Mowing the Lawn & more Zoo pics

So I think Adrian feels left out. He gets mentioned on here occasionally but rarely gets a spotlight, so here it is. We bought a lawn mower. Finally. Never needed one before now and really could have used one a few weeks ago. Adrian mowed the lawn and trimmed it and everything and well, this is what he looked like afterwards. Tee hee. He looks so proud.

The kids and I went and picked up Raz & Elise and met Nellie and kids at the zoo last week. It was the week our membership expired, so we wanted to go one last time. Boy my kids love the zoo! It's been fun going so much this last year, we'll certainly have to do it again. Although the weather was nice, the zoo really was a zoo this time around as it was also the last week of school and "field trip" day for it seemed like every elementary school in Utah! It was pretty crowded. We still had a great time though. Thomas just adores Savannah it I think he really enjoyed having other kids there, besides Hailey and Elise!

Here's one of the 5 kids. No one is smiling. At least some are looking. :)

Hailey and the giraffe. She was so good all day. Last time we went it wasn't crowded at all, so I let her walk around a ton. Thankfully, I think this time she was a bit nervous with the crowds too, so she was really content to stay in her stroller. Well, most the time anyways!

Thomas & Savannah on the "plastic tigers" as Thomas called them. right after we got to the Zoo he started asking if we could go see the "plastic tigers." I had NO CLUE what he was talking about until about 1.5 hours later when we rounded the corner and saw these...it's all making sense now. Funny kid.

Here's most of our group eating lunch. I'm taking the pic and Hailey's at my feet. Hahahaha- no surprise there. The kids all shared food except for Paris and her poptarts. No one was getting within 5 ft of those babies!! ;) Hailey even shared some food with the birds I'm sure as half her lunch was strewn all over the lawn. Ahh, what can you do?

Our gang on the Zoofari Express. We always seem to end the day with a train ride. It's short, but oh my, the kids just love it. Thomas & Savannah rode the caboose. Notice Hailey sitting on the seat all by herself. Talk about little Miss Independant!

It was a really fun day. I think we'll take a year off from the Zoo, but we'll get another pass again I'm sure. Maybe we can have this playdate again next year...only there will be 2 more kids in tow! And we thought taking a pic with 5 kids was hard enough! Try 7!! YIKES!