Birmingham!

Kirsten will be starting grad school at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in August, so we went down south to check out some apartments for her. It's only a three hour drive and we are so excited to have family that close when she comes! We decided to make a trip of it by staying overnight and going to the Birmingham Zoo.

Here are the little cuties getting ready to swim at the Hyatt pool where we stayed. They were so excited!!! It's saved us a lot of money having all those Hyatt points saved up from Tim's three month stay in Colorado for training! I think we still have 40,000 points and we use about 4,000 each night that we stay so if any family members are ever in need of a place to stay and there is a Hyatt in the area, feel free to contact us!

At one point Gracie saw a little boy jump into the pool so she decided she wanted to try it.  She jumped in on her own all excited but I don't think she was expecting her head to go under.  Her floaties bobbed her up and I got to her to make sure she wasn't scared.  She was fine other than the fact that she wanted to immediately go get a towel to wipe her face.  After that she kept getting out to wipe her face anytime she got water on it. 

All the kids loved it and we had so much fun!  The water was too cold for me but it was hot enough outside, even though it was around 6 or 7 pm, that you warmed up immediately when you got out of the water.

Waiting for the sea lion show at the Zoo!  Believe me, you didn't miss much, haha!!!

Every time we get Cooper out of the stroller he loses a shoe.  It's so hard to find shoes that fit because his little feet are so cute and chubby!

Cooper won't keep hats on so we just smeared sunscreen all over his little head.  His hair was sticking up all over the place!

The lion cubs celebrated their first birthday while we were there so the girls got some free birthday crowns!

Gracie playing with the giant chess set!

Lindsey's sweet little grin!

We brought food with us on the trip so that we could have a picnic after the zoo to try and save money by not eating out for every meal while we were down there.

Cooper was about to fall asleep the whole time he was trying to eat!

We had a really good time and it was nice to take a trip and not have to drive for more than one day, Haha!!!