We drove up to see Ben’s mother in Abilene and had a great time. We went to the zoo one day, it’s the coolest!
They have an exhibit where you can feed the giraffes. Mallory was not to sure and didn’t like the long tongue touching her any more than her Mommy did!
She found a plastic owl in the garage and made friends for life.
And we did LOTS of running around outside even though it was SO cold.
We had a great visit and are looking forward to next time!
Wow. That’s not the zoo I remember! When I was in elementary school at ACES, we went to the Abilene zoo every year on the last day of school. My favorite was always the prairie dogs! I don’t think they even had giraffes “way back then”! I remember zebras and monkeys and some sea lions and a pair of peacocks (a cock and a hen) that hung out at the entrance to “greet” visitors.
It would be fun to go back someday and see it all again.
here is a brief look at our Saturday Christmas in Kingwood. Good times, it just felt right. And I am so thankful that we had a great day of celebration and family with Granddaddy!
A bit of fun. A creative outlet. A lot of fun. Something to think about. Ponder. Anticipate. Enjoy. This is one of my intentions for the year. Do something creative everyday. Some of the time it’s taking pictures. Other times it’s sorting and editing photos. Still other days, ordering and picking up prints. Occasionally "something creative everyday" is planning pages for my scrapbooks. Even less frequently it’s working on the scrapbook pages. Yes, posting here is a creative outlet too. I even believe that parenting can be creative some days. And planning, shopping, and cooking meals…..I won’t try to convince you or me that keeping house is creative, but I can argue that one too. So I have lots of opportunities to be creative daily…Let’s see how I do this year!
This month, I am working on completing our 2007 holiday album. Sorting through lots of pictures, writing down stories and funny Mallory antics. I hope to have it completed by January 31st.
So for awhile, blogging and the holiday album will fill most of my daily creativity spaces.
She is so cute waving to the Christmas train. My Daddy LOVES trains. He gets to indulge his love for all things trains at Christmas. This is about the 4th train. The first was his "growing up" train, an "N" gage. We nailed the track to a board that ultimately wrapped and had to be replaced. The second and subsequent trains are "G" gage. The first of the G gage was a rather "vanilla" version. Then additional cars were added, a coal car that blew coal smelling smoke, a red caboose, a cargo car that carried a tractor. Now we have the "Santa" train. Elves operate engine and coal cars and Santa waves merrily from the caboose. Malory thinks it’s great! She waves from afar each time it rounds the tree. So fun!!
