A Warm & Balmy... February?

I don't want to BRAG to my dear friends and family back in Michigan (who I know had a nice warm weekend by Michigan standards), but it was 70 on Thursday here in the Sunshine State of the West (I dubbed it that myself) so we did what any normal mother/daughter team would DO on a warm February day. We went to the zoo.

All the animals seem to be enjoying the weather too and gosh darn it, we had MISSED them! I feel like we went to the zoo every few weeks this summer, but hadn't been in a few months. Here's Violet watching the hippos dozing in the sunshine:
Violet and her pals watching the birds.I also got this great video of Violet and her friends running around. She just recently got to the point where she can kinda/sorta keep up with them and it was so fun to watch. You'd never know she spent 6 months of her life in a spica cast, huh?


In other news... WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!! I'll wait a bit to post more details (we still have to get through the inspection) but we're super excited to have our own place on a nice quiet street and actually unpack tons of our stuff that never found it's way out in our rental. I missed my STUFF! Of course I also know I can live without it for a year so perhaps we're due for another purge :)

Stay tuned for more details!