One Last Slumber Party

The kids spent their last evening together having a "slumber party"....the girls had been in school this week, so they couldn't have any late nights.....so we let them stay up late on their last night since it was a Friday. This is how we found they looked in the morning....

The Rainforest Cafe

What a perfect ending to a day at the zoo...eating at the Rainforest Cafe! We originally were told we'd have a 2 1/2 hour wait, so when we walked in at 6 (expecting to just wait around in the gift shop), we were pleasantly surprised to find empty tables and they were able to seat us! It is such a fun restaurant for kids! (us too!)
This is the tree above our table. The cheetah would growl and move every few minutes. We sat directly under the starry sky. Sometimes a shooting star would go through the sky.





Lauren and Sandy....our dear cuzzies.
One of the many fish tanks.
The kids held up sooo well after a day full of walking!
This is the volcano dessert. We all shared it. YUMMY

Each kid got a little something from the gift shop. Notice the croc behind them...it moved back and forth opening up its mouth.

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The snake would move back and forth and stick its tongue out!

This tree was NOT in the cafe. It was just in the parking lot outside, but when I looked up, I thought it looked so pretty against the dark sky!

The gang at the zoo

Here we are all together at the zoo.

6 Monkeys

No zoo picture would be complete without a picture of a bunch of monkeys! Kelsey

Kendra

Trent

Kyla in her cool shades.

Jared

Byronian James

A few of the zoo animals

Friday Lauren and Sandy and girls, and we all headed to the zoo. It was in the upper 80's....we saw lots of neat animals!On These were my favorite pictures:

It was feeding time for this tiger. They put a whole chicken up in a tree, then let him out of his cage. He ran out, and reached up so high in the tree to get his food. He was soooo tall when he did that...amazing how big of a cat they really are!

"The Desert Blooms....."

We so enjoyed looking at the desert flowers. I can remember Virginia R. speaking about how the desert blooms and how beautiful it is....I'd never seen desert blooms before! They are beautiful!

It was amazing to me to see these beautiful flowers on the cactus. You can see there are so many blooms still to open...would be so neat to see!

Bougainvillea
Hibiscus

A Nice Evening With Friends

Tonight we went out to Paul and Heidi R's for a swim and pizza...It was so nice to get to know them a little bit....now we can visualize more where Lauren and Sandy will go to conv, who they meet with, and who the kids are that Kelsey, Kyla, and Kendra are always talking about, etc. etc. We had such a nice time......

Singing around the piano

It was special last night to hear the cousins singing around the piano before meeting.

The New Van

Here's a picture of our new (to us...it's a 2005) van! It's a Honda Odyssey. We are really liking it!

Dress-up

When our kids get together, one of their favorite things to do is to play dress-up. They come up with all sorts of different combinations. I only got a few pictures of the many costumes that came downstairs!