Sorry this is so late but it has been a busy busy day. We got free tickets to the zoo because Phoenix is doing this awesome thing right now where you can go to the library and get what is called a “Culture Pass” which gets 4 people into a destination 
of your choice. You can pick from basically all of the museums in the area, the science center, and the zoo. Earlier this week we went to the Children’s Museum. A great great place to go with young kids.
We spent some time walking around the zoo in 100 degree weather (hot but we still enjoyed ourselves), came home, hopped in the pool, barbecued dinner, and now we are getting ready to vegg out on the couch watching TV. It has been a delightful Mother’s Day. It helps to have such a wonderful husband. He has let me do whatever I want today without question. This morning his gift to me was a day all to myself one day a month for the rest of the year. He will either take Eva somewhere and I can stay home or he will stay here with her while I go somewhere. One whole day of no cooking, cleaning dishes, or dealing with bodily fluids. HEAVEN.
Not to say that I don’t LOVE spending time with my daughter because I do. Without her I obviously wouldn’t be a mother but I also wouldn’t get to experience the greatest love life has to offer. I love just watching her play, especially with her dad. Her sweet little smile, the look of wonder on her face, her contagious laugh, those beautiful big eyes. I now know what it feels like to literally want to freeze time and just be able to remember a moment forever. A moment so mundane as sitting on 
the living room floor surrounded by toys, holding out a fake blood pressure monitor and saying “help me daddy”. Then sitting there with the most serious look on her face as he “checks” her bp. When he is done she takes it off and a charming smile comes over her face. Not on a pristine beach or a glorious mountaintop just in my own little house. This is where the really special moments in life live.
Okay enough blubbering on about my daughter. I hope you all had an equally wonderful mother’s day, and if not have a do over next Sunday.
Now…the lucky winner of the $50 photofiddle gift card is…
ERICA from The Candy Bar
Head over to her site and check out her meatloaf cupcakes. They really do look delicious!
I used random.org to choose the winner but I cannot figure out how to do print screen (my keyboard won’t work) so you will just have to take my word for it.
Thank you to everyone who enetered. Hope you enjoy your prize Erica!
Okay, here is the part where I’m supposed to tell you all the great places to visit around Phoenix. I’m sure there are a lot of them but I don’t get around much so forgive me if this is not the best list. Although if I were still in So Ca I would have plenty to write about but I’m not so here we go…
If you like hiking (which I do not) there is South Mountain Park where I’m sure you can see many more cactus like this one and a few rattle snakes too.
I’m sure it’s a beautiful view but cactus, snakes, and tarantulas just aren’t my thing.
Okay but really some places I do like to go are…
The Phoenix Zoo where this beautiful Macaw lives
The children’s Museum, how cute is this?
…and of course our wonderful dowtown where you can eat, drink, or catch a game. Go Suns and Diamondbacks!
That completes my tour of Phoenix, Az. It is about 20 miles from me but there really is nothing to do where I live except eat and shop which I already covered in my previous posts. Hope you liked it! I definitley enjoyed touring around everyone elses’s hometowns.
