Animal Crackers for an 8 Month old?!

Dorian spilled her animal crackers on the floor a while back and I didn't realize. Addeline is now a woman on the move and found the animal crackers. ha ha ha Addeline wasn't sure what to do with them at first, but leave it to her big sister to show her!!!! Now Addeline loves her animal crackers just as much as Dorian does!!! And Dorian helps her eat them EVERYTIME I get them out for snacks! ha ha HILLARIOUS!

Yucky Bugs!

While we were at the Botanical Gardens they had a really disgusting bug display. (well disgusting to me! ha ha ha) I walked by the exhibit and after a moment turned around to go back. I thought of my four nephews and their love for bugs and yucky insects. I thought that if I didn't get some pictures for them I would be letting them down! ha ha ha So here you go boys....yucky, disgusting, really gross BUGS!!!! EWWWW!!!! I don't even know what they are called I took the pictures and ran ha ha ha But hope you enjoy! :)

Albuquerque Bontanical Gardens

Our two families went to check out the Bontanical Gardens. The night before there was a HUGE wind storm that brought in cold weather. We bundled the girls up, but it was honestly to cold to see the entire park. We hung out for about a half an hour and called it quits. It was an awesome park and extremely pretty....but it was starting to rain and getting even colder. We had to leave. But I will say something I would like to see again when not so cold. :)

Albuquerque Aquarium

I think this was Dorian's favorite part of the trip! We let her out of her stroller to check out the aquarium and when she saw all of the fish I think her eyes almost come out of her head she was so excited! She ran around for about an hour, with every turn she made and another fish she saw, screamed "FIFFY!!!" and pointed to the massive fish in the tanks! ha ha ha It was so cute!

I can't describe how happy it makes me to see her so excited to see new things! She knew that they were fish and so many of them in all different sizes and shapes really made her happy!

She even was brave enough to touch some crabs and sea creatures that were on display in the learning center!!! She has NEVER touched a dog/puppy willingly and she reached right out to touch yucky sea things!!! HILARIOUS!!!

The aquarium was EXTREMELY small, and not what we expected so with extra time on our hands before our drive back we all decided to check out the Botanical Gardens that was part of the park!

United States Museum of Natural History and Science

We started to drive back to base after we left the zoo and realized that it was too early to go back home, that our children would go stir-crazy sitting doing nothing. So we used our GPS and found a couple of museums. The kids chose to go to the Natural History museum. This shocked us, but we did what they wanted to do!!!

We decided that it wasn't a waste of money, but was definitly above what the kids could understand. They enjoyed seeing the displays but didn't really understand what everything was. It was a LOT of reading and a LOT of understanding large concepts. It wasn't really that big, it only took about an hour or so to walk through. But all in all, there were some pretty cool dinosaour replica's to take pictures of! Both of my kiddo's fell asleep, FINALLY! And it bought us some time till dinner and winding down for bed. We still had to go to the aquarium on Sunday and Drive three hours back to Alamogordo!!! Everyone had fun....so day well spent!

Albuquerque Zoo

We have missed our dear friends the Guerra's so much the past 5 months that we wanted to spend as much time with them as we could! We have always talked about taking a trip to Albuquerque, but there was never a good time for the both of us. Danielle is in nursing school and her two kiddos are both in school. Niles has always either been deployed or her husband was deployed...so there was never a good time to go. While I was in PA we made plans to make the trip when I came back to NM.

We FINALLY went this past weekend. Her husband was on a TDY but she and her two children went with us anyway! We had SOOO much fun!!! We all stayed in a military hotel that was huge and had everything you could ask for for such a little price! It was awesome! The housing had two bedrooms, a dining room, full kitchen, TV's in each room, high chairs for babies, dishes/utensils...EVERYTHING!

Saturday we went to the Zoo. We knew it was going to take us about 5 hours to walk through it, eat, and time for the kids to play while we were there. It was a large zoo and had a lot to see. Dorian had a ball. She knew almost all of the animals that we saw, the main attractions at least. And she could tell us what animals she knew. Her favorite was the "monnnnKEYS!" With so much to see and do she did not nap all day! This wasn't great for us later...but she had fun and that is all that mattered to us ha ha ha.

We decided to leave the zoo early and come back on Sunday to go to the Aquarium/Bontanical Gardens. We had enough walking, and Danielle is about 25 weeks pregnant so her feet were a little swollen....we called it a day!

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