The Zoo!

On Saturday, April 11th, we took Miss Lily on her very first trip to the Minnesota Zoo. Joy's family went with us. We all had a great time! Lily loved seeing all the animals, but her favorite part was the "Family Farm" at the zoo where she got to feed the goats and see the farm animals and little farm babies up close.

I think we will be making several more trips to the zoo. It's a wonderful place for a fun family day out and Lily loves animals. We didn't even get to see everything so we're excited to go back. The Africa exhibit with giraffes, zebras, gazelles and other animals opens Memorial Weekend, so I'm sure we'll be headed back to see that! Plus the butterfly garden opens in June and I know Lily will love walking through the flowers with all the butterflies. Lots of opportunities for pictures, too! So here are some pictures of Lily's first trip to the zoo...

And Lily's favorite part - feeding the goats at the Family Farm. She liked the chickens and baby chicks, too. She tried to feed the baby chicks her yogurt treats! She just loves the little animals and likes feeding them (she even hand-feeds our dogs at home). Maybe we need to get a goat - ha!!

What a busy day! Lily was exhausted (as were all the adults) and fell asleep as soon as we left the farm, before we even got back to the car.

Happy Easter!

We had a wonderful Easter this year - and hope all of you did, too! Joy's family drove down to spend the weekend with us. We went shopping for Easter goodies, took Lily on her first trip to the zoo, enjoyed a delicious ham dinner, and celebrated God's love with a celebration of the third day at church Sunday morning. It was a fantastic weekend!

Lily awoke Easter morning to a pile of goodies and surprises for her on the table (and, truth be told, some goodies for the adults, too!).

Then it was time to get ready and go to church for Easter Sunday services. Lily wore a new dress that Mommy and Grandma Lamolli had picked out for her while Easter shopping a few days earlier. She had a great time playing with her friends in the nursery at church while the rest of us attended the service.

I will post pictures of Lily's first trip to the zoo in the next blog posting ... coming soon!

Saturday in the Park

Hooray for warmer weather! We took our first family walk to the local park recently. It was so nice to get out and enjoy the fresh air and warmer temperatures. Lily got to run around the park, play on the jungle gym and take a ride on the swings for the very first time. She LOVED the swing! Even though it wasn't the "4th of July", here's our little "Saturday in the Park"...

Lily loved walking the path to the park all by herself. Freedom!!

That is, until she reached the point where the asphalt walkway met the white concrete sidewalk. The sudden change in the path was too frightening and she refused to step on the white sidewalk, so we picked her up and gently placed her on the sidewalk so she could tell that it was indeed solid ground and okay to walk on. Silly girl. :)



With the trauma of the changing walkway behind her, she was now ready for some serious fun on the swing!!

Hooray - that was fun!

Time to go, now. See ya at home, Mom and Dad - I'm outta here.

Are you coming?

Now that Spring has Sprung, we are having fun getting out and about (and taking more pictures!). I'll post some more pictures soon - from Easter and Lily's first trip to the zoo. Happy Spring everybody!

New adventures in living room photography

Here are some new photos of Lily.