Hogle Zoo!

Last Friday, Momma Little called and invited us to come to Downey for the weekend. She wanted us to ride with her to SLC for Jean's (our sister-in-law) baby shower. Of course I was ALL for it! We quickly shifted our plans and left for Downey. We spent the night with Mom and CJ. We got to see CJ's pottery display at the high school. He is SO talented! He doesn't have too much up yet, but he has created a blog. If you would like to check it out, it is: little-works.blogspot.com. He is looking to start selling his AMAZING creations, so keep checking back. He has lots of great items that he will be posting soon. I just had to brag him up a little bit. :-) Anyways, the next morning we woke early to head for Utah by 9. Mom got a call saying that Jean was in labor. We decided to still go. We got to the hospital, and found out that the baby shower was cancelled (figures...) and that the baby was not born yet. We had no way of knowing how soon Jean would deliver, so we decided to just enjoy our day and come back to the hospital later. Mom had a great idea. She wanted to take us to the zoo! YAY! We spent the rest of the afternoon at the Hogle Zoo. Parker absolutely loved it! We were all surprised that he never lost interest and never got tired. The pictures are not in order, but they are really fun.

Chilling with Momma looking at monkeys.

CJ modeling for the Mongolian camels. Tyler rode these on his mission!

The cutest monkey EVER! I so want one of these for a pet! ;-)

Parker's favorite were the elephants. Since daddy already taught him what elephants say months ago, he knew exactly what to do to imitate the elephants. This is a picture of him making that sound. :-)

Momma and baby elephant.

We had to stop at the elephants again on our way out. Such a cute picture of Parker and Daddy.

Sweet picture with the "This is the Place" monument in the background.

CJ giving me a ride in the rented stroller.

I love giraffes!

Parker dragging mommy around.


Parker riding the fun elephant that made crazy noises. He ended up getting scared when it got really loud.

Parker posing in the turtle shell on the playground.

CJ measuring up. haha

CJ and Parker displaying their monkey likenesses. haha

Parker squealing at the monkeys


Haha...Parker grabbed Tyler at the exact second that the picture was taken. Nice. ;-)

It turned out to be an amazing, fun day. It was so nice to be outside in the sun and warm weather. It was beautiful! After the zoo we went back to the hospital. We got to see baby Connor! What a perfect, beautiful little guy! Congratulations Chris and Jean! Thanks for letting us be a tiny part of your big day! And, thanks Mom for driving us to UT and taking us to the Zoo. You're the best!!!