Kindergarten Field Trip with Miss MaKynzee

OK so in the fall I went with Lukas to the Denver Aquarium and MaKynzee was heart broken she didn't get to go and made me "pinky promise" I would go to her on her big field trip. As it turned out it wasn't till the end of the year but it was SUPER FUN!

MaKynzee and mommy at the Rhinos

Bears OH MY!

WOW doesn't she look like a model! GEEEEEEE

This chimp and it's baby were playing hide and seek. It was so cool and MaKynzee loved shouting "run" to the baby. It was really sweet!

Eating lunch with my favorite girl! Are those Cheeto lips??

MaKynzee at the hippo statue

MaKynzee at her favortie spot. We ended up at the hippo 5 times and every time we picked a new animal to see she would ask if we would go by the hippo again. So mommy helped make it happen. The hippo is in the mud hole here but we also got to see it in the watering hole and blow a huge spray of water up and call out. It was AWESOME!

Miss MaKynzee was in charge of course! My little map reader!

We loved watching the giraffe eat. It was soooo tall!

This was taken shortly after a DOWN POUR! We had to run to the gift shop and get an umbrella...thing was we were not going to let rain stop us, as soon as we had the umbrella we were out runnin' in the rain!

MaKynzee loved the Lion "cubs", there are 3 that are just over a year old. Do they look like cubs to you??? 

The 3 Princess Musketeers 

That is what they call each other. Too cute eh?

Jorieauna (left), MaKynzee, Kiley (right)

I love these girls! 

Rain or shine we had a WONDERFUL day at the zoo! It was awesome and thanks to the rain MaKynzee got a umbrella so that was HER favorite part!

Bagshaw Reunion Memorial Day- Moab UT

We had the most beautiful, amazing time in Moab, Utah! We had a Bagshaw Family Reunion and 80th birthday celebration for Grandpa Bagshaw. We have a serious love for Arches Natl Park and had a blast. It was so much fun to be with all the families we hardly see. We love our family! 

Hiking the Arches and Natural Bridges

We promised each other we would make it to Delicate Arch. It was beyond AWESOME!

At the Delicate Arch look out. The kids loved "rock climbing"!

Delicate arch view with the Bagshaw 5!

We also stopped at my favorite part of Canyonlands, newspaper rock!

Hiking the next day to the actual ARCH itself! Delicate arch here we come!

MaKynzee and her little cousin Kristen had so much fun hiking together, giggling and saying they were twins! SUPER CUTE! 

That's right we took the stroller all the way up! Way, way up!

The WHOLE family made it to the TOP! 

Climbing rocks with Uncle Justin and cousins!

Top view of Horseshoe Ruins

Boys will be boys. We had the boy cousins in our car in between stops at Natural Bridges! It was fun to see them together.... finally! 

Ok so there has been a dream of mine to hike down to these Indian ruins ever since I have seen them. Of course I thought that was crazy but then my loving husband said we could. AND WE DID...

the outlook view.

At the ruins...

this was by far the coolest EVER!

I was so amazed how they survived in these little places.

We made it! We are so excited!

 The bridge you hike down to and then pass to get to the Horseshoe ruins! Gorgeous view all the way around!

FUN at the CABIN

The cutest little pair...Spencer's cousin's wife and little girl! They were sooooo cute!

 We were celebrating Grandpa Bagshaw's 80th Birthday

Here is the birthday boy with his grandkids...only missing 2!

Grandpa had the best cake ever...

it was a fisherman on top and fishes all the way down the cake. I loved it!

I was in charge of games for the birthday party and we played 

Minute to Win It! 

Philipp: get 5 oreos from your nose to mouth no hands!

Justin: Keep 8 balls bouncing at once

Kristen: Blow a bubble across the room and into the hoop

Boys vs girls: Oranges and bananas 

Get the oranges into the hoop using your "banana"

Greatest game EVER!!!

On Sunday we went to church and it just happened to be next door to the Monticello Temple! 

I can't believe I took this picture...it looks soooo good!

My four generation James'!

L to R

James Brent, James Russell, James Lukas, James Spencer

   

Our kiddos with their Great Grandpa and Grandma Bagshaw

Isn't it GREAT!!!

Quick Trip to Boise and Mother's Day

 So we made a daunting 13 hr drive to Boise, Idaho to share a special day with our nephew Landon! He was Baptized on his birthday May 4, 2013! It was pretty awesome. After the baptism we got to have a little birthday/baptism celebration! It was a long hard journey but totally worth it!

Philipp Landon Schmidt 

baptized May 4, 2013

by his father Philipp.

He was also confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

by his father the same day!

One happy family!

Birthday PRESENTS!!!

Mother's Day 2013 

Well I got my annual mother's day flowers and am in serious, serious "green thumb" mode. 

I don't want them to die!!!

Unfortunately this was of course the first Sunday Spencer also got called into work but he made up for it...

I LOVE my flowers!!!

The kids celebrated Mother's Day by being tyrants and ended with Lukas saying "How come there isn't a KID day?" Well maybe we will eventually learn the meaning of mother's day!

I love being a mother...almost 8 years now and I would never take any of it back. They have taught me so much and I never thought I had this capacity to love this much!