A rare Sunday

I just love when my kids are all dressed up for church. Grace has more dresses than than any other child I know - Poor Max, he's either had a runny nose, an ear infection or a cough pretty much the whole winter. I think this was the 2nd or 3rd time he's been to nursery since he hit 18 months. (And this week he's got the worst cough yet, so he'll be staying home with daddy. Again. Which means daddy gets the nap time, which means.... I'll stop there.) So, last week all four of us went to church.

Max has started fighting pretty much every picture I want to take, he either closes his eyes or just stares - he's so dang fast most of the time I get one of him turning his head. This was the best we could do...

Mr. Mellow.
Grace however can be bribed and played along nicely for a few pictures of her in her big brown tutu skirt. I'm addicted to Gymboree, I can't go in there because every time I do I want to spend lots of $$$. They just have the cutest stuff!

Now... what to wear today?

Crazy Cold Animals

I found out last month that Hogle Zoo has a free day November-February, and since my kids had so much fun last summer, and I'll do anything to get out of the house, I bundled up the kids and headed to Salt Lake last week.

It had been snowing on and off all morning, but only barely and the kids really enjoyed it. When I went in January there was maybe 30 people in the whole zoo, well, apparently it caught on because I was there by 10:20 and had to park in the back of the parking lot. You would have thought it was June!

I had always heard the animals are more active in the cool weather, and that was true with the tigers and other large cats. It was fun to get to see them up and around, last summer we barely could see the tigers. But the elephants were not out either time, and since Grace is obsessed with elephants that pretty much was lame!

The kids loved to get out of the stroller in the indoor exhibits and walk right up to the glass, Max is enthralled with the huge gorilla, which truthfully freaks me out. I think it would kill someone in a second, his eyes are evil! (The gorilla, not Max's....)

The carousel was open this last time so I let the kids have a ride, they love it too. One nice thing about going in the winter is all the drink and ice cream vendors are closed so I don't have to tell Grace no a million times.

We had a lot of fun, I'm thinking of buying a season pass, I'm guessing the kids won't get bored :)
Grace loves to go upstairs in the giraffe house, and she loves to look at their big bums....

They both were as warm as I could keep them, and were not ready to leave when I wanted to go, so I guess they had fun!

(On a side note, I have no idea how most of this post got underlined, nor can my brain figure out how to underline something!... Lovely blogger...)