Preschool Monkeys At The Zoo!

Tori's preschool decided to take a trip to the Phoenix zoo!

Tori was so excited about it. We have a membership at the zoo but it has been a while since we were there last.

She was excited to spend time with her preschool buddies.

It was a beautiful day and the zoo wasn't too busy. The day seemed to fly by and before long it was time to head home through the start of rush hour traffic to make sure we were home when the big kids got home from school.

Max and the new jaguar that just arrived at the zoo.

Tori on her frog. She LOVES having her photo taken on this cement frog. She got a new cheetah teddy bear that she carried around with her all day :)

The preschool crew along with some siblings...
Tori, Trenton, Crew, Hannah, Brooke's big sister Cassie, Halle's little sister Merilee, a stranger who wanted to be in the photo...haha, Halle and Brooke.

Tori outside the treehouse!

The kids with the sting rays. Tori thinks its cool to pet them. Max pet one and about flipped out!! I pet my first one showing Max how to do it...they feel kinda weird, almost velvety and slippery.

The kids in front of the carousel waiting for their turn to ride on the endangered animals!!

Trenton on his lion!!

Max and Tori on their cheetah and panther!!

Max's 2nd Birthday :)

Max's second birthday party was a lot of fun. Jason's parents came over for dinner and since Max wasn't really old enough to choose his meal of choice we made it for him!!

We had taco salad and man was it good :)

Jason's brother Shaun was in town and was able to come as well. It was so great to see him and the kids had a total blast spending time with their Uncle Shaun.

Emily and Hudson trying to light the cake!

Max was having a hard time blowing out the candles so Mom helped him. I was being dramatic in showing him how to blow the candles out and
Jason just managed to get this 'wonderful' shot, urgh!! haha

Max opening his presents. This one was from Nana and Papa.
Max is really into puppies and cars and ever since his birthday he sleeps with his puppy blanket and pillow.
For his other presents he received a cool letter magnet and desk set from Gram and Grandpa, a Cars play mat for his cars and trucks from his brother and sisters, a car carrying case and a cool huge semi truck with a car that shoots out of it from Mom and Dad.
He also received some cool cards from the rest of the family!!

Uncle Shaun on Hudson's scooter!! He and Hudson were zooming around the kitchen and family room chasing each other with Cooper running behind them barking the whole time!! The kids think Uncle Shaun is really 'cool' :)

Max and Grandpa! Max has a thing for Grandpa's new truck. He always loves to sit in the drivers seat!! He definately is Grandpa's little buddy. Who knows, maybe Max will turn out to be a car lover just like his Grandpa!!!

The Cardinals were soooo close...

Since being married Jason and I have never been much into watching sports which for me seems rather odd. All my life I have either played or watched sports of some sort or another for as long as I can remember.
Yesterday this all changed however. My darling husband spent the entire Superbowl on the couch watching the Arizona Cardinals almost win!!
Our kids came in and out from outside to watch from time to time and after the game Emily said that she thinks we should watch more sports in our house!! haha
The game yesterday was soooo close and we were cheering for the underdogs, our hometeam the Cardinals. It would have been so nice to see them win and we almost thought that they had until the last few minutes of play :(
We hope that next season we will see them there again but who knows...the Diamondbacks won the world series but we haven't seen them there again since. Sports are an odd thing, all depending on luck, skills and who is on, on the day that it counts!!
Go Cardinals, hope to see you back in the Superbowl next year!!