Zoo Fun

Yesterday we went to the zoo with my good friend, Kim. She has a pass so with it being pretty much the last day of good weather, we decided to "use" her pass and head to the zoo after Allie was done with school. The kids had a blast. And it was so fun to see Allie into the animals this year.

Allie was able to feed a few giraffes.

Their tongues are so gross and long

Such interesting creatures

Checking out the Giraffes

Pot belly pigs, just laying around enjoying the warm weather

Lemur I believe

Cute little black monkey

In Australia Land - we see the Wallabies

Another Wallaby and something else, not sure what that animal was?

Family shot (with A's ketchup face ;p)

Z man checking out the Peacock. Those birds were everywhere and weren't scared of us humans at all.

A beautiful tiger!

We were able to watch the tiger get in the water and play with his toy and just go out for a swim. Allie really loved watching him in the water.

Here he is drying off and he was turning to "spray" and the stroller/Zachary was right in his way. Luckily neither Zach or the stroller got hit though.

Mountain Lions (I believe)

Porcupines

A huge moose with some friendly turkeys running around

Penguins - such cute birds

Beaver

Hippo

The Komodo Dragon. I wasn't too excited to take his picture due to the fact that a HUGE white snake was next him.

Check out how funky looking this chicken is. I love his feather colors though!

Mommy with her newborn - isn't he just so cute!!!!

This monkey kept watching Allie and Zachary while he ate. It was pretty funny!!!

 

Mommy Orangutan with her baby that was born a few months ago.

Wow, Holy Hail Batman!!!

Colorado Springs sure has been having some crazy weather this past week. Well this afternoon, just after Allie got home from school, I could hear some thunder in the background so I knew a storm was on the way. Well when it got here it sure hit us hard and with hail!!! The last time I blogged about hail was last July 2011 (don't get me wrong its hailed here and there but this was crazy!!!).

Looks like its snowing, but its hail, trust me!

Here the hail was collecting at the end of the gutter .....

And I went back to look at it 5 minutes later and this is what we saw.

This is what the other gutter looked like

Allie wanted to play out in the rain but I said once the hail settled down, so here she is after it had stopped
*once again please excuse the no pants. she hates wearing them for some reason*

I made A some "warm" hot chocolate once she came inside

Enjoyed her hot chocolate!!!

Happy 4th Birthday!!!

Today is Allie's 4th Birthday!!! I can't believe my baby girl is four!!! Time sure has flown by! With A's birthday being on a Monday, she had to go to school. So I thought it would be fun if we took cupcakes to her class and they could all celebrate her birthday during snack time. I wasn't able to stay and watch so I had her teacher take pictures for me. Looks like they all had a great time though and LOVED the cup cakes :D

 

BIRTHDAY GIRL!!!

 

Then as soon as Allie got home, we Skyped with Nana so she could open Nana's gift. As you can see from the photos Allie was being a little silly! But loved the present from Nana and Papa: A cute little dress, a Princess Song Book, and headphones (Allie likes to watch shows on my phone and the ear buds I have as my headphones don't stay in her ears so when Nana saw these cute headphones she thought Allie would like them. And they work great for her!)

 

Silly girl!

Playing the music from the book for Nana

Next we had to wait for daddy to get home so Allie could have her final two presents! These were her two big presents. So after dinner (left over pizza from Saturday - yuck I know LOL) Daddy brought her presents down and Allie had me put them together (well the nursery - and no I didn't take a pic. sorry). But Allie loves her new doll because it walks and talks to her and Allie just loves it!

Please excuse the missing pants.



I did this last year and I'm going to continue the tradition about giving some fun facts about our child on their birthday:

 

*What is your child's age: 4
*What is her favorite color: Blue
*What is her favorite animal: Turtle
*What is her favorite Disney character: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Bell
*What is her favorite movie: Tangled
*What is her favorite T.V. show: My Little Ponies and Dora
*What is her favorite outdoor activity: Playing at the park
*What is her favorite indoor activity: Playing dress up, playing "mom" with her baby dolls, and (NOW) playing with Barbies
*What is her favorite game: Hide and Seek

*What is her favorite food: Mac & Cheese, Chicken Nuggets, Tacos
*What is her favorite snack: Fruit snacks - Fruit Roll ups/Gushers, yogurt,

*What is her favorite fruit: Orange and Banana

*What is her favorite cereal: Kellogs Mini Wheats, Little Bits

*What is her favorite drink: Apple Juice
*What is her favorite book: Anything with Princess in it

*Who is her favorite friend: Illidon-from school

*What is her favorite song: "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", "ABC's", and "Itcy Wincy Spider"

*What is her favorite holiday: "my birthday", Christmas, and the "pink holiday"(Valentines Day)

 

Happy Birthday Allie Bug!!! We Love You!!!

Onion Boy

Sunday Todd cooked some salmon for dinner and he puts onion on it to give it some flavor, well then he throws the onion away because he doesnt like to eat onion unless its on a hamburger or onion rings. Anyways back to my story...As Todd was cutting the onion to put on the fish, Zachary walks up to Todd and looks at him with the "I hungy" look and Todd just gives Zach a RAW onion and guess what..Zachary just eats it like nothing is wrong with it. I wish I had gotten a picture of him eating it. I swear he ate it like he was eating an apple. And then Zachary ate the onion pieces off the fish once it was done cooking. He had such horrible onion breath, but he seemed to love the onion so maybe I'll start cooking more "onion" type stuff for him.

Party With Friends

Saturday we had Allie's birthday party with some of our close friends and some of Allie's friends. It turned out great and Allie had such a great time!!!



The kids table - Allie decorated it all by her self!

With her friend from school, Illidon

PRESENTS!!!!!

Time to open PRESENTS!!!

Smiling for the camera with her new Pjs and bear from Illidon

Allie being silly once again

Looking at the card from Mommy and Daddy. The card came with a bracelet

Zoobles!!!

Cute Kaiden giving Allie a Birthday Hug. How sweet!

Cake time! That cake was sure good!

Eating cake. Amy trying to share with Allie ;p

Illidon giving Allie a hug goodbye. How cute!!!

She loves that bear!!

All tuckered out!