More Excursion Photos

This is Jennifer's boxer, Sugar, who was very tolerant of Hadlee crawling all over her and Maddox laying on and riding her.  She's a good girl!

Hadlee's loving the sidecar ride from sis!

We went to the Tulsa Zoo too and this time Maddox wanted to ride the camel all by herself.  I thought she'd chicken out, but she didn't!

After the Des Moines zoo Maddox had an infatuation with penguins.  I got her a little stuffed one there that she promptly named "Dude" after the real one she named that too.  In Tulsa she chose to ride on the penguin on the carousel of course.

That's a big fish.  Or little kids.  Whichever.

Like mother, like daughters, my girls loved petting (and crawling on) the goats and sheep.

Had to take the train ride to make Maddox happy.  She's been pretty interested in train rides too these days.  It was the end of the day though, all naps had been skipped, and Hadlee was done.  Happy, but tired.  She fell asleep before we even left the parking lot.

After we left Tulsa we drove to St. Joe over Memorial Day weekend to meet Jeremy and visit all of his family.  One afternoon we went out to the farm, drove through the pastures, and hiked up to the top of this hill.  Much of the land behind them is the Schultz's farm land along the river in Kansas.  I'm sure most of that is under water by now with the flooding along the Missouri River.  One of those tiny farm houses in the background is Jeremy's grandpa's where he got his running start running between his farmhouse and his grandpa's a few miles away as a little boy.  Even though my girls are hot and tired and probably covered in ticks, I love this picture.  It's a beautiful view of their family history.

Back in Iowa Maddox, Hadlee, Emily, and I spent one afternoon at the "dancing water" just a walk from Suzy's house.  Hadlee was adorable sporting her new swimming suit her Daddy got her for her birthday.  It has a matching coverup.  It's so cute and stylish I wish I could get the same suit in my size!

And then, finally, 6 weeks after leaving North Carolina, we closed on our new house!