Mama's Muffin

With all these "Hallie posts" about new friends and activities I just had to post a couple of pictures from last week that make me smile!! :)

Labor Day Fun

It was so nice seeing some of our out of town family this weekend! Becky and Levi came to visit on Saturday. (with Becky's neice Taylor) The kids played all afternoon and had a fun day! Hallie was catching grasshoppers for everyone. We picked up Grandma Carmel and hit the circus (as you know) Saturday night. Sunday we headed to Des Moines, {not before Hallie found a frog in the flowers and decided we needed to keep that too!} stopping for dinner with Jess and to pick her up. Monday I scouted out a parade (of course)!! It was at the capital. Then we went to Agatha's bridal shower. I was busy catching up with everyone, Hallie played really hard- on the park, water fights, and making friends, and Reese kept everyone entertained just being cute, as always! Monday night we headed back home, to get ready for the big day on Tuesday!!!

The Greatest Show on Earth!

On Saturday we went to the circus! We had a blast! We got there early for the preshow... which was very neat for Hallie. First, she got to see the animals up close outside. Second, after you are inside you get to dance with the clowns, see more animals even closer, try on costumes and "mingle" with the circus crowd ;) (I only have a few pictures... the rest are on my mom's camera) Our next surprise came when we reached our seats... we were seated as circus celebrities!! Not knowing what this meant we took our seats and waited for the show... like our noses??? Just after the show started a guy came over and passed us these passes and said they would be out to get us soon. We got to go ride on a train around the ring waving at the crowd and playing the drums. Then the train parked and there we were in the middle of the circus, talk about front row seats!! It was a fabulous show and we are excited to go again next year!!!