Birthday party at the Jackson Zoo

First, I apologize at the terrible job I've done at blogging this week! Second, we went to a birthday party for a very special little girl, Sara Madalin, at the Jackson Zoo last weekend. Seth was working and I don't like going anywhere by myself with a 16 month old. Well, anywhere that's more than 10 minutes from home. So ReRe and Pops went with us. We decided to go a little early to walk around before the party and Michelle and Madison decided to join us. Despite the wonderful, muggy, Mississippi weather, we had a blast!

Here we are riding the carousel. She wouldn't ride an animal which didn't bother me too much because I got sit down!

Part of the party package was an animal encounter. After a slight mixup by the zoo staff, the kids got to see a bird and this turtle. At first, the worker brought out a snake! You read that correctly, I said A SNAKE! She got within 12 inches of me and I was like "Um, I believe you have the wrong party".
Enjoying the water sprayers. A nice cool-down on a hot day!
I am pretty sure they were talking about boys right here:)
No trip to the zoo is complete without taking a picture looking at the prairie dogs! Too bad there are none in sight here...
She loves letting a fan blow on her!
Petting Zoo time! She actually pet a pig. I couldn't believe she did it. Walking into the petting zoo, the worker said "Only touch the pigs and the goats". My response to him was "Honey, don't you worry about me. I am not touching ANY of these animals".

Madison pet the pig too

Such a diva!

All that activity made somebody a sleepy little girl!

Birthday Bash

Today Audrey Claire and I went to the Hattiesburg Zoo for their "60th Birthday Bash". The weather was perfect for an outdoor event like this. We got there as they were singing "Happy Birthday" and passing out cupcakes. Perfect timing if you ask me.

Here's my little monkey whose not so sure about the cupcake.

And here's a real monkey trying to eat all the cupcakes before the other monkey realizes they got treats too.

My little prairie dog

We met up with some friends from church. Here's Shelley and precious Joshua-

And here's his big sister Mariah.

Such a little diva...

Checkin' out the llamas

My little leopard

While waiting for Mariah and her daddy to get off the train, Joshua proposed to Audrey Claire. She said yes with a handshake:)

She waved to anybody who would look at her...

I loaded everything into the car, backed out of my parking space, turned around and this is what I saw. We were literally still in the parking lot when I took this picture.