It's Fall

My cute little boy had picture day last week. He's so huge. Almost on a daily basis I have people commenting to me on how tall he is. His gymnastics teacher told me the other day that Parker is the happiest kid he's ever met. I love my little boy. He's my favorite!

Posing....???

"Ok, Mom. You can go now..."

Date night is super important to me and it doesn't happen enough, it seems like. My parents, who have been married for 44 years, have religiously had a date night. I remember eating mac-n-cheese, watching TGIF with my sister and a babysitter every Friday night. My parents are the happiest married couple I know and I hope one day I can look back on 44 years of great date nights, too. :-)

Last Friday night Tanner sacrificed watching the BYU football game to take me out on a date. Swoon. We ate at this new restaurant called Spark in downtown Provo. We met the owner a couple weeks ago and decided it was high time we checked it out. They are famous for their "specialty" drinks. They are non-alcoholic for us LDS folk and super fun and yummy!

After dinner we saw a movie. Typical "Dinner and a movie" date but seriously so needed and nice to have a night out with my husband.

We took Parker to the Hogle Zoo on Saturday because we knew the weather was going to start getting colder soon (as in today) and we had never been to this zoo. It was smaller than the San Diego Zoo which was nice. We could see the whole zoo in a few hours and feel like we got to experience everything it had to offer. The San Diego Zoo is phenomenal but it's just so massive- it's hard to see everything you want to see in one visit.

Tanner remembered his Mom taking pictures of him in these holes when he was little....

Classic Hogle Zoo shot...

I LOVED the elephants. Oh they are my absolute favorite.

And, randomness of the century-

We ran into Nicole and the girls!!! She was there with her side of the family checking out the zoo, too! We had no idea they were going and the fact that we were at the exact same place at the exact same time is just plain crazy! What a pleasant surprise!

My cute monkey men

Some days I really feel like this guy looks....

Oh, and I was in LOVE with the giraffes. I loved it when the animals would look right at me. I feel so bad for the animals being all caged up in the zoo. Although I appreciate the ability to see all kinds of animals up close and personal it kind of breaks my heart to see them all closed in. But when they'd look right at me I felt like saying, "Thank you! You are awesome!"

Family shot

On the way home we drove through Park City and Heber instead of the free way. It was so beautiful. We really are lucky to live in such a gorgeous part of the country. We'll see where next year takes us- Tanner turned in his PA school application to 14 schools all up and down the east coast! Not sure where we'll be this time next year! But, at least we can enjoy every moment here in Utah! :-)