Wesley's Birthday-Zoo activity.

Well, yesterday, in honor of Wesley's birthday, we decided to take a day off from unpacking and go to the zoo with our kids. It was Kindle's first ever zoo trip, and the first Armour actually remembers. We bought a zoo pass so I am sure we will be visiting often through the year! Yeah!

Also to celebrate, we went to Sizzler for lunch as a family (where the kids eat free salad bar Mon, Tues, & Wed). It was fun and cheap! Then I had a great surprise when I got home from one of my former young women and great friend Sarah. She had noticed that it was Wesley's birthday and offered to watch our kids for us so we could go out. We had just planned on being stuck at home, but since she offered, we were able to go out to dinner.

Wes & I (and Kindle) went to the Kona Grill where it was happy hour with half price food if you sat at the bar. So we did (which was kinds cool to watch the bartenders make all the drinks). It was not a smokey bar, and we were able to pull up a baby carrier right next to us there. We had great food, great conversation, and watched a lot of alcoholic drinks being made-very interesting! Thank you SOOOO much Sarah!! It has been a long, long time since we were able to go out without the kids!

Here are a few zoo pics from our day:

You cannot enter the zoo without playing on the lions!

Wes and Armour climbing across the bridge-I took the pic from the other side of the waterfall.

(This is in the jungle BTW)

Looking at the HUGE snake that was Solace's favorite as a small girl-not so sure it is her favorite now...she was a bit nervous about it-I guess she knows better now about how dangerous it could be out of the glass...

Kindle in the stroller with the macaws behind her-I traditionally have gotten pics of Wes holding each kid in front of the macaws. Wes was fighting Armour, so this was the best I could do for now.

There they all are in front of the macaws.

There is this new butterfly exhibit (we did not go in-the line was insane!!) But, outside the exhibit there are these awesome benches, and we HAD to take pictures of them.


This picture doesn't accurately show what I wanted to show and that was that Kindle was actually looking actively around at the animals above her in the jungle at this moment...I guess my camera's delay was an issue here...
As a side note-you may be thinking, man, how does she have time to blog with moving and everything...the answer is that I really don't, but last night I couldn't sleep, and today I am just doing this on an unpacking break while I nurse Kindle. I am on my own now as work officially started today.

Birthday Bash.

For my birthday, Wes and I ate at a way-too expensive restaurant that was similar to a Benihana. This is my awesome b-day snapshot-they dress you up and everything there...awesome. Aren't we cute?! (As a side note, the funny thing is that they project the image up on their wall-and it is huge BTW-so we were projected on the wall like that all night...) Thank you Annie and Shawn for watching the kids so we could go get our goofy photo! :)