Our Family Fun Day

I thought that since school starts next week I would take the kids to a new park and then to the zoo. They were all very excited and I was too, but I was a little nervous to attempt to take them to the zoo all by myself. We are never quite sure how Macie's temper will be, and if she has a break down and I am home it is no big deal. I hold her till she is done and make sure she doesn't hurt the other kids, but in public, it is a little bit harder to control her and help the other kids too.
Well after swim lessons the kids told Jay that we were going to the zoo and he wanted to know what time. I told him that we were headed straight over there from the pool, so he decided to join us for the day and go to work today (Saturday). First we went and got lunch at KFC and then drove over to the new Equal Access Park by the zoo. We ate then let the kids play. They all loved the park and Jay and I were amazed by how fun all the toys were. It is a really neat park.
After the park we went to the zoo. Bridger and Macie loved all the animals, and Emy did too from a distance. If we pushed her stroller up to any of the glass windows that the animals were sitting by she would start to panic.
We all had a fun time together and the kids did great.
I took a lot of pictures, these were some of our favorites.

Emy liked playing inside of this hippo.
But she didn't know what to think when Jay tried to help her hang from this toy. She didn't quite get the idea.


Swinging is one of Macie's favorite things to do. She hasn't figured out how to pump her legs yet so she would have someone push her all day long on the swing if they were willing. She does really well if you tell her you will only push her a certain number of times and then she helps count to that number and then she is done. It has saved us from many temper tantrums over the summer!
This was a fun toy. It was a tube that went under ground and came up in a different location at the park. If you talked into one end, then the person at the other end could hear you and talk back.



Bridger is always posing for his pictures. He is very photogenic...we aren't quite sure where he got that from!
I love to watch kids grow over the years. It is fun when they are big enough to figure things out on their own.




Macie thought this monkey was pretty cute.
Bridger loves eagles and is always looking for one when we go boating. It was fun for him to see how big they are up close and he even got to see how his arm span measured up.
They had a few different animal skins for the kids to feel. Both Macie and Emy were too scared to touch, but Bridger thought it was neat till Jay draped the tiger arm over his shoulder.


After the zoo we let Bridger and Macie pick one ride to go one at the amusement park.
Macie picked the train
and Bridger picked the plane

It was a fun day and all the kids did great. We were glad to have Jay come with us!