Feathered Friends

This past Saturday, sandwhiched between our usual early breakfast (our girls are early risers!) and Ellie's dance class, we piled into the car and headed off to the Riparian Preserve just a few miles down the road from us here in Gilbert, AZ for the annual Feathered Friends festival. The weather was fabulous and there was tons for the kids to do - crafts (making masks, bird feeders, etc.), animals, activitives, etc. We only had a brief time to enjoy all that they had to offer, but one of the highlights for the girls was getting to hold some of the beautiful birds on exhibit (see below). Grace, who at 2 1/2 years of age is still a bit uncertain about whether she likes animals, surprised me by touching a large gopher snake as well as a fairly large lizard. Fun times for all!