TWO MONKEYS AT THE ZOO

Jace had a fieldtrip to the Zoo on Friday and he was kind enough to allow his little sister to tag along. By the end of the day I was ready to volunteer them as the next new addition, they would have fit in perfectly with the monkey exhibit.



Taking 2 kids to the zoo is not an easy task. There were about 4 million (okay maybe not quite that many, but way too many) other kids there on field trips as well and of course Paityn was not having any of riding in the stroller, so I was paranoid of losing one of them the entire time. All of the kids just blended together and mine would not stay by each other for anything. Jace begged me to go back in after lunch in the park, but I told him we were going to have to wait until Tim could come with us to help watch Paityn. Poor kid, it would have been really fun if she would not have been there, but he was a good sport about it.

Notice how all of the pictures are of them on toys. We go to the ZOO and all they want to do is play on the toys. The only animals Jace even wanted to see were the giraffes, the rest of the time they were trying to find something to ride, play on, or drive. Jace even ran and jumped in one of the little zoo trucks becuase he thought it was a toy. I'm surprised he didn't start it up and take off.

A Day At The Lake

I LOVE summer!!!! Yesterday was GORGEOUS, so we decided to take the kids to a lake just outside of Boise (there are lakes closer to us, but we had never been there before and someone from work had told Tim that there was good fishing there). The kids had a blast playing in the water, which was freezing but actually felt pretty good after sitting in the hot sun for a few minutes.


You can't really tell from the pictures, but there was quite a lot of beach and the mountains were beautiful.

Jace is going through an "I don't want my picture taken" phase, so he seems to have the same expression on his face in every picture. Oh well, hopefully he gets over it soon.




Paityn hasn't been around the water a lot, but she did really good. The first thing she did was run out in the water up to her bottom, which she was fine with until she fell down and was then sitting on her bottom with water up to her neck. She freaked and wouldn't get up so Jace had to save her. After that she was a little more hesitant and would only go in up to her knees. She really liked the raft though and we spent most of the time out in it. What a great day!

The Chris and Ann Yount Family

left to right, top row - Nikki's husband Nick, Jordan, Hailey, Kristin, Chad, Tim.
bottom row - Nikki and baby Braxton, Ann and Jace, Chris and Paityn, myself.

We recently did family pictures with Tim's family. This is the one that turned out the best as far as getting everyone (especially my children)to look at the camera at the same time. This is actually a picture that I took of the picture that I had printed, so that is why it has funny squiggly lines and Chad's head is almost chopped. We're definately going to have to use a wide angle lens when all of the younger kids start having kids, so far there are only 3 grandkids and I have a feeling there will be close to, if not more than 20 by the time everyone is done. How much fun will that be?!!! I can't wait, my kids need some cousins to play with!

Birthday Party Yount Style

I LOVE having birthday parties for my kids because it's the only time I get to see all of my family at the same time, in the same place. We did Paityn's party this weekend because Mandi was here and I wanted her to get to see everyone too. We had a great time, thanks everyone for coming!

I decided that since I have not really been working a lot lately and seem to have some extra time on my hands at home, I would take on the project of re-teaching myself how to sew (sorry grandma for not paying better attention) and make Paityn's party dress. Here is the finished result. It looked really cute on even though it was definatley "homemade".
We did a Care Bears party theme and I decided that since I was on a homemade kick, I would also make the cake so I ordered a cake pan online and made this cake. What a chore! I made sure Tim got a picture of all my hard work before it was consumed and gone forever!

























Oh, and have I mentioned that my children are SPOILED ROTTEN. Paityn got so many presents that there would be no way to post them all, so to sum it up she got: SO many adorable clothes; movies; books; dolls; shoes; a bike (with all the accessories); a toy horse that she can really ride; and a little kitchen. Yeah, I know it's pretty ridiculous, but it's fun!

I thought there would be several children there so I tried to plan some activities and one of them was a pinata. Mandi and I stayed up late one night constructing it (we ended up throwing away the instructions and doing it our own way). It was cute, but we made it a little too heavy duty and it took the kids FOREVER to get it broken. Oh well, it was fun for them and funny to watch. Paityn didn't even know which end of the bat to use, but she was trying.

Paityn is 2!!!!!

It's hard to believe, but my little Paity Pie turned 2 on Tuesday. She was so funny, every time someone asked her how old she was, she would say: "My 4". She thinks that because Jace is four she also should be four, and let me tell you, with the attitude she has she definately could be four.
The past two years have FLOWN by and I wanted to post some pictures of her to remind everyone of what a beautiful baby girl she was and what a beautiful little girl she is becoming. Enjoy....