Anniversary Fun and then Some.....

So today is Jason and my 7th wedding anniversary!! Yay!! Somedays I wonder how in the world we have done it :) But I am so so super blessed to have him for a husband! He is so kind, patient, hard working, loving, and the very best daddy any kid could ask for! Thanks babe for being so wonderful! Here's to our next 7 years and then some! I can't wait! 

So since our anniversary is on a Sunday we celebrated a few days early! Jason took Friday off work and we seriously had the BEST day EVER!!!! 

We started out with lunch at Red Robin! My favorite hamburger joint minus one on the planet!! For those of you who have yet to go there, GO! and be sure you try the fabulous Whiskey River BBQ Burger! YUMMY!!!! The kids got balloons and lots of Mac N Cheese. 

Then it was off to the zoo! We bought a year pass when we got here and I am so glad! There is no way you could see the whole thing in one visit!! Here are some pics of our zoo trip! I posted some from the my trip with the kids a while back, but this is all new stuff that we hadn't seen yet!

Would you just look at these 2 handsome men! I am so very blessed to have these boys in my life!

My gorgeous little fam!! 

Quick side note.....

Lucas's blue balloon from Red Robin got away from us as we were headed to the car and Lucas turned to Jason and said "Quick Dad! I gotta get some wings!!" 

Is my boy cute or what?! 

Evie found a bamboo walking stick and thought it was the coolest thing on the face of the planet! She hauled it all over the zoo till it finally broke and we had to chuck it.

My fave! I heart tigers!

So these next pics are in reverse order sorry!! Oh well! We went into this huge building they have called "The Unseen World" where they have all sorts of different snakes, bugs, reptiles, amphibians, bats, spiders. The list goes on and on!! We were at the zoo for 2 and 1/2 hours and 2 hours of it was spent in here! Super cool! The kids loved it! 

Lucas loves loves loves turtles and dinosaurs so a turtle that LOOKED like a dino! Well you can imagine! I love that in this pic you can see the reflection of his awed face in the glass!! what a cutie!

More turtles!

Midget Caiman (crocodile) :) 

This little guy is just a 25 foot anaconda! Whoa nelly!! I would NOT want to come face to face with one of these babies outside!! This guy was wound all over the place! Lucas and Evie just about had a heart attack since one of their favorite youtube videos is called "Green Anaconda"!!

Check it out here

Giant snapping turtle!! Awesome! It just chilled looking like a statue! It was enormous!!

Rhino Iguana! This guy was huge too!

Jason and Evie 

Lucas had crashed hard by this time! Poor guy! 

Evie was fascinated by the stork cause she really thinks this is how babies come! 

"Lucy! You got some splainin' to do" !!! 

 

Its Timon!!!

Evie pointing at the invisible meerkat! :)

Getting up close and personal with the meerkats  

My other favorite! Hyacinth Macaws!

Well thats the end of our fun zoo trip! Afterwards we went and ate Krispy Kreme donuts while watching how they are made and ended the day seeing Disney Pixars UP! Its a good anniversary movie! Those of you who have seen it understand why and for those of you who haven't, well you are just missing out so GO!!!!!! the newest Pixar short also explains why Evie thinks the way she does about storks! After all how could I contradict Disney?!

Anywho here are just a  couple more fun pics I have taken lately and wanted to share!

Evie found a little pie tin and has been dying to make a little pie! Jason took her and Lucas out into the forest and they found a bunch of wild strawberries. They brought those home, mixed them with blackberries and she made her very own strawberry/ blackberry pie! She was super excited! But I guess wild strawberries don't taste super great! Oh well! :) with whipped cream EVERYTHING tastes good right? 

My babies are so sweet when they sleep!

Even when their faces are covered half with blanket and half with book!

And ESPECIALLY when they are  sleeping together! Aren't they beautiful!!!

Will Flip for Food

I will send $.50 to anyone who can hear well enough to figure out what movie Lucas is half zoned in on while performing his fabulous flips ( i seriously was worried he was going to break his neck with his face being planted in the couch cushion with his feet flying over top) 

Parks, Puff Paint and Parties!!! (even a little free food!!)

Ok so this is so super 80's, but I used to LOVE decorating things with puff paint. Do you remember that stuff? Well i decided the other day that my kids would probably love the stuff as much as I did and I was soooooo RIGHT!! We had a blast decorating their shirts! The kids were super creative and I think the shirts turned out GREAT!!!!

EVIE'S fabulous shirt has loads of SPARKLE and lots of FLOWERS! i LOVE how well she writes her name! She is SO ready for Kindergarten!

