Happy New Years!!.....With the Roarks.

We had such a fun New Years this year. In the year's past we never stayed up until midnight. But this year we made it! Thanks to the Roark's. My very good friend Kim lives in Phoenix. I was so excited to move here because I knew I had a friend close by. It made the move a lot easier knowing she was here.
The girls gave pedicures to every one....


















And then beautifully styled every one's hair.....


















And in no time it was midnight!



























We woke up early the next morning to go to the Out of Africa Wildlife Park.









This park is not like a zoo. This park takes in abused animals and animals that have been abandoned. You get to get so much closer to the animals, it's very cool and I highly recommend you check this place out.


















After we walked around for a bit we climbed aboard our private safari truck. This was so worth the money. We got to go on a tour of the whole park, our driver would get out and feed the animals and we got little crackers to feed some of the animals as well. Definitely the highlight of the trip!





































Cutest little baby zebra ever!










We were told to stay away from this guy. I guess zebra's are not as nice as they look. They bite and attack. They are actually kind of scary....but so darn cute!
He just wanted a cookie.









We got to give the giraffes some cookies. Some people in our party thought it would be fun to feed the giraffes from their Mouthe's. Yummy slobbery kisses that left a string of saliva.....YUCK!



















We were told to be careful with this guy.









Because if your not.....this will happen.









That ostrich bites! And again some people in our party thought it would be fun to let him bite them. Quite a few people went home with scratches and bruises.....CRAZY!....but very funny.
And we got to feed the Camel's.









Apparently Kaden didn't get enough kisses from the giraffe....silly boy.









We went to the Tiger splash show after our tour. They don't train their tigers so they never know what kind of show they will have. You just get what you get. It was sooo cool! I don't think I would be brave enough to get in the cage with them.


















Then we got to go see the snake. I'm not sure why everyone wanted to go see the snake but I played it cool and went along.
Kaden was picked from the crowed to go hold the snake.....how lucky is he?









When the snake show was over the crowed was invited to go in and pet the snake. Everyone went but me. Haha! I stayed back to take pictures!








This is an amazing park and we had so much fun!









Beautiful!!









And since we had so much fun with the Roark's we decided to let the kids take a day off school and go hiking.....we weren't pressured at all!




























The awesome Roark children taught me what planking is. Aren't they the coolest!









These two got along sooo good. Shayna was so sad when they had to go home. She really misses Kali.









Have you ever seen such strong girls. I haven't.













Kevin and Tanner thought it would be really cool to start a fire with no matches and then Tyler had to get in on it. They never got it going.









On our hike back to the car Tanner and Kaden said there was a water moccasin. I was so scared to walk over there but I didn't want to show my fear so I went anyway.
Silly boys!! They crack me up.









Thank you so much for coming guys. We had so much fun and can't wait to see you again!