So on Thursday of the UEA break, My friend Heather and I decided to take our kids, with a few extra (her neice and nephew too), to the Zoo. Basically, we are crazy-as you can see with these pictures of 7 kids (ages 6, 5 1/2, 5, 3, 2 1/2, 2, and 2)! YEP-we had our hands full!!!
Even with our crew we rally had a good time. Animals are just so much fun to watch!! The Rhino was a favorite, as well as the Tiger which was totally pacing in front of the window, right in front of the kids. he also got in the water and swam around right in front of the kids. It was really cool. 
(And why do i not have pictures of all this cool tiger stuff, you may ask...that would be because we were trying to locate the 2-year-old nephew who wandered off in the 2 seconds that we were gathering the kids...we went the wrong direction the first attempt to find him so when i went back from where we came from to get him, he was down the hill where someone saw me looking and probably my almost-frantic looked and pointed him out! PHEW!!!)
AJ and Julia were sportin their BYU gear because we were going to watch the game at "Ba-pa and Mah-Ma's" after the zoo. So i couldn't resist the BYU-gear-with-the-cougar picture!! (The cougar is above Julia's shoulder-kinda hard to see) And Aj took this great picture of the Cougar. He's pretty good huh?!?!
Another Higlight, of course, is the mural of the gorilla's arm span. All the kids wanted their turn to get a picture (except the youngest who didn't really know any differently!) Here's the gorilla-arm photo shoot!!!
And i just couldn't not put this one in-is that a happy kid or what!!! This was in the playground at the end of the day. -and let me tell you-Heather and i were not looking this chipper and energetic at this point! :)
Beside the trauma of the wondering child, it was a really fun time. The kids had a blast seeing the animals and just being together-it was a fun day!!!
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Wow! Look at your baby Julia all grown up!! I snagged your blog address from your facebook. The kids look great! I loved the pic with the byu shirts and the cougar! We always love a trip to the zoo too. Always different. You ARE very brave to go with all those little ones! Glad no one got lost for too long or eaten :D
Hey thanks for finding me on FB. It is great to see your family! Are you in Utah?
We are living in Ohio, I have 2 boys, 3 and 9 months. They keep me running!
We left BYU in 2005, went to MA for grad school, FL for an internship and have been in OH for 2 years now.
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Losing a kid in a crowded place is one of my worst fears. I bet you guys were just DYING!!! So glad you found him. That's a HUGE group of kids. I was laughing about the "not so chipper and energetic" comment. haha!
I love the zoo. So fun. Julia is absolutely the most adorable lil' gal EVER!
i'm always scared i'm going to lose one of my kids. it's a big fear of mine too. glad it all worked out well!! the zoo looks like so much fun!! and it was a nice day that day too! loved the rhino picture! he's HUGE!! that's awesome you guys!! very fun!!
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