Together, my sisters Abby & Maren and I have established an annual fall tradition including a cousin day at Hogle Zoo and a trip out to pick pumpkins at our patch. This year Grandma was able to come, too! Here are all EIGHT cousins all together for the first time. I'm having to retrain myself to refer to the cousins are 'kids' instead of 'girls' since Ryan joined our family a few weeks ago. Funny how in this picture Allie is almost smiling, but it is Kylie that has a 'buisness' look. usually it is the other way around.
Here are our traditional photo shots. Each year it gets harder to get an ever growing number of little faces to smile and tune in for the pictures. I am a bit disappointed at how these turned out this year.
Even though we stayed longer that any past year (nearly 5 hours) we somehow missed several animals. Oh, well. We spent time at the exhibits we did see. Highlights this year were the ever popular elephants and giraffes, pacing big cats, and the mother/baby pair of Orangutans.
After having the girls choose between riding the little train or the carousel, we ending up buying tickets for both since they had a combo ticket that only cost $0.50 more each. I've tried to get Allie to tell me which she like more, but she is adamant they were BOTH the best. She had to compete with Emma, but won the privilege of riding the zebra on the carousel. Kylie loved the candy bracelets Aunt Maren handed out, too bad she made a terrible mess.
3 comments:
What a fun day. I can't believe there is now a boy in that mix!
so much fun!!!! poor little Ryan stuck with all those girls.
Wow Sarah, your pictures are great! I have to get them, especially the last one of Eden, it makes me want to take her back and buy her more rides:)Also I do have a pretty good pic of the girls on the lion statues, but I don't have any of me and my kids togther, we'll have to swap them on photobucket.
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