Sunday, May 22, 2011

Hogle Zoo

We took a fun trip to Hogle Zoo! Not nearly as good as the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo in Indiana but it was still fun!


The kids inside a dinosaur egg at the playground
Ragen's first experience with playground bark! She loved it and would smack it and eat it!



This is how you do it with lots of little kids! Just pack 'em on the stroller!





Tyla took a couple pictures and this is one she got of the giraffe's long tongue!




I love my cute kids!




Tyla found this in the gift shop and insisted I take a picture!





Alayna sitting on the gorilla




Mason loved the spider at the playground!




Do you measure up?





We got to see the baby elephant! It was so cute!



Viva Las Vegas!

Sorry, I've been trying to do this for a while, but have had some technical difficulties.

We took a quick trip to Las Vegas to visit Travis's sister, Mauressa, and her family. I had a plane voucher that needed to be used before February and I found a killer deal on flight tickets to Vegas. We ended up only paying $60 for the entire family's airfare! The kids were so excited to ride on the airplane! When the plane was taking off, Tiana yelled, "Mason, hold on tight!!"


While the girls had their noses pressed against the windows watching the sites, Mason just played his Leapster. Funny kid!
Tyla and Alayna had a great time! The kids all chose hot chocolate as their drink but it was really hot! We had to get ice to put in the hot chocolate.



We visited Red Rock Canyon and it was beautiful! The kids had a great time climbing all over the rocks. We sat down to take a family picture and noticed Mason was missing. This is where I found him!





Ahhh! My sweet family!







The huge fish tank at the back of Caesar's Palace.









Of course, the favorite activity was swimming! We stayed at a hotel the first night and the kids were dying to swim. Needless to say, we were out swimming at 8 am the next morning!











Mason and his daddy! He sure is a little fish in the water.













Mason got sick during the trip and was pretty tired. Ragen liked hanging out in the stroller, though.















We went to the lion display at the MGM. This was really fun because we caught the time when the trainers were playing with the young lions. They had big balls they were throwing around and we all sat enthralled for a long time.

















Tyla is really interested in Greek Mythology and was excited to see all the statues of the Greek gods in Caesar's Palace.













Fountains at the Bellagio





















One of the kids' favorite activities were the speed bumps in the parking lots! We ran as fast as we could, hit the bumps and sent them flying! This is their cousin, Teagan.