Heritage Park

Joe's company gives us passes to lots of Salt Lake attractions each summer. We decided to use one of them yesterday and headed up to Heritage Park. It is a historic park where they have a monument marking the spot where President Brigham Young stood and declared that this was the right place for the Saints to build their city. It's really kind of cool, especially for young children. Ours loved it.

A big wooden train that the girls liked to play on.

The petting zoo was the real reason we came. They have a really large area with sweet little lambs and pigmy goats and bunnies. What more could two female ankle biters want? Janie kept patting them and saying, "It's nice! It's nice!"

Gracie liked the goats and thought that they all were pregnant because their bellies are so big :)

Too cute!

Janie kept trying to feed this poor goat sticks off the ground. For some reason, he just wouldn't eat them.

It was 96 degrees yesterday while we were there. Most of the lambs huddled together in this shady spot and napped. You can just see the heat in Jane's cheeks.

This little goat just stood in the middle of his food and gorged himself the whole time. No wonder their bellies are huge!

They had a mini-train ride that the girls thought was pretty fun :)

Cute peeps!

Quote of the Day:

"One hundred and fifty years ago our people were leaving Nauvoo and threading their way across the prairies of Iowa. None of us, I am confident, can appreciate the measure of sacrifice which they made in leaving their comfortable homes to brave the tempests of the wilderness on a journey that would not end until they reached this valley of the Great Salt Lake. Their suffering was immeasurable. They died by the hundreds for this cause of which each one of us is a part." - Gordon B. Hinckley, "Listen by the Power of the Spirit," Ensign, Nov. 1996, 4

song of the day, the handcart song, the children's songbook