Special Memories Zoo

We spent part of the day Saturday at the Special Memories Zoo in Greenville with Grandma P.  It was such a nice day and the guys were fishing so we found something to do outside as well. We wanted to go to the Farmer's market in Appleton, but it wasn't open yet downtown.

Here's a silly monkey with his toy

Grandma and the girls

Feeding the animals some grass, whoops.. found out we weren't supposed to do that.

Cool maccaw with the Zebra in the background

Hot lion

Mommy & Aiden in the shade, come over girls for a quick pic!

The girls favorite goat in the petting zoo

Cool baby gazelle

Grandma and Aiden watching from outside the fence in the shade with the stroller

They held the baby bunnies for a few seconds before they sunk their claws in their legs!

baby ox

The first thing Taylor does is pet this turtle's face! Stuck it right back in its shell and scared the bejeebers outta me!! lol

We enjoyed some ice cream at the Twist afterwards, it was getting hot!

Glad for another fun Saturday and thanks to Grandma for all her help!

Taylor's Birthday

We celebrated Taylor's birthday on the 2nd with the daycare kids and our little family with some cake and ice cream. Here's the big 5 year old!

These 3 cuties before bed one night last week

Some fish Daddy & Grandpa caught on the river.. 26 white bass in just a couple hours!

Smiley boy :)

 A couple stinkers who picked my poppies!

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a fantastic holiday weekend camping with my family in Spring Grove, IL (my hometown).

The weather was a little interesting with a freezing cold night, a cool day, a rainy day and a beastly hot day!

But, we still had tons of fun of course.  We got lots of fishing in, a little walking, biking, campfiring,

cooking, blowing bubbles, sparklers, coloring and playing games!



Grandpa helping Madi fish

Grandma making sure the little kids don't fall in :)

Taylor enjoying a marshmellow

Grandpa brought some fun sparklers

Taylor loves fishing.. imagine that I think her Dad likes it too a little bit

Hailey thinks it's pretty cool to reel in every 5 seconds :)

Ben caught almost all of the fish, I love this picture

Aiden enjoyed the shade most of the time and Grandma was a big help to Mommy

so I could actually get a little bit of sun for a change!

My two guys hanging out by the campfire

The girls loved the bike ride

we rode to this park

Daddy & Grandpa taking Taylor fishing in the canoe

while we stayed on the dock

It was rainy Sunday but the kids still had lots of fun and went through lots of clothes!

The bubbles were a big hit, these two are pretty good buddies

Also love this picture of course.. fishing by sunset!

Tim & Mel, Megan, Madi & Tyler

Aiden wasn't sure if he liked fishing by sunset

Cooper was happy to be along as well

Monday was hot but so nice and breezy on the dock

We all really enjoyed our Dairy Queen before we left to go home!

This little face was too cute not to capture on the ride home :)

Thanks for another fun holiday weekend!