{"id":1143,"date":"2011-02-24T07:12:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T07:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:17:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T14:17:50","slug":"lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preston was home from school Monday, so we spent the morning at the ZOO!\u00a0 We haven’t been in so long, and he has always loved our wonderful zoo.\u00a0 This was the first time AnnaLeigh was really old enough to enjoy it.\u00a0 We weren’t there long, but we ran into LOTS of friends!\u00a0 Brad took a few hours off work and joined us, which was an extra special treat to the maniacs!<\/span><\/p>\n

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As I was looking through my pictures, I realized that I have very few pics of the zoo animals…mostly pics of my animals.\u00a0 Also, almost every picture is of the maniacs’ backs…very few faces.\u00a0 I guess that’s because I was trying to keep up with them.\u00a0 We had a great time, and it was a beautiful day to be outside enjoying God’s amazing, unique creation!<\/span><\/p>\n

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One day Lilly Katherine is going to fall into the Giraffe area.\u00a0\u00a0 That girl likes to get right to the edge of the ledge.\u00a0 Gotta love that little maniac!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>AnnaLeigh is saying in a very sassy voice, “Ha-eye!” (HEY!)\u00a0 The girl has a LOT of spunk!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Preston sat in an elephant’s foot print.\u00a0 The sun was really bright, and he was struggling to look up.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lilly Katherine started waving to the Giraffe…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>AnnaLeigh saw it and got SO excited!\u00a0 She started waving and screaming, “Hey, Raffe!”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Then she started a full blown conversation with Mr. Giraffe, “How a you?”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Good!”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Well, Hey Raffe!”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“He say Hi me”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Bye-bye, Raffe!”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>(Running to catch up to Lilly Katherine.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sweet maniacs!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The kids love the Otter Exhibit.\u00a0 It was my favorite exhibit growing up, too.\u00a0 The otters were quite playful, but the water was so murky that you can barely see them.
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\"\"<\/a>The maniacs got really lucky on this trip, and they got to feed the fish…for real!\u00a0 I usually forget to bring quarters, and my children have to crawl around on the wooden dock and stick their little fingers in between the slats to get the fish food other “good moms”<\/em> have dropped.\u00a0 This time I actually had TWO quarters, so the maniacs thought they hit the jackpot!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>It is TRULY a miracle that no heads got stuck between those bars…and no shoes came off in the water…this time<\/em>!
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(Pic below is from last March)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Monday was a great day.\u00a0 We loved being together as a FAMILY!\u00a0 I wish I had half a brain to take a FAMILY picture, but I was too busy sneezing (thanks to my newly developed allergy problem) to think. :)<\/span><\/p>\n

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20<\/sup> And God said, \u201cLet the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.\u201d 21<\/sup> So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22<\/sup> God blessed them and said, \u201cBe fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.\u201d 23<\/sup> And there was evening, and there was morning\u2014the fifth day. \u00a024<\/sup> And God said, \u201cLet the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.\u201d And it was so. 25<\/sup> God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Genesis 1:20-25
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Preston was home from school Monday, so we spent the morning at the ZOO!\u00a0 We haven’t been in so long, and he has always loved our wonderful zoo.\u00a0 This was the first time AnnaLeigh was really old enough to enjoy it.\u00a0 We weren’t there long, but we ran into LOTS of friends!\u00a0 Brad took a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}