Family Outing

I'm too tired and lazy to write. Matt is doing well. Enjoy the pictures from our trip to the zoo. We make such a lovely little blended family. I had a great time and hope to be able to do it again soon.

Hope all of you are well :)



John Mills (Matt's youngest brother, 9), Elena (my neice,
Gina's daughter, 3) and Matt (the best room mate I have
ever had :b, 27). The playground was SO cool.


We brought the wheelchair because Matt's
Neupogen shots make his bones hurt like
hell, it was 85 degrees and sunny, and
frankly, it just made me feel better to take
it and know that the chances of Matt hitting
the pavement would be lessened at least
50%. Immediately upon arrival at the zoo,
it became clear that the wheelchair would
be the kids' favorite attraction. We loaded
that thing like a pack mule, and never had
a shortage of ready volunteers to push. I'll never
take a bunch of kids to the zoo without one
again. It was a fuckin life saver. In this picture,
Lex is checking out (and bitching about) the
accessability of the zoo playground. The lady
behind him looks freaked out.



Elena gets a hand from Uncle Matt



Lex rides the artwork. He'll ride anything.



Me with Gina (sister-in-law, bff)



Matt making sure the kids walk the line.



John climbing the spider web thing. This
pole is WAY taller than it looks.



The whole crew, Minus Lex, at our post-playground/pre-
zoo picnic. (Someone has to take the pictures :b ) Elena,
Matt, John, Gina, Joe (my little bro) and me.



Elena with giant strawberry.



Elena crashing John into a trash can. They were helping
with picnic clean-up.



John forgot to bring gas money, so we put
his ass to work. Just kidding. Major thanks
to both little brothers, Joe and John. They
we ON TOP of the wheelchair pushing. They
should go into a wheelchair pushing business
together. Seriously.



And, we're off to the zoo :)



God, I love this kid. My baby Brandon girl.
*This lovely moment was later ruined when
Elena noticed that one elephant was catching
another elephants poop in it's mouth and
eating it.



Me: "This lion's ass is HOT!"
Elena: "Lion has a hot ass"
Me: "no, no, hiney, Honey, say hiney."



We LOVE the giant turtles!!



Looks like a damn good argument for evolution if you ask
me. :P



The mommy orangutan hangs out with her face smooshed
against the glass with the most pathetic "get me the hell
out of here" look on her face. It's heart-breaking.



Cotton candy/ice cream break #1



love



No. I was not the one who fed the monkey the azalea that
was in my hair.



You can see Elena's head in the bottom of this pic. She was
hell-bent on seeing baby giraffes and disappointed to find
out that there weren't any. She said, "No babies? That's
so sad." Lex replies, "It's not always sad for a couple not to
have babies. Some people don't want children for one reason
or the other." Lex, the constant teacher.



Last ice cream stop at the end of the day. Elena got a
Dora the Explorer ice cream thingy that looked a LOT
like Elena.