Zoo Trips with Zoe's Pre-school and This Weekend

Zoe's pre-school organized a zoo trip for last Thursday. Zoe looked forward to it all week! We walked around the zoo with two of her good buds from class and had a picnic lunch on the lawn. Her favorite moments were looking at the gorillas and playing at the zoo playland. It was great to see Zoe having so much fun with her new friends!

We had so much fun at the zoo that we decided to go again this weekend. Zoe's favorite animal was the hippo this time, and I think both the girls' favorite thing was the playland and drinking an Icee together at the end of the day.

Video of Zoe on playland swing.



Video of Jenna on playland swing.

NM State Fair

We spend Saturday morning at the NM State Fair with the Bishops. My favorite moments were eating fried Oreos and when Zoe played her new $5 pink plastic trumpet at top volume all the way from when we bought it, out the exit, through the exit tunnel (hello echo!), to the car, and on the ride home until both girls crashed from sheer exhaustion from a fun day!


Mychal and Zoe on 4-wheeler * Jenna and fried Oreos!


The kids on the teacup ride. Lucky Zoe got her top pick of the pink cup! * The girls just loved these funky foot massagers.

Lucky Dog

This is how Zoe chooses to dress our dog Gimlet. What a good boy! He is wearing a Princess dress. Gimlet was a bit humiliated, but a good sport through it all!

Busy Times

It's getting into my favorite time of year. There is so much going on! Here's the latest from the Corrales front.

For Labor Day weekend, we went to the wine fest with the Bishops and had a great time. Zoe and her friend Mychal are too cute together! We also checked out the local amusement park, Cliffs, which we were happy to find had a wonderful kids' section. Zoe even dared to ride the roller coaster (and I mean the big kids one!) She was very brave.





Jenna started school this week. She and Zoe go twice a week for about four hours. She is very happy to be going!




Zoe's ballet started again last week, and Zoe is thrilled to be dancing again! She'll show off her best toe taps and spins all day.











We also got to Colorado Springs this weekend since FJ needed to go to the AF Academy for work . Our good friends the Hollands are there, so we had a wonderful visit with them as well! We had so much fun that the night lasted until 10:30 before we even stepped out the door to head back to our TFL room at the Academy. That's a lot of playing for our 2 and 3 year olds! On the way out of town we stopped at Garden of the Gods.







Last, but not least, school at UNM has started as well, so it's back to the books. I don't really know if I'm excited about that or not. Classes are great, but the homework not so much so!