Bears, trains and water fun

One of the things on the Pro List when we were deciding to move to California was the ability to go to the zoo and at the top of the list every time was spending time with family. So while my sister Jody and her boys were visiting from Oklahoma we decided to take advantage and go to the zoo.

We were a little bummed that Waldo had to work and couldn’t go with us but we still had a great time. My Mom, Aunt Kk, Sister Jody, all of my nephews and my niece went to the Storyland play area in the morning and then Lily and I met up with them in the afternoon for a picnic.

After lunch we hopped on the Storyland train and rode it to get closer to the zoo entrance. I had no idea the train shortcut or heck the train at all existed, so I’m really glad that KK knew about it. It was so cute. We got to ride around the little lake, it was just so nice.

Zoo - June 2010

Zoo - June 2010

Once we got to the zoo entrance my Sister Jolene met up with us and then we started looking at the animals. First we stopped by the elephant exhibit. We could only see one but I think there’s at least two.

Zoo - June 2010

**I’m just going to warn you, we saw a lot of animal backsides so I have a lot of animal butt pictures.

After the elephants we saw the orangutans and some other kind of little primate.

Zoo - June 2010

Just as we were going to move on the little black primates started to make noise.

Yelling primates from Christy Wiggins on Vimeo.

They did this for about a half a hour. I was pretty sure they were setting a take over plan into motion. It was pretty neat.

Zoo - June 2010

We moved on to see some other great animals and their rear ends.

Zoo - June 2010

Zoo - June 2010

Zoo - June 2010

Zoo - June 2010

The kids had a great time.

Zoo - June 2010

Zoo - June 2010

Zoo - June 2010

Zoo - June 2010

Zoo - June 2010

Lily was having a bad teething/over stimulated day so she spent all day in the Ergo and was very happy about it.

At the zoo

Not all of the animals got the rear end notification and I got some pretty good shots.

Zoo - June 2010

Zoo - June 2010

Zoo - June 2010

We were beat so we headed back to the train and on the way we saw a cute little water play area for the little ones.

At the little water park

At the little water park

At the little water park

At the little water park

Zoo - June 2010

Zoo - June 2010

After a bit we got back on the train and headed home.

Zoo - June 2010

It was a great day and I can’t wait to go back.

You are the apple of our eye

Lily's special quilt

This is the upper right corner of Lily special quilt. Grandma Rita (Waldo’s Mom) made it for Lily. She makes one for each grandchild and they are amazing. Rita puts so much love into every little detail, you can feel the love pour off in waves as you try to take it all in.

This is the first in the quilt series. I’ll continue this on Tuesday and Thursday of the next couple of weeks.

Thanksgiving 2009

This was Lily first Thanksgiving and it was so nice and low key. We don’t live near any family and most of our friends had family things to do so it was just Waldo, Lily, our friend Jack and myself. Because there were so few of us and it saved money we decided to make chicken parmesan instead of turkey. When we were planning our menu we had decided that my chicken parm is so rich and cheesy that it didn’t need sides, while I was making dinner though Waldo decided it needed something. He made a boxed noodle dish, I didn’t need the noodles the chicken parm was enough for me.

I made a coconut cream pie because it’s Waldo’s favorite. I use a tweaked recipe I got off of AllRecipes.com and Waldo loves it.  I’m not a huge fan of coconut flakes so I take his word for it. I made the same pie last year but it never set up so I let the custard boil a little longer this year and that made all the difference in the world.

I also made some Chocolate Cover Snow Peaks.  Mine didn’t get perfectly dried out but we all thought they were great and I liked that it was nice to have something different from our traditional desserts.  Oh and in an effort to keep things real my snow peaks didn’t turn out anywhere as nicely formed as Tyler Florence’s.  I’ve really got to work on my pipping skills.  While I was googling other meringue recipes I got some inspiration for Lily’s first birthday party.  I’m thinking meringue snowmen with chocolate piped eyes and meringue buttons with a chocolate 1 on them.

I was so busy cooking and having fun that I didn’t take any pictures.  I have plenty of leftovers but now I’m to tired take pictures of food.

We did take a few pictures of Lily before Jack got here and I started cooking.

Thanksgiving 2009

Lily on Daddy's lap

Lily playing in her toy box

I am so thankful for my loving husband and our beautiful healthy daughter. I’ve very thankful to Waldo for working so hard so that I’m able to stay home with Lil, money may be tight but it is so worth it. I’m thankful for so much more too but I’ve got a kitchen to clean.

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.

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