Aroma Therapy

I'm not going to vent but I will say juggling school, church, emotional issues with myself, kids, and hubby, along with the household stuff has been quite a challenge for me lately. Jay surprised me by saying he wanted to get out of the valley and spend time with the family. I took him up on the offer. So I did my Autism walk at 6:30 am at the Phoenix zoo. Came home and helped with breakfast, getting kids ready, changed my clothes, loaded the car, and off we went! We hadn't been to Prescott for quite sometime so we decided to go there and see the Susan Hall museum and enjoy the town. It was fabulous!I was taking in all of the leaves changing colors and enjoying the cool breeze. In fact my whole family had their spirits lifted. The kids think their mom is nuts because I took off my shoes and socks to FEEL THE SOFT COOL GREEN GRASS under my feet and hear the crunch of the leaves. I also made them stop when we were walking along a creek to smell the dead leaves and dirt to appreciate the smell of fall. What memories for me! (Potato harvest)
In this picture they're some sour faces, they really did have a good time. Look beyond them and see some of the red in the leaves...

Imitation of "Rocky".

Couldn't resist to not take this picture. Brock was drooling over the car and so was his parents. Brock says "Its only 22 grand lets get it". Hmm, we'll think on that.

Madie looking for a cowgirl hat to wear on Halloween.

This is not in Prescott but this where we spend our Wednesday nights. Brock had his last football game this week. Their record is winning 2 games and losing the rest. I wish I took a picture of Jay up in the both announcing the game. He did a terrific job and it was therapeutic for him!

Fall Break...

This past week all of my kids had fall break and where I intern is fall break. So I decided to have some fun with them on the west side of the valley, when I didn't have college classes. On Wednesday we went to Peter Piper Pizza, ate until we were sick with the all you can eat buffet. The kids enjoyed playing air hockey all kinds of games to earn tickets for their prizes. The boys' spoiled Madie by letting her pick whatever she wanted while they only got one item. She couldn't ask for any better brothers' than them.
Then on Friday I gave into Drake's request since he has been begging to go to our favorite zoo the Wildlife Park for the past year. We used to go all the time until the prices have doubled. I used my $3.00 off coupon to save a grand total of $12.00. We had a great time and I could have stayed there longer but my feet and Madie were getting tired.
Here are some of the high lights at the zoo that we enjoyed. We are breaking the rule to not feed the monkeys but we couldn't resist with this baby Gibbon. Drake is taking a turn to feed it.

Brock's turn to feed the baby Gibbon. (I wish I got a picture of Brock trying to hand his phone over to the monkey "Dexter" (the type of monkey who plays in the Night at the Museum).

Madie feeding the black Gibbon monkey. He was really sweet!

Madie loving every minute of the petting zoo. This Llama came right up to her.

The new exhibit is the aquarium. We stayed here forever and even fed the sting ray shrimp. Notice Madie's fingers, she was so good to follow the instructions. "Touch them with 2 fingers on the back. Avoid the eyes and the tail".

Drake finally getting a chance to pet the sting ray.

Another part of the aquatic building is touching baby sting rays, horseshoe crab, and star fish. This water was so clear my first thought was how is that alive without any water? (Time to get the ol'e eyes checked)

We also fed the giraffe's which is a highlight and saw all the little new baby tigers, and wild cats that is so famous at the zoo. The kids got to see in action just how Tortoise's reproduce. I've never seen land tortoise's get so much attention before! They also have a new ride (robbery) that is a log ride. I supported the zoo by going on the ride and we all had fun getting wet, accept Madie (she got a little scared at the end). I am preparing them to go on another trip to Disneyland in the future...

The invention...

So today I went to Target and Madie found the toy that I despise...I thought by having a girl I would not have to go through this again... It is POKEMON. Yes she and I had a long drag out talk about this toy. Whoever invented this toy, cards, and shows needs some serious therapy!

Halloween is coming!

Halloween is coming, coming, coming. Halloween is coming oh what fun! This is a tune of a preschool song that we used to sing when I taught it in my home.

My spirits have been lifted up with the cool morning air! I can't get over how much my emotions play with the weather!

Well I have decorated my house with Halloween stuff, made gingersnap cookies (to make my house smell good), have the costumes picked out for Halloween! I absolutely love this time of year! I don't care for the grouse scary costumes but the original ones. People who are so creative on making it themselves! My brother in law is awesome at this! I know call me crazy! So with it being Halloween around the corner I thought my music selection for my blog should match.

Happy Halloween everyone!