The Zoo

Nick and I went to the Zoo on Labor Day all by ourselves!! We were there right when they opened and were able to watch the gorilla's, elephant, rhino's, as well as lots of other animals eating their breakfast. It was fascinating to watch. It was early enough that they were active, especially the monkeys. We saw a kukabura bird, and I sang softly the kukabura song as we walked along hand in hand. I do have one beef though. I don't believe in evolution. Every time I watch the apes I think...I was NOT made in the image of an ape!! There, now that that is taken care of, on with the show! There weren't very many people there right at first. One of the exciting things was seeing the baby animals. Here are some pictures: This is the baby giraffe with it's mother. Here are the baby tigers (that's why we came to the zoo, and for Nick to ride the train, bless his little heart!). Two of the baby tigers were asleep and this was the closest I could get.

Here is the mother tiger and she was giving the baby next to her a spit bath (that's what my mom use to call them). It was really endearing to watch.

This little guy is the baby snow leopard. He was a character. As you can see, he was not shy at all and loved rolling around. His mother was close by watching and making sure he gave us a good show!

Here he is again.

Well, the most exciting thing we did was ride the train. Nick couldn't WAIT to ride the train. So here we were two grandparents with no grandkids riding the train that carried many a child! I felt like borrowing a child to sit with us, just for appearances, but alas, I could get arrested for that. So there we were hanging on for dear life, me watching the 'wahoo' look on Nick's face and enjoying every minute of it!!

Goin' Down Old Memory Lane (As much as I can remember anyway)

My cousin gave me some pictures this last week and I thought I would share some of them with you. Here is my mom giving my brother, Robert, a big hug at the airport when she came home from her mission in 1988. Here are the grandkids anxiously waiting her arrival. Scott and Brion are there and Kim has her side to us with the white ribbon in her hair.

The group picture. Notice the four little girls in the front holding hands (Lacie, Lindsey, Kim and Abby). How cute! Nick is peaking out clear in the back on the left. I am standing by my brother and I am pregnant with Brett.

I thought this was great~~~Every Easter Saturday our family would go to West Canyon (By Cedar Fort) for a hot dog roast and games. There was also a shooting contest. Here I am big and pregnant with Brion. This and the next picture are the only known pictures in existence of a picture of me fully pregnant! Jarom is sitting on my mom's lap, but you can barely see him.

Before we played hide-n-seek we always did one potato, two potato, three potato, to see how got to be the seeker. From left to right, nephew Jordan, Nick, my sister Marsha, sister LaNae, brother Rob, me, brother in law Scott and my grandpa Royle. Notice, we are out in the "woods" playing and grandpa still dresses up in a tie, white shirt, nice sweater and a jazzy hat. How cute is that? I loved him so.