Bathroom redecorating, Avalon's 3, the Farm and Desert Botanical Garden

It seems like I never manage to keep up on my blogging, but since no one comments, I figure no one is reading this anyway.  I'm not bitter.

As I mentioned before, I redecorated our bathroom in retro 1950's aqua and gold.  Here are some pictures:

I found this clock at Walmart and thought it was cool.

Here are those pictures of the kids from last post.

I found this laundry basket for $5 at Goodwill and thought it was so cute.

On March 3, Avalon turned 3.  I can't believe that my baby girl is 3.  She is such a sweet, funny and crazy little girl.  She talks like she is 40 and always has fun.  She is also pretty darn cute, if I do say so myself. For her birthday, we went to the zoo with my sister's family and then we had a party with them later that night.  Avalon wanted breakfast food for dinner and so we had waffles with strawberries and whip cream, bacon, eggs and hash browns.  Instead of ordering her a cake (which I wanted to do), I agreed to make one (because Aaron didn't want a ton of cake around).

Avalon didn't have a big party with her friends like Sterling did, because we have discovered from experience that people don't take their kids to 3 year old birthday parties.  We told her that if she didn't have a big party, we would buy her more gifts.  That is why the stack of presents is almost as tall as she is.

The weather is finally nice enough that we have been going to the park.  The kids have been riding their bikes to the park and having a blast.

Truman has these cute little curls in the back.

The kids at Sterling's Pre-K have been talking about going to this farm to feed baby cows.  Sterling has been begging to go, but we didn't know where or what it was.  Sterling's teacher was nice enough to find out for us and so last Saturday we took the kids to Superstition farms.  We missed the farm tour, but the kids had fun at the petting zoo and jumping in something like 5 tons of cotton seed.

Truman being surrounded/ ganged up on by the chickens.

Did you know that cotton seed is fuzzy?

Today was the free day at the Desert Botanical Garden.  We had never been before and so we went for the afternoon.  They have a really cool butterfly garden where you are surrounded by butterflies.  Avalon even had a couple land on her.  They also have a train that highlights the plants and peoples of the Sonoran Desert.  Sterling really liked the Indian Wickiups.   They also had activities that the kids could do, like smashing mesquite beans and making paint brushes from Yucca.

Those light green things are lunar moths.  Did you know that moths sleep during the day and butterflies sleep at night?

An Indian wickiup.

Smashing beans

Yucca paint brush

Apache wickiup

Spanish corral