Big Brother

Last weekend, we became a two kid family for a night.  Jackson went to spend the night at Grandma's house with Robyn, so we just had Adam and Kate at home.  We headed out to watch some of the young men in our ward run at district wide track meet.  On the way out, Kate took Adam's hand and let him help her through the maze of cars.  It was so cute, we had to snap some pictures!

Adam looks like a giant next to her, and she totally adores him!  They are 6 years apart in age.

The mighty, mighty spiderman

Jackson has had a long obsession with Spider-Man.  It went away for a little bit, but yesterday morning, he found his spiderman costume and wanted to wear it.  We put it on, and it's a little bit short, and has holes and runs all over it, but it didn't matter to this kid.  He wore it on our walk to drop Adam off and school, and he was the hit of the morning!  Big kids and little kids alike came up and gave him 5 and let him shoot webs at them.  I wish I had gotten a picture of Adam's face as all the kids in his class asked him if that was his brother.  I think he was a little bit embarrassed and proud all at the same time.

Jackson was Spider-Man all day!  He wore it to his friends house while I volunteered in Adam's class and decided that being Spider-Man protected him from their dog (who he always hid from before), and they didn't have to put her in the kennel.  He wore it to pick Adam up from school and got more hi-5s.  It was a spider-riffic day!!

Reading

Just going through old pictures and found these from back in February.  Reading bedtime stories!

Great Wolf Lodge!

We planned a quick weekend trip to Great Wolf Lodge.  Just one night - which was plenty of time!  We had a great time!! 

Posing in front of the picture window...

Ready to go swimming!
 

Kate was a wild girl in the pool.  She loved the slide and spent the whole time going around and up the stairs, through the sprayers and down the slide.  Most of the time, she didn't want any help - except when she would trip and go all the way under the water.  It was pretty crazy to watch.  We had several people come up to us and comment on how brave she was!  She would do the slide all by herself, then get up and head right back over to the stairs to do it again.  Scott and I took turns hanging with Kate while the other did slides with the boys.  Jackson loved going down the body slides, and Adam had a great time on the big slides. 

After dinner, we settled everyone in PJs and got a treat to wait for the bedtime show.  Kate enjoyed a chocolate covered banana...  Messy!



Here's the whole gang - waiting!

Blue-eyed girl - waiting...

The next morning, we headed down to breakfast, and then spent some time in the arcade.  Kate wasn't quite sure what was going on, but she had fun wandering through the games.

The boys had a blast playing games...

...and winning tickets.

They earned 433 tickets, and were pretty excited about it!

After playing in the arcade, we headed back to get ready for some more swimming.  We spent a fun afternoon swimming before heading home!  It was a quick, but fun little family get-a-way!

Blowing Bubbles

One last post from Idaho Falls.  Nate and Shae brough bubbles, and Kate was so cute trying to blow them by herself....

Then, she got great grandma to help...

What a great time we had!  I feel so blessed that my kids get the chance to spend time with my grandma.  I'm thankful that we had the chance to go!

Picture Time...

We had to be sure to do some group pictures while we were together for a week.  It was tough, but we got all the kiddos to sit on the couch with Great Grandma.  We've got Noah, Aiden, Asher, Kate (on great grandma's lap), Talia, Eli (sitting on the back of the couch with Nate hiding to hold hime up), and then Jackson and Adam.

Here's another one - minus Eli...

Three generations...  My mom, Me with Kate and my grandma.

We took this picture th night before we left... Kate finally warmed up and let Great Grandma hold her.

All the kids cozyed up to watch a movie.

And finally getting a hug from great grandma!

Texting with Dad

Scott didn't go with us on our little trip to Idaho.  He had a trip to Oregon for work, and then went on a little fishing trip with a buddy.  The kids really missed (me too!!).  Adam stole my phone and did a little picture texting with his dad.  Crazy boys!