California I: Disney Land

Parks I

Louis and I have started our parks conquest. On Thursday we went to three parks:

Gordon S Bowen Park

Ivywild Park

Kroeger Park.

Then on Friday we went to Municipal Park.

Of the four, I would say Municipal is the best, with Ivywild as a second. The only thing Ivywild needed was swing...they have an awesome pool and a great set up but they only have one set of baby swings and no adult ones.

Anyways-

here are the pictures of our travels-

Gordon S Bowen Park- down town off 10th and O'Farrell streets.....like almost directly next to the Co-Op.

Ivywild Park, this is in south Boise off Leadville...sort of in the Broadway neck of the woods.

Mission: Conquer Surrounding Parks

Louis and I have decided that we are going to go on an adventure...a park adventure. we have been to several parks around the area and haved ecided that we want to find the BEST park in the area....how do you do that....you go to ALL the parks in the area. We are limiting it to Boise, Meridian and Eagle, but we are making a list of ALL the parks and going to each, one by one, searching for the park with the best stuff. Here is the list of the parks we will be checking out, and don't worry- we will blog the whole adventure!

Boise Parks:

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  Aldape Park
• Ann Morrison Park
• Baggley Park
• Bernardine Quinn Riverside Park
• Boise River Park
• Borah Park
• Bowden Park
• C.W. Moore Park
• Camel's Back Park
• Capitol Boulevard
• Capitol Park
• Cassia Park
• Castle Hills Park
• Catalpa Park
• Cottonwood Park
• Cypress Park
• DeMeyer Park
• Dewey Park
• Elm Grove Park
• Fairmont Park
• Fairview Park
• Florence Park
• Foothills East Park
• Fort Boise Park
• Gordon S. Bowen Park
• Helen B. Lowder Park
• Hewett Park
• Hillside Park
• Hobble Creek Park
• Hopffgarten Park
• Ivywild Park
• Julia Davis Park
• Jullion ParkKathryn Albertson Park
• Kroeger Park
• Liberty Park
• Magnolia Park
• Manitou Park
• Marianne Williams Park
• McAuley Park
• Memorial Park
• Milwaukee Park
• Morris Hill Park
• Mountain View Park
• Municipal Park
• Noble Park
• Nottingham Park
• Owens Park
• Owyhee Park
• Parkcenter Park
• Peppermint Park
• Phillippi Park
• Pine Grove Park
• Quarry View Park
• Redwood Park
• Riverside Park
• Shoreline Park
• Shoshone ParkSkyline Park
• Sunset Park
• Sycamore Park
• Veterans Memorial Park
• Warm Springs Park
• Williams Park
• Willow Lane Park
• Winstead Park 

Meridian Parks:

Settlers Park

Bear Creek Park

Story Park

Tully Park

Heroes Park

8th St Park

Champion Park

Chateau Park

Renaissance Park

Seasons Park

Eagle Parks:

Arboretum Park

Friendship Park and Tennis Court

Reid W. Merrill Sr. Community Park

Orval Krasen Park

Stephen C.  Guerber Park

Eagle Island State Park

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Bella's Kindergarten Graduation

Bella graduated from kindergarten at the end of May, May 18th to be exact was the date. It was super cute. I wasn't able to make it unfortunately because I had to work and they did it in the middle of the day at 11 am...stupid right?!?! Anyways, Jason was able to go and fortunately he sent me a few pictures to share!



Bella is holding the "N"- she was super excited about that!



Father's Day Craft Ideas

I've been on the search for some cute Father's Day do -it- yourself ideas. I've run across some really cute ones! Here are a few of my faves:

This is my favorite, and one that I'm going to do a variation of for Jason this year.

I also thought  this was cute...z book. I'm also making books for Jason from the girls. The books have questionsfor thegirls to give answers to with a space to color a picture on each page. the back of each page has a picture of them on it, and then on thevery back of the book is a poem about being a dad.

A personalized monogrammed hammer is a cute idea if your dad is in to that kind of thing!

A mug with thumb prints of dad and the kid.

Super cute idea! A block puzzle with the pictures of the kiddos!

I LOVE this! Louie has one from Rachel that she made and it's super cute!

This is neat too. These are mosiac coasters but a mosiac stepping stone would be cool too!