Day at the Zoo

Watching the penguins swim, they were putting on quite the show for us!

The end of September we were able to take our last trip of the year to the zoo.  We bought a membership to the zoo this year so we were able to go to Pocatello's, Idaho Fall's, and Salt Lake's zoos quite a few times.  We love us so zoo!!  We were able to go with my friend Dana and her adorable daughters Emery and Sienna for this last trip.  Emery and Olivia are great little friends and love to play together so it was fun all around and they were so excited to go together. 

Callen, Olivia, and Emery in the back

Sienna and Carson in the middle

We filled every seat in my awesome van and made the drive to IF to Tautphaus Park Zoo.  We only had one little mishap, we forgot Callen's shoes.  As we were moving and buckling all the carseats, he climbed in to "help" and we ended up just strapping him in his seat.  Luckily we noticed before we got too far (still too far to turn around and go home) and stopped in Blackfoot and bought him so new shoes.  Yep, Mother of the Year Award, right here!

Feeding and watching the ducks

The kids had lots of fun.  Since it was late in the year the weather was just right.  Some kids got a bit tired towards the end (ok, just the Payne children) but we are still glad we went. 

Happy Birthday Callen!

Happy Happy Birthday to my sweet Callen!!

 

On Sunday, September 9th, my little boy turned 2.  Since we have been having a bunch of construction trucks around these parts (yeah!), we decided to have a construction party.  It also worked since Callen is a bit obsessed with trucks right now.  

We let Callen open one of his presents a day early, mainly because I needed the little back hoe to put on his cake.  He loves these little construction trucks and playing in the dirt with them. 

His birthday was great.  We started off with going to church in the morning and then having family over for a little party that evening.  It was nice and relaxed and lots of fun.  

Callen of course got spoiled.  He got some cute cute clothes, trucks, cars, a baseball tee, and other wonderful things.  

His favorite present was a rocking horse and cowboy hat that he got while on the grandkids' traditional birthday shopping date with Grandma Terri and Papa Randy.  

Yee-haw!

Construction cake, thanks for the help pinterest!

Callen thought his cake was pretty neat (and I was pretty proud of it too).  He also thought the lit candles were pretty neat too and almost grabbed one of them before he blew out his candles.  Luckily we stopped him and after a few attempts, he was able to get both candles out. 

Happy birthday my little fun, silly, sweet, loving, giggly, daredevil, and adventurous child!  We hope you had a great and special day just for you!