The day after Christmas we left and headed to see my brother and his family in Arizona. It was a horribly LONG trip, but we made it, and the kids actually traveled pretty well. I thought I'd taken a bunch more pictures, but this was all that was on the camera, so I missed a bunch. Oh well. Live and learn huh?
Grandma and Grandpa Trane let the kids open a christmas present from them in preparation for our trip to the zoo.
They both got cameras. Ethan LOVES his camera, and filled up the 100 picture memory in less than 12 hours.
The next day we headed to the World Wildlife Zoo. It was pretty incredible and so many different types of animals that i'd never seen before. Here are the twits with their cameras taking pictures of the birds at the zoo entrance.
Our favorites were the monkeys. This is a momma and baby monkey. They were adorable. There was a super fun capuchin monkey that kept making silly faces at Andy as if trying to communicate with him. Andy also had a Macaw that was laughing at him. Andy would say ha, ha, ha, and the bird would repeat it back to him, and when we walked off, he did it a few more times as if to say, get back here and talk some more.
My favorites might have been the flamingos. I didn't know they were so tall. they had oodles of them at the zoo!
Here is Andy and Ethan looking at the flamingos!
Julia and Ethan had fun petting the sting rays.
Julia helped to push miss Addy in her ghetto stroller that we rented at the zoo.
Maybe the coolest part of the zoo was that you could feed the giraffes.
That night we opened presents from each other. I have NO pictures of this. Maybe it's because our little bully (Addy) kept getting on her hands and knees and using her head to bull doze Sawyer and Julia, and anyone else who touched any of her things.
Anyway, I gave mostly handmade gifts this year. So, I gave Colby and Suzanne roasting sticks, and a roasting stick holder I made for them with a basket full of goodies to make smores. Julia got a purse, and felt play makeup, as well as a necklace I made for her, and Sawyer got felt tools and tool box, and a shirt I made for him.
Suzanne and Colby gave Andy a Marilyn Monroe poster with an Itunes gift card (his favorite thing to get as a gift), I got a hobby lobby gift card, Addy got a doll and crib and stroller, and Ethan got a rocket ship alarm clock and buzz light year activity kit. Thanks again guys!
The next day we went to a really neat park. I wish I would have had pictures of it, it was HUGE! Addy's favorite part was these rocking toys. She sat on them the ENTIRE time that we were at the park, and once again, was a bully to anyone who attempted to take her toy! She rocked like a pro on those things.
Colby and Suzanne made us all lunches, and we played at the park for hours. Then we went back to the house and played a new fun game that mom brought. We laughed super hard while playing it and had fun just hanging out together. We ate "christmas dinner" that night, and then had to say our goodbyes so that we could leave early the next morning.
We really had a good time at uncle Schmozy's house (as ethan likes to call him), and wish that they lived closer so we could play with them more often. Love you guys.
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