Monday, January 4, 2010

welcome 2010!

i am so happy to have 2010 arrive! 2009 was a pretty crazy year for our family, and i'm definitely ready to be rid of it! i know that 2010 is going to be a great year, and hopefully we can start it off with a house!! still working on that by the way:(

to start off our festivities, we headed to the zoo for the annual 'noon' year's eve celebration. it wasn't too cold, mid 30's but slushy snow was falling most of the day. we didn't see too many animals, but had a fun time.



unlce matt and aunt sumi came for the fun


just after 'noon', we tried getting kisses from the kids, but it was a no-go


the geico gecko


jess and the zoo's mascot, stripes the tiger




with balto


jessy was pretending to dig for bugs with the stick like the monkeys do in the animal hospital exhibit


they had an ice sculpture artist there making fun animal sculptures, i was so worried the kids would knock one down, but they were very gentle with them. this one is a koala in a tree.




hitching a ride


jonny was so excited for the loony toons marathon on tv, he woke up right before it started and watched several hours of cartoons on new year's day. he said in the afternoon that he was loony toon-ed out!

happy new year, everyone, i hope it brings all of us good luck and good health!

2 comments:

Cameron, Shannon Voge said...

happy new year! glad to see my coat is coming in handy :)

RatcliffeClan said...

So cute. I can't believe how much they have grown up. I remember when you had Jonny. We will be sure to post up tonz of pictures from Japan. Hope all is well with you guys.