Cousins #1

Cousins are great fun.  We miss having Will and Landon around to play with, but we were really excited when they got to come up for a surprise visit.  We were sad because they had to come say goodbye to Dottie's grandpa but excited to see them. 
We got to visit with them for a while at Grandma Morgan's house to celebrate Aunt Dottie's birthday.

 

 Abram and Landon wearing their matching Goofy shirts playing with their favorite trains.

 

This is what it looks like up close.

 

Will gets in on the action as well.

 

Then we headed outside for a little playing in the rain.

 

Follow the leader.

 

Will

 

Katie

 

Abram

  

Landon

 

Can you tell how wet they got?

 

Finally inside for some dinner and rounded out the evening with cake and ice cream.

Landon is enjoying hanging with Grandma, she does have ice cream!

 

Abram and Katie letting Aunt Cynthia help them with their ice cream.

 

Uncle Chad also enjoyed the ice cream.

Sunday Fun

Warning:  Lots of pictures!

What do you do on the last Sunday before school gets out...whatever you want.  We decided to have a wonderful day just being a family.  We started out at church and then headed to Holmes State Forest for a picnic and some hiking and then we headed home.

 We started off with a yummy picnic of sandwiches and apple sauce.

 

Checking out the map and mini village to tell us where to go.

 

The great explorers ready for a hike.

  

A really big tree!

  

Up the stairs to get us started.

 

The trail we hiked was the Talking Trees trail.  All along the trail are boxes like this, you push the buttons and the trees talked to you and tell you about themselves.

  

Listening to what White Birch has to say.

  

  

  

We found a snail climbing up the tree and had to get up close to check it out.

  

Checking out the waterfall.

  

  

No, noone's head got stuck.

  

  

Looks as if they are scheming something.

  

  

  

The forest princess on her throne.

 

Daddy and his little man.

Along with the hiking and picnic areas, they have a trail with old forestry equipment.  We found a helicopter and a big tractor.

 

  

 

Time to head home.

 

Daddy and his little girl.

When we got home our fun continued.  Our first stop was the pool in the backyard to cool off a little from our hike.  Then the mosquitoes decided to join us so we headed inside.

Daddy and Abram built race cars and tractors.

 

Mommy and Katie worked on a Potato Head family.

 

Then it was time for some gymnastics...

 

and finally a puppet show before dinner and bed.  

Needless to say we all slept great!

What a wonderful way to start the last week of school.

Puddle

It is amazing how much fun two toddlers can have with a small puddle of water and bare feet.

 

  

  

  

  

  

I have no idea what Katie is doing to Abram

  

THE END

Puppet Stage

It is scary what can happen when you give Mommy a little time and a big, empty box.

Abram showing his puppet skills.