Friday Fun at the ZOO

Mami called on Wednesday and had the idea of taking the kids to the Abilene Zoo on friday so when Friday came along they where so excited...Rustin keep asking every 5 minutes are we there to see the animals...finally we got there and he was sooooo excited..raily she just goes with the flow...we even got to take our cousin Paige along with us...she hadn't been to the zoo until she was 2 or something like that so her and rustin where so ready to get in and wanted to see everything..afterwards we went to the chilis and ate then went home...but not before detouring to Lamesa and see our sweet little Hailee...thanks for letting us go Mami we had such a blast...

Rustin looking at the Gator

and the gator was looking back at him

monkey see monkey do

raily loved the monkey i had such a hard time getting her away from this area

I love this young man(can't say little anymore hes growing up way to fast)

and this little girl is just pure rotteness(but i do love her)

it sure was hot so mami stopped and got them something to drink...i just loved there cups..raily got a pink flammingo and rustin got a giraffee cause that was his favorite out of all of them

My Mom is such a wonderful Mami...without her we would have been bored on friday

I just love my kiddos

i LOVE this picture of Paige..she is soooooo beautiful....

man this sucker had such a long tongue

she was interested in something

i thought this bird was sooooo ugly that its pretty

and rusty cracked me up on this one...he said one more turtle and it would have been the teenage mutan turtles...hahahaa

What to do on a nice day but...

Then to eat STRAWBERRIES!!!!!oh man oh man how my kids love to eat those delicious, red, and juicy strawberries...raily didn't know what to think at first but then she went crazy with them...as you can tell on her shirt and face...now rustin he won't share the things and can eat the whole thing in less then 10 minutes..when i'm being a good mom i normally dip them in chocolate..

i absolutely love this picture...the strawberry and his nose have the same amount of freckles

and what better to play in the dirt with then with your baby...

and rustin loves to put all his toy in the wheel barrel and carry them from dirt pile to dirt pile..

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my old account for my photography is now my new one for my designs i do...here is the link if you would like to follow along or just see the new stuff i make...i also do sell my stuff if you see something you like...

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All about Hailee

This post is all about my sweet little niece...awhile back i wrote how she was in the hospital for 11 days and while in that time they found something wrong with her heart...well at 4 months old she had to have an angiogram done..now i'm just the aunt and i had a very tough time with this so i can't even imagine how her parents felt...but thanks to everyones prayers and concerns that i believe God was standing over this little girl the whole time...i'm so thankful for having this little girl in my life...if i could talk her parents into moving closer i could spoil her more but i know that won't happen..so everytime i see this sweet pea i just take her all in that i can...i can't believe how much 4 months have changed this little girl...she is soooooo happy and always smiling...even right before she had to go into surgery she was smiling and looking at everyone...read further down for the day of surgery with pictures...these pictures are from sunday when we got the chance to play with her before the had to go into the hospital and sign in...all i can say about these pictures are to just look at them and you will see the happy baby we see...

these pictures with her momma where the best...

i do believe she is going to have her daddys grin..where it goes to one side...love it

good family picture

i love this picture...can't say she doesn't have enough loving from her parents....




now for the day of surgery...this is the floor she was on...because she was on this floor none of us where allowed to see her or touch her besides her parents...so this made it extremly hard to do for me since all i wanted to do was giving her lots of hugs and kisses from aunt ranra so i waited patiencly by the door to see her...and i can honestly say when i saw her i broke down inside to see such a little angel having a major surgery...and also seeing her in that bed so tiny just broke my heart...but what a trooper she was...

shes in that bed u just have to look for her...

momma and daddy giving her kisses before she goes down...

she was looking at me saying "aunt ranra what are all these people looking at me for, i'll be ok"

here she is after surgery...and all they had to do was balloon it...NO OPEN HEART SURGERY for her...yeah there was that possiblity but again God was with her and knew she didn't need it...now we are on the path to recovery...i know this is longer then i normally write but this little girl needed a long blog from her aunt ranra...love you dearly hailee and you will always have a special place in my heart...