Yes, I am alive :)

Sorry I have been lacking in my posts :( We have so much going on around here. I was sick, finally got over it.... We went to the zoo on Friday for a behind the scenes tour with my friend Natalie, her husband Brent, the triplets and their friends from Tampa, Vanessa, Steve & Isabella. Then we had Michael's birthday party over the weekend and another friends birthday party. Plus we went to dinner with PaPa & Penny to celebrate Michael's' birthday. Then started the week with baseball practices and we are getting ready for our school's big auction, which keeps us very busy this time of the year.
Dave & I will be celebrating our 10 year in May and are trying to figure out what we are going to do. We would love to do a short trip, but a few things are causing us to hesitate. We have never left the boys before, I know that is crazy, but we are lacking in family to keep them, so it get tough. So we would like to do just do a few days and want to make sure it is worth the travel time. Also, the economy is not great, so we have to be smart about it.
I am behind on blog comments, but have been catching up on my reading. I miss it, but have to sleep too :)
I am so excited for my friend Lucy, she will be holding her precious baby boy in her arms on Thursday. She is being induced and could use our prayers, for a wonderful labor experience.
Even when life gets this busy, I try to remember how blessed I am! Here are some pictures to catch you up......

Our Zoo Trip
Michael's Party

More Party...

Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

Psalm 46:10

It's a Zoo out there......

We decided to take advantage of our temporary "winter warm-up", and head for the Zoo today. Unfortunately, I think everyone else had the same idea. We waited in traffic for over an hour before we finally got in the gate.

Michael must have asked us at least 15 times "Are we to the zoo yet?"...

We started with seeing the elephants, hippos, anteaters and more.....
Then we visited the Insect house, the boys were so excited to see the spiders, beetles and butterflies.

We stopped and had a snack and then Michael was dying to ride the train, so we waited in line and relaxed on a 20 minute ride around the zoo.
We were able to catch feeding time for the sea lions and then visit the reptile house, this is the boys favorite place for sure. They are obsessed with turtles, frogs, lizards and snakes. I have feeling that whether I want it or not, we will eventually have one of these for a pet :)

After spending the afternoon at the zoo, we decided to head to the Spaghetti Factory. The boys had been asking to go lately, and we decided that this would be the perfect time. There can sometimes be an hour or more wait, but since we were there before 5:00, we only had to wait about 15 minutes. We had a yummy dinner, full of lots of carbs :) We finished it off with dishes of spumoni ice cream for the boys. There was even a balloon guy that made each of them their own turtle to bring home. I don't even have to feed these :)
I love days like today.....when we have "nothing" to do, but do so much!