We took a little overnight trip to Fossil Rim in Glen Rose Texas last night, at least partially as an anniversary trip for Nathan and I (which happens to be today). We had such a fun time! This was one of our little campground friends (the first LIVE armadillo we have ever seen in Texas).
Here was another of our campground friends, an addax. They were fearless of cars and people and would come right up to your window like you had something to give them.
Gabe slept in a "big boy" bed for the first time! Nathan and I had to share an uncomfortable twin bed and we were both awake half the night. Fun, fun.
This was our cabin/tent from the outside. Small, but it had air-conditioning and a full bathroom inside. It was more than a lot of people in the world have!
The view from our tent.
On the scenic drive. This takes a couple hours to get through and as you will see, there are multiple animals that you can see and touch. This was our friend the ostrich. They are quite aggressive.
These emus were even more aggressive! And crazy looking! Gabe said he did not want to see anymore of these.
More of the addax.
One of the giraffe's at the car in front of us.
Now coming toward us looking for more food.
Eating out of Nathan's hand.
Eating our of Gabe's hand (with my hand underneath - he needed a little reassurance that the giraffe wasn't going to take off his hand)
Gabe at the overlook cafe waiting for lunch with his new cheetah friend.
CLOSE up to a zebra.
They were aggressive too! Nathan was quite literally pushing him out of our car at this point. We had one zebra who planted himself RIGHT in front of our car and a zebra on both sides of our vehicle trying to stick there noses in a car. One of them actually had his mouth on the inside of the vehicle and left slobber.
Another giraffe
Another ostrich - these guys cracked us up!
This was my final week of cake class and this was my final project. I really enjoyed the class, and hope to be able to take the advanced class at some point. 
Tonight at church we had a potluck, church-wide birthday party. Below are some cutie-pie pictures of Gabe eating watermelon. Gabe sat at the kids table to eat his dinner and did a great job. There was a 5 year old girl trying to feed him his dinner. Ha ha.
This is Lambie in her "bed" with her blanket all "snuggie" as Gabe says. I have to "snuggie" Lambie up at least a dozen times a day (she sleeps a lot). Gabe (and I) take very good care of her.
One of the footprints.
A larger view with several footprints.
This dinosaur was built for a world fair (1960's/70's?). 
Here was another of our campground friends, an addax. They were fearless of cars and people and would come right up to your window like you had something to give them.
Gabe slept in a "big boy" bed for the first time! Nathan and I had to share an uncomfortable twin bed and we were both awake half the night. Fun, fun.
This was our cabin/tent from the outside. Small, but it had air-conditioning and a full bathroom inside. It was more than a lot of people in the world have!
The view from our tent.
On the scenic drive. This takes a couple hours to get through and as you will see, there are multiple animals that you can see and touch. This was our friend the ostrich. They are quite aggressive.
These emus were even more aggressive! And crazy looking! Gabe said he did not want to see anymore of these.
More of the addax.
One of the giraffe's at the car in front of us.
Now coming toward us looking for more food.
Eating out of Nathan's hand.
Eating our of Gabe's hand (with my hand underneath - he needed a little reassurance that the giraffe wasn't going to take off his hand)
Gabe at the overlook cafe waiting for lunch with his new cheetah friend.
CLOSE up to a zebra.
They were aggressive too! Nathan was quite literally pushing him out of our car at this point. We had one zebra who planted himself RIGHT in front of our car and a zebra on both sides of our vehicle trying to stick there noses in a car. One of them actually had his mouth on the inside of the vehicle and left slobber.
Another giraffe
Another ostrich - these guys cracked us up!
He saw this inside! Gabe loves Bob the Builder! He was pretty excited.
A couple other rides...
We had a pretty good time, but it was crazy crowded. More posts to come; we had a busy weekend, so I thought I'd break it up. Sorry for the mass amounts of e-mail to those that get e-mail notices.
This is my somewhat pitiful attempt at decorations for the fourth of july. We found out that Gabe also does not care much for fireworks. Of course, that may also have something to do with the high temperatures he was having at the time. He didn't like too much of anything this past week.
However, Gabe is MUCH better now and we got to go out for the Cow Appreciation day at Chick-fil-a when they give away free food for dressing like a cow. We're not chicken!
