Memorial Day Weekend

For a while we had about 12 new pets at our house, 11 toads and 1 water snake.  The kids discovered these toads in our window wells.  We kept them for a few days outside in a large tupperware tub and even fed them some crickets. After a couple of days my kids decided that they weren't so gross after all and it was hard to convince Tyler to let them go. 

My sister, Valerie, and her family came to visit us for seven days.  They came on the 20th and wouldn't you know after being at our house for just one hour, we had to make a trip to the ER. Kennady was running around outside with my nephew, Max, and fell on some metal landscape trim.  She got a pretty good cut on her forehead and had to get three stitches.  

The next day she was back to her happy self again, enjoying playing with her cousin.

While my sister was here we let the kids have fun at the zoo and at a gymnastics fun center. We also got a babysitter one night and went to eat ribs at Famous Dave's and afterwards went to see the new Indiana Jones flick.  A few times during the week, Val and Jarred witnessed the awesome thunder and lighting storms that we have here in the spring/early summer. We would put the kids to bed, sit out on our front porch and watch the storms roll in. One night we were even under a tornado watch. I think that the highlight of the week was when we all went to Kansas City on Saturday.  First we went to some historical church sites.

Liberty Jail

Independence, MO Visitors Center

Then we went to "The Legends at Village West" which is a huge shopping outlet plaza in Kansas City, by the Kansas Speedway. We were there for a couple of hours but we could have spent all day there. There was so much to see and so many awesome outlet stores! There was a place to eat called the T-Rex Cafe, which must have been really good because it was packed. So we ate lunch somewhere else but Tyler was happy just getting a picture with this T-Rex.

We had a busy, fun-filled week and it was great to have family visit. Now I just have to find the motivation to get back to the daily grind. 

Changes at the Crosby's

April brought a couple of changes for us. Brooke had been wanting to get her hair cut for months and I finally decided to let her. I loved doing her hair in braids and ponytails but her long hair was also beginning to be a lot of work. I took her to some place in the mall and it took the girl a hour and 15 minutes to cut Brooke's hair!  Let's just say I won't be going there again anytime soon. I think the haircut turned out cute but I don't think that Brooke could sit there that long again.

The biggest change is that last week we got a dog, a rat terrier. Call us the CRAZY Crosby's!!

His name is Eddy and he is 4 years old. We got him from the animal shelter here in town. I'm surprised that Eddy survived the first couple of days because the kids would not leave him alone.

Tyler and Brooke are so excited.  Kennady has warmed up to him too. The first day she would cry every time the dog would walk by her. She loves him now, almost too much.

 We went to a carnival here in town a couple of weeks ago and the kids had a lot of fun.  They went on a couple of rides and Tyler and Brooke got their faces painted. Of course, Tyler wanted to be Spiderman and Brooke wanted to be a fairy princess.