Springtime in St. Louis!

Love <3

Tyler in "Baseball Heaven"

Tyler and Alyssa under the arch!

Uncle Dete, Aunt Lori, Tori, and Kyle in "Bud Land"

At the Cards game!!!

We have had a series of visitors this spring! May was jam-packed full of people coming to explore the city (and crash at our house)!!! :) Spring in St. Louis is a very different experience from that of Wisconsin or Michigan. Here the weather spikes up to the high 80's and then drops down to the 40's the next day! And usually, following those strange temperatures comes a string of severe weather.

To start our "Springtime Experience" was Easter weekend. Ryan and Erin made the long drive down to visit us for a long weekend. Like clockwork, when they arrived, we welcomed some of the worst weather Missouri had seen in a while! Tornados touched down less than 5 minutes from our house!! It was quite eventful, and a little scary, but it didn't stop us from having a great time with the boys.

In early May we had some more visitors. My uncle Rodney and aunt Linda came down to participate in the World Master's Taxidermy Expo! It was hosted right in St. Charles and made for an interesting visit. We got to explore some of his competition, but in the end, uncle Rodney ended up taking 1st and 2nd place (in the WORLD!) with his two entries. Pretty cool!

Next to visit was Tyler and Alyssa! Their's was a short visit, but it was fun! Tyler really wanted to go to a Cardinals game, and it happened to work out that they were playing the Brewers that weekend! So we headed to the ballpark to watch the game. Brewers won, which made for a happy Tyler, and our time with them was great!

Less than two weeks later, Uncle Dete and Aunt Lori came down to visit! Their visit was especially fun. We went out to Blueberry Hill, Grant's farm (as in Ulysses S. Grant), toured the Budweiser kingdom, went to a petting zoo, visited the arch, went to another Cardinals game, and went shopping downtown historic St. Charles! It was a blast!

One of Uncle Rodney's creations

Cards v. Brewers

Aunt Lori kickin' my butt in darts!

Feeding the camel...no big deal :)

That was it for visitors...in a month we had 4 groups of people knockin' on our door...and it was AWESOME! Next to visit are mom and dad with some friends on their motorcycles in early June. And after them Waz and Greg with Rosie...it should be great!