Philadelphia Zoo Trip!!!

Today we went to the zoo with Doug and Krista and their kids, as well as Doug and Brandy and their kid. The Philadelphia zoo is the oldest zoo. It was the first zoo in the U.S. Neat! When we got there, the first thing we saw was that they were doing camel rides :) it looked way fun and we plan on doing it one of these times. It was nice and hot through out the day but luckily there were tonz of trees to shade the girls through our adventure. It was really fun to see Giraffes, Rhinos, Elephants and all the big animals. Fun Fun !!! so yeah, just a little update about us ;)

The Atlantic Ocean!

Saturday, we went with a group of wives to Atlantic City. Atlantic City resembles Las Vegas BIG TIME! The only differences are temperatures (about 15 to 20 degrees cooler), cleaner, and LARGER! There are casinos, tons of different nationalities, shopping, shopping, and more shopping!!! It was a lot of fun. We ate lunch in Ruby Tuesday. That was a very, very small restaurant and the service wasn't that great. They sat us in the corner of the restaurant right by the bathrooms :( We then headed off to the little shops nearby to do some shopping. We hit up the Kids Outlet, Nike Outlet, Disney Store (I bought the girls some Minnie Mouse flip phones in hopes that they would leave mine alone), and the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (YUMMY). After we shopped around, we headed over to the boardwalk and beach. CUTE!!! The girls dipped their feet into the ocean for the very first time! Taylor dipped hers in first but absolutely hated it! She cried and screamed. Alexis was super excited about the water, that is until it got to her feet and then she cried. Hey, at least they can say they've been to the Atlantic Ocean and dipped their feet into it. I'd have to say that the water was cold but not nearly as cold as it was in Oregon.

Baby Pool

Well here is the latest update :) since we cant take kids in the pool here at Wyncote, we went to walmart and bought a pool and stuck it in our apartment ! Thanks Holly for the idea :) As you can see, they absolutley love splashing in the water and Taylor loves to lean forward and dip her face in on purpose. This is the greatest idea yet because it keeps the girls entertained as well as Krystal :) We have the tv turned towards the pool and we are all watching The Three Little Pigs cartoon (Thanks Mom for sending it) while we splash in the water :) sorry about the picture quality, I took them from my phone. (Tay Purple - Lexi - Pink)

Ha ha ha ha!

So, I sat Taylor down on the ground with a book that her Aunt Hopey made her and Alexis. When I came back, she had untied the bow that keeps it closed and had plucked 3 of the feathers off the "crazy bird" page! I didn't get a picture of it right away because I was worried about her putting the feathers in her mouth, but I placed them on her so you could see the damage!!! What a little cutie!

Well, we're on our third week here. We haven't been out to do much. We've been to New Jersey (by accident), Willow Grove Park mall (it's freaking huge), Target, ShopRite, some parks and church. I'm hoping to go the the ocean, New York City (it's only 1 hour & 45 minutes from us), Independence Hall, Liberty Bell, Valley Forge and anything else that would be cool to see. Thayne has been doing well, especially since he's still a little rusty. He did meet the parents of one of the Temptations singers. The Temptations sing the song "My Girl." I thought that was pretty awesome! Alexis loves to roll over onto her tummy ALL the time. She gets into the crawling position but face plants because her hands don't know how to coordinate with her legs yet! I think she's starting to get some teeth. She has seemed really bothered lately, constantly sucks on anything and everything, and drools a ton. I keep looking at her gums but I cannot see anything yet, so cross your fingers that this onory little act she's got going on is a result of teething and not her true personality coming out!!! Kill me now if it is her true personality! (sigh) Taylor seems to be right behind Alexis in her progress. She's doing what Alexis was doing 2 weeks ago, which is starting to randomly roll over onto her tummy for a minute and then roll back over onto her back. She's not showing any signs of teething, however. Thank goodness!!! Or maybe not. I don't know if I'd rather have them get teeth at the same time so we can get this over with...yeah, I'd rather deal with them being onory at the same time instead of being onory at different times. Ugh...I thought we were done hearing them cry so much! Oh well! Moving on, we have a pool here that we really want to go to. The only problem is...THEY DON'T ALLOW persons wearing diapers of ANY KIND to swim in the pool, 20 minutes EVERY HOUR (yup, you read that right) is dedicated to adult swim ONLY, and no FLOATIES of ANY KIND are permitted in the pool! GAY GAY GAY! There goes my sanity! The girls LOVE LOVE LOVE the water so I was planning on spending most days at the pool. Guess I won't be doing that. Don't get me wrong, other than having a come-apart the other week and thinking I'd be better off going home, I like it out here. I honestly feel like I'm living in Snow White's world because there are birds singing everywhere, bunnies hopping across the lawns, squirrels darting across the ground and it is super green everywhere. Anyways, I'm going to take the girls to the pool, regardless of what they said. I'll have to let you know how that works out.

