Fowlers come for a visit!

Leo and Menda and the 8 kids drove down to see us on their trip through the west coast. It was so much fun to see them and spend time with the kids.
We had all the boys stay one night then all the girls stay another night. Sammy and Isaac decided that they wanted to spend the night in our room and Jacob was a good sport about it. They cuddled up to Uncle jacob while watching Sports Center and all fell asleep:)

The first day that I had off we drove 2 hours to Monterey where we spent the day at the huge aquarium. It was so much fun. Here is a picture of Kaiden, Rylea, Nezzie, Isaac, Sammy and Lizzy outside of the aquarium, in the back ground there were huge rocks with seals on them playing in the ocean.

Of course every visit has to take time to go see the park:) They met lots of animals that day and I of course introduced them to Mya my fave. animal there:)

Java the Bush Baby really liked Lizzys hair!

The Ericksons also came to visit, Menda figured out it had been 7 years to the day since she had seen Amy. Its always so much fun to see them they are just another part of the family so we have a blast. John, Eddie, Sydney, Chloe, Amy and Trule took a picture on our love seat before they had to drive back home.

Of course the kids spent hours almost every day in the pool:) Rylea and Isaac had fun with Uncle Jacob in the pool- It was probablly just as hard to get him out of the pool as it was to get the kids out!

Menda with her 2 youngest... they sure do love thier mommy!

This is the last night before the Fowlers had to drive off. We took a picture holding all the kids:) Kaiden, Ned, Jacob, Sammy, Isaac, Me, Malachi, Nezzie, Rylea and Lizzy. We had so much fun with them and miss them so much already! Cant wait to see them and all the other family in August when we take the baby home for the first time:)

Baby Diego

So as many of you know I have been working on helping to start an education and outreach program for Kevin and Martina Keith. They own a company called Monkey Business Productions which deals mostly with primates, Kevin is one of the only people in the world that actually works hands on with adult in tact male baboons. He even has an adult male Mandrill baboon(the kind from the lion king with the blue and red face:)

Well this is something we have been working on for months now and last week our first baby animal for the new programs came in. His name is Diego and he is a 4 week(almost 5 weeks now) baby white nosed Coatimundi. These are one of my very fave. animals to work with and now I actually get to have one at my house! I am helping to raise Diego along with some other animals that will be coming in the next few weeks, alng with a 6 week old baby red fox and a 4 week old baby patagonian cavy!

He tends to play hard for a few minutes then gets so sleepy he falls asleep whereever he is. He really likes to play with Jacob and chase him around the house.

Here he is our little baby fur ball:) and below is a little video of Diego playing in the house:)