Riding Horses

Memorial Weekend this year brought about the Annual Blomstedt Family Gathering at Chadron State Park! We love this trip every year and spending time with family. Usually a pretty relaxing enjoyable time!

As usual, I failed to bring out the camera to often. But, i did manage it for the horses ( Probably because it was in the van and we drove the van to see the horses). We had to wait a while for horse trainers to come so we were able to pet them a lot. 

Then came the riding! The kids were very excited and Matthew was even sure enough to stay on this year! 

I was happy to get one pic with them both in it! 

Circus!

The Carson and Barnes Circus come to North Platte. It is a smaller traveling circus. They had a petting zoo set up outside to spend time at before going into the big top! We had the opportunity to go with some of our best friends!

The elephants did a lot of awesome tricks in the ring. They put on a good show!

Siting in our seats. We were not to take pictures of the show so I tried to take some while waiting.

The kids posing together. They really did have fun and they really do like each other. They were just done being cold. Yes it was that cold. It was May 21 and our jackets didn't seem like enough!

Hanging on the rails at home!

Pretty Girl.

A long Winter

You know it has been along winter when we get a dusting of snow on May 1! At this time the cement was to warm but it was still cold enough to snow! It has been cold enough to delay tilling the garden and other yard work, but we know it will get warm and there will be plenty of yard work to do!

Going to the Zoo!

Lindsay, Matthew and I were able to go to the Omaha Zoo with Chris and Katrina in April!

We had a great time. The kids have missed being able to go to the zoo on a regular basis. We saw most of the exhibits at the zoo, however, I am not a very good picture taker nor am I very good at remembering to take pictures so I have a few to share.

This is a Lemur's stomach and limbs he was sitting under the lamp with his hand holding it.

Turtles and Lemurs were under the lamp

On the elephant

Sitting with  a monkey

Posing together

Fuzzy, but Lindsay was being silly in the aquarium!

Momma and Baby Hippo!

They had so much fun with uncle Chris! They just loved playing around!

I don't even know what they were posing!?!

Building a Snowman in April

Snow in April leads for fun day of building snowmen! The sad part is how fast they melt! He was a puddle by bed time, but we still had a blast!