The Zoo

 This past weekend, May 6, we went to the Dallas Zoo. We were brave and took the whole family! My mom and Rog came with us to help out and enjoy the zoo too!

They have a really neat Children's Zoo inside of the zoo. There are Koi fish that Hudson fed and he love seeing them! They splashed quite a bit when we gave them food!

 There is a neat little creek area were the kids can play and get wet. Hudson wasn't quite sure at first. But after watching the big kids he was trying to jump and splash around.

Hudson also got to ride a pony!

We  called Cody the bird whisperer. There was this cool room you could go into with the birds. Every single bird wanted to land on Cody! We think they liked his hat. Hudson was just in awe.

 A few of the unique animals we saw...

 It was so neat to see the elephants while we were there. One was completely submerged swimming. The other one was cooling itself off by spraying itself with it's trunk. This is the statue elephant of course.

We got to the zoo right when they opened at 9 am. We made it until about 12:30. The weather was really starting to warm up and Miss Emma was not happy! Plus Hudson was getting pretty tired himself. With Texas weather that may be the last trip until fall!

Emma goes for her 4 month appointment on Thursday...stay tuned!

Easter Part 2, 3, 4, 5...

Our Easter festivities continued on Friday and lasted all weekend long! Hudson got to spend some time with some family members that he doesn't see very often. Thursday Roger's parents (Nam and Pa), Hudson's great-grandparents, came in town. Then Friday my dad (PaPaw), step-mom (GiGi), and sister (Lexus) came to visit. Here are pictures from our weekend of fun.

Friday's agenda: time with PaPaw, GiGi, and Lexus plus the school egg hunt

Sucker from the Easter basket PaPaw and GiGi brought

School Egg Hunt

Hayley and Hudson

Bella and Hudson..his teacher's say he's quite the ladies man

PaPaw visiting school

School party

Saturday's agenda: Easter basket from Mom and Dad, more time with PaPaw, GiGi, and Lexus

Had to sneak a cute picture of sis in! Watching Hudson open his basket...

Love this boy! This picture is so him!

Sunday's agenda: Easter lunch with Nanna and Papa, making cookies with Nanna, Nam, and Mom, Easter basket from Nanna and Papa, Easter basket from Nam and Pa

Candy...cookies...candy...and more candy!


My mom cooked a delicious lunch! The beaters were Hudson choice of utensil!
Can I just add that he looks SO old in this picture :(

Sweet Easter Babies...

Easter Festivities 2012

Each year our neighborhood has a great Easter event! Last year was the first year that we went.

2011

This year we had two little ones that got to visit the Easter Bunny! Cody is out of town hunting, so Nanna and Papa came over to enjoy the event with us.


Hudson was scared of Santa this year, so I wasn't quite sure how he would handle the Easter Bunny. He likes stuffed animals and did okay with our middle school mascot. Well...he LOVED the Easter Bunny! You can see the look in his eyes here. There was a long line to get your picture taken with the Easter Bunny and he kept trying to go back to the bunny saying "sit lap".

A little egg "hunting". I say hunting lightly. The eggs were everywhere!

Wanting to go back to the Bunny

Handsome boy
Pretty sister watching Hudson have fun with Nanna
Petting Zoo! By far Hudson's favorite. He LOVES animals. Anyone know how much it costs to have a petting zoo at your house? He would love that for his next birthday.

Lamb

Bunny
Duck
Chick...he loved the duck and chick but wasn't quite sure about holding it!
He finally did! Just long enough for a picture...
Watching the balloon lady make him a hat
Finished product!
Riding the train
Nanna and sister taking a break in the shade

Jumphouse

Kroger was having an egg hunt right after the neighborhood event, so we ran by there just to check it out while we had our basket with us. We got there 3 minutes after it started and there were no eggs left, but the firemen were there with their firetrucks!

Hudson and Emma are both napping now and I have a feeling they will be long ones! So I'm off to get some cleaning and laundry done...