A Texas Birthday and a trip to Georgia

Happy Birthday Jacob...27!!! Jacob had a great birthday, mostly because Texas won, but I think he enjoyed his presents too!

Addison is really excited about the Texas game too!

Just for posterity sake, Jacob got a shirt, the final book in the Great and Terrible series (We both highly recommend this series to anyone who wants a great read) and a Texas Longhorns surgical cap.
Jacob's school was being transferred to a new location the last couple of days, so he had a few days off. Since this doesn't happen very often, we decided to take advantage of the time and head to Atlanta, Georgia. Here are some pictures of our trip.

The Atlanta skyline
The Atlanta zoo was soo much fun. It is quite a large zoo, and we spent almost the entire day there.

The first animal we saw were the elephants. This is one of the elephants showing off her tricks.

This is the other elephant trying to close the door.

Heading to AFRICA!

Jacob, and Addi pointing at the giraffes.

Hmmm....let me try out this nest, should I be a bird or not?

Upclose and personal with the gorillas!

The zoo also had a petting zoo inside. Addison wasn't sure about the goats and sheep at first, but after a while she enjoyed petting them, and even pulled a handfull of fur off of the goat.

Going to ASIA!!!

I love this picture of Addi crawling through the naked mole rat tunnel. FYI...a naked mole rat is just like it sounds, a small rat looking thing that is completely void of hair.

All tuckered out!

These next few pictures are a McCurry park, where we went to play frisbee golf. It is such a beautiful park, as you will see in the pictures. Jacob played one of his best games ever...he launched his frisbee farther than I have ever seen him throw it, and with amazing accuracy between the many, many trees.

Our original reason for going to Atlanta was to go the the temple. It was such a blessing to have a temple so close in Boise, and I appreciate the temple being so close even more, now that we live 5 hours away from the nearest temple. It felt so good to be able to go the temple, and enjoy the spirit there. Here are a couple of pictures of the Atlanta, Georgia temple.