2 elementary schools that are back to back with each other.

Steph stayed in the car with Miley and Sydney, and I got to see my boy off to Kindergarten. I did get a little emotional, but I didn't let it go. It was just so cool to see him so happy, excited, and ready to go.

We waited in the play area with our kids....this being the only day that we could come into the play area...

and then when the bell rang we took our kids over to the stars with their room number on them, and they explained what time we could pick up our little ones. Nate was holding his hands over his eyes like glasses because it was so bright. He was so excited.

We got to come into the class room with them and we got a gift from the teacher. It was a paper bag with a cotton ball, a tissue, and some tea. It was all to help comfort us parents.

Then we said goodbye and left feeling many different emotions.

Well we decided as the girls to go down to the mall and have fun as just girls.

We hung out at the Disney store for quite a long time....and had to much fun.

See we played dress up, I got some great deals for Christmas stuff for the kids, and we had so much fun that we lost track of time. Luckily I did look at my watch just in time to see we needed to leave so we wouldn't be late to pick up Nate.

When we got to the school he was one of the last like 10 kids still waiting for his mommy, oops. But he was so happy and told me he had a great time at school. He got to work on his numbers, the got a tour of the the school and got to see the library and where the nurse is, he got to play outside, and he got to even hang up his backpack, at least that what he told me when I asked what he had done today. He said he can't wait to go again tomorrow. So day one was a success. Yay! We are so Happy!

Meet and Greet Nate's Teacher

Today we got to go to the schools open house and Meet and Greet Nate's Kindergarten Teacher, Miss Pregrande.

She is new this year so I am hoping she will have lots of energy and ambition, Nate is a hand full at times. While we were at the school we saw several other kids from church, that will be in his class, which made me happy, and I'm sure he'll like it too. He also saw the Caceres's there, all of Nate's girlfriends, almost.

He is so cute with them. They are just the funnest, cuties girls and family.

So Monday will be Nate's first day of School...I'm so excited, a little nervous, but mostly really happy for him. What a big step in his life and ours!