zoo, birthday, fish and more

Abby and Noah




Noah and his rocket fishing rod




My aunt and uncles beautiful pond and yard




Me and Riley hanging out pondside




Noah's first fish


Our weekend was really nice. We picked Steve up Friday afternoon at the airport, went to Skyline for lunch/dinner and then went to the zoo's member night. Noah was excited to see the superhero show with Spiderman, Storm and the Green Goblin, but the show was lame-o!! It ended up being like a PSA (public service announcement) on nutrition and stranger safety and bullies, which are all nice things, but it was done in such a lame fashion. We left before it was over to avoid the mad dash of people going to the carousel for free rides!! We also got to see the Cheetah encounter and that was pretty cool. They basically talk about the cheetahs for awhile and then they set up this lure system to get them to show you how fast they run. Well the cheetah never got even close to full speed, but it was so cool to see how they just seem to glide across the grass. We were the first ones in the stands and got front row center seats, but as the show was starting, a large stream of people poured in, one was a family with 5 kids probably 8 or 9 to 13 in age and their dad told them to sit at our feet right in front of us, and we annoyed, but gave them room, well the boy right in front of Abby kept standing in her way and she couldn't see. I know it probably seems silly, but I was so frustrated because we sat there for 30 minutes to get the seats we got and they just come in late and block my daughter's view. Steve politely as he can told him to sit back down so she could see, but he was more upset than I was!! I was just frustrated about it. So Saturday we had baseball for both kids, and both at 9am. So I watched Noah's game while Steve coached Abby's practice. That's the last time we have a schedule conflict for the summer, thank goodness. We came home and I worked on flower bed some more and then we went to my cousin's graduation open house. Steve and Noah went fishing in their pond. Noah got to use his his rocket fishing rod that he got for Easter and it was a big hit. All the kids wanted a turn and the adults thought it was awesome. Noah ended up catching three blue gills. Everyone caught something, but it was gross because several of the fish were caught on bodyparts that were gross. We caught one on his gill and we couldn't get the hook out, so we cut the line and kept the hook in. My uncle caught one right through the eye, yuck! When he put that one back in, it stayed near the surface, flopped around awhile and eventually passed. I was lucky enough to keep the kids distracted so they didn't notice, it wasn't pretty! But we had a nice evening there. Sunday we went to church and came home for a few hours. Then we went to my newphew Aaron's 9th Birhtday party. The kids had a great time and it was a nice party as it always is at my sister-in-law's!! It was a nice fun weekend.