Circus Fun and Camping

April 27th we had a full day as we headed to the circus and once it was over we headed to Yankton for our first camping trip of the year.  Once again the kids enjoyed the circus and Great Grandpa Melvin and Grama Verni came along for the event.  Makenna got a lot more out of the circus this year and was excited to see the tigers as Denver was as he had taught her how to go hunting for tigers!

Look the tigers!!

Pretty sure he's "hunting" the tigers here.

When we got to the lake it was beautiful out.  We unpacked, the boys fished a little, made supper, and then we took the boat out for a ride.  Little did we know at that time it would be the only time we take the boat out that weekend as the wind came up the next day and made camping quite miserable.  Friday morning we woke up to a strong, miserable wind so we decided to take the kids to the aqaurium and hatchery and ran to town to do some things.  Papa Rodney and Grama Verni came to the lake Friday evening and missed all the nice weather.  We did some geocaching together, spent time playing & visiting in the cabin, and due to the wind we even ate one meal out!

The kids enjoying the fire before their bed time.

Daddy caught a nice walleye!

Checking out the 1 day old walleyes at the hatchery.

Feeding the rainbow trout.

My boys doing what they like best, fishing!

Circus!

I realized with all of our craziness I forgot to post our pictures from the circus!  I have a wonderful childhood memory of going to the circus with my Grandpa Melvin and Grandma Betty.  Last year Evan and I took Denver (along with our good friends) and I said to Evan that it would be fun to bring along my Grandpa to give the kids some of the same childhood memories.  This year Evan didn't care to go to the cirecus and there was no way I was braving it by myself with the 2 kids, but my mom and grandpa said they'd go with us and thanks to my cousin Tom we got free tickets too!  The kids had a blast. 

Makenna was exhausted by intermission time and so I took her out in the lobby and some how worked my magic (that has basically disappeared) and got her to go to sleep for about 30 minutes.  Denver made it the whole way through.  His favorite part was the tigers!  We went pretty early to ensure good seats and plenty of time to get situated and the whole time Denver kept asking where the tigers were.  After the tigers were done he continued to ask where they went and wanted to see them some more.  He did get quite intrigued with the elephants and some other acts as well. 

It was fun to watch Denver's face in awe of things and trying to understand how they just did what they did (during the "magic tricks").  There were also times we saw these faces on Makenna.  I'm so glad we went and hope that Grandma Verni and Great Grandpa Melvin will be up for the circus again next year!

Makenna kept insisting upon having some of my mom's pop so she finally gave in and let her try it....it came right back out!  She didn't care for it!  About the only thing she doesn't like! :)