CIRCUS

The Ringling Bros. Circus is in town, and we took the kids.  I actually won 4 tickets to the circus, which is quite frankly amazing.  I never win anything!  I entered a random giveaway on a coupon blog I follow, and won these fabulous seats.  I wanted to take the kids to the circus, but tickets are $27+ each, so I simply didn't want to pay that much money for something I wasn't sure that Clara would sit through.  Well I am excited to say, that we had an amazing time.  Just as Ringling Bros. promises, it is an amazing show.  It's also a 3 hour show!  So you get what you pay for.  In fact, after we left, I was thinking I would certainly pay $27 for those seats again if needed.  Luke loved every minute of it!

As we were leaving I asked Luke what his favorite part was.  First he started listing off all the yummy snacks we bought him including popcorn and cotton candy.  What a silly boy!  The event was held in the energy solutions arena downtown Salt Lake, and as soon as you walk in the doors you are over loaded with circus everything!  It's flashing lights and colorful everything.  Parents are bombarded with trinkets and toys for kids to beg for!  As soon as we found our seats, there was a pre-show going on where the elephants were doing tricks with large beach balls.  Right away we were intrigued and entertained.  I've never been to the circus before, and even I thought it was amazing.

 

My favorite part had to of been the tigers.  It was a cage of 20 tigers, and one very brave man.  He would line them up and different ones would do tricks.  He would have them do basic tricks like a dog would do, but still, they are wild tigers!  He even danced with one!  There were Elephants who stood on one leg, and trapeze artists doing amazing tricks.  There were people on unicycles and gymnasts, and crazy cool body contortionists.   Luke was clapping and wahoo-ing the whole time.  It made me smile just to watch Luke in awe as he watched the crazy show in front of him.  Clara had a hard time paying attention the whole time, but still, the circus was entirely awesome. 

Our kids are completely spoiled, and don't even realize how great they have it.  It was so fun to take them to such a fun event.  Of course as soon we got to the car, they were already asking for something else!  It would have been fun to go to the circus even without the kids.  I was thoroughly entertained myself!  I'm so glad we won the tickets!

In the mind of Luke...

I guess if Luke has to entertain himself in the back seat of the car, this can happen.  

I found these hilarious selfies on my phone of Luke.

I often wonder what is really going on in the head of his.

He is just so crazy all the time.

So I also wonder if that is my fault.

The whole nature/nurture debate comes into play here.

Where does he get his craziness from?

Is this my fault?

We picked up Luke from Sunbeams yesterday, and Luke had substitute teachers.

His teachers remarked saying "Luke is quite a character"

My eyebrows raised, and I am thinking oh dear what did he say today.

We have moved into that stage of life with Luke.

The- oh crap- what is he going to say to other people!

Luke still has not learned the art of lying.

He still quite an honest little boy.

I guess we will just have to be on our best behavior,

 or else he will just go on telling all his teaching all our dirty little secrets!

Luke's view from the back seat.

I guess he was just seriously bored!

Preschool

Luke started another year of preschool.  He is such a social creature, and thinks EVERYONE is his friend.  He is says he loves all his preschool friends.  Preschool is in the morning this year, and from the moment he wakes up, he is asking how much longer until we leave for school.  Clara is sad she is missing out on the fun.  She wants to go to school too.  Sometimes I feel bad for her that she just isn't quite big enough to do all the fun things Luke gets to do. She desperately wants to be a big kid too!  Clara and I have been enjoying some one on one time.  Although, during our two hour break from Luke, she asks "where's Luke?"  She misses him while he is gone.  Those two truly do love each other besides the fact they fight so much!  Luke comes home from preschool and is so excited to show off his papers.  He loves to show what ever they have learned for the day.  I hope he behaves, although I am sure he is the problem child, I am sure happy he loves going to preschool so much!

Posers- Luke being dropped off for preschool.
Clara tagging along!

Hooray 10 Years!

 We just celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary, and decided to take the kids to the beach.  It wasn't the fabulous California version of the beach, but it was a beach, and the kids loved it.  We had fun at the beautiful Bear Lake.  It was over cast every day, but the kids don't know any different.  They loved feeling the sand in between their toes, and shoveling sand in the water.  We stayed in a motel that was just steps away from the beach.  So the kids got to play in the sand for 3 days.  

 It was fabulous to take our very first vacation just for our very own family.  We got to do every thing on kid time.  We did things when the kids wanted to.  They were spoiled rotten.  We went back and forth from the beach to the hot tub.  The motel we stayed in also had a swimming pool and a hot tub.  We left to get lunch or snacks, and then came back to the sand.  We played till dark, and were out on the beach at first light again.  The kids enjoyed burying each other in the sand too.

 It was simply a perfect vacation.  I'm not sure how I imagined 10 years of marriage looking like, but this is a great version of it.  Even though our kids are wild and crazy, they are perfect for us!  I feel like some days our lives are so crazy and busy, then other days I feel like we live such a simple life.  Even writing that sentence, that doesn't seem possible, but I am so grateful for my family.  Every night when the quiet moments come, I feel nothing but gratitude for my beautiful children and the peace and meaning they bring in to our lives.

  One of the best parts of the trip was Luke's excitement about going to the beach.  He thinks it was the greatest thing ever.  He says "this is the best day ever!"  He was so excited to go the beach and asks when we can go back nearly every day!