Lucy's Recital

I'm not sure who was more excited for Lucy's dance recital- Daisy or Lucy.

Daisy had to wear her "costume" and pose for the pictures.

I made this chocolate cake for Ken's birthday. Yeah it was cute and delicious!

My beautiful girl!

All about Lucy

Lucy graduated from kindergarten on Friday! Her school program was so adorable I can't stand it! They sang a bunch of songs, I even teared up a bit at one of them- it was something like "cherish me while I'm small." Aw, I love that girl!

One of Lucy's parts was painting a picture to hold up to the song "What a Wonderful World" and that was just perfect for her. She's such an artist and was so excited to get the rainbow.

I loved their little graduation caps! There's her class.

San Diego 2

We went to Sea World!

Lucy's favorite thing was the dolphin show. It was really neat with all the acrobats.

We got into the Shamu show, too!

No, we didn't get wet... it was a little too cold for a front row seat.

We love these cute animals!

After 2 full days of parks, we had a rest day. We wanted to see the Sand Diego Temple and had a picnic.

Later, we took a walk around our hotel and marina.

The next day was for the San Diego Zoo!

Again, we got a ton of animal pictures!

We love to see all the big cats, Boyd was especially excited about them! These were a little harder to get good pictures because these were all in cages.

Boyd said he could just look at the cats all day long!

This leopard came right up to us! We were seriously 2 feet away from this beautiful guy!
Lucy was just dying to see the pandas (she has a stuffed one she takes everywhere).

There was an underground viewing are for the hippo. It was awesome, he came right up to the glass and opened his mouth wide. We were even a little too close for that.

Ken and Boyd were so excited to see the tigers. We probably spent the most time watching them.

We loved the sky ride

The polar bear is really that big standing up, I had no idea- neat!

This monkey was being cute rolling around in the grass and eating.

I think the kids were a little exhausted.

The last day we hung out at the beach. It was a but windy and cool, but pleasant enough for a picnic and some sand castle making.

And this is when my camera ran out of batteries- oops! But, seriously I think we had an overload of pictures. We were supposed to stay another day in Las Vegas, but we were ready to go home, so Ken drove through the night all the way home. It was so nice to have the kids asleep for most of the 12 hours. We had a really fun time and we are happy to be back home!

San Diego part 1

Last week we had a fun little adventure with our family to San Diego! 
We drove first to Las Vegas for a night, but on our trip we had a stop at Cove Fort.

 Next stop was St. George, we had a nice rest by the temple.

Daisy was having a bit of a hard time on our trip there- poor thing got a bladder infection. She was not in the mood for a picture, so this is how most of the pictures went that day with her not cooperating.

We went to the Wild Animal Park in San Diego first. I really loved this zoo, they just had a great set up and we could see the animals so well.

We got tons of animal pictures, I'll try not to overdo it!

That's Boyd's "scary tiger" face! Ha haa, he's so cute!

Lucy the turtle (love that cute face!)

Aw, baby elephant!

Just along a path Ken spotted this tiny bunny hopping around. Just the cutest thing ever! I'm so glad he caught a picture!

Oh my, the lions were awesome! I've never seen lions so close and clear and happy.

We really spent a lot of time watching them. We even saw some (ahem) love action between these two.

 Ken got such a great picture of them looking right at us! Wow! My favorite!

We went on the fun tram ride and it was way cool! We had a nice day at that park, the weather was cool and comfortable- just right for all the walking around we did!