SPRING BREAK

I'm sitting here thinking that the last two months have just flown by. It seems like every year goes faster and faster. This past month has been full of fun trips to San Francisco and other events. For spring break this year, we loaded the kids up in the car and headed to San Francisco once again. This time, we planned to visit a lot of the children's museums there (since Reno has NO good museums here) and the zoo. We had a blast running around, as usual. We went to the Discovery Museum just outside of San Francisco, which was wonderful for toddlers and young kids. It was very interactive and creative, and the kids had fun painting, banging on instruments, playing outside on their big playground, etc... The next day we headed over to the California Academy of Sciences, which is an awesome museum, only it was SOOOOOO crowded that it was almost not worth it. They have an aquarium there and tons of cool exhibits and science movies for the kids. We also strolled around Yuerba Buena Gardens, Seal Rock and of course visited the zoo, which was fantastic. We totally lucked out and the zoo was not crowded at all on the day we went. And they have this great grizzly bear exhibit and while we were there, their 2 grizzly bears were out playing in their glass enclosures. So we got to sit and stand less than 2 feet away from grizzly bears and watch them for about 20 minutes. My kids were ecstatic and they were completely enthralled with these bears (Dallin and I were too!).

We were in San Fran over Easter, so we did some fun easter stuff at the hotel (including an egg hunt and some fun crafts). And of course spent lots of time in the hotel pool, which is always fun. Plus, Dal and I got to eat delicious food while we were there, which is always a bonus. All in all, we had a great time. I love being able to drive over the Cali because it's so close to Reno. We already have a list of things that we will do on our next trip to San Francisco.

All bright eyed and bushy tailed before the big easter egg hunt

Checking out the goodies in their baskets

Yep, that's my boy!

Can you see how close we were to these bears?!! Awesome!

OK, I just thought this was hilarious -- especially Dallin!

Riding them turtles.

Ready for a little 3-D action

Loved, loved, loved the aquarium!

At the Discovery Museum

Getting all wet at one of the exhibits

Onto other random things: my Evan is talking up a storm these days. He loves to sing "I am a child of God" and a couple of songs from "High School Musical." He is WAY into Disney's Cars movie and has his toy Lightning McQueen, Chick Hicks and the King in his hands at all times of the day. He also runs around the house saying, "Speed, I am speed." Very, very cute.

Jacob started his soccer season not too long ago and is doing great. He's no Pele, that's for sure, but he has a ball running around the field with the rest of his team. So far, their record is 0-2, but at least his team was able to score a couple of goals last time!


And Aubrey has been loving going to pre-school. She's my artsy child. She wants to color and paint all day long and especially loves finger-painting at school. She's also become my gardening helper around the yard -- she loves to water the flowers and pretend like she's planting flowers, just like her mommy.