Hogle Zoo

We went to Hogle Zoo this weekend with Jolene and the Stodds.

Madelyn loved everything except the slide. It was too scary and dark.

Happy Stoddy family.

The bears were pretty cool. Madelyn sat there for a while watching this one feed. The polar bear was also right up by the glass swimming around and that was so exciting Madelyn had to squeal…a lot.

I never actually got a picture of Jolene but if I had it would have been of her and Madelyn holding hands and talking and walking. It was pretty cute.

Florida

Rory went down to Florida last month to present at the Society of Range Management national meeting. These are a few things he saw:

The blobs are manatees, which he didn't swim with. 

This picture is dedicated to Rory's favorite father-in-law.

This starfish regenerated a limb! Can you see which one?

On Saturday

I ran a 10K with a friend Saturday morning. We kicked butt! Sort of… She came in 4th in our age class and I came in 5th. We were both pleased with our times.

After my run Rory took Madelyn and I on a picnic up the canyon. There's a cute little park and Madelyn had a blast going down the slides.

We also walked a little way up the canyon trail.

The creek was a never ending source of amazement.

Plus we saw a downy woodpecker! And a river otter!!

A Few Things

Rory has been jumping for joy lately. He got his official acceptance letter to Kansas State University for his PhD. Bring on all the Wizard of Oz jokes.

We finally took a ride on the new train system. Madelyn loved loved loved it. No carseats! She spent the majority of the ride with her face pressed up against the window saying "weeee!". We went up to SLC and wandered around all the fabulous shopping!

We also made it over to Temple Square.

See how much fun she's having!

I gave Madelyn her first hack job haircut. Her bangs were always in the way so I took some scissors and chopped them off... unevenly. Oh well, first times don't always go well. She's too young to care anyway.