Zoo Trip

Zoo Trip!

We took the boys to the zoo for the 1st time in several years. There were many new exhibits that made the trip fun. This is the entrance to the Children's Zoo. My Youngest enjoyed petting the goats!

This is just 1 of the lorikeets that liked me. I had 2 on my head earlier...a weird experience.

I've never been this close to a flamingo before. We could almost pet them.

The Oklahoma Trails exhibit, made up of all the animals found in our great state...including the 2 animals in front of the glass :-)

We love the Tigers. This one seemed to watch us, wonder what he was thinking?...Yum?

The monkeys all together. Everytime we go to the zoo, the boys take a picture with these gorillas. The boys keep getting bigger.

The new elephant exhibit.

Plateau...

Well I've plateaued...or I plateaued back before Christmas. I haven't lost any weight, and I haven't gained any weight, which is probably a miracle with the amount of sugary goodness I've eaten in the last 3 months!

I'm finally back on schedule though. No more holidays or snow days to de-rail me from my walking and no more baking to eat!

I've made it out to the mall 5 times this week and I've been able to walk about 10 miles!

All the chocolate goodies are gone out of the house so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the scale will start falling again. It's not like I'll be sitting around the house bored (I usually eat the most when I'm bored), since I've started running around taking the boys to soccer practice and games, baseball practice, track practice, track meets, etc. Baseball games and t-ball practice will be starting soon. I don't have time to cook food, much less eat it!

1st Soccer Game...

My Youngest had his 1st soccer game (ever) today! It was fun to watch and I think he had fun too.

Soccer Star!

Practicing my dribbling...

Game Time!



The Cheering Section:
Brother and Cousin ...

Little Cousin...

Grandma (who wouldn't look at the camera) and Uncle...

Big Brother...

Dad...hiding behind Grandma

And Mom (not shown, but present all the same)

We WON!

More due to luck than any real skill, but still a win!

Ensemble...

My Oldest went to a band contest today. It was for Solo's and Ensembles, his ensemble included 2 trombones, a percussionist and my son's bassoon. They received a 2! Great job! This was their 1st contest, the school band will go to one in 2 weeks, I'm wishing them luck now.

CODA 7th Grade Honor Band Concert

This was an AWESOME concert! Loved every minute of it! They held it back in January, preceded by 2 days of clinics for the 7th grade band, the 8th & 9th grade band, HS honor band and HS jazz band, followed by the concert. The kids had their music for 1 month, they worked on it during the clinics all day Friday and Saturday morning and put on a great concert Saturday afternoon. They were WONDERFUL! This is the concert hall.

My son and his bassoon.

The whole band! About 100 7th graders!

Superb! Wonderful! Bravo!

I was so very proud of my son!

Winter, winter...Go Away!

I'm really tired of the cold, the snow and the dark, dreary days. I'm ready for spring to arrive. In the last 3 weeks the boys have been out of school 7 of those days for "snow days"...or more accurately "the snow melts during the day and the puddles freeze over at night and since Okies are idiots we'll cancel school days!" All days that have to be made up by losing scheduled holidays and adding time to each school day. It didn't help that half those days saw one or both of my kids with fevers! Ugh!
Our first snow storm...my Youngest actually had a fever here, but he wanted to get out in the snow soooo badly and I figured the low teen temperatures would cool him off a little!

I even got out in the snow and threw a couple of snowballs. Cabin fever is a bummer!

This is my boys' attempt at a snow fort! Unfortunately they couldn't get out in the deeper snow since they were getting over colds.

But they had fun anyway!

This week we are seeing temperatures in the 60's and 70's with a hint of spring in the air. That's weather in Oklahoma.

Snow Day!

Happy Snow Day!

A Blizzard today means a snow day today and tomorrow...

...we shall see if lasts beyond that!