Thursday, August 29, 2013

Des Moines Trip Day 1

Our friends Shannon and Dan had two little ones born that we still hadn't gone to visit so by early August we decided it was time to get down to visit.  It's always so good to be in the company of long time friends - we go waaayyy back.
Off we go...
  
Our first stop was the zoo. 
 It was like pulling teeth to get a picture here, but we finally got a good one :)  
 There was so much to see at the zoo and the boys were excited to see it all.  Although it was a busy day at the zoo we were still able to get a close up look at just about everything!
We had a fun time on the 2 minute train ride :)
 Oops, we saw the "do not sit on the cow" sign AFTER we took this picture.  
 These were my favorite animals at the zoo.  They were HUGE!  Seriously huge. 
 And this was Titus' favorite part, a big tunnel into the monkey cages.
Our first family of 5 trip to the zoo was a success!
After the zoo we made it to Shannon & Dan's house.  Titus was having a bit of a "baby complex" when he realized he wasn't the baby in the house.  :)
 The daddy's were having video game time, but with a baby in their lap.  Love it! 
While the mommies took the big kids to the park.  Look at these monkeys!
And home to cool off with a popsicle.  Where else would you eat a popsicle than the sand box inside the dog kennel? :)
 We set up a movie in the basement for the big kids.  
 Look at him with both babies! :)
 I sure wish we would have attempted a picture with all 8 children under 7 but I didn't even think of it.  We had a successful night sleep with our whole family sleeping in the basement in one big room.  We even got the kids to sleep and had some "grown-up" time together!

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