LUCAS had a blast putting the puff paint on his hands and slapping them down on the shirt! I drew Mater under his name and he promptly SMEARED him to smithereens!

We are a HAPPY family!!!

If you haven't read my last post, it explains the absolute NEED for a party for my awesome HUSBAND! He is absolutely amazing! We threw him a fun WELCOME HOME DAD party with these fun decorations, some bite sized pies, cards from the kids, and a shnazzy new PARKER ball point pen! GREAT JOB BABE!!

We have a super great PARK nearby and its right next to the library so we are there A LOT! 

Here is just a fun photo montage of some of our FAVORITE things to do there!

Last night, thanks to the hard work of all the sales reps in the office, we had a company paid dinner!! YAY!!! i LOVE to eat out! however the guys always get home so LATE that these dinners are at like 11 PM!! So we woke the kids up to go ;) I was NOT going to miss out on FREE food! So the kids were good sports and woke up just long enough to get settled at the restaurant and then crashed! It was WONDERFUL!!! I got to eat and talk to other ADULTS in peace and I didn't even have to worry about hiring a BABYSITTER!!!! Thanks you APX!!!!

PRODIGAL SON!

NASHVILLE, TN - Jason Anderson started working for the the alarm business in 2005, working for APX. After his first year he switched over to another company and was there for the past three years, even managing last year. After a bad experience with the other company, Anderson returned this year to APX, the prodigal son.

Anderson is now part of the Nashville office and led the office last week and this week in families protected. The first three weeks Anderson only averaged one a week. However, last week and this week Anderson has protected 10 families.

Protecting families isn’t the only way Anderson has shown initiative. This week Anderson held training for first year reps to help them with door approaches before the daily meeting. He did this on his own accord.

Yes, APX’s prodigal son has returned.

This is an article APX ran on their website for their sales reps. Can I just say that I am so stinkin proud of my hubby!!!! Jason has really been pushing himself the last couple of weeks and it is paying off!! He is doing better than EVER before and if he is able to keep up his momentum this will be our best summer ever!! He has had massive adversity including super bad allergies, ticks, and a whiny needy wife :) but he has overcome and right now is #1 in our office for sales, #3 in our region, and #119 in the entire company. Now that is out of like 2500 sales reps so in my opinion that is pretty freakin awesome!!!! I don't think I have ever been prouder to be married to such an amazing hard working husband! and I just have to brag about it :) 

Bubbles and Rain Showers

So we figured out that here in Tennessee when it rains it POURS!!!!! it is insane!! i have never seen rain like here. It is like someone is dumping a bucket of water above us. You walk outside and you are soaked in 5 seconds literally. so evie has figured out that when its raining and the wind is blowing the rain comes in on the balcony and makes a "shower" so every time it rains now she and lucas have to go out and have "rain showers" they have so much fun!!

also i broke the kids the news yesterday that we are not going to be able to go home for BJ and Renee's wedding :( i am so so upset and sad about this! i have been crying for days!  i knew the kids would take it pretty hard because we have been talking about it since we came out here and we were all looking so forward to it! so i went to walmart to get the kids each a little something to help soften the blow. they were still disappointed but the awesome little bubble blowers i got for them proved a nice distraction. they had a lot of fun with them yesterday! in fact they had so much fun that i have to run out and buy more bubbles today cause they used them all up yesterday. 

also yesterday we watched the movie "hotel for dogs". pretty cute little flick and evie loved it, but there is a really sad part and evie had her first real emotional movie experience! it was so cute! sad but cute! she was watching the movie and the sad part came on while i was on the phone with my mom. anyway i looked over and she had the funniest look on her face and i said "are you ok sweetie?" and she burst into tears and threw herself into my lap sobbing "its making me saaaaaad!!" i was laughing so hard, mean old mom that i am! it was so cute and she has never really had such an emotional connection to a movie before!! i was trying to explain what happened to my mom in between laughing and my wailing 5 year old, needless to say she couldn't really understand what i was trying to tell her the first few times i attempted. anyways thats about all i have to say at the moment.

Finger Painting Fun!

We have had the most beautiful weather here the past 2 weeks and decided we needed to take advantage of it! We cut in half a big piece of poster paper, filled plates with fingerpaint, went out on the balcony and had a blast (parts of my balcony are even painted :)) Good thing we did it that day cause our warm weather has been turned into rainy mucky blah the whole week since :) i will have to post pics later of evie's new fave "swimming suit rain showers" on the balcony. 

evie and her beautiful finger painting

mr blue face

lucas's awesome finger painting

colorful hands!

Lucas gave himself a pretty cool bright blue mohawk! whenever he has anything on his hands that he wants off this is where it goes! crazy kid!