Day At The Zoo

During Vivi and Preston's Fall break, we spent one of the days at the zoo.  (They are so lucky to have two weeks of Fall break instead of just the one week the boys get.  But the boys get extra time off in the summer so I guess it's a fair trade.)  Anyway, we chose a really good day to go.  There was hardly anybody there that day.  It was at the end of October, and there was just a slight chill in the air.  We were plenty warm though with just a light jacket on.

I think it was the first time, in all of our years going to the zoo, that the kids didn't have to wait 10 minutes for a turn to get a picture with the bronze hippos, or have to wait in line forever to see how far they could jump.  We got to take our time with everything.  And there were tons of animals out and about that day.  The best part was getting to have a fun, wonderful day with my three littlest kiddos.  :)

Asian Tropics

Back in July, the kids, grandmas and I went to see the new Asian Tropics exhibit at the zoo.

 They did a beautiful job with the exhibit.  They now have room for 12 elephants!  They don't have 12 elephants there yet, but they hope to in the future.

 The kids all got to try out the elephant ears and hear like an elephant does.

 

 This girl is too cute for words.

 Even great grandma Chapman got to go with us.

 This little girl is so lucky to have such wonderful older siblings.  They all take such good care of her.

 We headed in to the Lorakeet adventure and got to feed the birds.

Jilly was so happy every chance she got to get out of her stroller and cruise around.

It's never a real trip to the zoo without getting a picture on the bronze hippos.

 Pretty birds.

 This little monkey was dancing for all the onlookers.

Cutest sisters around.

We had a perfect day at the zoo.

Catching Up To Do

I was looking back at all of our pictures from the last few months, and realized I missed blogging about a lot of things!  For example,

we had a going away BBQ or Aunt Sherril and uncle Roger, who we were very sad to see leave us for St. George.  We miss them very much, but hope they are loving their new home.

We celebrated not only Vivi's, but my mom's birthday as well.

We went to a Rockies game.

Vivi went with tiara and all.

And we got to see some awesome fireworks there.

 We also went to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo down in Colorado Springs, where we got to feed the giraffes,

and the birds, and got to see lots of amazing animals in-between.

We celebrated Halloween.  (Can you believe this is the only picture I have of Halloween this year?  I'll have to step it up a notch for next year.)

We saw the leaves change.  I love the fall.

We went on a seriously fun vacation.  (More on that later.)

We celebrated Janet's birthday,

 and my brother Dustin's birthday, who is a serious turd when it comes to letting us take pictures of him. ;)

And Colson got braces on the bottom teeth, and new wires for the top teeth.

And that is our last couple of months in a nutshell.

Day at the Zoo

We had a fun trip to the zoo a couple of weeks ago. The kids had no school and the weather was gorgeous, so we thought we would take advantage. A great time was had by all.

Preston especially loved picking the gorilla statue's nose. (What is it with boys?)

Love the gorgeous Colorado weather!