HANGING WITH COUSINS!

Jordan turned 10 on December 1st....so to celebrate, my mom, sister, and I took all the kids to the local Children's Museum.

Children's Museum + all your cousins = a pretty fun day!

this is the new ginormous play structure the kids climb!

there are a few of these in the museum...air is blowing thru those tubes and the kids can turn the valves to direct the air flow...and you stuff puff balls into the tubes, watch them travel thru the tubes and then shoot out. Andrew used it for "catching practice". :)

my smart little thang.
see her balancing these little circles? it's supposed to be like that Price *is* R*ght game "pl*inko" with the disc cascading from level to another...but she figured out how to balance them!

all of the girls' favorite parts of the whole museum is the miniature store -they shop, they check out, they re-stock...for hours!

while the girls shopped, the boys played in the car section. :)

adjoining the shopping area is a kitchen...so that's always where the girls end up when they're tired of shopping!

Julia scooping ice cream while Elizabeth waits to be served. :)



A few days after the museum...we watched 5 of my sisters kids on a Saturday morning.

For Joanna -coming to auntie's house means heading STRAIGHT to the dress up clothes!

John had just set up the train tracks the night before -so my little nephews really got a kick out of it!

we took all 9 kids on a bike ride to our neighborhood park since it was A) a beautiful day and B) they were going stir crazy in the house. :)

Jordan is a great big brother!

you can't go to the park and NOT climb a tree right?!

Jeremiah played in the sand quite a bit...even poured some on himself and then proclaimed "I'm a mess. I'm a mess."

playing football


It's such a blessing that the kids have their cousins so close by and they get to play with them regularly. They all love to be with each other SO much.