Pictures with Nona

Nona (aka: my mom) came down this past weekend to hang out and help out. We've been wanting to take some pictures with her and all three grandkids for a while so we finally picked the date! The kids were dressed, we had plenty of candy, the weather was great...

What felt like ten hours later, through lots of tears, sweat and laughter we finally got what we were shooting for:

They're All Looking!

A quick look at some of the others...

Notice Mariah's hands... (no babies were harmed)

The only other possible winner.

The Zoo

Taraleigh and I took the kids to the Merced Zoo today (11-19-08). I have no doubt that this is the smallest zoo I've ever been to, but it was perfect for the little ones. In fact, we got to walk around the entire zoo twice and all in about an hour! Their favorite part was feeding the goats, even though one of them bit Robbie (Taraleigh took care of that one...)! There were monkeys, bears, tons of birds and a mountain lion. They love animals so much - they were in heaven!

They were both fearless - Robbie stuck his entire hand in along with the goat food.

Mariah belongs on a farm. Maybe one day...

In heaven.

Checking everything out. Mariah likes to go as fast as possible and Robbie likes to take it all in.

Sweet Taven sticking out his tongue at me.

Even though it was pretty expensive to get in ($.50 for the kids and a whopping $1.50 for me) we've decided to try and come twice a month because everyone had such a great time. We stopped at the gift shop and I picked up some stocking stuffers for the kids... Can you believe Christmas is around the corner? Especially with the weather we've been having - it was hot today and it's the middle of November!

My Attempt.

This was my (and Taraleigh's) attempt at getting some pictures of the kids together. Mariah is no problem; she's sweet, she listens, she smiles,... then there's Robbie. He runs, he yells, he wont stand or sit still for more then .008 seconds... he's a boy. So that's my explanation of why almost none of the pictures feature their sweet little faces. After we got in the car both Taraleigh and I were sweating and out of breath. At least we could count it as a workout too...