Birthday/Anniversary Celebrations

On March 6, Lauren had her birthday. I've waxed cheesy about her before, so I will leave it at, "We love you, Lauren!" and move right along. We had my Aunt Meredith and Uncle Norm over for dinner and celebrations, which was so fun. I should have taken a picture, oh well. I also tried to make her favorite Lemon Poppy Seed Cake and it failed, so she bought herself a pie. It's the thought that counts, right?

On March 10, Brad and I celebrated our fourth anniversary. Brad had to work late and I served leftovers for dinner. We are, obviously, devastatingly good at romance.

Clearly this week needed more celebration, so the four of us went to the Phoenix Zoo. 

We loved it.

I've always loved the zoo, but this might be the best one I've seen.

This was Amelia's facial expression 99.9% of the time, totally fascinated.

There is a very similar picture of Brad on his dad's lap on a tractor at the Phoenix Zoo when he was about this age, so we had to recreate it.

She had very mixed feelings about petting the goats. At first, when Brad tried to get her to touch the goat, she cried. But then, after a while, she learned to try it.

Are you sure it's not going to eat me?

She had a hard time understanding why we wouldn't let her walk through the zoo. Maybe because you walk .25 mph hour sweetheart.

It's pretty tricky to see from a stroller.

Most of the time if the animal wasn't moving very much, it was invisible to her. (Part of why we call her the T-Rex.) But, she still loved the Lions.