Bronx Zoo!

Well, as most of you know by now, we will be moving back to Utah this fall. We are excited to be going back, but will dearly miss our friends here in New York. We weren't quite ready to move, but there have been a lot of things happening as of late that have let us know it is what Heavenly Father wants us to do, so we are at peace with it and excited to be back in time for the holidays.

As we prepare to move, we have been starting to do a few things one more time before we leave. Over the past three years, we have done just about everything we initially wanted to do when we first came here and it is nice to look back and have all those memories.

Last week, we spent an afternoon in Central Park and at the Central Park Zoo. Just yesterday, we took the kids to the Bronx Zoo, which is an AMAZING place...this is coming from someone who only goes to zoo's because he has kids. Anyway, we wanted to share a few of the pictures with everyone.


Here is Ellie, looking fresh and excited about the day at the zoo...of course, we had just got there.


Aside from an amazing family, take a look at the grounds of the zoo behind them. Amazing.


Our first break. As you can see, Ellie has decided she is done with the zoo, unfortunately for her (and us), we still had four hours to go. The other three were having a blast though.


The kids had a great time at the Children's Zoo portion of the zoo. Here they are at the prairie dog holes where kids crawl through a tunnel and can pop up through little plastic tubes and look at the prairie dogs running around them. I was lucky enough to catch all three of them popping up at the same time in the same tube!


One of the kids favorite shows on TV is Zabomafu (I know that is spelled wrong, but I don't care that much). It is a show about a lemur..well, they finally got to meet the lemur face-to-face and they were pretty excited about it.


Joshua doing a little bit of tree climbing. He is a very good boy.


Joshua really isn't afraid of much, including animals. He loves to touch an animal he possibly can, luckily this sheep didn't seem to mind.


Well, initially I didn't think anything of this picture other than to be glad that I got one where Caleb was actually looking at the camera. Then Katie pointed out to me that he had a very 'surprised' look on his face, and, well...on first glance it looks like the lady to his left is, well, giving him a prostate exam...no wonder he looks surprised! "MOON RIVER...using the whole fist doc?"

Here are the kids at the Congo exhibit going CRAZY!!!


Yes dad, we are riding camels...Joshua loved it, he kept saying "dad, this is such a good camel" and patting its back.

Joshua started to get tired and was hiding under Katie's shirt towards the end of the day.

Last ride of the day...notice Ellie isn't quite as chipper as at first.

This is about 10 minutes after we got in the van. It was a long day, but a lot of fun. The kids were wasted and just collapsed in the van once we started driving.

It was a good day!