Push-ups:

Push-ups WITH daddy.

 Push-ups ON daddy.

She's a great motivator.  More like a drill sergeant!

She'll say, "four more dad, you can do it!"  HAHA!

 

Monkey Monday:

Friday Funnies:

Nana and Papa got Alanna a bug house for all the fun things that she and daddy discover and catch in the yard.  Today they caught two rollie pollies and a beetle.  They had to eat dinner with us and she BEGGED for them to sleep with her.  Oh. My. Word.

Happy Birthday America:

 We celebrated the day by painting our toes a festive color and design.  Then we had some friends over to swim and eat lunch.  Alanna did SO GREAT having 5 other kids over at her house.  Since she's an only child, she doesn't have to share much. =)  This was a good test to see how she's do and she passed thankfully!  I could kick myself for not taking even one picture!  UGH!

The stinky part is, it doesn't get dark here until about 9:30-10pm, so we didn't get to take her to see fireworks this year.  Bedtime is WAY important at this age.  WAY! 

 Hope your 4th was fantastic too!

 

Happy 4th Y'all!

Land of the FREE because of the BRAVE!

Thanking God for our FREEDOM!

Abilene Zoo Day:

A sweet group of friends invited us to the zoo, so we loaded up the stroller and headed for Abilene!

 They had this man made pond in the middle of the zoo and it was really pretty.  They had tons of (creepy!) fish that you could feed.  Alanna LOVED it!

Those pink 'rings' in the picture above are their nasty mouths open and fighting over the food!  YUCK!  See?  I told you they were creepy!  The one orange one was really pretty though.

 We also got to feed the giraffe!  Alanna was not so sure about that big black tongue coming out.  She'd stick the cracker in the fence and then drop it as soon as she saw that tongue came out. 

 

Then Mrs. Jessica was sweet and helped her do it without the tongue licking her. =)  Fun side note: The giraffe's name was Asha just like our dog.  Alanna was AMAZED by this fact!

 Alanna just didn't understand why we couldn't get all the animals out and pet them like we do at the nature center here in town. HAHA!  She said, "Mom, can I PLEASE just go in and pet that lion?"  Bless her heart.  They DO kinda look like big sweet kitties.  She also wanted to pet a zebra and a rhino.  She was fearless and probably would have marched right into those cages had I said yes.  Silly girl.

 Overall, it was a fun fun day and we can't wait to go back!

Monkey Monday: