More from October

The kids had MEA, fall break, whatever you want to call it on the 16th and 17th.  I thought it might be a fun time to go to the zoo, even if it was busy so we went on that Thursday.  It was the most beautiful day and we had a great time even if the red panda and armadillo were sleeping.  Those are my kids two most favorite animals and it seems like they are always sleeping so we never get to see them in action.  Considering they are both nocturnal it only makes sense that they are asleep during the day when we are at the zoo.

Here they are at the tiger's lair.

This picture really doesn't do this tree justice, it really looked like it was on fire, so pretty.  

Caribou

Moose statue...See how beautiful it was.  And it was 72 degrees, almost unheard of for Minnesota in October.  It was the perfect fall day.

The tiger 

Myles loves this turtle statue, he plays with it every visit. 

Riding baby rhinos is serious business!

I love, love love the Minnesota Zoo.  They have an outdoor part, a half indoor-half outdoor part, and all indoor rainforest part and an aquarium all at the same place.  They also have an IMAX theatre It is a long day to see it all, but perfect to hit some in a few hours.  And you can totally tailor your visit depending on the weather.  I love that we can go to the zoo any season and have a great day!  

We also had out friends the Reid's over for part of conference.  That was super fun, we had treats to eat during the sessions.  We shared dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday.  We watched the Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning session together.  Then Jake also took Jill's boys to the priesthood session too.  It was a super fun weekend.  I didn't get many pictures but here are a couple from that weekend. 

Lexie has taken on a new project that is filling our house with music and I love it.  She really wants to learn how to play the song "All of Me" by John Legend.  It is one of our newest favorite songs.  But she couldn't find any good sheet music.  But she did find a good tutorial of how to play in on Youtube.  But she wanted to have the sheet music so she is transposing the tutorial into sheet music.  She is amazing!  

Here she is working on it.