Zoo outing

Last weekend we went to the zoo.  Everyone had a fun time.  The weather was perfect, nice and cool and a little cloudy.  It began to downpour on us just as we were leaving so even the rain was good timing.  It's been a few years since we've been to the zoo.  They've updated a few of the exhibits, the improvements are really well done.  Ben's favorite exhibit was the polar bears, Kirk liked the snakes, and Kate liked a tiny little kangaroo like animal.  Jence seemed enjoy himself.  He had a box of crackers that he carried around with him everywhere.  He also refused to ride in the stroller, he thinks he's one of the big kids and insisted on walking with them.  afterwards we all went out to eat at Denny's. 

Fourth of July Celebration

I love the Fourth of July, it's one of my favorite holidays!  We have the tradition of going to my parents for breakfast, and then watching the Layton Parade.  The kids then walked down to the Layton park where they have some booths set up with toys, clothes, sun glasses ect....  The Kids had been doing chores around the house so they could earn some money to buy a toy at the fair.  The boy's bought swords that light up, and make sounds, Kate did a edible sand art craft.  Then we went home and ate pizza, and let Jence, Ben, Mom and Dad take a nap.  The two older kids watched a movie.  Afterwards we went to the pool to swim.  Then we finished off the day watching the fireworks.  It was cute to watch Benjamin's reaction to the fireworks.  Past years he's always slept through them.  His eye's were so wide.  He said "wow, there as big as the planet".  Other cute things he would say was "Mommy these last so long".  It was a really long display, and the grand finale was very impressive.  I'd have to say it was one of the best fire works displays I've seen.  They did a really fantastic job.  It was a great day, and we all had a lot of fun.  Happy Fourth of July everybody.  We just celebrated our 237th year as a nation.  Current national debt is $16,745,392,197.44 which makes us the leader in percentage of world debt.  Makes you proud to be an American doesn't it!   We've been a nation for over two hundred years, and it only took two president's to make us the most debt ridden country in the world.  Wow, do I feel bad for our four kids.  The load of debt they will be burdened with because of our reckless spending in Washington is shameful.  Thanks for nothing you idiot politicians, just keep right on printing money,  maybe we will magically just spend our way out of debt.  With so much paper being printing in Washington maybe we should invest in lumber the price should go sky high. 

                                                        Breakfast at Grandma Black's

                                                               Layton City Parade

                                        Kid's with Grandma Woolsey at the fourth of July fair

                                                         Ben with his Knight sword

                                                              Kate with her sand art

                                                                      Ben swimming

                                                                    Jence Swimming

War on Warts

We've been at war the past few months.  We've declared war on Kirk's warts.  It's been an ongoing battle, sometimes I think we are finally winning, and the warts are on the retreat, almost defeated but then they make a ravenous comeback.  We've tried everything possible.  Over the counter medicines, apple cider vinegar, duct tape, crushed vitamin C made into a paste.  The Dermatologist has tried freezing them a few times, and lazering them.  These sucker's are the most stubborn viruses I've ever seen.  Each time we go into the dermatologist they really look like they are dying, then a couple of weeks latter they heal up and are there as good a new.  I really hope to get rid of them before school starts in the fall, Kirk has become self conscious about them.  If anybody has some thoughts, or had experience with this before please let me know.  I"ve tried everything I could find on the Internet.  Duct tape had the best results, but it irritated the skin around the wart, to the point that Kirk was crying.  We have discontinued that treatment.  Right now I'm just keeping some wart medicine on them until we go in to lazer them again on Monday.