Sunday, March 20, 2011

More Zoo & Ryan's Birthday!

It was a super fun weekend! For St. Patrick's day, we went as a family to the Austin Zoo cuz Ryan didn't get to come last time (and i scored a really good deal ... 2 admissions + 2 bags of animal food for 4$, regularily 20). So we dressed up in green so none of the animals would pinch us and we had a great time.

The peacocks just walk around everywhere. We even saw one do the whole "spread the tail fan" thing- neat!
these tigers were huge! and possibly in love :)
pretty kitty
Jaxson was a champ at feeding the animals this time. Sometimes at home, Jaxson likes to feed mommy and gets a big smile after he gives me a bite of his food. He did the same thing to the animals and it was so precious for us to watch. He loved reaching 1 piece of food in there and try to put it in the animals mouths.
love this photo! he is my little stud muffin
my cutie feeding the deer 1 piece of food (Jax didn't quite understand the whole "hold a handful of food in your palm idea")

my boys!
couldn't get Jax to look at the camera -- there were too many cool monkies around
romantic lemers.
We let Jax chase some roosters.
For some odd reason, Jaxson thinks it is funny to come and sick on our necks/faces (it may or may not be because we start laughing really hard when he does)
just thought this was a funny one of jax
We celebrated Ryan's birthday at Red Robin with some friends. Man was it loud in that room with all those kiddlets! fun time though :)
looks like Jaxson is doing the Haka
The kids had a lot of fun in the waiting area while us grown ups chatted for a bit


Emily, Lindsey, Me, & Vee
Jaxson likes wearing my sunglasses ... so I tried to get a good photo...
ryan had to be quick taking the photo before Jax took off the glasses.
Holding Jaxson's hands to get a photo. and see his teeth??? I love them, they have such a huge gap in them (just like his cute cousin Talia)

Happy Birthday Ryan! We love you!

3 comments:

Kamry Low said...

Looks like so much fun there! when you get settled in a place and when ryan is done school i want to come visit! jaxson is so cute, i can;'t believe how thick his hair is! miss all of you!

Truman & Amy said...

Hey Joanie! Cute pics! Thanks for the comment on the cake! The decorations for the cake were made out of fondant/gumpaste. I've never seen cricut cutters for fondant/gumpaste, I think it would be too soft since it is frosting. All the decorations I made were edible except the woogly owls. The owl feathers I had an oval cookie cutter, same with the leaves. The letters are also gumpaste and were made with something similar to a cookie cutter, they are called tappits made by FMM (a company based in England). The rest of the items I drew on cardstock, cut it out, and traced over fondant and cut it out with a xacto knife. I took some classes from Michael's years ago on cake decorating and have all my supplies from there. Hope that answered your question!

Love Amy :)

Amelia said...

Love your shirt at red robins! What a hot mama. Oh, adn I love their fries. :) That tiger picture is cute!