Summer Fun!

We are going to have the funnest summer EVER! We have season passes to Lagoon - thanks to an awesome Christmas present from my parents and we have year passes to both the Hogle Zoo and the Living Planet Aquarium too. Now when you add in the fact that our condo's pool opens this week I doubt that there will be an afternoon without something fun to do all summer. We've already been getting good use out of our passes. We've been to Lagoon 4 times and the zoo 3 times in the last 6 weeks. I love the summer. Now, if only the rain would stop so that we could go swimming.


Here's Gwen showing you her "pet bird" that she found at the zoo. Her little imagination is so good these days. She is constantly being different people and playing with imaginary friends and pets. We've really tried to cut back on her TV watching when we are home and it's so fun to hear her pretend playing instead of just laying in front of the TV letting her brain go to mush.

I have a picture in here of Gwen kissing the animals through the glass at about this same age. Here's Emily kissing the monkey. She loves anything furry that's down on her level. The zoo is so fun for her because not only can she see the big animals but she can spot some of the more active little ones too. She wants to be right up next to them though, so she doesn't like it if the animal is out of her reach.

We went last week with Sam and Jami and Heidi. They have music at the elephant encounter and Gwen loves to pretend that she's a beautiful dancer on a stage. I'm so glad she has cute cousins that can pretend right along with her.