St. Louis Vacation - part 2

St. Louis...continued! While at the zoo, we found out we could now get out to the cabin (long story, don't ask!) so we very quickly checked out of the hotel and drove to the cabin. In a matter of 15 minutes or less, we dumped all our luggage and kids into the cabin, changed clothes, and the 3 young couples too off to go to a Cardinals baseball game. Poor Grandma and Grandpa - they really didn't know what they were getting into when volunteering to babysit the 3 young grandchildren! We had a great time at the game thanks to Zach's friends at Budweiser and Josh's co-workers. You will see in the following pictures how great of a time it was. :) Unfortunately, at the cabin Grandma and Grandpa were trying to figure out who's bag was who's, what food goes with what kid, etc. Grandma Denise changed a lot of dirty diapers, and then poor Emma got sick and threw up on Grandma. Needless to say they were happy when we finally got home.

This is a picture from our seats - THANKS ZACH!!!
Val and Allison enjoying the game.

Val & Zach, Allison, Josh & Carrie

The cute dating couple - Carrie and Josh

Andrew and Val - if you've seen Val's blog - what's up with the whole mouth open thing?!?

Val and Zach Hensley

Carrie - seriously, it's like 11 PM! Lose the shades!

Andrew and Allison - take a bet which one of us got up with Tyler the next morning!

Allison, Carrie, Val, and Josh

St. Louis Vacation

The Hallquist family gathered for a mini-vacation in St. Louis in mid-May. The story of the trip is such a good one that I'll do it in a few posts. ;) We all drove our separate ways and met Thursday night - the goal was to go to a log cabin on the Mississippi, but flooding prevented us from getting out to it. We headed to the St. Louis Zoo on Friday- if you've never been, I recommend it!

Pappa Knute showing Tyler the penguins.
Grandma Denise and Tyler.

Grandpa, Tyler, Grandma - and the Gorilla.

Aunt Carrie, Josh, and that pesky Gorilla!

The Newman's

In case you're wondering, the Hensley's were with us, but we separated a bit for them to take Emma to the petting zoo - and that happened to be when we got Tyler out of the stroller to take pictures! Don't worry - they will be in the next blog!!

Just Monkeying Around!

Here are some of Tyler's 6 month pictures....they turned out good, but I don't think they do his normal smile justice!

Eating & Laughing!

May brought lots of fun in our first Mother's Day, trying lots of new food, and lots of laughs..

Grandpa Knute is great at feeing Tyler. Here he's trying his hand at Jello!

Tyler is trying to show Dad he can hold his own bottle!

I'm Clean Mom!!!

Tyler has started to really laugh, and Dad is great at getting him to do it. Grandpa Knute has been trying to get Tyler to say "Pappa Knute" - so that's what Daddy is saying here... :)

6 Months Old

These pictures are over a month old now, but we still want to share! Here's Tyler at 6 months. Thanks to Kendra for the cool sign!

Aunt Inky Graduates!!!

Saturday, May 1st we traveled to Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville to watch Andrew's sister graduate college. Congrats Aunt Inky!!!

Grandpa tried to steal Tyler for the ceremony - too bad he got squirmy and had to sit with Mom!



Aunt Inky sure knows how to make Tyler giggle!

The Newman kids - Andrew, Ingrid, & Kyle.

Tyler & Cousin Belle - won't she make a great babysitter?!?

Weekend at Home

Back in April we finally had a weekend at home. We went to church and out for breakfast at the Urbandale Cafe, to the Bass Pro Shop with Uncle Kyle (and Flat Stanley - visiting us from Cousin Mason), and then watched Finding Nemo!

Testing out the boats at Bass Pro!

Don't I look like a big boy watching TV?

Mom and Tyler at breakfast - and I couldn't for the life of me get this picture to turn around, but I liked it anyways so here you go!