A Day at the Zoo (2015)

It was a Sunday without commitments.
It was a Sunday with warmer temperatures.
It was a Sunday to get out of the house so it wouldn’t be wasted on yard work.
It was a ZOO DAY.
It’s been more than a year since the kids and I visited the zoo.
It’s been more than a few years since John has been to the zoo.
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The place was crowded, but not unpleasantly so. 
There were a few new animals, and all of them seemed new to Katriel.
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And while the kids took a number of photos of the animals, my favorite subjects are by far my own monkeys…
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Katriel sincerely enjoyed this guy.  Gal?  Thing?
Ugh.
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I think he liked her, too.

 
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The woman I handed the camera too gave us gobs of headroom and cut off our feet..  but it crops out ok, I guess.
LOL – I still have some church bling on!  😉
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Vending machine ice cream bars are fun, too.
 
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On the way home we went through the car wash.  Most of the kids have never been through the car wash before, and those who have been have forgotten it.  We sure are a FUN bunch!
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We ordered pizza on the way home and called it an adventure day. 

Easter 2015

I’ve already posted about Easter morning.  The rest of the day was rather low-key. 
Marie’s delicious Beast’s Quiche.

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As I mentioned, Easter snuck up on me this year.  Consequently, we didn’t invite anyone to join us, nor did we go anywhere.  Nan and Nene joined us for supper.

Stewart sang at church and had to be there at 8:00 AM.
 
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After church John hid the eggs around the house.  It was just too cold outside.  Katriel was too hungry for fun and games so we fed her a fast lunch and got her to bed.  After lunch she found her six eggs.
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Dinner was steaks on the grill with au gratin potatoes and asparagus.  I don’t know why I didn’t take dinner photos…
We had more dessert choices than necessary – and you can see the little girls thoroughly enjoyed them.
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I think this might be my favorite picture from this year.  ♥
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Easter Sunday 2015 part one

Part two will come when I load up the real camera…
Easter snuck up on me this year.  The only plausible excuse I can think if is that it just fell too early in the month. 
I was seriously caught off guard. 
Marie wanted to make breakfast for us, so we made one of the recipes from her Princess CookBook
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We hunted for some meager Easter baskets. 
(Videos on separate post.)
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Stewart had to be at church for choir at 8AM so our morning was a lot different than usual…
I’ll get some of the later-in-the-day photos posted, um, later in the day?