Friday, October 19, 2012

Fun on the Farm

This past weekend we enjoyed a fun filled family day at Stokoe Farms. 
As long as we live here, this place will continue to be an October tradition for the Gilchrists!!
We enjoyed....

 Playing trucks in the rocks
 Racing ducks

 Taking a hay ride

 Walking in a giant hamster wheel 
 Riding a pony named, Star 


 Taking a family bike ride 

And sliding down giant tube slides  

 
We are grateful for fun places to visit and make fun memories!! 

Saturday, September 22, 2012

PRESCHOOL

Grayer started Preschool this week!!! 
He goes on Tuesday and Thursday mornings for a few hours.
His teacher's name is Mrs Poulsen. 
He is doing great so far! 
My favorite part is the car ride home after preschool, because he is excited to report on his day at school!!!




Thursday, September 20, 2012

Birthday Fun!

At the end of August Andy surprised me with a Birthday trip to Toronto, Canada!
Toronto is about 3 hours away from us so we left the night before my Birthday and stayed in a hotel that night, where we went swimming and had pizza and chocolate milk for dinner. 
The next morning I woke up to Andy and Grayer decorating my hotel Birthday door!!
 
Our plan for the day was to go to the "African Lion Safari" but before we went we wanted to quickly (although it was so busy it wasn't quick) drive through downtown Toronto. WOW!!!     
 After passing 2 Ikeas and resisting the urge to stop and shop we finally made it to the Safari.
For those of you who have been to "Bear World" in Idaho the Safari is like that only A LOT bigger. It took us 2 hours to drive through it. 
It was way super cool!!

The Cheetahs where one of our favorite animals to see. We got a good view and stopped and watch them for a while. (Some of the pictures have a glare because I had to take them through the car window -- sorry).

The Baboons got lazy and hitched a ride with some of the cars:) 
Grayer having the time of his life sitting in the passenger seat and watching all the animals.
This was an animal that neither Andy nor I had seen before, it is called a Sichuan Takin.
 They come from China and India
 
After the Safari there was more fun awaiting us... 
We went to a Bird show and to an Elephant show.
 
Then Grayer jumped into a ball pit that was by the playground on our way to the ginormous splash pad!
It took me forever to convince Grayer to take off his shirt. He didn't want to be "nakey", but his shirt wasn't slippery enough to slide down the slides so he was getting upset. I pointed out that all the other boys didn't have shirts on and that must of convinced him because he took it off a few minutes later.


It was a long day of fun together as a family!! I was one lucky Birthday Girl:)



Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Girls Camp

I went to our Stake Girls Camp this past week as a year leader!! I had a lot of fun being with the girls and even more fun being with the other leaders!!!! It is amazing how grown women can laugh and giggle like we are back in Junior High.  

All the 3rd year girls with us leaders
girls and leaders in cabin #2