Des Moines visit

After not letting Sage leave town for the first 6 months of her life, we've been trying to make up for it since.  We started with a trip South, then a couple weeks ago we headed a bit Northeast for the girls' only cousin's 2nd birthday!  Then, finally last weekend the family made a trip West.  We stopped and had a really nice picnic with Nana and visited the Raptor Center, seeing some owls, hawks, and eagles. Then, more time in the car (Sage still doesn't really sleep in the car, unfortunately, though luckily for us she's almost always happy and playing instead.) and finally we made it to Des Moines to visit Aunt E and Uncle A. We had a great weekend - visiting the science museum and trying on Aunt E's shoes were big highlights of the trip for the girls (the adults liked the science museum too, though I can't say I saw anyone try on E's shoes except for E, so that must not have been as big for the adults.  Instead we enjoyed a fun game of Settlers and lots of good conversation.)

Here are a couple pictures from the science museum and the rest of the weekend:















Thanks, E and A for hosting us!  We had a great mini-vacation!