Weekend with Averie

A couple weekends ago we picked up Mandy's cousin who was the flower girl at our wedding to spend a couple days with us. We got back into town right when Ramona & Beezus was starting so we took her to see that, unfortunately I wasn't able to convince her to see Despicable Me again. It was a lot better than I was expecting. Afterwards I had to go to bed and work that night. Meanwhile, they went shopping to make dinner and dessert. I woke up to head to work and was greeted by this sight ...

They made me a delicious meal to take to work along with some amazing brownies with reese's pieces.

When I got home from work it wasn't too hard to get them out of bed because we were going to the zoo. Last summer we took Averie to the Wichita Zoo and after seeing how she enjoyed it, told her we would take her to the KC Zoo. Unfortunately they didn't have the polar bear exhibit finished. I told her we had to take her everywhere we went with animals because they would all come pretty close to let us see them and take their picture.

Hippo pops up for a picture.

Cheetah lounging in the shade.

Up close and personal with a sleeping lion.

Tired legs at the end of the day.

It was a hot, long day that wore all of us out. But that wasn't the end ... that night happened to be Cinderella at Theatre in the Park in Shawnee Mission Park. I didn't quite enjoy it as much as I would've liked because by that point I had been awake for 24 hours. However, it was a lot of fun and we thoroughly tired out the little girl. That night she slept with Mandy and I and I'm not sure how, but Averie ended up moving in the middle of the night to sleep horizontally between us. Although I guess that's better than Mandy's experience the night before when she was kicked all night.

Sunday morning after chuch we went to campus because she is in love with KU so we wanted to show her all the cool places around the college.

                                                                 

 

All in all it was a great weekend and by the time we returned her home she was tired. Her little brother wanted to come with us but he doesn't like being away from his mom so we told him we'd take him for a weekend of fun when he gets older.