We played hooky from kindergarten today and went to the Schönbrunn zoo with a friend. It was a beautiful day with the sun occasionally poking through the clouds and wonderful early spring temperatures. The kids were so excited...
Tag - Animals
Our cat Scamper had kittens, which we didn’t know about until Oliver discovered them in our garage! Luckily they were pretty young, so they became very friendly little cats. We made the kids give away their sweet kitty...
My sister Lisa and her daughter Jessie came to visit us last month for a few days. It was super exciting because the last time she was here my whole family had the flu and then her family kept either being sick or having...
The kids and I took a lot of walks in the morning to the Paradise Cove beach. There are little tide pools with crabs and fish sometimes and Elora REALLY wanted Daddy to come see it. So we took a little walk and Elora...
We went to Sea Life Park in Hawaii. Elora and Oliver got to meet a dolphin, and lucky for me they needed a parent to go with them so I got to meet a dolphin too! Here is the dolphin Kaleo coming to meet...
The beach right in front of the condo has sea turtles that come to it. We headed down to the beach for a walk one morning and there were sea turtles hanging out in the cove, coming really close to shore. I was so sad that...
Oliver found a huge worm in the garden and said, “Whoa! Look at that huge worm!” So Elora came over to see. …and she picked it up and let it crawl all over her leg. Oliver’s expression is about...
Last week I took Elora out of school early to take a trip to the Paunsagant Wildlife Museum which is near Bryce Canyon. Elora was soooo excited to go to a museum, it has been awhile! Here we are at the entrance to the museum...
While at my parents house during my birthday week, I took the kids to Bate’s Nut Farm again. I love going there because I used to go when I was a kid, and it is free except for the 50 cents a bag you pay for corn to feed...
Elora has been asking to go to Zion National Park, so on Labor Day we headed over to our favorite place and went off to look for frogs in the canyon. Elora has gotten right into the hiking groove...