Our Saturday and Sundays Trip to the Houston Zoo

On Saturday it rained all day long that the kids were stuck inside the house all day. We did have some nice company come over and visit. Grandma, PawPaw and Uncle Chris came to visit in the middle of the down pour and after they got over here the streets started flooding and our part of the street very rarely gets standing water, but that day it was up in our yard and to the sidewalk. I was not even thinking to grab my camera to take any pictures, but it got pretty high. Larry had to even go move his truck out of the street as it was almost to his door and he had to go in through the passenger side, just to not have water gush into his truck. We needed some rain, but that was just a lot!

Sunday turned out to be a very beautiful day and the kids and I woke up and played around the house while daddy got to sleep in for a few hours. We didn't have any plans for the day and after daddy woke up he decided it would be fun to take the kids to the Zoo. Well, that was a great idea since it was so nice outside and we figured the kids would really enjoy getting to see the animals now.

We got to the zoo around 11am and we spent almost 3 hours there! We just had a great day as a family and we loved getting to see the kids seeing all the animals! I think our favorite was the giraffe. There was one so close to us eating off a tree on our side of the fence and the kids would just talk to him and said hello!

Here are the kids looking at the Otters up on the log. These two otters were so fun to watch as they played and played and played! They would go in the water and then out on the logs and then chased each other in the water for a bit!

Here the otters were in the water swimming. Otters are so cute!

Here was a BIG Turtle! It even started moving and walking around. The kids really liked seeing it walk. They thought that was cool.

This was another favorite to see. We are big into salt water tanks and this was a huge tank that took up one whole wall. It was beautiful with all the rock and corals and the fish!

It was very interesting to watch these little guys. They got right up to the window to see all the people looking at them. We think they are neat and they look at us and probably think we are neat too.

And here is what we saw when we walked up to the giraffes. He was eating off the tree on the other side of the fence. It was cool to see one that close up.

And here he is up close right above were we were standing to get a closer look.

This giraffe was further away, but all by its self and it looked right at us when we walked by and said hi to it. These are beautiful animals!

Here is the big Elephant. Another Beautiful animal created by God!

The kids wouldn't stand by themselves for some reason! Hmmm, I wonder if it is because they are so attached to daddy?

I wish I could just lay around like this and take a nap!

When I took this picture, I thought the cow was going to give Kayla a kiss. They loved getting to touch the cow! As the kids would say..."What does a cow say? Moo" They are too cute!!

Petting the sweet, soft cow!

There was a table of people set up right in front of this orangutan and he never moved. He was so interested in seeing the people as we were in seeing him. Although we didn't get to get very close as we were so rudely cut off by a man that couldn't wait in line like the rest of us to get to see and he never moved so he was in the way the entire time we had been standing there. Poor Kayla wanted to see so badly Larry finally put her down on the ledge and she got a little closer, but we decided to just go since this man would not move. Poor Cooper couldn't see either. I had to get Kayla and she cried when I was carrying her away.

Just a monkey hanging around! He was a cute little monkey!

We had a great day at the zoo and I know the kids really had a great time! They were so tired that they both fell asleep not to long after we left. The rest of the day, we just hung out as a family and enjoyed our day!

I am so thankful for my beautiful family and so glad that we can spend days like Sunday with no worries and just have fun!