Zoo with Aunt Sarah. Sleepover at Mom's House. Thanksgiving Point with Great Grandpa.

February 28th. The last Wednesday of February The Hogel Zoo held a free zoo day. So after Sydney got done with school, we met up with Sarah and headed to the zoo. The last time we went to the zoo was in December when it was really cold. So this time I had the kids dress up in snow pants, boots, hats, and gloves, that way they were all warm.
We had a good time. We were only there for an hour and half though so we had to pick and choose what we saw.
The animals were all pretty active so it was exciting.

March 2nd and 3rd. Sarah was going to sleepover at my parents house because Brady was out of town. My mom was going to watch the girls so Jake and I could get started on sleep training William so that I can get more sleep at night because we've started working out at the gym. But once I found out Sarah was sleeping over; I figured it would be cool to have a sister sleepover. So I left home at 7:30 pm and got to my parents at 8:30 pm and got started on chicken enchiladas. We didn't end up eating til 9:30 pm. After dinner we put the kids to bed, and played a game with just us sisters. I had brought up both of our blow up mattresses; so the girls shared one and William and I shared the other. It took a while to get the girls to sleep. William woke me up at 5:30 am and I discovered it was really cold in my parents basement. So I spent some time scavenging blankets to cover up the girls (since they were curled up really tightly under the one sleeping bag I had laid on them). I immediately saw them relax a little bit with those extra blankets. I put on a movie for William so that he would lay still in bed with me. That only lasted an hour. So at 6:30 am I turned off the movie, turned on a light in the back of the basement and let William play. I only woke up a twice after that. The last time was at 8 am when Oaklee woke up to eat and I flew out of bed to find William. He was playing in the back still. He was so good to play quietly for an hour while I finished Sleeping. So I got up, and made German pancakes for everyone. After that we headed to the Kamas pool for some play time. The kids really loved it! Wish we lived closer so I could take them more often (they have a great kiddie area). Each of the kids went on the big slide with Grandpa, and they loved it so much. William even went on it like 4 times in a row, Lizzy twice, and Sydney twice, before we had to leave cause it was Williams nap time.

March 8th. Grandpa Harvey and I try to schedule a playdate about once a month. Since my membership to Thanksgiving point is set to expire in April, I figured we should go there at least once with grandpa. So we went to the Children's Museum at Thanksgiving Point. We took Grandpa to each of the 4 areas (We didn't go to the gardens because it is still cold outside); which meant we rushed through the areas a little bit. But the kids had fun. And Grandpa always enjoys playing with the kids.