The day that I got back from Virginia, my brother Ryan and his wife Teresa came with their two kids (Zoey and Aiden) for a quick visit. They stayed with Kirk since I was completely unprepared for company, but I tried to see them as much as I could.
Sunday dinner and visiting. Kids ate first. And Sam mined for gold.
Men talked sports.
After dinner, kids played Elephun. Which is really only fun for Sam because he gets the most butterflies and then flaunts it in all the other kids' faces.
Carter got sick of that pretty fast.
Monday morning we hit the Houston Children's Museum. It was really fun. Face painting station.
Fishing off the Ivory Coast.
Carter and Sam to the rescue!
The museum has a really awesome little grocery store. These two girls on the right in the red aprons were really cute checking out all the customers.
After naps we went swimming and then had dinner at our place. (But Gretchen made it b/c I hadn't had a chance to go grocery shopping yet. Thanks, G!)
Tuesday R, T, Z and A were heading home, so we went with them part of the way and stopped at the Bluebell Factory for a tour. They don't allow cameras on the tour, so you get before and afters. Afton was on one.
After the tour we each got a giant scoop of ice cream.
Afton got chocolate. She liked it, despite this picture.
Sam chose vanilla. I got cookies and cream. We are a very adventurous bunch.
Did I mention that Afton was on one?
After this picture we parted ways and Ryan, Teresa, Zoey and Aiden began their three-day (or four-day?) drive back to California.
We had so much fun with you guys! Thanks for coming to see us!
Last Monday the kids and I flew to Virginia to spend some time with my parents, sister, and niece (who had flown in from Nebraska). We had a great time!
Tuesday we went to the Virginia Safari park. Sam snuggled me on the way and I loved it.
We got to drive around and feed some animals from the car, which was really fun. I just have videos of that.
After the Safari Park, we stopped by Foamhenge - a full-scale replica of Stonehenge. I've wanted to see it for some time. I can now die happy.
Each day after a morning activity, we'd come home for naps and then hang out at the house the rest of the afternoon.
Wednesday we hit the Bounce and Play.
And Bodo's for lunch. Thursday we went to the splash pad. Sam loved it. Afton hung out at the park. She likes to be held in deep water, but she doesn't like to be splashed.
Forgot I was in "manual." Overexposed, but still cute.
We then went to Chick-fil-a because Candice doesn't have one in Omaha. Then we went home for naps and after that, the kids raided Grandma's dress-up box. Sam tranformed himself into a vampire/magician/pirate.
We considered hiding his baton/maraca thing because he kept waving it in everyone's face.
At night we'd stay up and chat or watch the olympics. And one night we watched Mirror, Mirror.
Friday we went to a different splash pad.
Another stop at Bodo's. Later that night we walked up my parents' street to take pictures with the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains behind us.
Afton's really good at the Chris Farley face.
We had such a fun vacation. We also made girly hairthings, played w/ playdoh, I visited with old co-workers, and we went and got the best slurpees ever! Seriously so good. We don't have any 7-11's, so I had been wanting one forever. Did not disappoint.
The kids miss their G&G Cheney. We'll have to make it a yearly tradition!
