Labor Day

Labor Day started off bright an early. We took the boys to the Balloon Classic at Memorial Park to watch the hot air balloons take off. They loved it! They were able to go right up to the balloons as they were inflating and touch them. They were all set to jump in and take a ride!

Later in the day, we went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo with my parents, my brother and his family. The boys' favorite thing was feeding the birds. Dallen spent the whole time trying to get a bird to land on his stick while John and my brother, Jon, had no problem attracting birds!


The birds love Jon's head! Just hope they don't have to go to the bathroom!!


Ethan would have nothing to do with the birds. He reluctantly watched from a distance.




BEWARE OF MOUNTAIN LIONS!
The Zoo has a new Rocky Mountain exhibit including grizzly bears (who put on quite a show)and mountain lions. The mountain lions have given me nightmares the last two nights! Now, most of you know when you are pregnant your mind really runs away with you and pregnant dreams are the WORST!! Well, the mountain lions have not helped my situation AT ALL!! I have always heard that when you go hiking in the mountains make sure your kids are between you, not ahead and definately not lagging behind. I never realized the seriousness of this advice until we went saw the mountain lions at the zoo. The mountain lion exhibit allows you to be very close. They are behind a metal fence and then about two feet in front of the fence is a railing. My nephew just turned 1 in August and Ethan is almost 3. As soon as the mountain lions saw my nephew they could have cared less about all the adults around. The lions zeroed in on him. They paced and followed my nephew everywhere he went. They lunged and swiped at the fence when he would stop...LUNCH!! Those lions wanted him bad! Then they saw Ethan and they did the same thing. Of course watching this gave me all sorts of bad images and so I vowed to never go hiking with my kids until they are bigger than me! HA! I just never realized how much mountain lions focused in on smaller prey...they really, really wanted to get them...freaky!