Memorial, Jeffy's Graduation, The Zoo and The Aviary

We been havinga good time these past few weeks. On memorial day we went to Salt Lake to visit my grandpa and grandma Nicholl's grave. Here's a picture of Lilly by her namesake.
The cute recently engaged couple! We then hada fun BBQ at my brother's and overall enjoyed having Doug home for the day!A few days later we went to the zoo with Sophia's friend Rachel. The kids had a great time and we did as well. We went to the bird show and the elephant show and rode the carousel and train! It was all really fun. Sophia was definitely a lot more adventurous at this time than she was last year. She would not have anything to do with those things last year but couldn't get enough this time.Lilly however was not too sure about the carousel. She was a little nervous the whole time.She did however enjoy the elephant show!

Even though the Elephant wanted to eat her.

Most of the animals were sleeping with the exception of the bears. I'd never seen them fight before. It was pretty interesting.

Rachel and Sophia posing for some pics.

Last weekend we went to Jeffy's graduation! He graduated from Westminster in Economics. We were pretty proud of him. We were all having a great time until some guy shushed Lilly was she was singing the ABC's. Come on dude. You think we're enjoying the noise? Would you like to keep her quiet? Doug spent the remainder of the time wanding the concourse of the E-center. On the way up Sophia kept quiet by drawing all over both of her legs. She's quite the artist. Her other leg had Sophia written all over it. If you notice the sideways A on the left with the circle in it, that would be Bob from Monsters vs. Aliens. Her grandpa took her to see it almost two months ago and she hasn't stopped drawing him since.

On the way home the girls were totally spent so we rolled down the windows hoping that it would get them to stop crying. It worked! They started laughing their heads off and even though it was noisier than them crying, it kept them happy for a little while.

Last week we went to the Tracy Aviary with Rachel again (we can't get enough of Rachel in our house). You get in free the first Thursday of the month with your zoo pass so we had to take advantage. It was actually pretty cool. I hadn't been there since I was a little kid. My mom grew up right across the street and said that there were seals in the pond instead of swans and ducks when she was growing up. That would have been fun! We went to the bird show there too and had a great time.

These golden eagles were so cool. Their cage was totally not covered by anything and we thought it was amazing that they wouldn't fly away. We read later that they had been injured and couldn't fly. It was pretty cool that you could get so close to them.

Here's Rachel and Sophia seeing what birds they measure up to.

She may not look like it but she was pretty excited about the ducks. She kept screaming "guck! guck! over and over".

Cool owl from the bird show. Overall, it was a great time. If you haven't been to the Tracy Aviary you should go because it was cool and pretty cheap (even though we went for free).