Fort Worth Zoo

This last Saturday marked an exciting first trip for our Maggie. We took her to the Fort Worth Zoo. The day could not have been more perfect. The weather was sunny and 75 degrees. Maggie is such an animal lover that we knew she would have a blast. In fact, it was zoo-onderful, zoo-rrific and zoo-ooper dooper!

One of Maggie's favorite things was the small bird aviary. It was FULL of little parakeet and doves and such. You could buy little popsicle sticks with bird seed stuck on them and hand feed the birds. Maggie loved being so close to them. Several of them even crawled on her stick like it was a perch and ate. We stayed in the aviary for almost a half hour.

Maggie also really like all of the big cats...lions, cheetahs, tigers and jaguars. This was no surprise since Maggie loves domestic cats too (just like her daddy). We have even been talking about getting Max (our first 4 legged child---adopted after only 1 week of marriage) a sibling. A kitten is in the future for Mag, for sure. We even got to hear a lion and a jaguar roar. Whew, was it loud!

We recently found out that our Fort Worth Zoo turned 100 years old this year. It is a really special place, and exciting to see all of God's glorious creatures. We highly recommend a visit as soon as you can go.

There is just nothing better than quality time together as a family! I am blessed beyond measure!

Maggie's first smile of the day, as we got to our first animals!

Family pic at the monkey's habitat!

The lioness, having nap time.

The lion...king of the jungle.

Asian white tiger! So beautiful!

Amazing cheetah!

A crocodile...and YES...that is his lunch. It WAS a chicken!

Beautiful bald eagle.

Texas long horn bull.

Maggie and I checking out the Texas exhibit.

Daddy and Maggie...2 cutie pies!

Zebras getting some sun!

Maggie checking out this 20 foot bronze alligator.

Daddy and Maggie checking out the otter pond look out. Mag also loved seeing the otters swim.

Maggie and a brown bear...she was a little nervous about this big guy!

Maggie in the bears tunnel tree trunk look out.

Family pic on the zoo train!

Family pic on our way to see the elephants.

Daddy and Maggie checking out the elephants.

A tree view at the giraffe habitat.

Tall giraffes...a favorite of Maggie's.

Feeding the birds inside the aviary. Maggie loved this!

Maggie riding a horse! The best part was the "yee-haw" that just naturally came out of her mouth. Her Papa, Uncle JD and Uncle Bubba (all real cowboys) would be soooo proud! Ha!

Maggie all tucker out! This was about 5 minutes after we left the zoo. A tiring day for our girl. She had just had a little Cheetos snack...check out those orange fingers. She is a "laundry do-ers" dream. What a lady, even while asleep...still careful not to wipe her cheesy Cheetoh orange fingers on her clothes...ha~! And, yes...before you ask---that is a "camo" car seat. She has this car seat in Todd's truck. When we bought one for his truck, he got to pick it out. He said he needed a "man-ly" one for his truck!

Thanks for checking out this mile long post of pictures. I really did consolidate...I actually took 152 pics that day! Just wanted to share!

Hope everyone is having a blessed week! God is so good!

Love to all!

Leah