Big Slacker! - Family Reunion #2

I'm proud of myself for the fact that I have been really good about taking pictures of Tally for the last 19 months. I mean REALLY good! Her first year scrapbook was 92 pages for goodness sake! But I have a confession. Last weekend my family and I spent 3 days in the mountains and I didn't get very many pictures! The first day had lots of rain so I didn't get my camera out for good reason but the other two days....I have no excuse! I did remember to get my camera out for about the last hour or so of the camp out, I'll have to steal the pictures that my mom took off her camera I guess...

Happy Father's Day!

My blog would not be complete without a tribute to some fabulous dads!

Happy Father's Day!

Bud Wilstead (Ryan's Stepdad)
Brad Kunz (Ryan's dad)

Keith Morris (my daddy)
Hubert Morris (my grandfather)

And the love of my life... thanks for being such a great dad to Tally. She loves you so very much!

Thank you to all our dads! You help us in so many ways and you are always there for us!!

Visitors

Last Thursday through Saturday Ryan's cousin, Dusty (the one leaving with us) had his family come out for the weekend. He has two girls, Dancia (Dani) and Abigail (Abbie) and a little boy named Logan. Tally loved having them here. The girls danced with her and colored my sidewalk and driveway with chalk!

I loved having kids there for Tally to play with. We had lots of fun. At one point I had my Aunts kids too. So we had Tally, Dani, Abbie, Logan, Cami, and Zach. It was crazy for me but I'm pretty sure Tally thought it was crazy fun!

Comparing

I thought this was kinda cool. Tally has gotten so big! (and so have I, but I'm working on that)

Ladies and Gentlemen for the third year in a row...

The Zoo
I'm thinking this may become an annual post. Last weekend Ryan and I took Tally to the zoo and met Nanette, Bud and Deidra there. At first we planned on driving up that morning, but the more I got to thinking about it, the more I didn't want to be LEAVING by 7:00. We ended up making a last minute trip to SLC Sunday night.


I've never seen the animals so lively at the zoo. Bears were moving and swimming and wrestling. Cheetahs were pacing.. anyway... it was great. I do have a problem with Asian Highlands. Almost everyone of the cats there are nocturnal, so why have them in a zoo that closes at 6:00?

Ryan and I bought tickets to go on their new carousel. When we saw that Tally was free we decided to be sneaky. I took Tally on the carousel and Ryan got in line and took Tally on it again, so she got to go twice. (I think she appreciated it) We also went to the Bird Show. I've been 3 years in a row now and I love it. We also went on the train. I think if kids didn't like the idea of riding on a train so much then they wouldn't have it because it is a very boring, short, ride. Tally really enjoyed the play area of the zoo. We stayed their for a long time and she got to feed the birds!After we had seen all the animals we took Tally to the gift shop. She LOVED the monkeys so everything she saw in the shop that was a monkey she thought she HAD to have. We finally settled for a monkey backpack which I'm hoping she will use for a long time.