Owens Farm

In the metroplex, there is an Owens Farm (like the sausage) that you can visit. So we went to see what it was all about.

They give you a cup of oats for the goats so you can go and feed them. It took Presley a little while to warm up to the goats. She never wanted to actually feed them, but she was much more interested in them after a while.
They come right out of the fence at you...








Walking around one of the barns.

They have several huge draft horses (similar to the Clydesdale horses) at the farm. You can't really tell from the picture just how big these things are.

Adorable, aren't they? And to think that some people keep these "pets" in their houses. No, thanks. Presley liked seeing them from this side of the fence, though.

Such a farm girl. Leaning on the fence looking at the baby horses and their mommas.

The Heard

The Heard is a Natural Science Museum and Wildlife sanctuary fairly close to us so we decided to try it out a few weeks ago.
It has all these gorgeous nature trails that you can walk on.

Presley really had a great time looking at all the trees and the plants and everything else. She was so interested that she walked pretty much the whole time and it was over a two mile trail.

They have a butterfly exhibit there right now that was pretty interesting and they also have a few animal exhibits. Presley loved both of those. They had a couple of ring-tailed lemurs that went flying around and around...loved them! But her favorite were these Wallaby's. They are like miniature kangaroos and those things went hopping all over the place. We must of stared at them for a solid 15 minutes. And she loved every second of it!

Ft. Worth Zoo

Getting ready to begin the adventure.


There are monkeys back there. . .

This was the lion that was supposed to be in that last picture. : )
Just relaxing in the wagon, letting her parents do all the work.

And Just in case you've always wondered:

At our house,

--monkeys say "Ahh, Ahh"

--elephants talk in sign language

--penguins say "Whee!"

--roosters say "Doo"

--and those crazy giraffes just keep saying "Yum, Yum"

Dallas Arboretum

We went and visited the Dallas Arboretum! Presley loved looking at all of the plants and flowers. They had several ponds, so we always had to stop and look at all the fish, too. Here are some of the pictures that we took. Of course we had to elbow a few other photographers out of our way that were taking engagement and bridal portraits, but we still managed to come home with quite a few new pictures of Presley. A lot of these are from the back. It was about 150 degrees that morning so she wasn't in the mood to turn around and pose for pictures and I was too hot to really worry about it. : )

This is one of the houses that they have on exhibit there. You can go inside most of them and look around.

Looking at the "fiss-sh"

4th of July & Wooden Park

Well, we've got some catching up to do. So we're going to backtrack a tiny bit to the 4th of July to see my little Patriotic Princess. And then we'll get to moving on blogging about everything else that we have done since then.

Waving Old Glory!
We also went the Wooden park that morning. We are lucky enough to live near this amazing park. There can be twenty other kids there and you would never know it since it is so contained and has all these cool little structures to play on. And it is surrounded by a fence with only one way in or out - so that's pretty nice, too.

And in the afternoon we saw Terry and Aunt Kim, and went swimming!

...and even though she was asleep long before the fireworks began, it wasn't a bad way to spend the 4th of July!

19 Months!

Trying for some good 19 month shots! Sometimes she has the patience for these pictures and sometimes not. : )

Baby EINSTEIN!!

I have a TON of pictures to post, but I wanted to start out with this little video to brag a bit and show how smart Presley is. She knows her shapes! She can recognize at least 22 or 23 letters of the alphabet! She is working on her phonics - she can do the sounds for about half of the letters. Her vocabulary is huge and growing like crazy everyday!- I need to post a video of her talking...

The square and the rectangle tripped her up at first when we were initially learning the shapes, but she has gotten better since then.

I swear she learns something new everyday. I'm just trying to keep up. We're practically ready for kindergarten.

That's all I have time to post right now. We have to go put in a call to Mensa and shop for a bumper sticker like the one below...

: )