our anniversary: part 1

this year sam and i celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary (not 5, like my nurse at maternity health center thought- assuming that we had if we had been married longer we'd of had more kids). we went out to dinner (terrible service, fairly good food) the night before, because on our anniversary we knew we wanted to spend it as a family.
so to celebrate all we had done in our 8 years, we took our family to the sacramento zoo and the sacramento train museum.
here's the zoo:

watching the flamingos- mason kept saying how much she loved them

studying our map to see where we'd go next

playing on zoo structures

watching from his seat

more climbing

stuck in a web

our pretty flower

catching a glimpse at some fish

this big mama tiger just jumped our right in front of us (well that glass that is)

giraffes.

taking a turn riding in front

if it doesn't have a tail its not a monkey, if it doesn't have a tail its not a monkey its an ape!

helping dad push the stroller

pretty girl

funny girl

we randomly ran into my godmother and her daughter kristen (and her 3 kids, all home from africa) and her daughter in-law (and her 3 kids) and kristen was kind (and smart) enough to snap a family photo for us.