Another trip to the Wild Animal Park..

This past Veteran's Day we headed down to San Diego and met up with friends to go the Wild Animal Park. It was a perfect day with lots of sunshine. We had tons of fun seeing all the new baby animals including some cute as a button baby elephants, zebra and giraffes. I also loved seeing how big the lion cubs are getting...they just turned 1 years old. We have now seen almost the whole park with only one section left to go. The place is so huge, but it is so wonderful to hike around it. We are looking forward to returning at Christmas time and perhaps see the zoo as well.
Interesting info...As seen below, the Northern White Rhinoceros is one of the two subspecies of the White Rhinoceros. They are grazers and live in grasslands and savannah woodlands. These animals may now be extinct in the wild as a recent survey failed to locate the only known surviving population of four in the Garamaba National Park of the Congo. Only 7 captive specimens are left in the world: two at the San Diego wild Animal Park and five in the Czech Republic. They were so sweet as the male and female layed and looked into each other's eyes. The zoologist's are working with artificial insemination to try to have the Rhino's breed. Such a sad tale, but let's hope they can be saved!!

The Buddy Walk for Down Syndrome :)

Stephen and I had a blast at our second annual trip to the Buddy Walk for Down Syndrome at Angel Stadium yesterday. The many teams included four that were for some of my clients. Stephen and I joined two of the teams and donated to the other two---unfortunately we can only each be on one team. The day was somewhat rainy--Stephen calls it drizzle, but it was actually nice...last year was TOO hot! The event is such a positive example of what Down Syndrome can be. Everyone there is excited for the beautiful children living with Down Syndrome in their lives. I am very blessed to work with 8 children with Down Syndrome and am always amazed at all they can accomplish with the right kind of intervention. These kids are such an inspiration...they are full of LOVE, HUGS and SMILES for everyone. If only we could all be like those living with Down Syndrome :)

Trunk or Treat :)

Stephen and I had fun working at our Ward's Annual Trunk or Treat...although I will admit the 100 cupcakes I baked for my cupcake walk were not exactly easy to complete. It was worth all the work to see the smiles of all the kids and "Kids At Heart" enjoying my creations. Stephen had fun helping all the kids color. Then we headed out to see all the trunks decorated for trick or trunking. Someone even had an entire Halloween village, WOW! Hope everyone has a GREAT and SAFE HALLOWEEN!!!

Halloween Fun...Disneyland Style!

Stephen and I had the fun of going to Disneyland a little over a week ago. Thanks to Marcus for signing us in. It was a less busy day since it was a Tuesday, but the temperature was over 90 degrees which made it hard to tolerate. I wanted to go REAL bad and ride all the fast rides before I got pregnant so we stuck it out :) It was so fun to see all the fun Halloween decorations and we even got to ride the BRAND NEW ride...Toy Story Mania---it was a 40 minute wait, which Stephen said afterwards was well worth it. He got the high score, but I scored the better accuracy. We rode Matterhorn (Stephen's first time) and of course rode our favorite, Soarin' over California. We even stopped by and rode the Haunted House, which was all decked out in "Nightmare Before Christmas" style. The best was just spending the day together and not spending one penny. I love that Disneyland let you bring in backpacks with snacks now!!! Please enjoy the pics :) I am looking forward to going one more time if we can to see the Christmas Decorations.