Our Trip to the Zoo

We took Madeline to the L.A. Zoo today!

Here she is at the petting zoo.

Awww, can we take him home Daddy?

Let's go THIS way Mommy and Daddy!

WOW...check out the prairie dogs!!!

(she loved watching them peek their heads out of their holes.)

This lion was HUGE.

Gorillas in the mist...

She really liked these mountain goats. She sat on the wall to take a picture with them.

Everyone knows how much Madeline LOVES zebras. They were pretty awesome.

The giraffes were Mommy's favorite. They just walked right up to us!

She had such a great time at the zoo. We loved watching her face light up when she recognized an animal and she would wave and say "hi" to all of them. It was a great day. We have such a cool daughter! :)

More Mommy's Day

All the girls on Mommy's Day.

Grandma & Maddie cooling off in the misters.

Being sneaky...

Peek-a-BOOOO!

Maddie being silly with Grandpa.

HI!!!!!

Happy Mommy's Day!

Mommy's Day

How could I not LOVE being this little girl's mommy?

I had an amazing Mother's Day this year. All of our family came over for a BBQ at our house. The weather was perfect and the kids played outside while we relaxed and ate carne asada tacos (my favorite)! Madeline has cut 5 teeth in the past two weeks, so you could say I earned my Mother's Day this year, but she really is such a good girl it hasn't been too bad. I swear her molars came in overnight (it was a loooong night)! Chris is such a great dad and helps me out so much that I really can't complain. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world to have these two in my life.

We took tons of pictures at our Mother's Day BBQ, but they are all on my dad's camera so I can't post any until I make it out to their house with my laptop. However, Chris took us to the beach on Friday, so here's a slideshow of our beach pictures to keep everyone occupied until then!

RFD Family BBQ

On Saturday, Redlands Fire Department hosted its 3rd annual family barbeque at Yucaipa Regional Park. I'm pretty sure Madeline had the most fun at this picnic that she has ever had in her entire life! There were two bounce houses for the kids (one was the same we had at her birthday party), plus we flew kites, played baseball, and ate lots of yummy food! She had so much fun bouncing with all the big kids in the bounce houses. She was especially chummy with the Bristol boys...there were even a few smooches in between bouncing! Mommy and daddy had a ball playing with all the kids, but we were both EXHAUSTED at the end of the day. Madeline was pretty tuckered out too, but she always seems to have more energy than the two of us combined! All in all, it was a wonderful afternoon at the park and we can't wait for next year!

Bikini Babe

Madeline went swimming in her pool this weekend. She was so crazy for the water that she jumped in the pool with all of her clothes on while mommy was tying to fill it up! Doesn't she look adorable in her Roxy bikini?

Happy Easter!

Vegas Baby!

For Chris' b-day, we took a little weekend trip to Vegas. We had a GREAT time! Our flight was a little delayed (4 hours!) but we killed some time in the airport bar. The whole weekend was compliments of Hard Rock...dinner, hotel, everything! Plus, we even won a little money! We met up with the RFD crew on Saturday night for a surprise 30th birthday for Chad. We ended up dancing the night away at Body English...by Sunday morning, mommy was exhausted and missing her little munchkin. It was our first time leaving Miss Madeline for more than a night and we were sooooo happy to see her when we picked her up on Sunday. She had a blast with gramma, grampa, Andrew and Katie though!