The ZOO

"Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering" (Romans 12:1 MSG).

Well we survived the 4th of July and the scorching heat. Sam never ever takes off work but he actually took of Friday (day before the 4th) and we all went to the zoo in Memphis. Me, Sam, Gracie, Jake and Granny.

We had a really great time.

The kids were really excited about going, but I dont think they were as excited as Sam was. He wanted to leave at 6 in the morning to be the first ones there - He is crazy.

Jake was running every where. He wanted his picture taken with absolutley everything we passed.

We finally got to see some animals and the kids ran from animal to animal. I think my grandmother had a really great time. She took her time and looked at every single animal we passed.

I think the Giraffes were my favorite. They had a little baby giraffe that was running around playing just like a little kid.

Gracie liked the Zebra's.

Sam and Jake just wanted to see the alligators and the snakes. I could have gone the whole trip without seeing any snakes.

And of course every body liked the Penguins. "HAPPY FEET". They are just so cute to watch. They swam and did little acrobats in the water. It was really cool to watch

We ate a Jim Neely's BBQ in Memphis. We had seen it on TV and one of America's top 10 places to eat BBQ and let me tell you - I made myself sick I ate so much. I had a pulled porked sandwich and an order of BBQ Nachos. - SOOOOOOO GOOOOOD!!!!!

I hope everyone had a blessed 4th of July.