Monday, March 11, 2013

3rd Anniversary (August 15, 2012)

We celebrated our 3rd anniversary at home together with the family.  We ordered take out and had a nice day.

The traditional anniversary gift for a 3rd anniversary is leather.  Zach got me a digital photo key chain and a Kindle Fire in a hot pink leather case.  I was SO excited!



I got Zach a leather watch case to hold all of his watches...





My mom won the award for the most creative gift.  She bought us a box of fruit leathers from Costco!

"Olivia" (August 2012)

My mom got Olivia this shirt for her birthday.  It is absolutely adorable...




Sunday, March 10, 2013

Woodland Park Zoo (Augst 7, 2012)

The following Tuesday Olivia and I went to the zoo with the McCarrons.  It was Olivia's first trip to the zoo and she absolutely LOVED seeing all of the animals! 

First stop was the African Savannah.  We saw a giraffe, two ostriches, hippos, and the lions. 


Kade and Aidan stopped to pose on the hippo...


The male lion was absolutely amazing!  He was walking all around roaring so loudly.  Olivia was mesmerized...


Olivia was really good and spent most of the time in the backpack...



The orangutans, monkeys and gorillas were really funny too.  One of the orangutans kept covering himself with pieces of cloth.  If you look closely at the bottom right corner picture, there is a baby gorilla in the bottom left hand corner.  He was SO cute!


After a couple of hours we stopped for lunch...






I always love the flamingos!


 
Olivia's favorite was the penguins.  She could easily see them because they kept swimming right up to the glass, and their enclosure goes down to the walkway...
 



 
 Soon after the penguins she was down and out!  It was a fun and exciting day!
 

Camping in Cle Elum (August 2012)

Ok...so here goes nothing!!  My goal is to have all our pictures updated by the end of the month!!



The first weekend of August we headed over to Cle Elum for some more camping fun with the Allans, McCarrons and Brandy!  We weren't able to find campsites so we camped in Brandy's family's property.  The first night we were there the kids all cuddled up in the trailer to watch a movie... 



While Olivia decided to hang out by the campfire...
 


The next day the guys all went into town while the girls took the kids down to the river to play...






We had another campfire that evening and headed home the next day.  It was a great weekend!