Out and About at the Zoo and the Bird Park

The Zoo is very close to our house. We purchased season passes that are good at the Zoo and also the Jurong Bird park. We have enjoyed visiting both places. Recently while the older boys were in the Philippines we took fields trip to both places.

Jordan and Adam enjoyed getting splashed by the seal. Good thing they were in their swimming suits. They got soaked.

 Waiting for the show to start at the Jurong Bird Park.

 

We have the privilege of hosting Flat Malorie. She likes to go to the zoo with us.

  Adam 'daring' to stick his head in a Crocs Mouth

 Our Zoo has a water feature that the kids LOVE! It is fun to cool down after walking around for a while.

On this visit to the zoo, we had everyone.

Happy 44th Birthday to Christopher!

Happy Birthday to Christopher. I love this guy!

Ethan's 'posse' singing Happy Birthday to Christopher.

Football

This year Spencer and Ethan decided that they would try football. We watched a lot of football! Luckily the fields are close to our house.

Ethan is #21 in theYellow Jersey

 Adam and Sydney loved cooling off in the fans.

 Jordan was the water girl for Ethan's Team.

Spencer is in the Blue Oiler Jersey backing up. He played Cornerback and Safety. He did a great job for his first and only year in Football. They had three teams here in Singapore and then he played on the combined team that traveled to Okinawa, Japan.

Halloween

Halloween in our neighborhood is CRAZY!! There are literally thousands of Trick or Treaters. We gave out 2000+ tattoos. That's right over 2000. Our neighborhood gets so inundated with people that they set up a special neighborhood trick or treating the week before that Jordan, Adam and Sydney participated in. It was very low key and no chance that they would get lost in the crowds on Halloween.

Sydney (Belle), Jordan (Witch), Adam (PowerRanger)

 Carving our VERY EXPENSIVE pumpkins.

... More Carving

 The Finished Products!

 Handing out Candy (tattoos for us)

 The Masses

Our friend Teena Jelsma came by to say 'Hi' and we recruited her to help pass out goodies for a few minutes. Thank you Teena, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Little India

Jordan and I went with a bunch of our girly friends for food and fun in Little India.

Thanks to the Webbs, Stevens and Sorensons

Jordan showing off her Henna

The Monkey Park

We enjoy the playing at the Woodlands Water Front Park or as we call it- The Monkey Park. We had a fun outing with the Coombs Family. They live on our street and have been so welcoming.

Derek and Brianne

 Ethan and Adam

 Marissa and Brianne

 Sydney and her best buddy Megan. These 2 two year olds love to play with each other.

Work Party

Christopher conveniently scheduled his work party for a weekend when he was going to be gone. And then signed us up to be in charge of face painting. Okay to be fair, this is my simplified version of the whole story, not really an accurate interpretation of what happened. None the less, we went to the work party without him. We recruited a few friends to help paint faces and it turned out to be pretty fun.

Ethan



Jordan

Adam

Did I mention that the friends we got to help paint were cute girls? I think that helped the overall attitude- well Preston's attitude.

Adam couldn't wait to try to break a balloon on Preston's head. He begged and begged until Preston agreed.

Preston was a good sport about the whole thing, although he did chase after Adam after the balloon exploded on his head.

 I was the biggest casualty. The water hit the ground causing mud to splash all over my white shirt. :(

Another really fun activity was to paint our own kites. Christopher and I found a really cool shop that came and ran this awesome activity. The boy on the left hand side in the green shirt is Ethan.