Boo At The Zoo

We went to Boo at the Zoo on Saturday with the kids. We had lots of fun trick or treating and looking at the animals. Leata was Tinkerbell. Taylor was a duck (just like Leata was when she was two). Mark was Mickey Mouse. They were all so cute! While we were there we saw a baby giraffe, a baby elephant and two baby tigers. The girls loved seeing all the baby animals! We love the zoo and love having a membership so we can go whenever we want for as long as we want and have fun! This is our third year with a membership and it is SO worth it to have it! The girls just love going to the zoo.

Waiting for the Train to come

On the Train

Taylor the Duck

On the Carousel

Happy Mark

More Candy, Please?

Baby Elephant

Tinkerbell Leata

Taylor and Leata Ready to Go!

Pictures from Wheeler Farm

Historic Wheeler Farm

On Saturday, we went, as a Family, to Wheeler Farm. I had heard about it many times and had wanted to go for a long time. We went Saturday to enjoy the pumpkin patch, hay ride, and corn and hay maze all made specifically for little kids in mind. It was a beautiful day. The girls wanted to look at every pumpkin in the pumpkin patch to choose just the right one. They had to go down every path on the maze and really loved going on the hay ride.

Wheeler Farm is an awesome place to take the family where you can spend no money and just run around and go walking on the paths, looking at animals and climb on the tractors and have a picnic. You can spend a little and do some activities while you are there if you want to as well. They have seasonal activities and we decided to do the seasonal activities on Saturday as well as the free stuff. The girls enjoyed the seasonal activities but I think they enjoyed the free stuff even more. What a beautiful place to go and enjoy nature and let your kids get exercise and fresh air. They love the animals as well. The favorite was climbing on the tractors they have out though! The girls could have done that all day, that and the tree house. We will be going back in the future. It's worth the drive to go and have a fun, inexpensive, simple day!
Pictures coming soon!

30

I turned 30 yesterday (the 14th). Guess what? I don't feel any different today then I did two days ago. Thirty isn't old people! ;-)

Pictures from AZ

The amazing bridge they are building to bypass the Hoover Dam!

We saw these big horn sheep just before the Hoover Dam.

Leata and Great Grandpa

Mark and Great Grandpa

Taylor and Great Grandpa

Taylor and Great Grandma

Leata and Great Grandma

Such a happy picture of Leata and Great Grandma!

Sarah(me), Sarah(my Grandma) and Mark

Taylor, (or Taydee as she has taken to calling herself) upset about something, at my Grandparents house.

Mark, just chillin' with Dad.

Arizona

As many of you know, my Mom's parents in Arizona, have been struggling with their health for a while. My Grandpa just recently had a mini stroke and is having other health problems that he has not been bouncing back from as he normally does. We decided this would be a good time to go and visit and just spend time with them.
Last Thursday we left in the afternoon. We found a hotel that was reasonably priced and nice, with breakfast, in Mesquite, NV when we went in January. So on the way there we decided to take it slow and stay the first night there. The girls had a hard time in the hotel but did finally go to sleep and it broke the 13 hour drive in to a 5 and 8 hour day. A very nice way to go.
We stayed with our good friends, Brad and Kae while we were there and we are very thankful for their kindness in letting us stay with them and feeding us, and just having a great time hanging out and relaxing with them when we were not at my Grandparents house. We had so much fun with them and wish we lived closer.
It was so wonderful to see my Grandparents also. They were so happy to see us and LOVED seeing the kids.
We also were able to see my Uncle, Aunt and cousin while we were there. We were lucky enough to be able to go and visit my friend Amy and her daughter Hailey. I have know Amy since I was 14 and I will be 30 on Wednesday, so more then have my life! We enjoyed seeing her and hope we can meet up again soon.
We spent the days with my grandparents and evenings with Brad and then the last evening with Brad and Kae as Kae was out of town most of the time we were there. The kids had so much fun and Leata and Mica are such good friends. Mica is 6 and she and Leata had a great time playing together.
It was a crazy, buzy, fun weekend. We just love having so many friends and so much family to visit when we go down there and hope to make it down again soon!

I know I have been bad about updating the blog. We were just in Arizona for several days and once I get some pictures on my computer I will write about that. I hope that everyone is well!