Allens Visit

Adam and Amber's family and Ryan came to visit after Christmas. It was a lot of the fun! Nash, Ridge and Ashlyn made quite the little threesome!
We went to Zoo Boise one of the days. The monkeys were great, they really put on a show. Maybe they have to move a lot in the winter to keep warm or something, anyway they were very entertaining.

Sweet baby Trey stayed warm!

Lots of monkeys

The kids loved the statues around the zoo just as much as the real animals

Fun times!

For not talking, this little guy sure has a lot to say!

Nash went crazy over these elephant statues

He kept giving this one kisses on its trunk

The lions were lazy and wouldn't even look up to see who was growling at them.

Punky pretending to be on a camping safari

Ridge was memorized by this bird and kept running back to look at it again

Miemie with her bird twin. See they both have fancy fur around their neck.

The bird was pretty excited to find her long lost twin and did a little celebration dance.

It was a beautiful day at the zoo and it felt great to be outside, even if it was little chilly.

They splashed in everything that even resembled a puddle. =)

How many kids do you know that have rode a tiger?

Now you know two.

The birth of Venus

All of the kids were wild about the real and the fake kamoto dragon

Alice the camel was quite popular too

Of course Brynlee wanted a shot of her with the butterfly collection

Can't remember what that was but its cute

More monkeys

Maybe monkeys just really like Ryan. I know my little monkeys are wild about him.

A stop at the zoo just wouldn't be complete without a slide down the giraffe's neck.

What a fun day! Thanks for coming to visit guys!

Zoo, Waterfall and the Dairy

Even the Big Island has a zoo...we thought this white tiger was pretty awesome

Not every zoo can grow its own pineapples!

Bryn is such a ham, she wanted her picture by every beautiful flower she found and they certainly weren't hard to find!

One awesome thing about down syndrome is that you have this whole family of people connected by downs and you never know where or when you will get to meet them

but its always exciting when you do...we met this awesome man who was visiting his brother in Hawaii and had fun talking to him and his mom

There are so many beautiful things to see in Hawaii!

(Notice how nicely Bryn is displaying her ukulele, she was a little excited about that too!)

It's not bad waking up to a beautiful sunrise every morning!
No wonder mom and dad haven't come home yet!

Brady was excited to get to go pig hunting on the farm

Gross

Nash had fun scaring the cows

It is such a beautiful place to farm, those cows have it good! Poor cows who have to live in the snow!