Blank Park Zoo

What a fun day!!! I took the kids to the Blank Park Zoo here in Des Moines on Thursday and they had the time of their lives!!! Avery came with us too!!! For any of you who know Avery, you know that this is what made the trip so special... she gets sooooo excited about everything and it is absolutely precious!! Every animal she saw was the GREATEST animal!!! hehe... so cute!!!

The boys LOVED it too! Owen was SOOOO well behaved!!! :) - they ALL were! I kept telling them all how proud of them I was and how well the were acting!!! It seriously was the BEST outing we have ever had!!! :)

Their favorite thing had to be the elephant statue that sprays water out of it's trunk!!! It was precious... they kept running towards it and screaming and laughing... sooo cute! They also LOVED feeding the goats!!! And the play area... they have a nice play area for the kids to climb and play on! A trip well worth it!!!

This was our first trip to the local zoo... and just the first of many to come! We are planning a trip on Saturday with Nina and Papa Hamann and our cousins Grace and Caroline and Aunt Kim and Uncle Dan! I am thinking about getting a season pass for next year! :)

After the zoo we ate lunch out and then the kids came home and took the BEST nap ever!!! :) hehe... which made the zoo even better!!!!!

Here are a few photos from our day out...