My Saturday Trip to the Zoo

Here we are at another of our family's favorite fall spots: the zoo. It is hard to go all summer without a visit, but now that the weather is good again, we're back.

There are four monkeys in this picture. Can you find them all?



This little girl loves reptiles SO much, you would think she has scales. Btw, there IS glass between E and the gator.


I love this picture mostly because out of the blue, Z decided to put his head in the snakes mouth and it is just so funny.

Here is Z and the flamingos. As some of you know, Z and E assigned animals to each of us. I am the flamingo. Z is a hippo. E is a cheetah and T is an elephant. We don't know how this originate. Unfortunately, this zoo has all these animals except the hippo.

My Husband's New Car

It was finally time to trade the good old blue truck in! The children no longer fit in the backseat. We had to get a larger vehicle. I dreaded taking the kids car shopping, but they really loved it. I thought it would be a real pain to load car seats to test drive cars. But it wasn't that bad. The kids really loved checking out all the cars. E wanted the Toyota Sequoia (too expensive!). After much research and negotiation, we settled on a Honda Pilot. We are very happy with it. Here is the proud new owner.

My Kids Love Watermelon?

T went out of town for the weekend and on his way back he stopped at a roadside stand and bought a watermelon. The kids were excited to cut it and eat it. Here they are enjoying it!

My Kids' First Baseball Game

The other weekend we took the kids to their first major league baseball game. It was great fun. They really enjoyed it. Z learned how to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" so we were excited to take him to a game.

Here is T and Z doing the "wave".

E really loved doing the wave and did it all three times it came around.

My Husband's Dragon Boat Races

Each each T's hospital does the dragon boat races. A few weeks ago they participated again. It was great fun. The weather was mild enough for us to come out and watch. The kids enjoyed watching all the events. T's team won the competition after a grueling day on the water!

Z got a bit bored waiting around and E fell off the jungle gym and I thought she might have broken her arm (she didn't thankfully!)

My Family's Trip to the Forest

Now that the weather has cooled off, we've been able to go for our first walk in the forest since the spring. Guess who was the first one in the truck! Sydney!

After we got home, the kids enjoyed getting the halloween stuff out and jumping around.

My Daughter's Racoon

E's kindy class has a stuffed raccoon that each child gets to take home for one weekend. A few weekends ago, E got to take it home. The child then take a few photos and write a journal entry to put in a book to let the class know what Chester did over the course of the week. We had lots of fun doing the following....

We took Chester to the grocery store to find food items that started with the letter P since that what she was learning about.

Chester also went to the regional airport which has a lunch spot, where we had lunch and watched the airplanes take off and land. We always enjoy that.