Lions and Tigers and Okapi... Oh My

Lion

Tiger

Okapi

Before Kaile started school we went to the St. Louis Zoo as a family. We got there early enough to park on the street so our entire day at the zoo was free!!! (except for the bag of zoo animals we bought Brecken at the end, oops) Admission to the zoo is free but parking is $6 and then other things like the seal lion show, feeding the stingrays and the children's zoo are extra...We had plenty to do though without the extras! Brecken loved all the animals and is just so talkative and has so much energy. It was fun to see some new animals that we have never seen before like Okapi (a giraffe with strips). Also the zoo has this new underwater viewing area for the sea lions that was really neat and the penguin exhibit was awesome! Kaile loved the bug and butterfly house... Brecken didn't :( he freaked out when a butterfly almost landed on him. Altogether we had an awesome day at the zoo and will most definitely be going back soon.

My monkeys in the monkey house

Underwater viewing area for the seals

Elmo shirt

Seal feeding time

Penguins!

Butterfly House

Brecken made friends with a duck at the pond

Bear Lake

At the end of August after Carter got home from his mission we went to Bear Lake as a family minus Colin. Brecken loves driving the boat with Grandpa and going for "moti-kicle" rides (anything with wheels... in this case a four wheeler). Carter can still jump the wake even with a bad knee and Kaile still looks good on a wakeboard too! We had good food and fun times playing games. Brecken loved throwing rocks and playing with sand... he wasn't to thrilled about the cold water and wouldn't get in. The video is of Kaile rough-housing with Brecken and I think its super cute. After Bear Lake Kaile and I headed up to Rexburg to pack. My mom watched Brecken for us for a couple days so we could clean/load without a 2 year old, which was so great! Thanks Mom! 

Happy Brecken driving the boat

Uncle Carter jumping the wake

Kaile looking awesome!

4 wheeler rides

Driving with Gramps

Play time at the Cabin

As you can tell I am updating the blog in reverse order... Enjoy!

St. Louis or Bust

After driving for 30+ hours we finally made it to St. Louis, MO! We left on Saturday, September 1st from SLC. We stopped in Denver, CO for the first night, Salina, KS the second night, and then we got to our condo in the afternoon on September 3rd. Brecken did amazingly well in the car (better than me at times) and all of our stuff and our cars made it safely to our new place. Our condo is mostly set up now and Kaile started school on Wednesday. I am looking forward to the weekend and some much needed family time. Kaile's classes start at 7:10 and he doesn't get home until 6:30 or 7 every night. Its been a rough adjustment not having daddy home and being away from family but Brecken and I are getting more used to it. On the bright side we have already made some great friends and we love our ward.

Leaving Rexburg...

St. Louis or Bust :)

Dancing in the hotel in Kansas

Riding in the van with Elmo and Daddy