August, Part 2

The last week of August, Jesse’s best friend from way back when came with his fam to visit us here in MO!  We had SO much fun!  The Smith’s are a blast, and it was so fun to do stuff here that we’ve never taken the time to do!  Here’s a very lengthy photo journey…

Our first stop was Purina Farms.  We had AMAZING weather pretty much the entire time and so we did a lot outside!  Our fave! 

We made it for the end of the dog show…just in time to see the dogs catch the frisbees into the water!

  We saw all the doggies…Steve was a bit apprehensive!  We always have fun at Purina Farms!

   We got a babysitter one night so us grown-ups could go have some fun.  We went to Favazza’s on The Hill, which is definitely becoming a fave of ours!  We were so full after!

But they we walked around downtown St. Louis under the arch.  Again, perfect weather, so it was so nice!  Here’s Jake and Amber under the Arch.  I was totally laying on the ground to take this pic!

  Jess and me…I don’t know how to use my camera at night!

We spent a day at the zoo…and had so much fun there!  Steve always LOVES the zoo!  The kids had fun, and we were all pooped after!

Dallin, Steve, and Abbie with the big gorilla.

  Here we are trying to get a good look at the lions.

Our little fam…Steve was way more interested in the fish!

We spent a beautiful afternoon at Klondike park with our friends the Jensen’s too!

Steve had a popsicle and then got all wet in the lake!  Surprise, surprise!

  Our sweet boys!

This was HILLARIOUS!  It all started after church in the chapel, we’re about to take them to nursery and we look down and they’re like making out!  Then they kept doing it!  Of course we couldn’t stop laughing every time, so I’m sure that didn’t add to the fun!  Luckily, Amber caught it on camera!  Can you say blackmail picture?!

Seriously, this went on for a while!

My cute Dan!

Our fam at the park.
 
The kids playing in the lake…another beautiful day!

Then we spent a day at The City Museum in St. Louis.  All I can say is AWESOME!  This place, seriously rocks!  I can’t believe I’d never been!
Abbie and Steve in the giant ball pit.

This was crazy!  It’s like the world’s ultimate jungle gym!
 
Peek-a-boo!
 
Dan liked driving the fire truck!
 
I don’t know if I can truly describe the type of place this is, but this is one of the MANY slides…Steve loved it!
He had to do it a couple times…
 
So did daddy and Dan!
 
Insane, right?!
 
Inside there’s all this really cool stuff, including this random Big Boy statue!  We used to call Steve big boy when he was a baby!
 
Then there’s the 10 STORE SLIDE!  We climbed forever, and got really dizzy coming down!  But it was way cool!  Even baby Dan did it with Jesse!  (Jesse was a trooper and hauled Dan all over this place!  and I was on camera duty!)
 
This was not the 10 story slide, just another fun one that we did on our way out!
 
It wasn’t very fast, so Jesse had to scoot down!

In between all the fun things we did, we ate at Super Smokers twice…best BBQ ever!  We seriously had a blast with these fun people!  Jesse and Jake got to stay up and play video games, Amber and I went shopping (with no kids!!), we played games, ate WAY too much (what is it about vacation and eating?!), and can’t wait to go visit the Smith’s in Salt Lake sometime soon!  It was a great way to end the summer!