September turned out to be a pretty busy month (but I'm thinking that's just the normal for our life right now, especially since school started again).
We snuck in some super fun things amid all the normal busy-ness though.
We have good friends who moved to the Dallas area 1 1/2 years ago. In May the wife, Brittany, texted me to see if I was interested in going with her to a "Time Out for Women" event up there being held in September. I said yes, so we planned to take the whole family up so we could all visit our friends and hang out for the weekend.
I didn't take many pictures, partially because I was gone to the conference all day Saturday, but here are some I snapped of each of the girls with their friends (all our kids ages match up exactly except for Brenna, who is a year younger than their 3rd).
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| McKell and Parker |
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| Brenna and Bella |
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| Ashlyn and Loralai |
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| Kaylee & Caleb |
The following weekend we took a day trip out to the zoo in Waco. We had recently realized that McKell's previous (and only) visit to a zoo was more than 2 years ago, when she was like 18 months old. Definitely due for another one.
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| The girls remembered this life size Kimodo Dragon statue from our last visit. |
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| Look how little they were then! |
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| This is what McKell thought of many of the animals. :) |
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We spent some extra time in this building,
since we were greeted by a massive downpour when we opened the door to leave. |
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| The gibbons were the very last animals we saw, and they were awesome. We could have watched them for hours. |
We had a really fun day together. Hopefully it won't be 2 1/2 years before we make a return trip.
