Aunt Amy and Abbey's Adventures

After counting down the days for months, it was finally time to go pick up Abbey and Amy from the airport! (Unfortunately, we picked them up, but not their bag -- the poor things waited two days for that to show up!) They found a cheaper flight into Bismarck, so we made the drive up there to pick them up and decided to let all the kiddos run around at the zoo to burn energy before piling back into the car for the ride home. It was a gorgeous day....but clearly the meltdown led to lots of mud everywhere....there's pictures on Abbey's blog of her because she managed to find most of it! We saw bears and wolves and taunted a few tigers, fed some animals at the petting zoo, grabbed some Happy Meals and headed on home....

Amy and Abbey slowly acclimated to the chaos that is our household these days. Mommy loved having Amy around to help with the babies and the babies loved the chance to help Amy prepare for her new baby! We didn't do quite as many planned activities, but luckily, Abbey loves our basement and we spent a lot of time playing down there and in the backyard. We lucked out and had some great spring weather while they were here. Here's a few pictures of us playing in the backyard and enjoying our snowcones....
The twins loved the fresh air too!!Grandma was nice enough to spend a day with the twins so that we could go down to the Y and take Abbey swimming. We played in the pool for a whopping 15 minutes....I think it took more time to get us dressed than we spent in the pool! Luckily we spent a little more time playing in the playground there afterwards, so it wasn't a waste of time to head down there. We also headed to the Capitol to feed geese and see my Daddy as the Appropriations committee worked a marathon day to work out the state's budget before the end of the legislative session!

Mom tried to get a picture of the three of us while we in the locker room....she had to include all of them because it shows how difficult a task that proved to be. We had fun, anyway! And the look on Abbey's face is priceless in one of them.....as is the one of Abbey and Harrison studying each other.
We had such a great visit with them and miss them terribly already. Guess it's time to make a new countdown calendar for our visit to DC to meet the new baby this fall!!!!