On Friday morning we drove to Des Moines to visit Casey’s sister, Tearsa, and her family. Casey’s other sister, Mindy, and two of her kids flew out from Utah to visit too. Tearsa’s husband just started medical school at Des Moines University. On Friday night we got to the medical school’s family day where we toured all the school’s labs. It was way cool to tour the anatomy lab and simulation lab. The simulation lab had a lot of different hospital rooms with dummies in them. The rooms looked exactly like real hospital rooms. In one of the rooms there was a pregnant dummy that could give birth every 15 minutes. The top of her belly was open so you could look in and see the baby with all the anatomically correct parts. It was awesome! The dummy’s chest would rise and fall like she was breathing. It freaked me out a little because it all looked so real!
On Saturday we went to the Iowa State Fair. We had a lot of fun there. It was very similar to the Wisconsin State Fair. There was tons of food, interesting people, rides, and animals. Carly was a trooper and loved people watching. She also didn’t mind all the attention she got from fair-goers
It was so nice to take a long weekend and play with family. Carly had so much fun playing with her cousins. Mindy’s kids Landon and Brittyn were so cute with Carly, and they were so nice to play with her and give Casey and me a break. Carly loves them so much! Carly also loved playing with Tearsa’s son, Cole. Carly kept chasing (by crawling) Cole which would scare him most of the time. She just couldn’t get enough of him! When we left I was sad thinking that Carly doesn’t get to see her cousins more often. We had so much fun. Big thanks to Ben and Tearsa for letting us visit them! We had tons of fun. Here are a lot of pictures!
The group at DMU medical school.
We loved the food part of the tour!
Cole and Ben sitting in one of Ben’s classrooms.
Carly loved playing with Aunt Mindy and Cole.
This pumpkin was a little over 2 tons!
Our favorite gourds:
Tearsa is having a baby girl in 5 weeks!
This “vegetable” won first place in the most-unusual category.
The largest pig I have ever seen.
Carly loved this fluffy bunny. I wish I could have held it.
5 comments:
Looks like you guys had a fun trip! Does Carly do well in the car for you guys?
What a fun trip! The Iowa State Fair looks fantastic-lots of corn.
Carly did really well on the drive - as long as either Casey or I was sitting in the back with her while she was awake. She slept for most of the 6 hours though!
Thanks for coming to visit us. We loved having you guys...it was an awesome weekend! Can't wait to come see Milwaukee in a few months.
What a fun family gathering! Thanks for sharing.
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