Richmond Metro Zoo

Bryden's school had a field trip to the Richmond Zoo on Friday. It was a gorgeous day and the girls had a great time with the animals. They both got to feed the giraffe, and their faces were priceless, and they both also got to hold a stick with bird food on it, and the birds flew right up on the sticks. Emmy kept trying to pet the birds! Enjoy the pics!

The Garden

Our garden is coming along quite nicely this year! Last year was a bust, but we are off to a great start. I decided to compost last year so I wouldn't have to buy dirt, and we had tons of seed sprout from the compost pile. I did buy a good bit of stuff too, but a few of our tomato plants are from the compost pile, all of my cucumbers are from compost, and I have two melons of some sort, probably canteloupe I am guess (which I have never had any luck growing, but who knows, why not try!) We also have tons of sugar snap pease growing, those are the really tall ones in the back, which I have a close up of too, and you can see all the peas. We have squash, kale strawberries and peppers too, as well as a watermelon and purple beans! Oh, and there is one pic of Emmy holding a strawberry in front of her face, that is her "Ooooo" face if you can see it behind the berry (see following post to get my drift!). Enjoy. Oh, and the first pic is Emmy caught in action, climbing as usual. I heard a noise in the toy room and went to check it out, and found Emmy standing on her play kitchen! "Emmy, what are you doing? Busted! Get down, no, wait, stay still, let me get the camera first!" Haha! Enjoy!

Emmy

Ohhhhh, Emmy! She provides such entertainment. These pictures are not that great, but they are still cute. We are growing strawberries in our garden this year, and Emmy LOVES to go out and pick them. She gets really excited when she sees a bright red one, and goes "Oooooo" and yanks it off and puts it in her little bowl. She gets them all gathered and takes them over to the hose and rinses them, sits on the steps and takes one bite out of each of them, and leaves the rest of the berry! Haha! So funny though. She is so ritualistic in everything in her life, and her strawberry routine is no different! Then the rest are pics when I was outside last week tackling the grass and mulch beds. She came over and sat on my bucket, and the lighting on her was so perfect that I had to run and grab my camera. None of the pics do justice to how cute she was that day, her hair is a bit crazy, and the light reflection in her glasses makes her eyes look funny, but you can see the story through the pics. She had a snack, then I picked a flower and put it behind my ear, then gave it to her, she tried to put it behind her ear, which ended up in her ear, then she tried to put it in her baby's ear! There are a couple cute ones of her legs crossed sitting on the bucket! Anyway, on this day, what I saw through my eyes I just couldn't capture on camera, but they are cute none-the-less! Enjoy!