Pheonix, Zoo, & Hoover Dam

This weekend my grandma was throwing my grandpa a suprise party. We didn't really suprise him .. it was just a party. (He might of died if we would have suprised him...:) Anywho, it was so nice to see so much family. On Saturday night we went to swimming. It was so fun to finally swim and sit in a hot tub... I haven't sat in one since before I got pregnant, so you can imagine the excitement. Then on Sunday we went to the zoo! That was just a blast. It was so much fun to be with the kids there. They make things so much more exciting. On Monday we drove back and we drove the vegas way. We saw Hoover Dam... It was just amazing seeing the construction. It's a much better looking dam than the Lake powell one. We had never seen Hoover Dam until then and it was worth the drive.

At the zoo there was a petting zoo at the end of it. The kids had a blast! My nephew Carson is as tall as the goat! The goat just jumped right up on him.. Carson loved it!
Carson and 2 baby goats. He loves animals and couldn't get enough of these 2.

More kids and more animals. They were in there glory!
I don't know of how many of you have ever fed a giraffe.. there tongues are so freaking long! It was so slobbery too!
It's Pumba from Lion King! I will say he's better looking in the movie... :)
We loved seeing the camels. They really are not very neat eaters... It was very cool to actually see the humps in real life
Zebra's! What if our skin was striped like that???
This was my first time seeing a flamingo... and how lucky to catch some of them sleeping. How can they do that? I tried it and there is no way I could be that still, or better yet sleep like that. They should be ballerinas
Once again a first seeing a rhino! My good friend Brie posted a pic a while back of us doing the rhino dance when we were young... This reminded me of that. There foot is like the hood of a car! They are so massive! The horn was so amazing.
This was probably my favorite. I love monkeys! This was a baby monkey swinging on his tail. It was so adorable. I wish we could of held him.
Here's my a few nieces and nephews. James, Layne, Rylee and Jessi.. behind them is a white tiger! He was pacing the fence... my sister jori got a branch and tried to poke it.. oh wow, he didn't like it at all and tried to eat it!!!!! haha! What a sucker..
This is construction on Hoover Dam. Bridges really amaze me. I can't believe the things that men can build. How they do it is just incredible!