Summer fun: Liberty Park

Don't get the wrong idea with my next few posts.

I suck as a mom.

Really suck.

I'm boring. I yell a lot. I have no patience. I'm in this weird, crazy, emotional, depressed, grouchy funk lately.

So I depend on my friends who are fabulous moms to help me out. When my amazing friend Libbey asked me if I wanted to go to Liberty Park to explore Tracy Aviary and the water features, I said YES! Even Pearl knows I rely on friends like Libbey to make up for all the crappy mom moments in our house... she LOVES "Livvey" (and Jacob and "his baby"). 

I wasn't too sure how much the kids would like the Aviary but they seemed to have a good time. We saw some pelicans, found a momma duck with her babies, fed another duck some rocks, pretended to be birds ourselves, and walked and walked and walked until we found the flamingos. Pearl wanted nothing else but to find the flamingos and was certain her interpretation of the Aviary's map was going to get us there. Left to her alone, we'd have walked to Timbucktoo and back before finding them. 

Then we had a picnic under the trees, right next to the awesome water features. They are a replica of all the rivers that flow from the mountains to the Great Salt Lake. Even the moms and dads like to play in the water.

Uh, what in the world is up with the model pose? Seriously. Where did she learn that!? Certainly not from her mother. 

 

I now know why I'm not a good mom. It's too tiring!