Franklin Drive Thru Safari

In a little place called Franklin is a Drive Thru Safari. There are animals to see in cages that you can look at and then they give you a large bucket of feed and you head back into your car. You drive through the rest of the place with your bucket of feed and here is what happens... AHHH a large animal head is coming through my window!

We learned how to feed the animals and keep them from coming all the way in our car. It was so much fun! Here are some more pictures.

List of animals we remember seeing: emu, ostrich, deer, peacock, piglets, boars, zebra, camel, lama, giraffes, long horned cows, kangaroo, roosters, monkeys, snake, mules, shetlend ponies, wambat, wildabeast, water buffalo, shaggy cow thing. It was cool. 

Around the House

There is so much going on at the house. I just love spending time together. Annie is sad in this picture because Alice gets to lick some of the cake batter. Annie can't have nay yet.

 Alice picking the weeds that look like flowers.

 Our attempts at a family picture :)

 Annie climbed into her bouncer all by herself! This is her proud face. She makes it when she is walking and holding onto our fingers now.

 Playing in the rain.

Zip lining

This was so awesome. I am so glad we went.

Houston

We had the opportunity to go to the temple in Houston in August. It was so great. Trevor went with the youth from the ward and I went early in the morning while he watched the kidlets. We called our friends that live in Houston and we stayed with them the night before. We were able to play games with them late at night and Alice was so excited to have a sleep over. It was a win, win!

 These pictures are not from Houston. They are from home. Annie tipped over half of the play house one day and the girls both loved playing inside it. The "boat" is now a regular occurance at our house.

 I only have pictures of Alice with the temple because I was holding Annie and didn't feel comfortable setting her down on the cement. It was hot and hard so she helped me take pictures.

 Here is our only picture of the three of us. Trevor was inside the temple at this point. Annie's facial expression is awesome!

Idaho Falls

We had a great time visiting the Terrill side of the family. The weather was great and everyone loved seeing each other. The adults had a good time staying up late and playing games. Alice LOVED seeing her cousins and Annie enjoyed meeting a new friend named Mr. Porter. :)
When we got into Idaho Falls it was really late. It felt really cold for us because we were coming from Texas. The last time we were in Idaho was December and there was snow. One of Alice's first questions was "You have snow Grandma?"  She fell easily asleep on the car ride home.

These are awesome pictures. The three girls Addy, Brylee, and Alice ran a real race, just like Grandma. They got a shirt and a medal. Oh they had such a great time. It was at Eagle's Landing or something like that. But oh it was so great. Each of them really did "run." Alice's legs were so tired by about a quarter of the way in. Grandpa Terrill came to our rescue! He had just finished a very long bike ride but he put Alice on his shoulders and walked her until we could see the finish line. Then Alice got down and ran across the finish line. We were the very last one. But that is okay because we were also one of the very youngest :)

 Annie loved baby Porter. He had great toys that he shared and he was really good at jumping in the bouncer.

The girls loved playing together and the tramp was so fun!

Olsen visit

It was fun to have family visit us and see where we were living. We had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa Olsen. Obviously Alice had a great time since many of the attractions we went to were planned around what she would enjoy. We did also go to the space center which was really fun.

We went to a chocolate factory in Bryan. Our favorite things there were the step stools to see threw the windows and the cheesecake (ironically).

Grandpa and Grandma brought presents for the girls! Minnie took up an entire carry-on by herself.

We fed the ducks and turtles.

  Went to the Bush Library which was great and even had great kids stuff that Alice loved. Annie rolled around on the floor and smiled at people.

Rode the tram tour at the space center in Houston.

Annie

We have had a significant update and addition to our family... Annie! She is wonderful. I love being a mom of two. I really feel so happy about it. And Annie is wonderful. If we wanted to describe her personality, we would tell you that she is a happy baby. She is very cute.

Annalyse Morgan Terrill was born on the 11th of December in St. Lukes in Boise. We were glad Dr. Klomp found time for her and made the hospital find room for us so we could induce her. I was also glad I was already technically have contractions when we got to the hospital.

We wanted Annie to be the first baby blessed in 2014 (just kidding) so we had her blessed on January 1st at around 8:30 I think. It was that day that I was leaving Trevor with his parents and I was going to take the girls with me to Boise. Trevor would leave in a few days to go to Texas with his mom and dad to move down his stuff and I would stay with my family and recover. So, my parents drove from Boise to Idaho Falls and we had the blessing that day so that both grandpas could be there. It was in the Terrill's living room and Bishop Hildibrant was there. Annie will wonder if her parent's were inactive or something because we didn't do the blessing at the church, but it was because we chose to do it with family and that was the only day that worked. Her blessing dress was one that Great Grandma Donna Olsen had found and when we were going through her things after she passed away my mom got it and gave it to me, so it is a treasure.

Annie gets lots of loving from her big sister.