Animals

We have been on lots of super fun summer adventures, here is one of our favorites! The San Diego Zoo Safari Park (formerly known as Wild Animal Park) is soooo much fun!

The coolest was the huge savannah with all kinds of animals intermingling. The animals are free to run and roam while you can overlook the whole thing. You see giraffes, rhinos, gazelles and lots of other animals. Kyle wished they would introduce a pack of lions to make things really interesting.



This baby elephant was so so cute!


Even Cooper got all excited about everything!


It was a super hot day so it was nice to let the kids run around in the little water park area while we sipped Hawaiian ice in the shade.


We will definitely be back!


We saw this bird on one of our little hikes near our house. It was something special. Kyle knows what it is called, I don't really remember things like that. Can you edit this darling? :)

Cookie Time

Cruisin' LA

Happy 4th of July!! I'll have to do a post on that later, but today its all about LA! We spent some time there this past week... here is what we did.


We had to see the sign. That's just what you do! I don't know why.


This was someone's garage door we saw while driving around in the Hollywood hills. So cool!


We had to try some of these tasty treats.


The cutest teeny tiny decadent cheesecakes in a delicious assortment of flavors. Carmel macadamia, strawberry, cinnamon roll and black forest. Yummmm, they did not last long in our family.


I happened upon the star of one of my favorite stars. Have I ever shared the story of when I met and sang with her? I should, it was quite extraordinary.


The kids had a blast at Universal Studios.

The best part for me, was seeing where my parents got married like 40 years ago, or something like that. This is also on my Dad's headstone. It was shockingly enormous! It was difficult to take a picture of and get it all in there. The front -


And back -


It had some of the most beautiful gardens. All temples are beautiful and peaceful, but this one was different somehow.


I hope we can go back there soon!


Breckyn's signature pose -


Sweet Kyra -


Ryder hardly ever grins so big that you see his top teeth! This cheesy face cracks me up :)


And the big baby.


The visitor's center was so incredible! It's newly renovated and so high tech. We had a great time there.