It has been way to long since my last post. Lauren and Grant have started school. So far school seems to be going good except for the fact that Lauren and I fight at homework time. Grant is loving school. He has Miss Jan again this year. Lauren has Mrs VanArsdale this year.

Lauren has continued gymnastics into the school year. The deal is she has to keep her grades up or there is no gymnastics. So far we are still in. Lauren seems to be excelling in gymnastics. She is constantly doing cartwheels and round offs in the yard and in the house. It has been fun watching her and Sarah.

Sunday 9-6-09, we took the kids to the Kansas City Zoo. It was awesome. I have never seen a zoo that big before except for maybe the Sedgwick County Zoo. We did a lot of walking. Note to self, buy the all day ride tickets for the trams and the train. It would have been worth every penny. We were all exhausted by the time we got home. We were at the zoo for 6 1/2 hours and it took all of that to see everything. They had a lot of neat animals that we have never seen before in a zoo. We happened to walk by the elephants just in time for the zoo trainers to do a little show about the elephants. One of the elephants did some tricks. The same elephant painted some pictures. That was awesome too. We got to watch the Sea Lion show too. It was pretty neat. We were able to be so close to the animals. We saw some kangaroos that were just lying off a path that we were walking on. Several of the mama's had babies in there pouches. We got to see one babies feet and tail sticking out. Grant's favorite part of the zoo was when the orangutan zoo trainer was talking about how the orangutans can spit water a long distance and then the orangutan urinated on the zoo trainer. That was so funny. All in all it was a fun day. The kids loved it. They did nothing but talk about it. I am glad we decided to go there. The only thing Dave didn't like was my aggressive driving in the big city. I think I scared him a time or two when I was shooting the gap. Ya, can't do country driving in the city. I bet we got there at least 15 minutes faster since I was driving.