The ZOO!

We finally made it back to the zoo. See the sign? That's proof!

First things first of course, we had to have our picnic as soon as we got there!

Notice the white tiger to the left of Megan's head. It was hot that day and the animal's were sleepy so not much movement. (from the animals that is, the girl's were full of energy!)

A ride on the train. The first of two rides actually.

The picture above shows the most common of the animal observing poses, however, the picture below was my personal favorite. I'm not sure what they were looking at down there but it must have been interesting!

We loved the elephants. They have a new baby and it was adorable.

Popsicle break!! They needed it. Notice the too cute red cheeks?

The lion was so kind as to pose for a photo with the girls.

This one's for Kendall. For a wedding gift he got me a beautiful stuffed otter because they reminded him of me. Hmmmmmmmmm, I'm not sure I see it.

As if to emphasize the point the jaguar gave a us a peek at his teeth. It's not like we doubted the counsel to stay back or anything. (he was actually just yawning the big baby!)

Crocs!

Okay, I know it's an alligator, just humor me a little please!

Ferocious caged beasts!

As you can tell, after four long, hot hours I was happy to see that sign!

This was taken about 5 minutes after we left my Mimi's house. I got them fed and bathed and jammied and I did not hear a peep from either of them until the next day!
It was great fun! Thanks Brantley and Megan for a wonderful day! I love you both!

Committed..... I really probably should be!

So, I sent in my registration form and check to the Historic District Preservation Society today. I am committed to run this 5K race on the 27th of this month. That means I have to train hard and actually be able to run a 5K by then! I should have reached that point two weeks ago actually but an unforseen illness (how many illnesses are forseen?) put me off of my training quite a bit and I am playing catch up. If you see me in the next couple of weeks please nag me about my running. Ask me how it's going. It really helps me to be accountable to as many peeps as possible. I am keeping a daily log on the right side of my blog as well.

I cannot wait to be able to post a photo of me with a race number pinned to my shirt!!!

Another New Blog.......I'm So Sorry!

Okay, I'm sorry but I like this blog thing! I'm having so much fun with it but I want to keep things catagorized as much as possible. My new blog is called What Were They Thinking? In it I will try to get inside the brains of my kids to determine why they do what they do. I will record inexplicable things with my camera and try to make some sense of them if at all possible. I'm sure sometimes we will all just be scratching our heads together.

Noodles Everywhere!

Day two of Joy School. I'm now off duty for the next three weeks! I just had to share one of the funnier moments of my life. I try to delight in the simple things and really, what's more delightful than four 3 year olds eating spaghetti? I should have started taking pictures earlier when they still had piles of noodles to shove into their mouths all at once but I was laughing too hard to think about it at the time.

Oh Boy, I Got Joy!

Today was our first day of Joy School for 2008-09. We started at our house and everyone was so glad to be back. Today we talked about rules (uh huh) and we spent a lot of time sponge painting. Here they are hard at work:

Cutie Patooties!