Blank Park Zoo

One of the things both Adam and I have been waiting for is to take Reagan to the zoo(corney I know)! It was a perfect day for the zoo on Saturday. We packed up the car and drove to Des Moines. If you haven't been to Blank Park it really is a decent zoo for the kiddos!

Reagan was quick to point out the first "animal" once we walked into the zoo!



Feeding the Birds! It was really neat, for $1 you could go in and feed the birds. They were all very tame and just wanted to be fed. At one time Adam had about six birds perched on his arm eating off of his little stick of food. Reagan thought it was pretty funny. She only squirmed alittle when the birds were fighting for the food.









Checking out the monkeys.





I really wanted to feed the Giraffes but by the time we were done eating they were done. Even though we weren't able to feed them we still were able to see them up close.









Goats, Goats Everywhere!!









Feeding the Fish! I don't know if you can tell from these pictures but the fish are very well fed! They continue to jump and fight for the food though!





Of course these aren't all the pictures that we took but a few highlights of our day at the zoo!! Oh and you can't forget this one...we took this as we were pulling out of the parking lot! We had been in the car for literally 30 seconds!!

Rainy Day

It was another rainy day here today so we had to spend the morning inside. While I did a little picking up in the kitchen Reagan discovered a new toy...a cardboard box! She had so much fun climbing in and out of it. It will definitely be something that we remember on future rainy days!

Cousin Lauren's 3rd Birthday Party!

On June 5th we traveled down to Cedar Rapids for Lauren's 3rd birthday party! I can't believe she is 3 already! It was perfect weather so we got to spend most of the time outside. Dustin and Beth bought the kids a big bouncy house last year for Christmas and they had that set up for the kids to jump and play in. To my amazement Reagan jumped right in and had a ball!







Lauren's big gift this year was a bike! I bet she gets a lot of use out of it this summer!



Time for birthday cake!!



Happy Birthday Lauren, we love you!!

Happy Retirement Grandma North

Adam's mom, Barbara retired from the Ames Community School District on June 4. We surprised her with a visit that evening for dinner.

This was a new adventure for us. I am not sure if we are trained or if Reagan is trained but we try to stick to her bedtime of about 7 or 7:30. We really wanted to make this work so we went with the flow and it worked out great! We didn't leave Ames until 9 that night but she fell asleep in the car and had no trouble going back to sleep when we transferred her from her carseat to her crib.

We had a nice evening and enjoyed seeing Barbara and Les along with Anna and Jon. We grilled up some good steaks and had lots of laughs!

Congratulations!!

Here are some pictures from the night.





Reagan loves the strawberries!





Playing ball