Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Sophia turns 5!!

The weekend of Sophia's birthday, we had a very full house! The Olson boys came to stay with us!! We were so excited to have Charlie, Max and Lincoln over...we have been trying to get them to Vermillion for quite some time. 

Saturday was the day we decided to celebrate Sophia's birthday.  We headed to Sioux City to check out the Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center.  The kids enjoyed the snakes, crawling through the 'under ground' prairie exhibit and experimenting with the wind storm machine.  After the Nature Center, we went to the BIG SURPRISE...THE CIRCUS!! We surprised Sophia with tickets for all of us to go [she had a blast last year].  What was even more exciting is this was the first circus that the Olson boys had been to.  I know they all enjoyed it!! When I asked them what their favorite part was on the way home...they couldn't pick just one.  ;-)  Once home, we had cake and opened presents!

Yep...we all fit in the car

 At the Nature Center

 Checking out what lives in the bark of fallen trees

 A REAL snake!

 The Wind Machine

 Making footprints

 Checking out the trial 
(but to muddy/snowy to go far)

 The birthday girl!

 The kiddos enjoying the circus...
Did I mention we had front row seats?

 And of course we had to have light-up souvenirs

 Lots of fun!

 Happy Birthday Sophia!!

 The crew enjoying cake

 Max REALLY enjoyed the cake

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