It was a nice spring day and we found puppy love

Cookie Monsters

Perhaps we should stick to one piece swimsuits :)

The Big Park we walk to in Naperville

Averly loves our neighbor's boxer pup, Sadie. RJ likes to yell "hi" to the dog, but he trys to avoid her licking. Lately he's been acting a little timid around dogs... he's in for a big surprise when we find a house and get Skylar and Maxie back!

When the snow finally melted we played ball on the golf course (this was taken awhile ago)

RJ loved the carousel ride in Michigan. Of course Daddy accidentally put the kids on the Ohio State horse...opps! What is that doing in MI anyway?

We spent Ray's birthday weekend in St. Joe, MI

RJ had to blow out Daddy's birthday candles too! So we sparked all 35 candles again...Happy Birthday take 2...

"Happy Day" Ray celebrates his 35th Birthday today! We LOVE him SO much!!!

Our first visit with the kids to the Brookfield Zoo

This is how you trek thru the Brookfield Zoo (right outside of Chicago) in February... just kidding. The bear habitat is being moved so there was some construction that we decided to take a short cut thru.

We went for a quick visit to the Zoo last weekend since it was free! We had a really good time seeing some of the animals that didn't mind the cold or snow. It was 40 degrees outside which didn't totally numb our bones as we walked around for 2 hours.

Can you see the Dinosaur in the background... RJ was impressed!

We were trying to point out a Zebra in the picture above.

The penguin and fish exhibit was indoors.

RJ loved the tiger. The big guy was yawning in this picture.

A wolf was resting on top of the rock.

It was amazing to see the lion up close (behind really really thick glass). He was huge and really stunning.

We'll be making more trips to the zoo when the weather warms up and more animals are outside to play. We read the new bear exhibit opens in May along with the dolphin shows.