The ZOO!

 The zoo was having their last week with some of the "Winter" animals and my kids love animals so it was perfect! A little COLD... brrrrr.

But we were in great company so it was fun!

 The animals were kinda hiding in these pictures but you can see the special people!!

 The kids riding the chicken.

 Kate & I riding the chicken!

 Checking out the awesome Fox/ Dog.... 

Swear I have seen stray dogs that look just like that one!

The guys loving me taking their picture.

 Yeah ... you can see the tiger!!

Ahhhhh I miss my family!!

 All in a Days fun...

It was COLD and we were ready to go home.

 

 Thanks Mom and Dad for a Day @ the Zoo!

My Mom in her Skinny jeans... it took a minute to convince her but she ROCKS it!!

 Love you miss you.

 

... We are goin "Fishinnnnn" ...

 Oh how this kid LOVES to fish!!

Oh how this kid loves to do ANYTHING with DAD & GRANDPA!

He has his own pole he carried around @ grandma and grandpa's talking about the 

~BIG ONE~

 Maddilyn also LOVES to fish!! 

But hasn't had ALOT of opportunities to fish in NY...

She was excited to get out!

 Oh GRANDPA we love you!!

 My HEART just  MELTED!!

Liam: " Been like Grandpa "

 Many nights of VERY HAPPY KIDS!

 XOXO ~LOVE ALL THE HUGS AND KISSES~ XOXO

 JOY

 POOR GRANDPA

 Some of the cousins came to visit!

Liam loves Quinn

 Kael & Camryn

 Maddilyn & Connor

It is AMAZING HOW BIG everyone elses kids get.. I forget they grow too!

And Wilcox kids are always an exception when it come to "Normal" height anyways.

They were all so excited to see our family and we were so excited to see them!

So much more to come!!

I'm BACK!! Little more catch up!!

 Before we Left to go to IDAHO for Christmas we decorated our apartment!

Kory made it SUPER fun this year!

Figuring out what we wanted out and where it was going to go was quite hard... 2 places to put stuff and boxes and boxes of decorations to put up....

= ALOT OF FUN!

 Not only did we want to make the house look nice with holiday decorations, but we were getting ready to go home and see family so we wanted to look our best too.....

Liam needed a hair cut!

I LOVED IT LONG.... but agreed it needed SOMETHING!

BEFORE

 WHAT GOT CUT OFF THE 2YR OLDS HEAD!

 AFTER

 Maddilyn made us a very special gift @ school!

This super cute ceramic picture frame.

 Then we focused on getting to IDAHO...

We were flying out of Rochester which is 2hrs away so we decided to stay at a hotel the night before catching our 5 O'CLOCK flight and leaving our car in there private parking lot for 2 weeks for infinatly cheaper than parking @ the airport.

So WIN - WIN situation!!

and a blast

 went SWIMMING

DID SOME TRICKS...

 & DID SOME TRICKS NOT EVERYONE LIKED!

 The kids did NOT sleep that whole night, the idea of swimming and wearing them out DID NOT WORK.

They were wide eyed and booshy tailed @ 3 in the morning!

This is them in the airport!

 On the airplane

 Seeing family getting off the plane was amazing!

Our plan was staying 2 weeks 

First week @ my parents

and second @ the Wilcox's

 The kids flew amazing! They were great, but they were ready to PLAY.
CHEESE FOR GRANDMA & GRANDPA!

 

Want to see what we did FOR 2 WEEKS??

ANYONE OUT THERE STILL BELEIVE IN ME???

 So playing catch up!! Don't want to leave some of the fun things out we "DID" and have been "DOING"! So I will catch up quickly and then tell you how much fun we had in IDAHO!!

This is Halloween @ Wegmans, our main Grocery store!

We were invited by our Dear friends the Maksymov's, they have been so kind to keep us in on the loop of what to do around here during the holidays!
Liam was a skeleton, Lame I know but it worked and he wasn't to stoked about dressing up!

Maddilyn and Brinley were both Mermaids! 

Not planned but made the night EVEN BETTER!

Kael and Emory

Our crazy girls and taking advantage of the photo opp!!

Then they were off, they were guided around the store and the employees were stationed around the HUGE store DRESSED up and handed out candy!

Running through the store!

The clan!

Ward Halloween Party!

Maddilyn lost her first tooth!

@ Her friends house.... :( makes me sad I wasn't even there!

She was trying to hide at Brinleys house and tried to pull their LINEN laundry bag , THAT WAS FULL over her head with her teeth!

That would make my tooth fall out!

I was grocery shopping and they called me and by the time I had raced home it was OUT!

I FEEL ROBBED!

Trick or Treating around the neighborhood...aka our apartments!

Liam in action!

Bathed and Clean!

I THINK THEY ARE PRETTY CUTE!

I have told you all alittle about Maddi's school and how MULTICULTURAL it is, Her school had a Thanksgiving lunch where families were invited to bring a cultural dish to share!

They sang some neat songs and then we were invited to eat... I WAS SO SCARED OF THE FOOD... I kept looking for the veggie tray! Ha Ha!

But I just thought this picture could show how many different races Maddi GETS to experience in her 2 years here in New York!

This is 1st and 4th graders!

Notice our plates empty but desert!

It's really hard to make your kids be BRAVE when I had NO IDEA what the food was, and didn't dare try it either! I need a personalized assistant to know what was in it and (I like to know WHO made it) so we played it safe and ate the sweet stuff!