my family | Danielle Huddleston Photography

Before we headed home from Dallas, we stopped at the Dallas Zoo.

It ended up being a great stop!

We have a local zoo pass that gives us a discount at some other zoo’s and we got 50% off!

That is a big deal when you are paying for 7 entrance fees. The zoo is set up so that you can do loops.

It was nice because we did not have to backtrack much at all and got to see everything in a shorter amount of time! So many of the exhibits were breathtakingly beautiful.

I felt like I was in a different place.

I definitely did not feel like I was still in Texas! It is always nice to wear out your kids before a long drive also… Those hands!!! So cute!

Even though I still felt like my kids needed to run laps by the end of our drive, I am glad that we started our trip home with a visit to this zoo!

I think they were a little tired for at least the first 30mins of driving 😉

Here is a video of our time in Dallas!

We were so happy to get surprised with snow right before Christmas!!!

It has already melted but I am hoping we get more this winter!

It was really wet snow so the kids were able to sled and throw snowballs(the painful kind, like rocks).

I noticed that I got snow stilts after a little bit.

HA!

Little bit was sure she wanted to ride with her big brother on this part even though he thought they would run into one of those cedar trees.

She got snow all over her face and hair…

Mostly she just wanted to eat snow the whole time.

My kids ate plenty of dirt that day I am sure.

I love this girls happy smile.

The girls are not good at telling when they are getting a little bit cold so they wait too long to go inside or stop picking up snow.