Logan's Mother's Day Plans

It's not often that we truly get to see what goes on in the minds of our children.  Recently I got a glimpse of Logan's thought process and it is stinkin' adorable! 

The other night I was laying in bed next to Logan with my phone in an attempt to stay awake while he falls asleep (our long battle with the bedtime routine rages on).  He asked if we could look something up on my phone and I said yes, fully expecting his usual requests to see pictures of giraffes or hippos or something.  Instead he asked me to look up "Mothers Day flowers."  So, instead of Google I went to my Pinterest app and typed that in for him.  He looked at the photos and asked me to save this one (below) so he could show Joey in the morning.  I hit the buttons to save the image to my phone's camera roll and handed him back the phone.

While he continued to look through the images on Pinterest I fell asleep.  Apparently he watched how I saved that first image on my phone because the next morning when I checked my phone I saw that my camera roll had quite a few more images saved to it...

I have no idea how long he stayed awake sorting through images of Mother's Day flowers for me.  When I saw these on my phone I was blown away, I got a glimpse of his sweet little mind and that is the most precious gift I could ever have received.  They say, "it's the thought that counts" and never has that been more true.

The next day he asked me to look up hearts...

I would normally include all the links to these images but I have no idea where they are from. My 5 year old little boy found them and saved them because he wanted to make or buy all of these things for me.  Best Mother's Day gift ever.  

Safari West

This past weekend we headed to Safari West in Calistoga for a very cool safari.  We stayed in Rhonert Park and had a ton of fun all weekend with the kids and our great friends and neighbors.

Emmie all ready to go! 

Saturday Jeff, Paul and Hunter played 7 holes (yeah, I know it is supposed to be 9 holes but they only had time for 7) at the hotel golf course.  While they were playing real golf Heather and I took the kids to Scandia for some mini golf and arcade games.

Next we headed to Calistoga for our safari.  Meg met us there and Jeff ran into an old friend from high school - crazy coincidence!

Thanks to 4 weeks of zoology curriculum at his school, Joey was able to answer a ton of questions about the animals.

All the boys got to ride on top of the safari jeep - which made me nervous but they had a blast! 

At one point during the tour Emmie turned to Aunt Megan and said, "this is so totally fun!" 

While on safari Logan asked a million questions and our guide was so patient with him.  We learned a lot about the African animals and enjoyed the experience so much! Definitely a fun road trip to take for a truly unique experience.