More Cousin Time

Sure, we had the week of the cruise to enjoy time with all the family in town but they were here at our house for a week surrounding the cruise which presented lots of other opportunities for fun.  I'm going to mainly post pictures of all we did to save time.

My parents and Aunt Wanda went to the Strawberry Festival in Plant City. 

Aubree and Camden working on a perler bead project.  A short time later, Colby spilled all the beads on the floor.  That was fun.

A trip to Legoland on Friday, March 4.  We actually went with Jennifer's field trip through Champion because the homeschool day would have been Monday after we got back from the cruise and we didn't think we would be up for it.

Colby planning out our route while Papa looks on. 

It's amazing how much better of a driver he is now compared to when he was three.  

We had a little delay on this ride because a little girl broke through the line and ran to get into one of the cars.  All these alarms started going off and they completely shut down the ride.  Someone had to come and inspect everything and then they finally restarted it.

This ride is called Chima and you get soaking wet on it.  Fortunately I knew that and brought four ponchos.  I don't like walking around wet!  Brady did not want to go on it but we finally convinced him to do it (there are water guns you shoot at people) and he LOVED it.  All he wanted to do is go on this ride after that.  

You had to be 34 inches to go on some of these tame rides and Colby juuussst made it.  Winnie is shorter and we were afraid she would get turned away but thankfully the employees weren't complete sticklers and they let her through. This boat ride was one of the few that we all could go on.

Just a little excited!

Colby and Papa...of course. 

There were quite a few rides these two couldn't go on so this is how they killed some of the time.

The girls  performed "I'm a CREATION kid" during first service on Sabbath, March 5 with the drama club. They didn't actually sing - - more like mouthed the words to a sound track.  They picked their letters to correspond with their names.

My dad with his three sisters, Shirley, Mary, and Wanda. When he is in town, they swarm from all over the state.

Getting ready to load up to head to the cruise terminal.

We went to the Science Center on Monday, March 14.  We had a great time but we did have a couple of scares.  First, we thought Calleigh had broken her arm again.  She was walking on these giant block stilts when she took an awkward fall and landed on her arm - - the left one, same one she broke last time.  She said the same thing too, "I'm okay."  But you could see tears forming and she was holding her arm tightly.  My mom checked it all out and found that she could wriggle her fingers so we thought it was probably okay.  I was at least glad we were right next to the orthopedist if it came to that.  She held her arm for about an hour but finally let it go.  Phew.  The second scare was later in the evening when we discovered that Shawn and Camille had left their camera there.  Yes, its strange that people still use those fossils but it's true!  I called the next morning (Shawn and Camille were on a plane back home already) and they called me back a short time later and said they found it.  Another "crisis" averted.

It just so happened to be "Pi" day (3/14) and they were giving out free pie.  This created a hysterical story involving my mother.  Please ask me to tell you about it.  I didn't want to put it on here.  

On my parents' last night here, we went to Kobe Steakhouse since Duncan and Ron had their free birthday coupons (you can use it any time during the month of your birthday). It was also Kids Eat Free so it worked out well.

So ends the magical two weeks with our cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents.  We can't wait to do it all again in July!