summer pictures

Isabelle's lemonade stand, Sydney wearing a dress as she tries to do almost daily, Gideon in a swimming pool at a friend's house, all 3 sitting on the stairs playing a DS b/c it's too hot to play outside!

Isa's b-day

The closing date for the house is 8-29, so we have several weeks before we can move in but we're already getting the packing itch. Isabelle's birthday was fun. It was a Tangled theme, though the cake was a butterfly b/c it was pretty and we couldn't aff0rd to buy her one this year. She doesn't care about that stuff though so it was fine.

We had it in the gym at church and set up a giant tent/fort for the kids to climb through and they could climb the "tower" at the end. One of the pictures is Alyssa wearing all of the Repunzel hair I made for the kids. Sydney kept grabbing the frying pan and dragging Alyssa up into the tower. Unfortunately she was true to the movie and kept hitting people with the frying pan so I had to take it away =) I drew a wanted poster of Flynn Ryder and the kids all got to draw their own noses on it and take it home plus they threw Rupunzel's "hair" into the frying game. Those brilliant games took all of 12 seconds, then they went back to playing. After cake and presents Ryan projected the movie on the wall and we could sit and watch it like a drive in or go play on the other side of the fort. She had fun, which I just threw it all together a couple of days ahead of time, so I'm glad she's easy going =)

We're buying a house!

Here are several pictures of the house that we're in the process of buying. I'm very excited!

Ring Tailed Lemurs

Here are the long awaited pictures of the ring tailed lemurs which is the most "famous" part of Tanganika. They can climb all over you but you aren't supposed to pet them. You just sit down or walk around and hope that they want to jump on you. The kids loved it and we spent a lot of time here so the kids all got a chance to get close to some of them.

Tanganika petting zoo

The camel was $5 to ride (yikes!) but free to pet, so BARGAIN! Sydney was enthralled with feeding the chickens food through the cage wire, even though the rest of the kids were petting bunnies and tortoises. You had to feed the tortoise (again, for money) attatching it to a clothespin b/c they can bite really strongly and get your finger. Also goats and llamas. Alyssa and the boys shared their food that they bought with their cousins, and they all helped each other pick some off of the ground (food for the animals, not for the kids to eat.....just to be clear). Then came penguins, and albino aligator, and white tigers. Next and last Tanganika posting....Lemurs