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Snow day

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Day three was a relaxing day spending time with the cousins at Grandma’s house. Day four was SNOW DAY!  All the kiddos were excited to head up to Cedar and play in the snow.
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Kaylee remembers snow. Regan does not. He foolishly dove into the snow before we finished gearing him up. He quickly learned that one NEEDS gloves for making snow balls.
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Kaylee was most excited to make snow angels.
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We tool the kids to the smaller slopes so they could climb up themselves. It’s a work out hauling kids up snowing slopes. Them crawling up most of the time help a ton!
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Shannon and Dwayne tried racing, but Shannon totally biffed it. It was very funny.
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Shannon helping her Daddy-O down the hill with a swift kick to the tukkis. You can see my dying with laughter in the background! Too Funny!
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And this is how our adventure ended. Kaylee got mowed over (by that I mean she got bumped into. not hard.) twice in a row, and her (loose) gloves popped off. After that she was DONE. “My hands are freezing, and I’m NEVER going to see them again!”
Not dramatic at all that one.
Regan looked the same because he was NOT done. We didn’t get a photo of his sad face though.
I must say visiting the snow is SO much nicer than living in it!

Zoo trip

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This trip was with out porta potty incident. Which was nice. We visited the children’s section of the zoo this trip. Which was AWESOME. I love going to the zoo. I love that Shannon is sweet to haul us with her. It’s great fun.
These two were in the stroller long enough for the threat of going back in it if they ran off to work.
The children (Shannon and I did too) thought that the cow to milk was neat-o.
My sad attempt to get a picture of my two in their adoption shirts. Regan’s says Adoption Rocks with a guitar. His is sort of hard to see in pictures. Kaylee’s is easy to see in pictures.
Kaylee is still super afraid of animals. I was way impressed with her attitude in the petting zoo. “Mom, it was a little bit scary, so I just was a little bit brave.” I was SHOCKED when she pet one of the goats without any encouragement from me. She and Jon high fived about it later when she told him all about it.
This is what happens when I want a fast cute picture with my kiddos. ZERO cooperation. Guess they are more used to me behind the camera than in front of it with them… Shannon tried. Then we gave up.
Regan was glued to this little slide.
After the zoo we stopped by McDonald’s for lunch and more playing.
Our attempts at getting a photo of all the children did not go very well at all.
Contrary to the facial expressions in many of these photos we had a blast on this adventure.

cousins

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We had Nathan and Cassie for five fun days.We built epic forts. Drenched each other in the kiddie pool. And watched movies in bed. LOTS of movies from the library.
Nathan was SO mad at me for doing his hair. I herd about it all that day AND the next.
Look how cute they are all ready for church!
We have and extra mattress that came in handy. I just didn’t think our blow up mattresses would survive 5 days of children jumping on it. So we set up what the children have dubbed the “cousin sleepover bed.”
 The movie in bed situation came about as a way to help keep the children quiet and entertained while we hosted a Missionary discussion.
They were entertained. Not so quiet though…. 🙂