A Visit from Friends

A couple of weeks ago, some friends came to visit us from Des Moines. It was so much fun to spend some time with them and Danny was a sport to put up with it since it was two more women, five more kids, and no more males in the house. Alyssa loved having her friends come to visit. She used to play with a lot of little girls her age in Des Moines, which is something that she hasn't gotten to do since we've moved here. Here they are having a princess coloring party. Pictured below is Ashley, Briel, Alyssa, and Brynlee.
One of the days, we hauled everyone off to the zoo. Here is the group of kids. From left to right: Briel, Ashley, Alyssa, Noah, Adeline, Brynlee, Lewis.

Another mutual friend, Lauren(and her sister), joined us at the zoo which added two more boys and a girl to the mix of kids. Here they are listening to one of the zoo volunteers.

I included this shot of the hippos just because they were so entertaining. We sat and watched them for at least 15 minutes because these two were playing with each other so much. They kept swimming towards each other and then opening their mouths and pushing each other up out of the water. I had never seen anything like it.
It was fun visiting with Ashley(my friend) and Fayme, and Alyssa and Ashley(my daughter) loved having so many kids to play with.