The end of summer

is here.  Already.  Although maybe not.  It feels like it flew by.  We have had much fun since the last post, but I won't bore you.  It consisted of a few birthdays, a few other family celebrations, a parade (we rode on a float and Kate was in rockstar heaven with her sunglasses and her perfected wave that she practiced for 15 minutes in the car).

Last week Dale had a couple of days off school so we took the kids to Omaha and hit the zoo.  The weather was absolutely perfect.  Dale made the comment when we entered the zoo that it was great to not have "thousands" of people to deal with.  The woman at the gate informed us that there were 1,029 visitors that day, which turned out to be just about right for us.

Being a little bit brave at the petting zoo

He was so excited to ride the rooster

Silly girls on the train

That's better



Mr. Conductor taking his job VERY seriously!
(He was pretty sad that the train wasn't running,
but he had a pretty good time climbing aboard
to check everything out.)