6th Anniversary and 80th Birthday Party

This month Nate's Grandma celebrated her 80th birthday. In honor of the big ocassion, she wanted to have all of her family together so she made everyone save the date a year in advance. Ironically, she had to change the date two more times a couple of months beforehand due to conflicts people had. The final date for the big party ended up being on our anniversary (not ideal to me but oh well). So everyone got together at Brant and Kirstin's house for lunch, visiting, and playtime for the kids which included a bounce house.

Here's the birthday girl with her husband and three sons.

Here's Dorothy with 6 of her great grandchildren (she's holding baby Walker who's kind of hard to see in this picture).

The kids had a great time in the bounce house. Even Felicity got in on all the action and loved hanging out with the big kids in there. I love how this picture of our girls turned out.

Notice the long pants and jackets people are wearing. We've had gorgeous spring weather and it even got up into the high 80s last weekend. Sadly, today was very windy and cold which put a bit of a damper on our outdoor party.

With the party taking up the majority of our day, we didn't have much time for an anniversary celebration, so we dropped our kids off at the hotel where everyone was staying so they could go swimming while we went on a hot date to Applebee's. Not exciting or fancy, but it was nearby and we needed to get our kids to bed at a decent hour. Happy 6 years of marriage to us!

Trip to the Zoo

With Nate's family in town for his Grandma's 80th birthday party, we decided to all head to the zoo the day before the big festivities. We hadn't been for a couple of years and were planning on taking our girls this summer anyway, so it was nice to have grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins to go with too. It ended up being in the high 80s that day, so it was plenty hot. Apparently, everybody else in the state decided to go that day too because finding parking was a bit of a nightmare and the zoo was more crowded than I preferred. I'm assuming the reason for the crowds was that school just let out and that a new arctic exhibit just opened up a couple of weeks ago.

The new exhibit was certainly our favorite. The polar bear was very active and constantly in and out of the water. We even got to see him eat as they threw fish to him in the water. On the other side of that exhibit was a seal who speedily swam all over the place.
When Bridget saw the carousel, she begged for a ride, and cousins Jaxon, Tanner, and Saydee went too.

When we saw this rhinoceros statue, we thought it would be fun to get a picture of the grand kids on it which turned out to be a bit of a comedy with two of them under the age of 2 and trying to get everybody to look at the camera at the same time. This was the best shot I got.It certainly was a fun afternoon, and both of our girls were so wiped out after that they napped most of the way home.