Tuesday, December 27, 2011

An Eventful December

This month has been a busy one! We always love spending time with family during the holidays and this year we had my aunt from New Jersey come visit for a week in between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We had so much fun when she was here, and I know the kids hated to see her leave.

Here are a couple pictures of Lilly with Aunt Debbie.


And here is Jake…. being Jake! No one but Daddy can hold him or give him loving!!

On our trip to the zoo, we pet every single animal in the Children’s Petting Zoo. My camera ran out of batteries, but I did manage to get a few of the kids with the goats.

We rode the carousel and found out that Lilly has a hard time moving on once the carousel stops. She threw such a loud temper tantrum, (the kind that involves kicking, screaming, and real tears) that I thought the poor old man running the ride was going to let us ride again for free! The same thing happened when we rode the carousel at the mall two days later. However, the wise lady running that particular carousel offered each kid a pony stamp as they left the ride. Lilly bought it hook, line, and sinker!

The following week Cody had a day off so we took Jake and Lilly to the Aquarium downtown. After touring the one in Grapevine last month, they were in their element! We rode the train through the shark tank and went around and around on the Ferris wheel.

We even rode the carousel AFTER I made Cody promise he would take Lilly. To my surprise, she was a perfectly polite little girl, waving bye-bye to the pretty sea horse when the ride was over. Go figure!!!

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