2010 Recap!

Holy Cow! I just uploaded all the pics for this post and I can't believe how much we packed into one year! I know that 2011 will be just as crazy. Anyway, I wanted to do a little 2010 recap so here it is broken down by months! Again, all I can say is WOW! No wonder I am tired! :)

January: This was probably the most calm month of the whole year. Not a whole lot happened. We were still debating on moving and putting our house on the market and Sugie started taking her first steps!

February: Sugie got her walk perfected! We put our house on the market and signed a contingency contract on our new house. We also had a really good snow for Texas!

March: We enjoyed the nice weather by taking Sugie on her first zoo trip and making a couple of trips to the arboretum.

April: We got a contrac ton our house for it to be sold and found a rent house to live in. We enjoyed Easter at home and at the arboretum

May: We moved to the rent house and out of said farewell to our old house. We celebrated Mother's Day with family. The foundation to our new house was poured on Trev and I's 5th wedding anniversary. We settled in at rent house the best we could and Sugie loved playing outside on the back patio with water!

June: We found out that we were expecting baby #2 which means that Sugie and I did quite a bit of resting around the rent house. :) We did make quite a few trips to the splash park, the swimming pool, and even the children's museum! We announced baby #2 at my parents campsite to the whole family by Sugie wearing a "I am going to be a big sister dress!"

July: We celebrated July 4th, moved out of rent house and into the new house! It was a fun and HOT month!

August: We unpacked into the new house and tried to stay cool by enjoying the new community pool. I also went back to work and started my 8th year teaching

September: We found out that baby #2 was a girl and decided on the name McKenzie Jane. We enjoyed some cooler evenings and got to know our neighbors. We also had a fun visit from Trev's brother and family. We also watched the cowboys start to lose. :(

October: We enjoyed nice weather with pumpkin patches, pumkin painting,
and of course Halloween!

November: We made a trip to Broken bow to enjoy the fall colors, survived 2 stomach viruses and enjoyed Thanksgiving.

December: We wrapped up the year with Chistmas and Sugie's birthday! What a wonderful year!

Zoo Take 3

I woke up this morning and thought me and Sugie needed to get out of the house. I looked at my iphone and it said it was going to be 70 degrees! Yes, in December! Awesome! Anyway, we decided to head out to the zoo. This was the 3rd time that Sugie has been to the zoo and she LOVED it this time and could really communicate with me about the animals more or less. If they were still and not moving she would say they were sleeping or gone nite, nite. HA! :) Then when we would leave their exhibit she would say, "Bye, (insert animal)." It was quite cute. I bought a memebership that will last another year becuase I thought it was worth the money and I figure it will allow us to go more. Of course soon I will have 2 little ones so I guess I will try and manage that! I had a few people tell me that they would never walk around the zoo 8 months pregnant with a toddler today so who knows. I had not seen the African Savannah exhibit so that was my favorite! :)

Sugie was quite impressed with the elephant statues

African Savannah

New Giraffe exhibit. You can get REALLY close to the giraffes

They have a feeding platform and for $5 you can feed them lettuce. We figured we had stimulated the zoo's budget enough today! HA!

Insted we watched others feed the giraffe. I would have got a picture with Sugie next to them but she wouldn't let me put her down. Guess she was a little unsure.

Sugie is sort of in a anti stroller phase and until she gets good and tired she would assume walk on her own. She does pretty good at keeping up. We got to the zoo when it first opened so we had it to almost to ourselves for a good 2 hours so I don't feel to worried about losing her.

Up close and personal with the Gorialla, "He is sleeping"

Up close and personal with the chimp. After a climb up a really big hill she gave up the stroller fight and was tired enough to ride! :)

Since we became Zoo memebers we got some monorail passes with it. I had never ridden the monorail so we went on the "train, train, train!" as Sugie would say.

Monorail view

Sugie checking out the sights on the monorail

When she saw the carousel she made a bee line straight for it saying, "horsey, horsey" So again we got carousel rides with our membership so how can a mom say no? She chose the zebra to ride but still called it a horsey!

"HORSEEEEEEE!!!!"

We went over to the childrens zoo to see the goats. She called them dogs and was pretty unsure of them at first.
But after a while she petted them very gently. She till called them dogs though. Guess that is what happens when your dog is bigger than a goat!

Of course we also stopped to play!

And to see some GIANT bunnies! HA! :)

I think we might be able to fit in another zoo trip before McKenzie's arrival. :)