Papa came to visit!

Papa was here for almost a week and the only pictures we managed to take were at the zoo. We had a blast running around town, running around the house chasing kids, and just spending time with Papa. We went to the movies and had a big nice theatre all to ourselves. We had fun walking around the lake; pushing our strollers through the gravel and looking at all of the beautiful trees and butterflies. The girls especially loved throwing rocks into the water with Papa. We spent one of our evenings watching Makinzie dance in her recital. We had a fun pizza movie party in our front room (after a huge car melt down by the entire crew). But most of all, we really LOVED the extra pair of adult hands around here. Thanks Papa, you were very helpful and very nice to have around! We miss you already!

Addellyn absolutely loved the zoo! We stopped and saw the elephants at the very beginning of our journey and she made elephant noises the entire time after that and kept asking to go back to watch them. She also really enjoyed the monkeys. There were several places to find monkeys, but the Chimpanzees were very fun to watch; they drank from a water fountain, swung from the tree, walked past us in a single file and even tapped at us through the glass. Addellyn has been excitedly talking about them ever since. She was really happy to come home and tell Daddy all about her zoo adventure.

Makinzie really enjoyed the peaceful aviary. She found a sign as we walked in that showed all of the birds that could be found in the building and pointed out the blue bird with a "funny hat" as her favorite. A few minutes later we rounded the corner and that big blue bird was standing in the path right in front of her! She still tells us how much she loved seeing that blue bird.

Papa was a trooper, he pushed the heavy double jogger for miles in the heat...we realized after he left that the front wheel had been on a little crooked and he was doing double the work, sorry Dad!