Fun!

Thayne likes to do this with the girls. They seem to love it. He learned it from one of the guys we're out here selling with. They call it the monkey swing. Seems fitting since the one swinging the girls is a monkey :) The first video is of Alexis and the second one is of Taylor.

Philadelphia, PA

Don't get too excited! We're sorta borrowing the internet from someone. Hey! They didn't lock it and we're waiting for some money before we get our own, so we figured we would borrow theirs in the meantime. No worries! We just won't put a lock on ours for the first little while kind of as a pay back. Anywho, here is our apartment (excluding the picture with Thayne's mom). She was here when we were still in building 3. We moved into building 2 over Mother's Day weekend. Let me tell you about our trip out here. IT WAS LONG!!! Wendy and I began our journey on Monday at 7:30 a.m. Our flight left SLC at 10:25 a.m. We had a 3 hour flight to St. Louis, where they landed the plane but only deboarded a few people. In the meanwhile, we had to sit on the plane. Our flight proceeded on to Chicago. We were supposed to have a 2 hour layover. We ended up having a 4 hour layover. The weather in Philly was just too bad for flying. They finally said planes could land in Philly, so we boarded our plane. Right as we were at the take off mark, we were told we were not clear for take off. We had to wait there in the hot plane for 25 minutes. We got the clearing to take off. The flight was a little over an hour and was pretty pleasant, other than the fact that the girls were SCREAMING THEIR FACES OFF!!! Luckily, Wendy found something that worked for Alexis for a little while. There was an African American gentleman sitting across the aisle from Wendy. Alexis wanted to stand in the aisle, so Wendy let her stand up in the aisle so she could feel the vibrations from the jet engine on the bottom of her feet. As she stood there, Alexis just flirtted up a storm with this gentleman. That's my girl for ya! Once we got to Philly, they told us we could not land. We circled the airport for 20 minutes. There were so many planes waiting to land, I KID YOU NOT, the sky was lit up with lights from so many planes. I honestly tried to count the number of planes I saw waiting to land and there were so many that I could not count them all. We finally got to our apartment at 12 a.m.

Sealing

Hooray! We are now an eternal family! Thayne and I had our beautiful little girls sealed to us April 25, 2009. What a wonderful day :)The girls looked like little angels when the temple workers brought them into the room to be sealed to us. Taylor did exceptionally well. It was Alexis who was not happy about the whole ordeal. Someone said to Thayne, "She was just unhappy because she realized she was being sealed to you!" Ha ha ha! That was pretty funny!

Las Vegas!

VIVA LAS VEGAS!!! So, we went to Vegas for our anniversary. These last two pictures are of the first motel we stayed in. WHAT A DUMP!!! I can't believe we paid money to stay in this! I felt so dirty just by looking at it.

Here are pictures of the second place we stayed in. Now that is what I'm talking about! It was a really nice room. And to think, it was cheaper than our piece of crap room we stayed in the night before! Hmm...anyways, we were lucky to get hooked up with some tickets to Le Reve. What an awesome show that was! If you're ever in Vegas, be sure to see it!!!

Our third day we spent seeing the last few casinos that we had been wanting to see. We also went to Sigfried and Roy's Secret Garden where they had dolphins and lions. Lastly, we hit up the M&M factory and watched a quick 3D clip about the red M&M losing his M. It was quite cute!

Penny Penny who's got the Penny :)

K, this was a lot of fun :) Rollie and Heidie came down for the weekend and he told me about this penny game. I thought I would try it out and Cort happened to be here again so he got to be our little star :) The penny really does get harder to pound off of your head after each try, but on the third try I take the penny away without them knowing but because of the impression, they think it is still on their head. It seems like it's still there :)

The Spoon Game

K, this was awesome :)