Swim Time in the Nile River

Thursday, my sister & I took the kids to the zoo to play in the Nile River in the front entrance of the zoo and another geyser type fountain *no pics of fountain-camera went dead*.   Few years back, you were not able to do this.  I was not prepared for the kids to wade in the water.  I had no clue that we could swim/wade in the water.  My sister failed to tell me that the kids could swim/wade in the water before our outing.    From the looks of the pictures below, we will be going quite often to play in the water and next time with swimsuits.  The zoo membership will get good use this summer :)
 

Here is everyone in our zoo trip crew ;)

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MIA.....

Hi everyone,  I have been MIA since I have been back from vacation.  It's hard to keep up with my blog when all my kidos are home wanting me to swim & play with them for hours at a time.   Since summer is here, I will not be posting as much so I can spend quality time with the kidos.  I will try to post pictures of my trip soon.  I am still going through them all (300+ pictures...lol)

Until then, miss & love all you guys!
 XOXO

Vacation Approaching: June 4 -14

I can't believe my vacation is fast approaching.  I will be out of town June 4 - 14!  We are visiting The Hubs family in Long Island, New York.  We all are very, excited for this vacation.  We haven't been there since summer 2008, you can read my previous post on that here.

We do know what exactly we are doing while we are there.   First we will go into New York City Tuesday or Wednesday to the Toys-R-Us - Times Square, then off to the American Museum of Natural History and maybe Central Park Zoo.   Next, is The Hub's grandfather's 88th birthday, so the whole family will be there to celebrate this wonderful man.   One day sometime that week, we will go to the beach too.   The water is soo cold up there, hey but we love it.   We don't have beaches here..lol!   On Saturday the 12th, we will be going to Splish Splash Water Park.   We went back in 2008 and it was a blast.   They have great area for little kids ages 6 mos - 6 years.

I will of course have photos of our trip when we return.

For our trip, I had Sweet Pea's hair cut, what do ya think?

Oh yeah, I can't forget to leave out what Small Fry decided to do with my camera a couple of days ago.   He decided he wanted to take some pictures and BROKE the LCD screen.   I can't see what image I am taking.   So needless to say, I had to go buy an inexpensive camera before our vacation.   How lovely is that!

I have to say I got a really good camera for $110.  

 Samsung SL605.

Check out this video.

I almost forgot, over the holiday weekend, we had a family get together Saturday at my sister's house with swimming & grilling.   Today, both O-man & Sweet Pea have swimmer's ear in the same ear.  This is the first for both of them.   They have been swimming for years now and they all of a sudden get this before we go out of town. 
What else could happen? *knocks on wood*

I can't believe it...

School is over for the summer. Today is my kiddos last day of school. I will be going to check them out so they don't have to spend all day, just enough time to eat lunch and get report cards. Summer is officially here. Time for sunscreen, flip flops, sleeping in, swimming pools, vacations, etc.

We are taking our vacation June 4 -June 13. We have made a tradition that every other year, we go visit The Hubs family up in Long Island, NY (Bayshore). It will be a road trip, takes us 2 days to get there. We usually always end up in New York City Toys-R-US Time Square Store. Let me tell you, it's FANTASTIC. They have a ferris wheel that the kids ride, 3rd floor is Lego Land with gigantic lego structures...O-man loves that floor. We go to the American Museum of Natural History. Last year we didn't get to see the dinosaur fossils, we had to catch the train. This year, we are definitely going back for that. We usually go to the beach too. We also went to the Bronx Zoo which is asking for donations to stay open.  We may go to the Central Park Zoo this time, not sure though.

To check out our last trip to NY in 2008, click here to view the pictures!

Summer Fun is here!

This past week, I went and bought the kids a pool and we The Hubs set it up on Saturday.  My kids and my neighbors kids were having some summer fun as we were filling up the pool.  Take at look at the pictures I took of them.

Summer is approaching due the HOT weather we had this weekend, in the mid 90s!

The Hubs attaching the pump hoses (Sweet Pea & O-man in pool)