Summer fun with Kids: Picnic in the park

Tabitha's new favorite way to eat dinner is to have a picnic. Really I think she just doesn't want to sit in her booster seat, but she always asks for a picnic.
We have a pretty cool park here in Rexburg, (we actually have a few, but the one I'm referring to is Porter Park). Porter Park has a large grassy area, picnic tables, play ground with both little kids and big kids slides and swings, basketball courts, tennis courts, a 120 year old carousel and a splash park (thats free!). So last Friday I decided when I picked Tabitha up from preschool we would go home and get a picnic ready. I got everything ready then picked Morgen up from school and we went to the park. First we ate and had a fun meal together. Then we put the girls in their swimsuits and played in the water with them. After Tabitha was done in the water we went on the Carousel. Then we played on the playground for a bit. It was a really fun family activity. Had we been home, I probably would have turned on the TV for Tabitha while I made dinner. As it was we had 24 hours with no TV! That has been happening more and more lately. I love it! Over all this trip cost me maybe $3. Food I had on hand, we buy the carousel pass so it cost $9 for 10 rides and we used 2, plus gas to get there. It was a really fun and inexpensive way to have fun with the kids and not have to worry about how much it was going to cost us and if we could afford that.

Tabitha running in the water 

Close up of our splash park

The Girls enjoying the water

Even Eva likes playing in the water. 

While I know not everyone has a park like this i'm sure there is a park near you where you can have a picnic and enjoy your family. We would have had just as much fun at a regular park, because we were doing it together. 

Project 365 day 34

Tabitha's day:
We went to Jamba Juice to see Lynn and Karen and enjoy some $1 oatmeal, it was fun and yummy. not normally an oatmeal fan but it was Good!
Tabitha fell asleep in the car and i really didn't want to wake her, so i decided to drive to gilroy because there was a furniture store going out of buisness that I wanted to check out, we still need a chnaging tablem although at this point i think a dresser with a changing pad might be more practical. well, when they said going out of buisness they meant it, it was gone. So I figgured, I was in gilroy might as well go to some stores in Gilroy. I drove to the Target/ Ross, BB&B shopping center and by then Tabitha had woken up. We went to BB&B and didn't really find anything. I got some wonderful sheets there once and I was looking for some more, but they didn't have the same ones and the comparable ones were too expensive. Then we went to Ross, and got some awesome deals! I got a pack of matalic 12 x 12 paper that I'm going to use for decorations for her birthday party for only $3! originally $20! Wowza! Then I got a cupcake book and a craft book each $4.99 orriginally $15.99 and $9.99 respectively. But the big steal of the day was a pair of maryjane robeez for $9.99! They have them online for $32! they are super cute too! they are a light green with pick roses on them. I was excited because I like to have one size up in shoes for her incase she grows out of her shoes on a sunday, so I found these in a size 4, she's kind of in between 2 and 3 right now so it will be a while before she needs them but its nice to have them before I need them. After Ross we went to Target, and I got some little mini cookbooks in the $1 section and a copy of Bride Wars for $5! I love that movie! and for $5 can't go wrong! I got tabitha a sandwich at the little target cafe, usually they are pretty good, but for some reason she kept spitting out the turkey, she liked the bread but she didn't want anything to do with the turkey or the cheese, i took a bite of it when we got in the car and understood, it was so salty and the cheese was just gross. I felt bad that she had been cooped up in a cart or the car all day so since we were in Gilroy we went to the only park I knew where it was.


El roblos Park. I'd never been there, but i'd driven past it and our friends Rory, Jess and Sadie live right behind the park.



She really did have fun on the swings. She was actually intently watching a little girl and her uncle play on the play structure next to us.
I just love her little smile! its so cute and so unique!

thats my sweet little girl having a blast on the swings!

And finally, I really had to refrain from buying this. It sings the ABCs and 123s. It looks like the Bloodhoud Gang had a baby!