Winter Break Adventures

For Winter Break, Caleb had 2 weeks off from school. It was so nice to have him home again, and I sure do miss him during the day.   Brydon was also able to spend a little over a week home with us, since he was only on-call at work.  It was so nice to spend some lazy family time together.  We really didn't do much.  We wanted to travel to Dallas but decided to just enjoy the comforts of home!  We only ventured out on a couple small outings.

The Adventures of

Carp-vs-Duck

One afternoon we visited the Abilene Zoo.  It was a great, relaxing trip.  But we found this battle between the ducks and carp really funny.  There is a small lake at the zoo where you can feed the fish.  However, the ducks were feeling rather aggressive and it became quite the battle for the food!  Man these fish have the BIGGEST MOUTHS EVER!



The ducks would just run over the fish.  It was hilarious!

In the end the Ducks won.  If they didn't catch the food before the fish, the would just stick their beak in the fish's huge mouth and take the food back!

Birds



We spent quite a while watching the Flamingos.  They are such unique animals and it was fun to watch them clean themselves.  Caleb would watch them and tell everyone around us how he is going to be a veterinarian someday.  He loves animals so much.

This big guy is apparently quite the scary bird.  Not a single duck would get near him to get any food.  So maybe the ducks aren't complete winners.  There is always a bigger fish (or bird in this case).

Fort Phantom Hill

Just outside of Abilene is an old Fort.  It was free to visit and got the kiddo outside, so we decided to check it out with a few friends.  The kids loved getting to run around and it was a really pretty area.  We ran around, took some fun pictures, and then ate a sack lunch.  It was a great end to our Winter Break!



Cactus on top of the chimney!  Pretty impressive.

Sure do love all these kiddos!!

Yep that is green grass in January.  Texas is awesome!

I was sad when I had to drop Caleb back off at school again.  Sure do miss having that little stinker around all the time.  It was great to have him around again for just a little while.  Can't wait for Spring Break!