Shrine Circus

Last Friday my friend Catherine called me and told me that she had some free tickets to the shrine circus, and asked if we wanted some. We couldn't pass that up, so of course we said yes! Our kids have never been to a circus, so they were all so excited. When we first walked in the door there were several clowns, and other blown up animal people. Alexis was the only one we could get to pose with one of the clowns. We got there about a half hour before the circus was supposed to start. They had some fun things set up for the kids to do, so Brandon took them down. The kids all got their faces painted. They did a great job! Too bad they could only wear it for a few hours until we came home and had to wash it off before bed, lol. Oh well, they loved it anyways.

This pictures totally cracks me up, so I had to post it. This is during the intermission, and our girls were not very happy because we wouldn't let them ride the elephants. We felt really bad, because that would have been so much fun, but we found out it was 10.00 a person, so we opted out. Needless to say, the kiddos were a little upset. The last thing they wanted to do was take a family picture! We insisted though, and right before the picture was taken Brandon said, you guys better be smiling in this picture! This is what we got.....

Here we are sitting on our row enjoying the show

The girls were eating some kind of candy in this picture, lol.

We were already planning on going out to dinner with Brandon's mom that night, so we invited her to come along with us to the circus after dinner. She was a little hesitant at first, but it didn't take too long to talk her into it! She was so sweet and bought the kids each some light up toys.

We found out that our good friends, the Beyerleins had also gotten free tickets! We moved to sit by them because their seats had a much better view of the show.I know that this picture is blurry but I had to include it. Before the show started a worker walked around and told us that at the end of the show a man would be shot out of a cannon. He said that it would make a very loud boom, and that we would probably want our kids to cover their ears. Levi wanted to be prepared, and so he had his ears covered for most of the show, haha.

It was such a fun last minute family outing, and we are so glad that we were able to go! It was a much smaller circus then Barnum and Baily Circus, but it was still so much fun!!