Lubbock and the Zoo

Lubbock hasn't been a zoo, but when you put 4 cousins together who love each other so much, it seems like it at times. The boys have had a good time this week with Jacob and Olivia. We went swimming one day and to the Science Spectrum another day. We also visited with G-Nanny and Jane and Charlie. We will meet Greg in New Mexico tomorrow to head home for the remainder of the summer.

Bubble fun at the Science Spectrum.

This looks like a sweet picture of 4 cousins coloring together peacefully. In reality, after I left the room, somebody (which would be everyone but Olivia) broke every crayon and threw them all over the room.

Luke was checking out Ryan's throat.

No trip to Lubbock is complete without a visit to Grandad's office and drawing a picture on his white board.

Jane and Charlie got their old toys out for the boys to play with. Ryan insisted on putting batteries in all of them and he helped Charlie put them in correctly and then screw the lids shut. One of the highlights of a visit to Jane and Charlie's is their turtle in the backyard. They've had the same turtle since I was in college and the boys were fascinated to see them. Mom pulled Tyler out (who is really a girl, but I named him before she had babies and we knew he was a girl) and the turtle took one step towards Ryan and Ryan turned around, screamed and ran to the house as fast as he could. He insisted the rest of the day that the turtle could run fast and she was going to get him.

The boys, their great grandmother and Mr. G.

Nap time in Lubbock. They played hard and slept hard. The 2 days when I let them skip nap ended up being an awful day for Luke. As mom told Jane, Luke without a nap is unbearable for everyone else.

Me and Conny with our kids. I'm sure we've taken other pictures of all of us, but the last one I remember was here a year and a half ago.

Video of the kids at the Science Spectrum. This was probably the 5th time they had done this before I took a video of them and they had the same reaction every time.


We did really go to the zoo. Before we left for Texas we visited the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo so we could feed the giraffes.


Luke wasn't too impressed with this giant gorilla sitting in front of him.

It was a hot day - we had to come to Texas for cooler weather.

Video of the boys feeding the giraffes.