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Round 2 of Visitors! :) (Part 2)

(If you haven't already seen it, Part 1 is down below)
We took everyone to the Sculpture Gardens in downtown Des Moines. Kinda fun, but no real reason to go twice :) haha

We also went to the Blank Park Zoo again.

Mckenna's favorite part is feeding the goats and the llama (She loves the children's book "Llama, Llama Red Pajama". If you haven't read it, you should check it out)

Alayna loved out little ride on bike thing.  Devin would run while pushing her.  She was grinning ear to ear the whole time.

Mckenna couldn't go quite as fast as Uncle Devin.

Brielle's huge cheeks are slowly disappearing :(.  I guess she's crawling around too much. This is one last good picture of them

I'm not sure why this picture loaded up so weird. But oh well.

Out of the shoot :) (a little game my dad used to play with us. Uncle Devin did not disappoint)

It was so fun to get to see family again!  We felt so spoiled to have so much family come and see us. It just made us realize even more how much we have missed everyone and how much we want to go back west so we will live by family again.  (I'll update more on this later, but if anyone knows of any Physician Assistant jobs back west, let us know!)

Round 2 of Visitors! :) (Part 1)

Devin (my brother; a twin to Eric, the brother that visited a week earlier), Deanna (my sister-in-law), and Alayna (my niece) visited the end of March. They drove straight for like 24 hours to get here! Thank goodness they got to fly home.

Silly face

We took everyone to Pella. We just had to get another Bismark :)

 I love my dad's face in this picture.  My parents are the best at being grandparents.

We climbed Cordon Tower. It was way windy on top

A big gust of wind came that almost blew Devin away

The girls weren't so sure about the Easter bunny. Mckenna only sat on his lap cuz she would get a coloring book out of the deal.

It was more fun watching the proud Grandma than the train :)

Mckenna being silly

Theirs no better entertainment than balloons

See the creepy man in the background?

I get goosebumps when I see this picture! Creepy

All of the adults noticed the creepy man, but the kids didn't seem to mind :)

 

...and that's just part 1 :)

Pella

Devin had a few days off the end of March so we decided to visit Pella, a small dutch town here in Iowa (that we pretty much could have gotten a job at, but I told Devin we have to be closer to family haha)

The Doghouse Cafe that we ate at.  Long story short, it was a very interesting experience. :) If you want a good laugh, go eat there.

Devin got a hamburger that was in between 2 grilled cheese sandwiches.(right after I took this picture, Brielle grabbed Devin's water glass and dumped it all over. The chef came over demanding to hold Brielle because he thought he could calm her down, and as you might guess, it just made her more mad. Oh, and Mckenna was coloring all over their menu. And that's just half of the story.  But, Mckenna did get some good fried macaroni and cheese (that they thought they had run out of. But someone yelled from the back "We found it Ma!"). As I said, go there if you need a good laugh)

They have 2 bakeries that both claim to have the best homemade pastries.  We tried a bismark and a Dutch letter at each of them. They were both DELICIOUS! But, we have differing opinions as to which one was actually better.

We love it when Devin gets a few days off!