* Date-night-movie-of-the-month: Academy Award Best Picture Nominee
Awesome movie!! Especially if you love a good western. I saw the original {a John Wayne classic - he won his only Oscar for his roll as Rooster Cogburn} and this lived up to it. Hailee Steinfield plays the young girl in the movie and she held her own with her big-name co-stars.* Zoo trip: Ethan and I lucked out with another beautiful day at the zoo for $4 Tuesday. We got there just after it opened and the weather was perfect - sunny and chilly {aka just cold enough to keep the crowds small}. We had a great time, just the two of us, walking around and checking out the animals. So many of the animals were out and active {see pictures below} and we also got to see the thunderstorm simulated in the croc tank. I didn't even know they did this and it kinda freaked Ethan out. Actually, it kinda freaked me out! It made the exhibit much more real - a little too real! But still cool. We didn't stick around for long. Here's the pics from the rest of the day, though.
The otters put on quite a show for us!
Playing on the tractor is a must.
Lots of the animals were out and we really liked seeing the hippos walking around - usually they are asleep with their bums to their "audience"!
Wonder what Ethan's doing? I'll give you a hint... we were in the reptile section.
It's a heat sensor to demonstrate a snake's heat vision.
Ethan made up for the lions' lack of enthusiasm.
The polar bears were very active!
Not the most flattering shot of me, but it's the only one of the two of us while we were there.
Ethan talked me into sharing an elephant ear with him.... it didn't take much to convince me! We bring our own lunch, so I figure we can have a little treat.
This fish was missing an eye and we found it a little disturbing.
Watching and running from the tide pool geyser.
First and favorite picture of the day. :)* Cookie baking w/ Maddy: I watched Maddy one day and after lunch I got two little helpers in the kitchen. We made my little cookie concoction with a chocolate cookie base and those new little mini unwrapped Reese's PB cups.
Yummy! {And do you even need to ask where the chocolate cookie recipe came from?!? It's based off of the Cadbury Egg cookie recipe, but with PB cups instead of the Cadbury Eggs. Although, I just bought some today at Target, so I'm sure a batch of those will be coming soon!}
They were good little helpers and even better taste testers!
They didn't want PB cups in their cookies, so we did a batch without and they decorated them with Valentine M&M's.
Yummy! {And do you even need to ask where the chocolate cookie recipe came from?!? It's based off of the Cadbury Egg cookie recipe, but with PB cups instead of the Cadbury Eggs. Although, I just bought some today at Target, so I'm sure a batch of those will be coming soon!}
They were good little helpers and even better taste testers!
They didn't want PB cups in their cookies, so we did a batch without and they decorated them with Valentine M&M's.
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