Great day for a couple of reasons

Today has been a great day for a couple of reasons.  First, Mom got to come home.  Woohoo!!!!  And, she is getting to go to Dallas tomorrow to get her Sandostatin shot.  Another woohoo.  Well, not that she has to have it and that it hurts real bad, but woohoo to it being available for her to get.  :-)

The weather has been so amazing the last couple of days and will be again tomorrow.  We have taken advantage of the weather and spent our days outside ALL day.  Yesterday, Hayden spent the morning outside with Jeff while I got my hair done.  Then, we loaded up when I got home and went with Amy, Hudson, and Hayson to Sulphur Springs to the park and to get some ice cream.  You can’t go the park without getting a treat.  Right? 

They both kind of accidentally walked through the water and got soaked!  Just too tempting!

 

Today we got up early to meet up with our friends in Rockwall so we could head to the Dallas Zoo.   Such a great day to go!

If you have 2 year olds or ever had one, you know how hard it is to get them to sit still for a picture.  These  next pictures crack me up (and might be embarrassing for this momma) for many different reasons…

Four beautiful little girls sitting so nicely.  You kind of see Hayden’s leg. 

Hayden jumped down.  Didn’t want his picture taken. 

Yep, that is my kid.  He didn’t want his dadgum picture taken.  Ok? 

“Want to see the animals?”  Hayden suddenly become interested.  Girls loose interest.

 

Minus the hand in the mouth, pretty good shot! 

I guess Hayden wanted to let us know exactly what he thought about getting his picture taken. Trying to be nonchalant.

D.O.N.E. with pictures.  No longer being nonchalant.  GEEZ!

(Just so we are clear, we don’t do this nor condone this at our house. He doesn’t know what it means and I am just trying to make light of the situation. Too funny not to post.)

We saw lots of animals of course.

It must of have been multiples day at the zoo.  I lost count of how many of these train wagons we saw today.  It was crazy!  Mommas were wearing shirts that said “Yes, I have my hands full”  or“Quad Squad”.  I can’t imagine!

We had a nice picnic lunch.

 

Got to run around and play in the dirt.

Addisyn cracks me up! 

Hayden was so proud of this fine stick he found.

Then, we rolled up our pants and played in the water!  Crazy as it sounds, there many kids in bathing suits. 

 

We ended our day on the carousel.  We sat on the bench on the carousel while Hayden held on to me for dear life.

Such a sweet, silly boy.  Glad we didn’t have any more fits.  :-)

It took no time at all and Hayden was sound asleep and Payton decided to join him.  Just too much fun for these babies!

Super Fun Trip to the Zoo!

We had a great trip to the zoo today with Kristin and Payton!  We had a blast!   So much so that I took about 150 pictures.  I L.O.V.E my camera!  And taking pictures too!  ;-) 

So, here are a few to get you by until I have more time to sort through them all and tell you all about our day! 

First Family Visit to the Zoo!

Today, we woke up with absolutely no plans.  Jeff made us homemade waffles for breakfast and Hayden took a great morning nap.  We knew it was going to be a beautiful day outside and wanted to take advantage of our day together.  So, we decided to head to the Tyler Caldwell Zoo.  When we got there, we only had about 2 hours before they closed, but it was the perfect amount of time!    We were somewhat surprised, but there were not many people there.  There were about 10 cars in the parking lot, which worked out great for us!  Hayden was able to run/walk freely pretty much the whole time!  It is a small zoo, but we enjoyed it so much! 

I am a little disappointed in the quality of our pictures.  There were so many shadows  (PRAISE THE LORD FOR THE SUNSHINE!) and I didn’t have my long zoom lens.  I will definitely be taking it next time! 

They have a children’s area right by the gate.  They have goats you can pet.  Hayden wasn’t so sure at first.   But after we exited the goat petting area and washed our hands, he wanted to go back! 

They also had a bridge you could use to climb up to the tractor.  If you know Hayden, you know how much he LOVED this tractor!

We were beginning to think we came to the zoo to ride the tractor.  Ha!

Or…drive this truck!

Forget the animals!

Ok…here we go!

They had so many beautiful birds.  You could get so close to them!

Check out this anteater with its baby on its back!

I am pretty sure Hayden would have sat and watched the flamingos all day! 

We spent a majority of our time in South Africa! 

This one had a big bulge!  Pregnant?

Hello Mr. Giraffe!

Checking out the Cheetah!

Big Yawn!

The leopards were up close and personal.

The white tigers were absolutely beautiful but SO big! 

This was the first time Hayden had ridden on his Daddy’s shoulders.  I am pretty sure this was the highlight of the trip.  He thought he was on top of the world!

We of course had to go into the gift shop for a prize.  We got this really cool book!  It is a Roger Priddy shadow flap book called At the Zoo.  How appropriate was that?   :-)  It is such a cool book! 

All three of us were “all smiles” today!  We had such a fun time as a family.  We are already looking forward to our trip back to the zoo! 

**If you missed my earlier post today, Fun with Friends, click here!