San Diego Zoo

A week ago, I know it took forever to write about right? Anyway, last Friday we took the kids to the zoo. We told Baby Fox that we were going to take the train to the San Diego Zoo. He was super excited. We woke him up early so that we could catch the train.

Warning: Picture heavy post

The decision to take two strollers instead of the Double Bob, best decision ever.

We actually found some great seats, after ONE guy was sitting in seating for 4, got off the train on the next stop. Super annoying when you get on the train and one person is taking up a 4 seat-er and doesn't offer to move when he sees a family of 4 get on.

This is before we got the 4 seat area, in case you didn't notice those are fox's on Mini Fox's Pj's, so cute right?

Mr. wanted me to have a picture with the kids, since I'm always the one behind the camera.

Baby Fox looking out the window, can't remember what he as looking at though

Our view from the train, seriously it was that clear and the ocean was that pretty, what a great way to get to San Diego

Mini Fox slept part of the way, that thing near her mouth? It's called a Wubbanub, if you have kids and they can't keep a pacifier in their mouth, get one right now.

After getting off the train, we caught a bus to get to the actual Zoo, we had a friend meet up with us and he showed us where to go. It was nice to see him, he lives just a block away from the train station so he came to say hi and see us off.

Mini Fox on the bus, she took up more then half the isle, oops!

Welcome to the San Diego Zoo!

Baby Fox didn't want to get in the picture

Nana and Ampa met us there, they wanted to drive.

Look who decided to change into real clothes. They seriously need to make cuter bibs, I want to design clothes with matching bibs so that you don't ruin a perfectly cute outfit with a bib

This monkey made us laugh, just loungin' around

I tried the slow shutter speed on this to see if I could get the waterfall to look cool, which it totally does! But I needed to put it on a tripod and use a timer so that my dad and Mini Fox would be more in focus.

A sleeping hippo, right next to Baby Fox's head, do you see it?

Baby Fox decided to lead the way

We passed this and I couldn't resist taking a picture

He's being a bear and sleeping in his cave

 

Woah, glad he's on the other side of the fence

Next was lunch, don't worry Baby Fox did eat more then just frozen yogurt - sort of

Mr. being silly with Mini Fox

 The only way I could get him to take a picture with the saber tooth tiger, grab his tail

Impressive looking camel

How cute are Koala Bears? Apparently it was very rare that this guy was awake, they sleep about 22 hours a day, so the fact that he happen to catch this one away, so cool! Although we didn't know that until after we left the zoo and my parents took the bus tour around the zoo

Most of the time they just do this:

How to they sleep sitting up?

Baby Fox was done taking pictures

And then we saw this smart guy...like seriously? What part of that sign don't you get?

Back at the train station, running around, I can't believe it's now 5:30pm, Baby Fox hasn't taken a nap and is running around like a crazy person

But this girl passed out - I'd like you to note that Mr. has gotten to hold Mini Fox for all her train naps, I wanted to hold her for this nap, but he said...but it's MY Birthday! Okay fine, you can have her this time, baby hog!

We kept Baby Fox busy by feeding him everything we had brought

I finally got a chance to hold her, but only because she woke up, but I'll take it!

 

Baby Fox pretending to be luggage on the luggage rack

The view from our ride home, sunset, so pretty. Was going to be awkward to step over this sleeping girl to take the picture, so you get the girl and a reflection of us, Baby Fox wanted to be held like how Daddy was holding Mini Fox, that's why he looks all awkward, I'm rocking him like a baby all while taking a picture, multitasking at it's best.

Good way to end a great day!

p.s. We won't be taking the train to SD again, but it was a good experience and maybe we'll do it again when Mini Fox gets a little older and wants a trip of her own, but for now, we'll stick to driving ourselves.

TBT: House Edition - Stairs

That's right, I'm doing a whole post about our stairs, mostly cause they're pretty much the focal point in our house. When we bought our house Mr. wanted this:

and I wanted new stairs. This post is going to be picture heavy, so get ready!

This is them when we bought them, a small child could definitely fit through the bars, talk about scary!

See the bedroom up there on the right? Yea it was purple...and yes those walls really are that green, and oh there's brown right there too, and some blue and red too, can't forget those colors. What were they thinking?!

Anyway back to our stair reno. I knew I wanted to get iron balusters and wood handrail. One of the companies we worked with had an interactive website where we could design the order of balusters. We looked through a TON of pictures online to try and figure out what we wanted. I finally picked it out and they were a little hesitant with my design, but I told them that's what I wanted, and it turned out perfect!

It was shocking to come home from work that first day and not see any railing.

That's Brian, he's the best woodworker EVER, we also hired him to do the baseboards and other projects around the house.

It's crazy, since our stairs are curved, he had to mold the railing to our stairs, how crazy is that? I wish I had taken a picture of the railing up close, but it's 6 boards glued together and then shaped to our stairs and clamped down, I think he had it clamped down for 3 days.

No railing, crazy

Brian is making our wall-stringer

It was weird walking up the stairs with no hand rail, look at all of those boxes over there...

This was where Brian worked, in our garage, you can see the banister had been molded and is hanging from the garage. Speaking of which, we're fairly certain at one point they were grown marijuana, no joke, there must have been 50 hooks hanging from the ceiling.

They ended up wrapping the beam along with the stationary poles with wood too, it was such  good idea and I'm so glad that they did it!

Starting to look soooo good!

Next comes staining! We had them match our dining room table color, which they did perfectly! Wow it looks so good! I can't wait to see the rest!

See those french doors down there? That's basically the only room we used for 5 months

We also hired the guys to stain our front door and our bathroom cabinets the same color.

Then they put in the balusters or some call them spindles

See how great that beam looks that they wrapped? Else it would just be the white wood beam that was there to begin with, the simple things in life right?

What's missing? Oh right, carpet! It took us a while to pick carpet, but we ended up going with a short haired carpet, mostly because we thought that would look the best on the stairs. We also put that same carpet in our bedroom and the hallway. We put long haired carpet in the kids room and the "man cave"

See the stained front door?

And that's it my friends

We went with a patterned short haired carpet

If you have any questions, just let me know!  Hope you enjoyed this TBT: House Edition. If you missed any click here.

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