Crawfish Boil and the Zoo!

The train with daddy. She kept saying "ride!"

The carousel-I had to ride with her and we had to ride a "bear!"

Hi Daddy!

These orange things were cute

Willie B

The giant bird nest. It was supposed to be a true-to-size replica.

MK's favorite-giraffes!

Oooh!

Look I'm a meerkat

This weekend was one of the best weekends we have had as a family all summer! After an exhausting week of swim lessons for Mary Katherine (and continuing tomorrow), I had a tennis match at 9 am Saturday. It was a great break but for some reason Friday night, Annalee went down at midnight and was up at 3,5 and 7!!!! So, I could hardly keep my eyes open on the tennis court but we pulled it out and won in two sets! Afterwards, I ran home and cleaned and fed Annalee and got to take a nap! Both girls and I slept for two hours and then all of us were off to our Sunday school class's annual crawfish boil at the Froula's house. It was a blast-the girls did great and Mary Katherine loved playing with all the other kids and eating of course-she grazed on chick-fil-a, fruit, appetizers and M & M's while daddy and all the men stood over the pile of crawfish, shrimp, corn and potatoes. Jay brought a live crawfish over for MK to see and she thought it was neat where mommy was scared of it! Sunday morning was usual church/Sunday school (well actually we didn't go to service this morning) and a small reception to say bye to one of our favorite ministers, Craig Yoshihara, who is leaving to be the head of a church in California. Then I had a suprise for Jay and the girls-we went to the Zoo! Neither of us had been since the 80's so it was a treat. We are proud to say that Annalee slept the entire 3 1/2 hours there (didn't have to eat till we got in the car) and Mary Katherine walked the entire zoo with NO meltdowns WITHOUT a nap! We put her in the stroller for the ride to the car and she did pass out then. Her favorite things were the giraffes, the carousel, the train and all the birds. She also tried to climb in all the habitats! We will definitely go back sometime!