Photo trip

As mentioned in the last post, Austin was out of town most of the week on business.  He was scheduled to fly into Des Moines on Friday night where his parents would pick him up.  We were then going to join him on Saturday morning.  However, the kids and I went down to Des Moines on Friday morning to spend some extra time with Grandpa & Grandma Lorenzen and I surprised Austin at the airport.  The rest of Austin's siblings & families also came to take family pictures on Saturday afternoon (I will post the photos later.)  The cousins had a grand time playing together.  Since I feel like I have endless packing space in our van I brought along our water table, which was a hit (see video).  Emily also tried her hand at beanbags, which she called "jeanbags." 

It was a full house of overnight guests. Emily and her cousin Asher slept in the same room. They thought it was pretty fun! It took at least four trips to the bathroom between the two of them and entailed lots of giggling and whispering, but they eventually fell asleep.  Lincoln loved walking around with the walker toy.  When his cousin James, who is 3 months younger and also just took his first steps, came we had some sharing issues. :o)  All in all it was a fun trip!