Tuesday, January 8, 2013

At the Ostrich Farm





 
We went to the Ostrich Farm with my mom over Christmas break.  The donkeys were really cute and Emma loved the deer.  Caden wasn't too sure about getting too close to any of the animals but Cooper loved feeding them all.  Especially the Lorakeets.  They were beautiful rainbow colored birds that would land on us if we had nectar for them.  They also had baby goats in a penthouse way up high in the air that we could feed.  It was a lot of fun. Of course, the boys talked Grandma into buying them a hollowed ostrich egg to bring home.  It lasted about 2 days...

Christmas 2012

 Emma having "tea"
 
 
Emma's new kitchenette 
(love her pose)
 
 Emma's new doll stroller
 
 
 Fixing her doll's hair
 
 
Cooper, Caden, and Emma
 
 
So...Santa went a little overboard with our 19 month old little girl, but I think he had a very good time finally getting a chance to bring little girl toys to our house.  Her brothers of course wanted Legos, (what else?)  and each year they seem to be getting more elaborate and take Daddy longer to put together.  I tried to get pictures of them with their completed Lego sets but they were too busy playing with them at that point.  Now to figure out where all of this stuff is going to go in the house!  Emma is recognizing Mickey Mouse characters now and also Disney princesses so that has been fun.  Alexis entered the MTC December 14th, so this was our first family Christmas without her.  It's been fun writing to her, though.
 
On another note, I guess Google completely changed how I can add pictures now to my blog and it's not making me happy.  I guess I don't get on here frequently enough to know what is going on.  I'm not really sure that anyone ever reads my blog anymore now that Mike is gone.  He told me he used to check it out every couple of weeks to see how the kids were doing.  So, if anyone IS passing by, please leave a comment.  I 'd love to see who is reading this.  I started this prior to Facebook, but now it seems like there is not much need when everyone is on Facebook.  Oh, well though.  Maybe I'll just keep it up for awhile for myself and for the kids to read down the road... who knows?