Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Spring break

Since last week was Ryan's Spring break, we tried to take advantage of our time together and decided to tag along with Lisa's friend, Anna, and her family to the Boise Zoo. It was a somewhat gray day, but we still had fun seeing the animals. 



Lyra does not seem to possess any of the fear Lisa once did with goats at the Zoo.


We were excited to see this zoo had a giraffe


Also during this Spring break we were able to make a trip to Idaho Falls, but I ended up leaving the camera in the trunk of our car, so we didn't take any pictures. We stayed with Tom and Molly Brinkerhoff and had great fun visiting with them. Lisa and Lyra chased their cute, little dogs around and Lisa got to pretend to drive Tom's motorhome. We also got to spend time with Mat and Andrea, Becky and her kids, and even got treated to lunch with Lyn on Sunday. We are so glad for the friends we've been able to keep in touch with in Idaho Falls. On our way out of town, I stopped by to see Cortney and baby Austin. He is only a few days old and we didn't want to expose him to lots of germs, so Ryan waited in the car with the girls for a few minutes while I said hello and dropped off a little quilt I had made. We hope to make another trip to IF some time in the summer or sooner.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Stages of discovery

Dad brought home some supplies from a DNA lab at school and let Lisa make a model. Lisa will never turn down anything involving candy!
Lyra is busy making discoveries of her own. Lately she imitates everything we do, but I'm pretty sure she came up with this one all by herself.