the greatest show on earth...

So the whole downloading thing is still not working and I'm really bummed because I wanted to post some pictures of our exciting weekend. We got to go to the circus!! I have never been before so Brian surprised me and bought tickets for Saturday. What a sweet guy :)!! I think I enjoyed it just as much as Duncan. We were able to go early and walk around with the elephants, horses, zebras, and tigers. It was amazing to be so close to the elephants. I could have just stood there and stared at them. They are truly incredible.

After that we made our way into the main arena. There we watched one of the elephants come out and paint a picture. The girl, who I am guessing is the main elephant handler, was telling us that she is a fourth generation circus performer and has been around elephants her entire life. Clowns were all around us. I kept getting sprayed with a water gun by one of the clowns while we were watching the artistic elephant.


They cleared out the ring and the show began! It was so entertaining. Brian said it seemed so much smaller than he remembered from when he was a kid. I wonder if it is any smaller... or maybe he just got bigger. hehe! Out of all the acts, I really enjoyed the tight rope people and the elephant acts. I didn't realize that elephants were so flexible... for lack of a better word. I have only seen them standing around, but they were sitting on stools and climbing all over each other.

I still can't get over how expensive it was! The cotton candy was $12!!!! I mean it came with a pointy hat and all but that is excessive. I wanted to get Duncan something , so they were selling these fancy flash light things so we bought that and it was $22. Absolutely crazy!!!! Anyway, it was so much fun and of course Fiona was perfect. She really liked all the lights :).

Thank you my dear husband for a truly remarkable weekend!!! What an awesome memory for our little family :)

On Sunday I opened at Starbucks so we couldn't go to church. When I got off, we did a ton of yard work and got all the beds ready for some planting. I can't wait to plant some flowers!!. Duncan had a blast finding all the bugs and worms, and helping collect sticks and things. Boy was he dirty last night!



Fiona has her 6 month checkup tomorrow. I am looking forward to finding out how big she is :) My chunky girl! I am so grateful for this little girl. I can't believe how much I love her. I know this sounds silly, but before I had Fiona, I was concerned about loving another child as much as I loved Duncan. But it is so neat how you really can love all your children with THAT kind of love. What special love that is... it really makes me understand a little better how much our heavenly Father loves us. It seems so much more real now that I have children.

As soon as I am able I will post pictures from the circus and from Easter :)



The picture of Fiona is from a few minutes ago from my phone and this picture of Duncan is a few months old, but I love it because he looks like such a little boy.

First food!

Here is Fiona's first time eating rice cereal. She definitely gagged on the first few bites but then she had the hang of it. I don't think she loved it though. She still won't take a bottle, so I am probably going to try a sippy cup sometime soon. I can't believe she is six months old.

I am going to have to have to upload all my pictures onto an external hard drive, because the startup disk on BOTH of my computers in now full. This is preventing me from uploading any new pictures. So hopefully soon I will have the problem remedied.

Yesterday, I had a temperature of 102.6. I have no idea what was going on. It definitely was not a pleasant day! Luckily, Duncan and Fiona couldn't have behaved any better and they let me just rest... except for the occasional potty run with Duncan. I am feeling much better today. I am just a little weak and I still have a scratchy throat. Thank the Lord!

I think that Duncan is now potty trained!! Woohoo! He hasn't had an accident for two weeks now... including night time and naps! He is so sweet, and growing up so fast.

For about a year now I have been wanting and praying for a bike trailer for the kids to ride in... so this past Saturday Brian found one on Craigslist for only $20!!! He called the guy within 30 minutes of him posting it and was able to pick it up that morning. God is good! It looks practically new! When Brian picked it up the guy told him three people called asking for it immediately after Brian. I am so excited! We will have lots of fun with it this summer.