The Donaho's

In early June we took a trip to the Dallas Zoo. Stella was so good! feeding the giraffes is always interesting... Nans and all three grandkids (Stella is in there, I promise) This is an interesting shot....The Lion was just napping like this. We were in a restaurant, so we had this great view throughout our lunch. We were looking at the gorillas when eagle-eye Garrett noticed a baby opossum walking in the bamboo near the sidewalk. eek! He was a cutie, though.  The boys trying to walk on their knuckles like a gorilla We had a great view of the crocodiles. The boys were trying to make crocodile smiles... touching a tortoise... and a hissing cockroach....ew! Riding the monorail... taking a camel for a spin... kangaroos We had a great day with Nana!!

This summer we spent quite a bit of time in swim lessons. I'm often reminded that it is the only sport that will save your life, so I'm pretty adamant about them learning as soon as possible. It's totally worth the cost and time. We started the summer going to Mr. Bryan, whom we  adore! Garrett loves him, enjoys the lessons tremendously and improves on his swimming amazingly.He was able to get us in at the end of May, so that we'd be ready to go once all the pool parties and playdates began. The only problem was that I only registered Garrett for one session with Mr Bryan, and Gus was too young to attend. Next year, I intend to register both boys for 2 sessions with Mr Bryan. So to keep the momentum going and for G to continue to progress with his swimming, we went back to Fins Swim School at Spirals gymnastics. Gus did 2 sessions there and Garrett did 1. They were good lessons for Gus, but he was ahead of the kids in terms of how comfortable he was in the water. He wa...

I'm several weeks late on this, but he had such a great t-ball season that i needed to be sure to include it. Zane was away this weekend for work, so he missed this last game. Zane put a lot of time into the team, going to every single practice and helping on the field during game. He got to know most of the kids and parents pretty well. It was good one on one time for he and Garrett, too. Wrangling Gus and keeping him OFF the field was my job.  Luke goes to church with us, so Garrett knew him. However, he is firm with the kids. Garrett enjoys his coaching.  bringing it home...  last at-bat of the season  sliding home     each of the kids got a game balll  immediately after we went to a pool party for the end of the season.  we were all a little on edge due to the weather.  getting ready to get trophies  G and the coaches  I was really ...