Indy Museum and Zoo

Just so you know now this post is going to be a picture OVERLOAD! We got to Indy on Wed and my sister and Bladen came to stay the weekend with me. I was SOOO excited to see them I could barley stand it. I haven't seen them since Christmas so I could not wait!!! They got here Friday morning. When they got here we headed to the Indianapolis Zoo. The zoo was so much fun and one of the nicest zoos I have been to! It was really nice and pretty much every animal had babies!! My favorite was the sea lions and the dolphins! Here are some pics of the zoo:



Our first stop was the sea lions. Their trainers were out there doing a show when we got there so that was fun to see.

Looking at fish

Polar bearLunch break

Waiting for the dolphin show, as you can tell he was excited!

Giraffes. Baby giraffe was born in Dec.

Yes, Bladen got to feed the giraffe a "tato"

Rhinos

These monkeys were hilarious to watch... don't ask me why he was licking the fence

Of course we couldn't leave without riding the carousel!

Bear

Cheese!!

Watching the sea lions one last time before we left

The next day we went to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. We saw it while we were driving to the zoo so I am glad we saw it or we would have never known to go there. It is the biggest one in the US. Even I was so excited to go there!! This is the front of the museum with these life size dinos!!

Walking across the sky walk to get into the museum

They had a barbie exhibit... couldn't wait to see it!

This is the dinosar exhibit

They had this cool cave thing you could crawl in to and stick your head up and see the dinosaurs

They had a whole section on trains

.. and Star Wars

Yup this is a clock..

Bob the Builder exhibit... Bladen's favorite

Picture with Bob the Builder... we don't know why he is standing so far away haha

Playing in the Bob the builder play place

BARBIE EXHIBIT

Dressing barbie

Egyptian exhibit

Play Center

He is the weirdest child ever... he was freaking out because he didn't wanna get sand in his shoes

The last day they were here we took Bladen fishing. We have a couple lakes at our apt that we can fish at. He had lots of fun and HAD to wear his Batman tackle box

I had so much fun with them here and miss them already................ good thing I go there in a week to be his nanny :)

Recent Happenings!

As most of you know, I GOT A TEACHING JOB!! :) I will teach in Washington County at Sandstone Elementary. I don't know amy grade yet, but hopefully I will know soon! As I now it could be kindergaretn, 1st, or 3rd. I'm crossing my fingers for kindergarten... :) My principal and all of the teachers seem so nice so I can't wait. We are excited to move to St. George and start our life there like we have always wanted! I feel so grateful for this opportunity because there are a lot of teachers out there that can't find jobs. It will be a great experience and teach me a lot!

On Thursday it was my birthday! We went to lunch with my family and then later that night we went to St. George and hung out with friends and went to dinner at Olive Garden and then KRAVE my favorite places ever!!! Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes and presents:) This is us at dinner

Random pic

Today was my last day of school FOREVER... well not counting my masters. I am so excited to start the next chapter of my life and get a real grown up job:) Tomorrow we are off to Indy for the summer!

fUn iN thE SuN*

This weekend was lots of fun. Me and Annie went to Mesquite to lay out for the day while the boys worked! The weather was AMAZING! It was so relaxing and everyone knows my favorite thing to do is laying out :)
Later that night we got ready and went to eat at Olive Garden and then our favorite place.. KRAVE! Mmmmm!

Getting ready to go eat:

He's a dork!

Easter Weekend

I started off my Easter weekend by getting a massage on Thursday... it was AMAZING! Tyler always makes fun of me because I always tell him if we were rich I would have a personal massuce and I would get a massage 3 times a day! For some reason he thought that was odd.. haha :) Anyways, on Friday we were off to Mt. Carmel to stay at a friend's cabin. We went to a little home town resturant that night then the next morning we woke up early and hopped on the shuttle at Zion to hike! I am so glad we got an early start because by the time we got done, every where was PACKED! We left Zion and drove to Mesquite to stay the night. My grandma was kind enough to get us a room :) We hung out at the pool then went to dinner and bowling that night with Ben, Laur, Kolton, and Kapri! The next day was Easter, so I woke up and set Tyler's Easter bunny present out, then we were off to the pool!! It was so nice to relax in the sun... too bad the next day it snowed in Cedar!
Here are some pics:
Me and Annie at the cabin
Dinner

Getting on the shuttle at Zion

Hiking

Takin a little break.. we were bookin it!

I liked the moss..

End of the hike..Chancey was trying to be tricky!

Bowling

Layin out by the pool.. thanks for the swim suit mom :):)

Me and Kapri

sPriNg bReAk*

Me and Tyler just got back from our spring break vacay to Vegas! The weather was AMAZING and I did not want to come home! It was about 80 degrees everyday we were there! On the first day we checked into our room and I went right out to the pool:) poor Ty had to go and work! I layed out all day then went back to the room and got ready to go to the strip that night. We walked to strip and went into all the shops and watched my favorite, the fountains and Bellagio! The next day consisted of the same, me laying out all day then getting ready to go out that night. We wanted to go see the lions and MGM because they had babies but by the time we got there they had already gone to bed! This night was St. Patricks day so the strip was ridiculously busy! We saw some drunk couple that thought it would be fun to jump into the fountains at Bellagio.. don't know how they pulled it off.. Anyways, we went to dinner and went and looked at the flowers at the Bellagio. They were soo pretty and it made me even more excited for spring! The next day I went shopping at the Fashion Show mall then went to dinner that night at the forum shops! Our last day there I layed out all day again then we headed home! I was so sad to come back to this crappy weather! Here are some pics of the trip:


Waiting for the fountain show to start

Back to school we go!!!

sTg. PraCtiCum

A couple weeks ago I spent the week down in St. George for school! We were able to go to an elementary school down there and observe in the classrooms. I was in a 3rd grade class with a teacher named Charlie Phillips. The school I was at was Heritage Elementary! It was a good experience and we had lots of fun! Me and 7 other girls stayed down in a time share the whole week! It was a blast! We stayed up late, laughed, and ate A LOT! I wish I would have taken more pictures! Anyways, one of the nights we did something as a block. Me,Elyse, and Janelle planned it. We went to a park and roasted mallows and hotdogs. Thanks to Prof. K we had 90 HOTDOGS! Haha.. funny. It was fun being with everyone and having a good time. Here are some pics of the BBQ:

McCall, Janelle, me, and Elyse eating our smores

Haha.. Bree and Elyse attempting to be girl scouts

About half of the group

Roasting!

*tRaviS TriTt

For Valentines day I gave Tyler tickets to the Travis Tritt concert in St. George. We went down and went to dinner and then to the concert. When we got to the concert we took our seats, which after the opening singer we switched because they were soooo uncomfortable because we were on the second row turned all awkward and we were surrounded by old people and it was so squishy!!! The opening singer of the concert kinda sucked, but Travis Tritt was good. He sang some of his oldies which were really fun. As always there was some dandy people there that kept us entertained!
Here is a picture of us waiting for the concert to start

Travis Tritt

Ya... Tyler thought he looked good in his cowboy hat

Waiting outside to get in