Sweet Riley

I am excited about having some sister time this weekend!

We'll be seeing this shining face tomorrow!

Maybe she'll do the robot for us.... She is way too good at it!

The last time we were all together was in NYC in July!

I am sure there will be lots of this going on!


We'll surely have some photo ops...

and we'll be hearing lots about this place!

Daddy's Day Off, Zoo, Zoe's and ZZZZs

We had a wonderful day at the zoo this week. Trey is working a ton lately, so it was so great just to hang out as a family and take the girls to do something fun. We ended up buying the year pass to the zoo, so if anybody wants to return with us, let me know. I of course had to bring my camera. I only took 544 pics! Here are a few of my favorites. There were tons because all the animals were out and so cooperative. We even heard the lion and tiger roaring! It was the best trip I've ever had to the zoo.


After the zoo, it was off to Zoe's for some yummy chicken salad sandwich and grilled chicken pita! Then we all headed home for a nap! To top it off, church that night was phenomenal. The worship was so powerful as was the message on Tabernacle Prayer. All in all, it was a Fab Day! Hope all of you have a Fab Day this week too!

Starting the day off at the Sea Lion Splash Show

and from here on out, the pictures are in no particular order!

This is the only picture of me, you are WELCOME!

Big EYES

He's eatin crackers just like Selah.

Five Little Monkey's sittin on a branch, one fell off and...

Butterfly House, fast little buggers, hard to shoot

This Tiger has the most beautiful blue eyes. This was the only shot I could get, the others he had them tighly shut.

Bad Hair Day

Hungry Hungry Hippos

Rhino

We saw them and I said, "Wow, that is amazing they just stay here in their little spot." (there's no cage or net) Then Trey told me they probably clipped their wings so they can't fly, oh, sad=(

Selah keepin busy in the stroller with her Ritz

We joke that these are Sophie's "hot pants" but they are just so darn cute. I mean when else can you pull it off and still look cute!

I love the colors on this lizard. He could inspire a room or something.

Ok, this is one scary gator!

Selah getting pretty sleepy towards the end! And she's out....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Italian Dinner Night

We had an Italian Dinner the other night at YaYa's house. I brought all the food, Elaine did most of the cooking and dessert and Yaya provided her house for us to destroy=).

Sophie and Luke drank their juice boxes on the deck and giggled while we cooked. I walked out there at one point to check on things and Sophie was singing, "I like to move it move it, I like to move it move it" over and over, so I think they were having fun.
Selah played in the Johnny Jump Up which she adores. She can really get moving on that thing. I wish they made an adult version, I think it could be quite fun! And a great workout! We made Gnocchi (which Trey and I discovered the yummy goodness of in Italy), Spaghetti (and by Spaghetti, I mean angel hair pasta cause the Tants only like angel hair!) with meatballs. Elaine made some delicious blueberry thing that I don't have a picture of but it was gooooood.

A 98% real smile from Sophie. And if you know her, you know it is hard to get a genuine smile from her if a camera is within a 75 ft radius. She's got such a great smile, but she does this cheesy fake smile for pictures, cracks me up.

The table all set with our feast + one bottle of vino from Italy that we got on a bike/castle tour in Florence+one bottle of Trader Joe's red wine that is supposed to be good and cheap=).

After we all stuffed our faces, Selah got tickled and the "kids" went into the living room to....

dance to the Curious George soundtrack!
Then I found a frog outside. I told Luke and Sophie to be very quiet and brought them outside to see it. Sophie didn't want to touch it while Luke tried to stomp on it and grab it until it ran away to a safe place.

That's all for now, I am off to clean my house...

5th of July

Trey was on call on the 4th of July, so I decided that we would hold out and do fireworks on the 5th so he could celebrate a little.
Nana and Pop were super excited when we showed up at their house Sunday night after church to shoot off our fireworks. Selah wasn't too fond of the noise, so Nana held her away from the "danger. " Sophie was all about the roman candles and bottle rockets. But she got a little shy after an ember from a sparkler burned her arm, so trey and i had a little fun with the rest of her sparklers and my camera...