Friday, February 15, 2013

Valentine's Day

Yesterday was Valentines Day.  The boys had a great time at school and received many valentines from their friends.  This year Ajay gave out Kool-aid Jammers with a note saying YOU ARE THE KOOLEST.  Maddox gave out Twizzler hearts. 



 Amara in her new Hello Kitty shirt she got in Minneapolis.

The boys each made a card like this for me at school

Valentines dessert- with strawberries in the shape of hearts

 Valentines Pizza supper- the ham and pepperoni are hearts too.


Sunday, February 10, 2013

Minneapolis

 This last week we took the family on our first big vacation.  We went to Minneapolis, which maybe is an odd location to go in the middle of February, but we went because we wanted to go to see the Minnesota Timberwolves vs. New York Knicks.  The Timberwolves only play the Knicks once in the whole season.  Anton is a life-long fan of the Knicks, but had never seen them play live, we figured it was about time.


The 8 hour trip

Checking out the Mall of America

 Lego store

 Lego store

 Nickelodeon Universe - Splat-o-spere

 Ajay

Ajay and me



Fairly odd coaster

Amara and me

 Next we went to Sea Life Minnesota









 The Hyatt, our hotel

 We also went to the Science Museum of Minnesota where we learnt about everything
 from light, to planets to Dinosaurs.


We went to the Minnesota Zoo which luckily has a lot of its animals 
inside, so we could explore in the warmth.


 Sharks!

 We loved the Penguins!

 Maddox and Ajay

 Komodo Dragon

 They have amazing environments




The Wolf

 Swimming at the hotel pool.  This was Amara's first time in a pool.  She seemed to enjoy it.




We spent some time at the Water park of America.


Anton tried body surfing

 The play structure, it dumps a ton of water every couple minutes.

 Getting reading for the big game.

 Downtown Minneapolis














It was a close game, but the KNICKS won 100 to 94.