We Show Off Our Zoo

Friday we welcomed in Chris' sister and her two girls, who made the trip in from Arizona for Emersyn's birthday. It was a very welcome visit since Emersyn has only "met" her two cousins via Skype, and she was extremely excited to have them at her house! Their flight came in later on Friday, but we got all day Saturday to hang out before the chaos of the party on Sunday...

So, big surprise coming from us, we went to the zoo!!

Gabrielle and Gianna were absolutely amazing with Emersyn. They were so into showing her the animals and making sure she could see. The result was that Emersyn walked almost the entire time, which is a total first. But she couldn't have been happier!

I won't bore you with the bazillion pictures here... but you know you can always check out the whole butt ton in the album. ;) I will however share a few random things. Like how we got to see the warhog babies who are now almost as big as their mama...

And how we got to feed the giraffe for the first time in at least a handful of visits...

I can't skip over the new "dance" that we saw the baby elephant do with (what we assume is) it's mother...

And I absolutely have to include pictures when I say what a blast the girls all had on the tree slide, which we must have stayed at for at least 20 minutes...

I can't talk about the tree slide without saying anything about the turtle shells that had all three girls giggling up a storm as they played there too...

But I will leave you with one picture to sum up the whole zoo trip, totally showing what a good time Emersyn had with her cousins...

Now, I'm sure you're questioning this post being only Saturday's adventure. After all, the party was Sunday and that's surely a bigger deal. You're right. And it is coming... very soon! Knowing us, you can imagine the amount of pictures that we have, so it's taking a little time to go through everything. I figured, better to post something than wait longer and then do it out of order. Trust me though, her birthday party post is on it's way!! I'm already making better time than I thought, so it really won't be long before you have that recap. In the meantime, have fun looking at all the zoo pictures! :)