St. Louis #3

 

St. Louis Zoo and Grant's Farm

 

 

Sarah is a pygmy goat

 

My sweet girls...doesn't Sarah look tired!

 

 

 

 

Grant's Farm  

 

See they do love each other!

 

My little goat herders!

They got to feed the goats bottles of milk...they weren't scared one bit.

In fact Sarah would grab them and move them around...

 

It was such a great family trip! The best place to take kids. I love that the girls are getting old enough to take them all these fun places.

Meet me in St. Louie Part 2

Next step...The Arch!

 

I love this pictures on some many different levels...We went to the Arch right after the City Museum so Sarah was already tired...but it just shows their personalities so much!

 

If you look really close you can see some windows...we got to go all the way up and look through those windows...

 

 

Meet me in St. Louie...





 

 

We recently took the girls on a vacation to St. Louis. We had heard from several different people that City Museum was THE place to visit. We were not disappointed. It is like a giant playground with 4 stories of climbing "things."

 

First we walked in and saw all of this...the girls wanted to check it all out...no idea where you will end up!

 

 

 

Daddy helping Sarah out!

 

 

Next was a skate park without skates. The girls (and Aaron) had fun running up the different hills and trying out the different things. This "bowl" was like a big slide. Sarah would go down, but not the top 2 ones. 

 

Daddy is trying to convince Sarah to go down the biggest section...no luck!

 

 

 

Next was a really neat museum...it had all different things in...including this Egyptian statue...I wonder who is more hard headed....

 

Yes that would be Sarah doing back bends and cartwheels...

 

They got to go on a train ride though some of the exhibits.

 

 

 

Looking up at the giant staircase

 

 

Once it stopped raining we got to go outside on some more of the climbing "things." This one lead to an airplane that you could climb through and down to a slide. I am taking the pictures from a castle on the other side. 

 

 

They are so lucky to have a daddy who does this stuff with them.

 

A bigger view of outside...

 

Going down one of the many slides outside.

 

 

 

I think you could spend several days at this place...it was a great place to have to girls go and use up some energy....Sarah fell asleep as soon as we got in the car...Mommy and Daddy wish they could have joined her. 

4th of July

We had a laid back 4th of July...Aaron just came back from Mexico and we were leaving in a couple of day for St. Louis...so we just shot off a few firecrackers and hung out with each other :) The girls are getting so big and soon will be "too cool" for mom and dad...but for now we are enjoying that time with them...

After firecrackers we sat down and had some lunch and got ready to shot off a couple of fireworks. It will pale in comparision to the usual "Davis arsenol" but the girls had fun :) 

Oooops!

One day before Valentine's Day I was finishing up my last parent teacher conference, when someone from the office came down and said Emily hurt her arm. Knowing Emily, I sent my intern down to check to see if it was just a minor hurt that just needed a hug. So I finished up my conference and she came back and said you need to go down there. My heart started racing and I got to her and realized something was very wrong. I grabbed my stuff and tried to get her to walk to the car, but she wouldn't walk. I rushed to Kim's office and had her get Sarah and meet us at the hospital. Finally we got her in the car. I drove to the hospital as quickly and as smoothly as I could, ever bump hurt her arm. When we finally got there and got her coat off, it was certain that she had done some damage to her arm. As we were sitting there waiting for the doctor to come and talk to us, she was such a brave little trooper! I know she was in a huge amount of pain, but she just kept taking deep breathes. When she finally talked to the doctor and he mentioned the word surgery...it felt like the air went out of the room. Grandma ended up taking Sarah to McDonalds to get some food and we finally got out of there. We went to home. On the way home I was busy calling a variety of people to let them know what was going on and what the next few days would look like.

The next day we were able to meet with a doctor and schedule surgery for the following day. It was such a stressful time. Also the pain meds were making Emily very sick to her stomach. She kept getting sick and I just wanted to take it all away from her. I just trusted God that He was in control and able to do miraculous things.

Finally...the big day. Emily was so calm...the only thing se was worried about was the needle and when the doctor came in and told her they would do that after she feel asleep, she felt so much better. As they wheeled away...I felt like my heart was being torn into 2 pieces. But I knew God was in control and in truth He would be with her even when I couldn't. After the surgery was over we were both able to go back with her. She had a bit of a hard time coming out of anesthesia, but once the nurse came and gave her some pain meds and she came out of that, she was in pain but more like Emily. We got her home and the first few days were rough, but once we got her back in school and her cast on, it was like we all could breath a little easier.

Christmas 2012

We had such a wonderful Christmas! It was filled with family and fun. We had some fun with all of our new toys. Sarah is still very much into being a mommy. She loves on her babies and mothers them wonderfully. Emily is growing up so fast...clothes and electronics are her cup of tea. I just pray she stays as little as she can for as long as possible.