Family Visit

aunt Jeane Ann and Uncle Pete visited us last month, I am just slow at posting. It was really fun to see family and reminisce. It was only for a night and I wish it was longer but I will take what I can get. They got Tyler and Raquel these cute bags. They are Horses and adorable. I will post pictures here soon.

Tyler and Uncle Pete enjoying each other. Raquel liked the view from the couch.

Tyler and Raquel got a real kick out of Uncle Pete putting a blanket over his head and pretending to run into the couch and other things. I have not seen Tyler laugh that hard in a long time. I thought he was going to pee his pants.

Tyler's First Field Trip

He went to a Farm to pick apples. Got a hay ride and see the bees home..

Raquel got to go because I was one of the parents that drove. I am so glad they let her go, she had so much fun picking apples and love being around the other children.

The Bee Keeper

St. Louis Zoo

The Zoo here is awesome. It got me all excited for San Diego after seeing the see lion show. One of them even did a back flip that I did not get a picture of but it sure was amazing to see.

(Sorry the pictures are all out of order.)

This Bear was so funny the picture below was the first picture once he realized we were there he waved to us hence the picture above. It was so funny.

The Ferris Wheel lasted the majority of the time. I started to get sick from going around so many times. But Tyler and Raquel refused to get off. We went around like ten times. So not good for the stumic.

Here is one of the videos that I got of the sea lion jumping 7 feet from the water to ring a bell. So fun to watch.

First Day of Preschool

Tyler's first day of school was today. He did a lot better then his mother. I all most started crying so I had to hurry and leave his room. After school I asked him how it was. He said it was dumb and he wanted to go to another school. So I asked if he got to play on the playground and he said yeah but just for a little bit. Apparently that is why he did not have fun because it was all about learning and not enough play. We will just have to see if he starts picking up on Spanish here soon.

Polka-Dots

Raquel's new church dress. Jared picked it out. After church we took her out of it so it would not get ruined and 5 minutes later she had it back on. This went on a couple of more times and finally we gave up and let her wear it the rest of the day.

The Turtle Expedition

This was our second attempt to catch turtles. Needless to say we caught pretty much everything except a turtle. I guess we need to wake up a lot earlier.

Tyler saw a snake and was trying to hit it with a rock.
Raquel had to take her stick everywhere.

The frog we caught. It sure was a jumper.

The crawdads that we caught. They were pretty busy fighting one another.

and of course the snake that we scouted out

It was fast but Jared was clever. It was a stare down and while the snake was busy looking at Jared, Jared moved his hand slowly behind him and grabbed his neck. (not sure it was a boy but we will just say that it was)

Unfortunately, the snake escaped the bucket. Jared was not willing to let him go so he grabbed his tail and the snake sprung around and bit Jared. So after convincing Jared that the snake could bite the kids he let it go. And since I was on the roll I convinced him to let all the other critters go too.