A few fun outings this past week...

This past week we were able to get out of the house and enjoy the nice weather. Justin's sister is in town and also a family friend of his mom's with her daughter Tally and her daughter Audrey too. :) So we were trying to get together to do some things that all of us would enjoy as well as the kids. The plan was to get together on Monday by meeting up at the Wildlife World Zoo. So that is what we did on Monday afternoon. It was lots of fun and the kids did pretty good considering they didn't have naps in yet. Of course Ryken was the one that had the meltdown at the end of our day there. But we all got thru it. :) None of us had ever been to that zoo and so we were looking forward to it. Plus they have an aquarium there now too. So we had lots of fun getting to check out all the fun animals there. It was kinda crowded thru the aquarium and especially if you were trying to push a stroller. But we were still able to see a few of the cool things. There was lots of fun animals to see and of course I took lots of pictures. To many really to post all of them.

Here Ryken was checking out the white alligator they have there. It was kinda creepy with its red eyes. And it just was sitting there like that for awhile. But Ryken seemed to enjoy checking it out.

Here are all the little ones lined up in a row trying to see over the stumps to check out the Flamingos..

And here are the Flamingos. : )

The Giraffes were really cool. There was 4 of them. 2 bigger ones and 2 baby ones. There was also this tower you could go up in and feed them. It was really cool to see them up close.

And they had this Lion there. He was also pretty cool to see and was pretty loud to at one point he let out a really loud growl that scared me. : )

These are the adorable little ones that we enjoyed the day with. : ) Tristan is Justin's sister Jessica's little guy. Then of course there is Ryken. : ) And the cute little girl is Audrey and that is Tally's little girl. They all stuck it out and we all enjoyed the day.

On Tuesday we went over that night and enjoyed some relaxin time with everyone at Justin's parents house. The kids were able to play together some more outside and we all enjoyed some yummy pizza. It is really fun that all the kids were able to get together and play, cause they are all pretty close in age. All 3 of them are only months apart in age. And now all of us mom's are pregnant again at the same time. And again these ones will only be a few months apart in age.

Here we were with our pregnant bellies. : )

The kiddos snacking on their pizza at their own little table.

And here are the adorable little cousins. They had so much fun playing together while Tristan was visiting.

On Wednesday we made a the little trip out to Scottsdale and went to McCormick Ranch. It is a really cool park. We ate lunch there and enjoyed time on the playground with the kids and even got to ride the carousel and the best was the little train ride they have. The kids all loved it as well as us adults. : )

Ryken made one of his several trips down the slide. Even with a little twisted leg he still made it down and said "Weeeee" the whole slide down. : ) I even got in on a little bit of play at the playground. While Ryken and Tristan were swinging in jumped on the other swing and joined them. It sure has been awhile since I have done any swinging but it was great fun.

All 3 of the kids were excited to ride on the train. Here we were all waiting in line and the kids were checking out the train. Here are all the mom's with their little ones. Waiting for the train ride to begin. Ryken was so funny thru almost half of the trip around the park on the train he kept saying " Toot Toot". He loved it!The cute little train that we rode thru the park.

If you look really close on the left you can see Justin in the back with his hand up and Ryken on the horse. :) The carousel was a big hit too.

Here was Ryken and my ride on the carousel. (Justin took a better picture of us then I did of him. :) )

Sorry for the picture overload but we had so much fun last week that I finally had to sit down and blog about it. : ) I wish we lived closer to McCormick Ranch cause it was lots of fun and not to expensive. Maybe we will make another trip out there again soon.