end of May

May is always so busy, but yet so fun. In fact, it was so busy that is why this post is a few weeks late!  Selah and I visited this new little man. I've known his mommy since 4th grade and now we are having kids of our own. Time goes by so fast!

Every year we have a cookout with all my cousins. The kids play so hard that they don't have time to nap. That is unless you are Evangeline...she will always find time for that no matter where she is.

Then we had a fun time hanging with some friends.

Evangeline has no problem getting dirty when she eats. She has been walking around ever since asking for "strawberry cake".

AJ took us to Patachou on his day off and then to the zoo. I could hear bits and pieces of Evangeline talking in the back and she was saying things like "thank you", "obey", "Jesus", "Amen". When I turned around she had her hands folded and her head bowed. Melt. My. Heart.

She really gets in to singing songs and doing hand motions and always requests Veggie Tales to be playing while we are riding in the car...which is then followed by Ari saying that he is all "veggied out".

For some reason we have never visited the gardens or the butterfly exhibit at the zoo in all the times we have been there, so this time we planned to go there first so we didn't run out of time.

Ari liked to play tour guide and was escorting us around.

I don't have any clue why...but the "race a cheetah" is always a big hit. 

This time Evangeline wanted to do it...but when it was her turn she just got up there and started to cry! Thankfully we knew the people behind us and she was able to have her random meltdown without us feeling too badly for holding up the line.

Apparently we hit her breaking point at the cheetah exhibit because it didn't take long for her to fall asleep on the way home.

We love doing picnics at the park. We don't have to rush them home to get the kids fed and I don't have to cook!