busy week

so the last week was amazingly full. i have had a great time... in houston with my kids and the youth group, in austin with mimi and gramps, and celebrating the first two birthdays of crazy birthday week (dad's and mine). with the fourth tomorrow and sunny's birthday on wednesday we wrap up our party week... just in time to leave for north carolina!

in houston we stayed in a big rental house with jon, leslie and the rest of the youth group. while they went to teaching sessions and did outreach work during the day, the kids and i went to the zoo and the children's museum. in the evenings we hung out with all the "big kids." here are some of my favorite pics of the zoo... i was too busy the rest of the time to take many more! :)

crawling through the pirhanas! silver was fascinated... she crawled through several times until i literally carried her off.

the wild animal carousel was really fun, too.

just monkeying around!