Spring Break trip to the Fort Worth Zoo

This week was Spring Break and we started the week off with a trip to the zoo with some friends. We met up with Meg and her two kids; Shelby & Coleman, and Jess and her two boys; Ethan & Aiden. Ethan attends Mother's Day Out with Kaylin, but he is in the 2-year old class, though he just turned 3 in January.

We got to the zoo about 11 am and the kids all started to have a melt-down somewhere around 2 pm, which meant we weren't able to see all the animals and this upset Kaylin. For whatever reason, she had her heart set on seeing the bats, which she did not inform me of until we were in the car on our way home. I told her Jeremy and I will take her back in April, when they open their penguin exhibit. I love penguins! They are one of my favorite animals.

You can view our pictures here. You might also notice, in our album, we went to the zoo around the same time last year with Jess, Seth and Ethan.

Disney World or Bust!

We are planning a trip to Walt Disney World for July. Should be a lot of fun. Kaylin is very excited, Jonathan obviously has no idea but I imagine he'll have fun once we are there, and Jeremy and I are excited to see how Kaylin will take it all in. The 4 of us will be going, along with my parents and we will be meeting my sister Jill and her family there. Also, Jill's BiL and SiL are going with them. Yes, a fairly large group to deal with.

The four of us, plus my parents are renting a 3 bedroom condo for the week, so we shouldn't be too crowded. Kaylin is excited that we will get to dine with the Disney Princesses, she'll get a princess make over, and best of all, she will get to hang out with her cousins. I am fairly certain that is what she is most looking forward to.

Snow, in Texas?

Would you believe me if I told you we got 9 inches of snow on Thursday? Well, we did.



Now do you believe me? Crazy, isn't it? That is the most snow I have ever seen in Texas. We generally get one snow day a year. Most of the time it's actually sleet, but sometimes it is snow. We never get more than 1" of accumulation, IF there is any accumulation at all, so 9 inches just blew us away. Out by us (west of the metroplex) and up in Denton (where we used to live) are the areas that got most of the accumulation. Dallas proper didn't see any accumulation and other suburbs got about 1-2".

Kaylin had a blast playing in it. Jonathan was napping and then asleep when we played in it. I thought about taking him out in it, but then once I realized how deep it was, I scratched that idea. He doesn't have snow boots, or any boots really. And since he's just getting over an ear infection I didn't think he needed to be out there with soaking wet pants legs. I am such a mean mommy!

Here are some pictures of Kaylin making snow angels and having snowball fights.




And wait, where did the sidewalk, driveway and my bushes go?!




As of this morning, all of the snow is melted, with the exception of the shady areas. I guess the temps being 53° the next day will do that. Crazy Texas weather. Snow on Tuesday, but nothing stuck, 65° on Wednesday, 9" of snow on Thursday, and back up to 53° on Friday. How long until Spring is here? We Spring Forward tonight, so I hope the temperatures follow suit and start changing soon!

As always...you can see all of the snow pictures on our Picasa account, which you can access by clicking on the Photo Gallery link on right-hand side.