Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Weekend Adventures

We had a fun filled weekend! CJ and Christopher came to visit us from Chicagoland. They could only stay 2 full days so we packed 'em both full of great Adventures! They flew in Friday and we had the two boys play, and play, and play. Then Saturday morning we gathered everyone up (Except Kevin, who was at school) and we headed to the Hatch's and on to the Ogden Dinosaur Park......

The kids don't seem to be bothered by this at all......look, hands in pockets, like they were asked to pose or something? Run! RUN for your LIVES! C'mon you guys!!! Christopher thinks he's on a roller coaster, or maybe the Dino just said "stick em up."

Well we made it through that one....Now here is Cameron, showing Zoey something interesting....


Cameron is on top of a giant sea turtle...... looking smashing I might add.


We found this dino and before we knew it all the kids were inside it, then the adults felt like it wasn't fair we were expected to act like adults and wanted in on the fun....but we had a little trouble getting in there.....


Here's Zoey looking out the Dino's eyes....she's such a cutie!


All the Adults got in the thing.....
then all the kids found a golden opportunity and ran off... we thought about staying there, ready to claim we'd been inhaled by a dino and could no longer function as responsible parents, but instinct got the best of us and we made our way back to the real world to chase down our rugrats some more..... but then some of us had some trouble getting out of the thing.....Matt and Teri turned it upside down and backwards to get out...we had a few laughs with this one....and one picture I won't post (out of my undying devotion to Teri.)

Then we found another Dinosaur carcass to disrespect and climbed on top of this sucker; it was six feet up, once we all scrambled on top, a lovely stranger offered to record this for posterity.....

Then CJ had to show us all up.....he's about 12 feet of the ground here, sitting on an ancient Rhino's horn.....doesn't look to comfortable to me, but he seems okay! No trip to the ER today!

Towards the end of the trip we tried to gather the kids next to these pumpkins for a pic; this is as organized as we ever got them......

Not too bad! All in all it was a great day and we all went back to Matt and Teri's for some Wingers Wings and Dinosaur chicken nuggets! (how appropriate!) Good times guys!
After heading home and getting a well deserved nap (I think the adults needed this more than the kids, but who's counting) we got packed and headed up to our Cabin where we relaxed and played games, the boys played toys and watched lots of "Noggin."
This is also and when Nathan, who lucked out of the Dino Adventure, also made himself scarce for the rest of the weekend, as any normal teenager would be expected to do.
Here's CJ in my kitchen, helping out and making me VERY happy that he likes to cook!

Matt, Teri and the kids came up the next morning to play too! We had mildly controlled chaos everywhere with 6 kids, all playing and drawing and playing going up and down stairs, and eating and playing and having a great time!
We ate lots of food, Teri did a whole sink of dishes like three times, and Matt once, and we lounged....
We adults tried to play cards, but the offspring made that a little challenging;
So we took them on a two mile hike in the mud to wear them all out. (it snowed that morning and covered everything with three inches of snow...by 4 it looked like this, just sunny and muddy!)

The kids did surprisingly well, no one but the baby had to be carried, or even requested it.... (Even me!)
When we got home, we shed all the muddy shoes, socks, and pants, in some cases, on the balcony and headed back inside for more!
Here's CJ and Christopher enjoying the outdoor adventure together..... we had to get them on a plane Monday afternoon, and now they're gone, and normal life must ensue once more. Curses.

Love you guys!! We'll miss you!
And thanks Matt and Teri for putting up with our Chaos.... It was a blast!

3 comments:

  1. Looks like so much fun!!! I love to have out of town guests...and I am sure that your were the perfect hostess. :)

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  2. Fun times! :) Wish I could have gone too! :(

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  3. How fun! I loved all the pictures too! Thanks for sharing everything!

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