Tuesday, July 24, 2007

More of our Trip to Oklahoma City

We were able to go down to the Oklahoma City Zoo. It is definitely not the Henry Doorly Zoo but it was still lots of fun. The kids were able to try to feed the Lorikeets. Zack was not to happy when one took up residency on his head. He did not feel that that was part of the whole deal!!

Tim felt that being in the butterfly house was a perfect opportunity to teach Madelynne about Butterfly Bingo!! She was very interested!!

Madelynne thinks going naked is the best option with sight seeing. I am not really sure what good the hat is doing her since she has no clothes on!! Whatever, I was doing my best.

On the way home, Timothy decided he was in charge and was giving out the orders. It did make me feel better that Zack was reacting the same way to Tim as he does with me. (They think that if they can't see you, then you can't see them!!!)

Our Recent Trip to Oklahoma City!!!

Greg recently had to participate in a training class in beautiful Oklahoma City!! We decided to make the most of him being closer and squeeze a mini family vacation out of it!!! We had a good time. Even with Greg in class the kids and I found plenty to do down there.

We visited the Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. They had a beautiful (expensive) art exhibit in town just in time for 5 kids with one parent to visit!! It was beautiful for the kids to see and a very stressful time for me!! All the zeros after the prices may have been to blame for that. Here the boys are enjoying riding some barrels. Tim isn't too sure about being that close to the Longhorn steer!!

We drove about 40 minutes south of Oklahoma City to check out the Children's Museum. It was well worth the drive. The kids were able to unearth some dinosaur bones!! They had a fire station, a huge maze outside, a train ride, the bubble factory, and those are just some of the favorites.

One of the evenings after Greg's class we picked him up and went downtown. We enjoyed dinner at Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill. That was some fun atmosphere. Then we went on the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial Site. That was something else. It was great for the kids to see that. Taylor has just been learning about that stuff at school and for her to go there and put it in perspective was really neat. This is just one of the beautiful parts of the memorial.


This is part of the children's memorial. These tiles were made by children around the country in support of the children that had to endure that horrible event and lost loved ones there.

Thursday, July 5, 2007

4th of July Highlights!!


The Artillery!!

T R O U B L E !!!

Double Trouble!!!

Matching Body Art!!!

A Small Sampling of the Carnage!!!

Maddie's Girly Girl Day!!


Maddie got her toenails painted!!

I am soooo Happy!!!

I am not happy at all!!! (Maddie getting her ears pierced)

I am soooo Pretty!!!!