Tiaras and Trucks: a breath of fresh air

Today Josh was off, and we had talked about doing something fun today, but when we got up int he morning all we could come up with going to the mall for lunch and Josh looking for a pair of sneakers....so we did that, the kids got happy meals, and had a great time, then we just wandered a little bit in the mall, and came home because someone (caleb) started having a meltdown when we were done in some store that had a bunch of balls he was playing with.....we came home and me and the kids played some wii while josh watched a movie, I got stuff out thawing for dinner, and then we donned our mud boots and headed out for an adventure....we ended up at the falls in winooski where we spent about an hour....it was super fun and even though we had a couple of boots get stuck in the much-safely returned to feet- saw lots of drowned worms, and thought some geese were gonna attack us, (they didnt) it was so much fun exploring, and seeing Josh and the kids interacting and watching him show them stuff and teach them about nature.
I made a nice dinner of bbq chicken. noodles and broccoli with cheese, and the kids had hot dogs,noodles and 1 broccoli :) As we were cleaning up we heard the magical sounds of "singing ice cream" (calebs quote) so Josh took the kids out to pick their ice cream,and of course something for mommy and daddy too! they had baths, and have been sound asleep since 7:15
All in all, a really nice day, and Athena put it best when she said that she made nice memories today
This is the kind of day I needed. I needed a day to just have fun and enjoy being part of our awesome little family. I feel like myself tonight, and actually was disappointed when bedtime came....of course it gave me time to play on facebook, and write about my day....tomorrow I am excited to go church and then play with the monkeys until dinnertime when josh gets home.....now I am off to snuggle with my man and watch some ninja movie that he wanted to watch....oh well maybe I can get a backrub out of it :)

looking at the "tiny fish" with Josh