The James Family: We're Going to the Zoo

Our Story

Marty and I met on a blind date September 27th, 2004 and it was love at first site! Shortly afterwards we were engaged in February and married on July 2nd, 2005. We live in Brent. We are the proud parents of Lily Grace and Cooper Preston. LG was born on May 8th, 2007 at 12:16 p.m. She weighed 7lbs. 14 ozs. and was 20 inches long. Cooper was born on October 11th, 2009 at 6:10 a.m. He weighed 9 lbs. 4 oz. and was 21 inches long. We have been blessed! About Peyton: My parents are Debbie and Randy Deavours (Grandmommy and Pop), Sister Kirsten, Brother Skyler, Nephew Tucker. My hometown is Berry, Al. I graduated from the University of Alabama in May 2007 with a BS in Elementary Education but as of now I have the best job in the world, a stay at home mommy! I also have a liitle business out of my house where I create and sell personalized gifts and invitations. See my website! About Marty: My parents are Dexine and Preston James (Grandmama and Granddaddy) and Brother Pat. Sister-in-law Brandi, niece Madilyn, and nephews Brennon and Braiden. My hometown is Brent, Al. I graduated from The U of A in 1999 with a BS in MIS with a Minor in CS. Also from Shelton State I have an AS in Business Administration and AS in Drafting Technology. I work as a Computer Office Manager at Scott Davis Timber Company. I really love my job. More about us: We are the luckiest people in the world because we have each other, the sweetest babies, a wonderful and loving family, and great friends. And we love our church family from Northport Church of Christ. We love life or our little paradise we have made together.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

We're Going to the Zoo

Posted by The James Family at 4:07 PM

This past Monday, I took my Mom's Day Out program to the Montgomery Zoo for a little field trip. We were so excited to have Daddy join us for Lily Grace's first trip to the zoo! I had a feeling Lily Grace was going to like the zoo but I had no idea how much she would LOVE it!!! She pointed at all the animals and said "ook, ook" all day long. She usually doesn't sit very long in her stroller, no longer than 15 minutes, except for this day. She sat in her stroller from 10 until 2!!! And I think she would have stayed a few more hours but Mommy and Daddy were tired! We had a wonderful time and the best part was watching Lily Grace's expressions when she saw a new animal. She didn't know what to think about it all! The weather was perfect because it had rained all day and the night before so it was cool and then the sun started shining about lunch time. It was an awesome day! All the parents took their own vehicles so we were able to do our own thing and spend some quality family time together. It was the nicest zoo either of us has ever been to and I would request anyone to take their families there! The museum was wonderful and there is even a train ride Lily Grace enjoyed but all you see are trees on it. It was a great trip and we can't wait to go back again this summer!

This was our first stop at the kangaroos. She thought they were so neat. She didn't want to take her eyes off of them. I was happy the zoo made the fences and windows the perfect height for babies in strollers to see.

Daddy and Lily Grace

Mommy and Lily Grace, aren't our matching tees cute??

"Ook, ook Mama!"

This elephant was hilarious. He rolled all in the dirt and then jumped in the water, rolling around. He stayed under for a while and one of the kids yelled, "He's stuck, he's going to drown!!" He was really putting on a show for all the kids.

Lily Grace laid back and fed herself a bottle while we went through the museum. We were all amazed at how big some of those animals really are!

She like the foxes.

She kept wanting to touch all the animals so she really liked this glass because there was a hole in it!!

She wanted to play with these Hogans!!

Your lunch came in these brightly colored hats. Of course, she only kept it on for this quick picture! She was eating animal crackers whole for the first time here.