Choir

Gwen LOVES singing.

She always asks if she can be in our church choir.

Her elementary school held a "choir club" for about six weeks.

She was pretty excited to join and to perform!

Good job Gwen!

Preschool Field Trip

Austin is involved in a neighborhood playgroup/preschool type thing twice a week 

with some friends in the neighborhood.

This week, one of the mom's organized a field trip to the fire station!

The firemen showed the kids the trucks, what kind of equipment goes into 

them and let them get inside one!

They turned on the sirens and light too!

So fun and educational!

Skipping School

 Today was a free day at the Hogle Zoo!

The kids were going to get out of school for some reason by noon anyway, so I decided to be a fun mom and have them stay home so we could go to the zoo in the morning.

My sister Lisa and her kids came with us.

It actually didn't seem too busy in the morning.

After we ate around 11 or 11:30 though, it was really crazy.

Luckily, we had already seen most everything, so we only had to deal with 

the crazy crowds for a short time.

Austin really liked watching the gorilla.

We saw a massive sized turtle, cool birds, and lot of other animals that were really fun to watch.

The lions were not there this time though, so that was sad.

There also weren't  any zebras.

Maybe next time.