Lions and Tiger and Bears, Oh My!

Yesterday was gorgeous- hardly any humidity-it was only a high of about 80 degrees- and a nice cool breeze.

So we decided to spend the day out of the house =)

You know to let the kids get some fresh air and run around.
Get rid of all that built up energy.

{Who am I kidding? It was for our sanity too!}

We decided on the zoo which is only about 30 minutes from our house...and FREE :)
With 3 little guys Free is always good!

Now unfortunately we live at the "Jersey Shore" {and no we do not resemble Snooki and J-Woww or any of their friends!} so summertime and "shoobie" season here in Jersey mean we have to carefully plan when we do anything out of the house because everywhere around us becomes extremely crowded.

Extremely crowded + traffic +  hot weather + 3 kids= no fun!

So we hopped in the car and hit the zoo at about 3 o'clock.

Let me tell you we couldn't have timed it any better!

It was a weekday and most of the people in the zoo were headed out as we were headed in-score!

The kids were able to walk/run at their leisure, see the animals that they wanted {most were out for us to see} and we even let the baby run free from his stroller too!

The zoo, my kids, our family {no fighting-well hardly any!}...

it was a WONDERFUL DAY!

P.S. Sorry for all the exclamation points//happy face but I can't stop smiling and being grateful for how great of a day yesterday was :)!!!!!