Spring Break Zoo Trippin'

Last week was a total blast!!! The weather was so nice that we practically lived outside. It was the perfect week for Chassidy's spring break. We used one of those gorgeous days (not gangster mob Tuesday) to go to the zoo. Me, Benji, Chassidy, Grace, Katherine, & Ella Bella all met that morning and made a day of it. We took a picnic lunch and everything. The first thing we headed for was the new Teton Trek exhibit. We had not seen it yet. The whole experience was absolutely amazing. The lodge is beautiful. The inside makes you want to stay for some kind of stew dinner. LOL. The wolves were rather docile and elegant. They were just chillin' in a little bit of shade.

The bears was a truly unique experience. They were so playful and running and knocking each other around. I think spring has already sprung on them. =) One of them even caught a fish straight out of the stream.

The girls caught some fish of their own as we were going through as well, albeit they were of the goldfish variety.

This is the bear area and the back side of the lodge. You can really sit up there in the rocking chairs and just chill. The porch is all the way across the front and the back!

This was taken inside the glass observatory breezeway that the pool ends into for the bears.

These are not even zoomed in from far away. We were literally on the other side of the glass from them as they played.

The girls watching the replica of "old faithful" from Yellow Stone.

After being successful in keeping Yogi and BooBoo from our picanic baskets the girls played hide and seek...kinda. LOL This picture looks like Ella is saying "Dude, I can so totally see you."

This is Grace jumping out after being found and Rarrrrring at the girls. She has some thing about saying she is a "baby dwaggon" right now. No clue where she got it.

We then went to see some of our other favorites...the polar bears and sea lions.

Everyone was out enjoying and relaxing in the sun.

Benji snapped this one of Katherine and I (and Grace hitchin' up her britches) because he said we were trying to get a pic of the girls from behind (a butt shot as he called it) for the 500th time since they were born and he figured that we needed one too.

One of the MANY butt shots of the day: I love to watch the panda bears eat...we can only dream of being so content.

It was an absolutely beautiful day. We all crashed when we got home.

Pop Stars Only!

Chassidy is now 7 years old. For the past 3 years she has been begging to have her party at a place called Glitz-N-Glam. It is a little boutique style shop in the old part of Bartlett, that caters to the fairytale crowd. Until this year we could nto justify spending that much on a child's party when she was still too young to truely remember it. Chassidy is into Hana Montana and anything to do with a good beat right now, so it was a no-brainer. We chose to do the Pop-Star-For-A-Day party. The girls had a blast! First they dressed them up in all kinds of shiny wardrobes... They even let the pop star moms get a little crazy...Then it was time to get their nails and makeup done...

It was then time for a quick craft and then on to the main attraction of the evening...the pink carpet photo shoot! Then it was on to the "concert" where they performed for an extatic audience. The "after party" was great too. After working hard on being the best pop star they could be for their adoring fans, the divas were able to rock out and learn a few new steps. Then cake and icecream refreshments (the favs of any true star) were seved and gifts were opened. It was the perfect end to a hard working star's day.