Yay for the Zoo!

Yesterday Zoey and I joined the whole Miller bunch for a quick breakfast, then a trip to the zoo! We had a really good time and got to see the new white tiger and the ocelots. The ocelots are a little bigger than a domestic cat and have colorings like a leopard. Their handler was in the place with them and they were running around and playing and being just super adorable. It was kinda rainy and then got super humid but the animals seemed to be out a little bit and the male lion even roared a little for us! That was exciting!

Here's Zoey looking at the "Mingos"...

I curled her hair in spongies again, she asks me almost every night to put them in for her!

When we got to the monkeys, I don't remember which ones, there was one sitting right by the glass and was like "talking" and rubbing his nose on the glass with the kids. It was really cool!

After the zoo we went to Nicole's house and the kids layed down for a nap and I went to get my nails done. Priscilla ended up meeting me and I got a pedicure too! It felt soooo good. Beau's worried I'm going to start getting them all the time too, haha...

It was Nicole's dad's birthday so they went to some fancy place in Buffalo Gap and I watched Jackson. We had a good time playing and I had them go camping in the living room and they watched Peter Pan. It was fun and Zoey always likes it when she has a friend over to play.

Well I hope everyone has a great weekend, I work early tomorrow, I have a consult appointment for my wisdom teeth... I'm so nervous!!!

Luau!

Today was the end of the summer bash, the Luau at the CDC. I took Zoey in early and her class made her a t-shirt to wear. We got out of the car and she saw all the decorations up and heard the music and said, "Oh mama, look, it's a surprise party for me!" I said no it's the Luau, she kept telling me no, it's her birthday party! She's a silly girl...

They had fun stuff, face painting, snacks, a ball toss, fishing, and some Hula Dancers that came last year. They're pretty entertaining.

She had a good time and I liked being there for one of the events, usually I'm working so I don't get down her way to see what they're doing. The flower barrette in her hair is actually one of the ones I wore at my wedding, and she absolutely loved her flower!

Zoey and a couple other kids wanted to swing on the tire swing so Priscilla was pushing them. Oh my goodness, that thing makes me so nervous! I just kept hoping she held on really tight and didn't let go! It made me realize how big she's getting... That kid has no fear!

Wow I sound really bossy on that video!

I made sloppy joes, mashed potatoes, and watermelon for supper tonight. I can't remember the last time I made home-made mashed potatoes and for some reason the ones I made tonight totally hit the spot, they were soooo good! I made Chocolate Malt Cookies for a lunch at work today and they turned out pretty good. I found them on the Betty Crocker website and it was my first time making them. I think the glaze made them a little too sweet but the cookie part was really good. Nothing can beat those sinful cookie bars of Tanna's though!!!

Spongies and sickies...

Monday night after bath I asked the Zomeister if she would sleep in spongies, as I spent half my childhood sleeping in spongies, I figured it's never too soon to start! She agreed, she's such a priss, I think she would do anything for beauty. I told her she had to sleep in them alllll night and not take them out, last time I put them in I checked on her 15 mins after I put her in bed and they were all in a pile on the floor. Needless to say, she kept them in all night and her hair actually stayed really curly! She looked at it in the mirror and said, "Oh mama, I look like Andrew!" I told her yeah, she kinda did.

I messed around with picnik.com and edited one of her pics. It's kinda fun!

At work yesterday I wasn't needed in my regular room so I was different parts of the building and I ended up helping at lunch in the 2 year old room across the hall from Zoey's room. She was throwing a wild-eyed fit, I had to go over there twice to calm her down and try to get her to lay on her mat. She wouldn't lay down, wouldn't listen, was like sobbing all over the place, it wasn't good. She wasn't acting right and she never did take a nap so I was getting pretty worried about her. At 3:15 my boss let me go ahead and leave and take her to the Dr. I took her to the Walk-In Clinic and her O2 stat was 86%!!!! The poor thing couldn't breathe! She has an upper respitory infection and they gave her an antibiotic and a decongestant. They didn't even seem concerned about her O2 and didn't tell me to give her a breathing treatment or anything! I gave her one anyway and ordered pizza and she said she felt much better.

This morning she was still pretty wheezy so I kept her home with me and she's been doing ok. She fought her nap pretty hard, but other than that hasn't been too mean or anything. I don't know why she gets so angry when she gets sick!!!! Hopefully she'll be a little nicer in school now. Well, I'm off to eat some Jell-O Beans and hang out, I think she's going to make me watch some Barbie movie, I can't wait haha!

Good times in Kansas

Zoey and I made it safe and sound back to good 'ol Texas! The trip wasn't too bad and I'm glad I got to visit with everyone! Hopefully I'll get time off in September and Beau will be able to go visit too.

We had such a good time at the Fair. Here's a pic from the top of the Ferris Wheel, which I hate!!! That thing makes me so nervous, but Zoey and the rest of the kids loved it!

The first couple of nights Zoey had fun riding the "kiddie" rides and then we took her on the Tilt-O-Whirl and she looooooved it!!!! She had so much fun and wanted to ride anything that was big or went fast... that girl has no fear!

This is my mom telling Zoey that she absolutely cannot get out of the boats or mess around! She made me nervous on that even! She liked them though...


On Saturday we had the Parade and it made me really miss Beau... last year Zoey and I got to ride with him in the Fire Truck during the parade and it was really special... There's always next year! Zoey had too much fun getting candy while GrannyC helped corral everybody. She made out with quite a bit!

We got all the kids to line up and then of course Meemaw, Nana Kriss, and GrannyC wanted to pose too!

Here's one with Grandpa Von, he handled all the commotion pretty well. Zoey is doing her "Princess" pose, too funny!


And finally one of my favorite pictures of the trip! She's growing up so fast!!!!!

Only a couple more weeks to go before Beau gets home, we are so stinking excited! I can't wait for everything to back to normal again... well, as normal as we ever were I guess!


I'm off to watch The Closer, I love love love that show, she's such a spit-fire...