More Pictures

Here are some pictures from the zoo. Our neighbor Elizabeth came with us. Kyrie likes to follow her around and do whatever she does.


In the gorilla lookout they have this old type writer that kyrie loves. We usually can't get her away from it unless we bribe her.


Just a few friendly flamingos.

Pictures from the past few weeks....

Kyrie turned two! Happy Birthday to Kyrie!






Kyrie and her friend/neighbor Elizabeth playing in the sand box.


Just checking out the roses after church on Sunday.

FOX 13 News "Safe in the Pool"

I don't usually draw attention to what my father does for a living but there are times in my life when he really hits home in a message or a story that he tells. He just finished a series piece about safety in the pool with little kids and knowing that my self as well as many of you reading, both family and friends are proud parents, I thought this would be good to share. Please take a minute and click on the two links to watch how you might prevent a child's death in the pool this summer.

http://www.myfoxutah.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=6489561

http://www.myfoxutah.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=6489723

Another day at the zoo!

Today Brian didn't have any class so he took us to the zoo. Because he was there, we splurged and rode the train and the merry-go-round. Kyrie has decided to bring dad to the zoo with her from now on.

Today the animals really held no appeal to Kyrie, it was all about the statues. Any time she saw one, she wanted to get on it.

Just a picture of Kyrie and Dad on yet another statue.

Aside from the statue obsession, Kyrie loved the geese that were wondering around. She kept trying to grab them and almost got her finger taken off. Sorry, no pictures were taken of that special event because mom and dad were too busy trying to potect the goose from Kyrie.

Here is Kyrie on one othe animals she rode on the merry-go-round. She didn't particulary like this one so we switched to the gorilla, then the giraffe, the lion, the frog, and finally the horse.

It was fun to spend the day with Brian, who is so often at school or studying. Kyrie and I have decided we rather like having him around!

A Early Spring Swim

After the Last session of General Conference, I took to the BBQ and Kyrie took a little dip while we had our backs turned. Mind you, that is rain water from the storm on Friday and Saturday.

Natalie was worried that it was too cold but of course, I figured that if it was really that cold, Kyrie wouldn't have stayed in so long....

Down Under

Mom, Dad, Steven, Joseph, Grace, Emmalee, and Isaac all flew out from Utah to spend spring break with us. We love it and had tons of fun! One of the days was spent at Kentucky Down Under. We had an awesome time and can now go back anytime we like because we have season passes! Yahoo for that! Most of the day down under was spent feeding the birds.

Mom even fed the birds.

Kyrie loves birds! She love to chase them, and squeeze them. Needless to say the birds aren't to keen on Kyrie. She would have been happy to spend the entire day in the aviary.

The Kangaroos weren't too active the day we went. They just wanted to lounge around.

A peacock, strutting it's stuff.


Kyrie also loved the goat, so much that she fed it all her pretzels. Yeah, she is great at sharing, at least when it comes to goats.



Brian and Steven were able to flip the sheep like they do in order to sheer them. They both flipped their sheep in record time. I think they both have a great future on a sheep farm.

We also were able to try our hands at cow milking. Dad thought it would be funny to squirt people with the cows milk and he nailed me in the leg. Thanks a lot dad!

This was my first time milking a cow! I can now say that I have successfully milked a cow. Mom also milked a cow!

And here are more birds! Like I said, we spent most of the day with the birds.
One bird was chewing on my collar while the other was sqwuaking in my ear. My ear rang for about an hour afterward, and I thought Kyrie was loud.


These birds had a head fettish I think. Sharee had a very viable concern that I felt needed to be addressed. There were no heads pooped on while creating these kentucky down under memories.
There could only be two possible explanations for this phenomenon. One, the birds were potty trained or two we just got lucky. I'm betting it was the latter of the two.

Can't wait to go back! Thanks mom and dad for the season pass, we love you guys!

Egg dying adventure.

On Saturday we decided to dye Easter Eggs. I rarley boil eggs and had forgotten the distinct boiled egg smell. I was reminded once again that I do not appreciate that smell. I do, however, enjoy dying eggs so it was a sacrifice my nose had to make.

Kyrie enjoyed dying the Easter eggs as well as trying to drink the egg dye. She kept grabbing at the cups and saying juice. Her nose must not have detected the vinegar smell because no matter how many times I told her it was yucky she kept saying, "Yummmm juice!" over and over again until she finally succeeded in dumping the blue dye all over herself and the counter. I just have to say how thankful I am for 409! It works wonders.
Kyrie also discovered that when the eggs are dropped off the counter they made a wonderful cracking noise and she was then able to eat them.
Here is Kyrie enjoying the fruits of her labor. She has decided that she rather likes dying Easter Eggs and the colorful results she gets.

Thursday at the Zoo

At the zoo we were able to see our new little elephant on his first birthday! He is a very talented little guy!

Leave it to Kyrie to be more interested in the fire hydrant than the wonders of pride rock.
So much for the King of the Jungle, he doesn't realize he was replaced by a fire hydrant.


Kyrie aboard the old safari van in the African village.

As you can see, Kyrie had had enough of her safari and wanted out. I think she was overreacting. The van didn't even move, and her poor safari team was stunned by her sudden change in mood. You would think she was going through puberty. Oh wait, it's just the terrible two's hitting a couple months early.

All in all it was a most eventfull zoo trip, and Kyrie thouroughly enjoyed herself. The most wonderful part was, there were no bees! (Last time the bees were swarming everywhere, flying into the diaper bag and everything. I am not only allergic to bees, but I am deathly afraid of them. That is no exaggeration.)