In case you missed the first post, you can click here. And I'm not kidding about the identity crisis, I just know that every where I went people ere looking at me and thinking "Oh my gosh, she's one of those moms with five little kids who doesn't know how to park her van." Serious. Every where I went people were looking at me and I know they were when I was driving. I could feel it. (Sorry to all of you who have a mini-van, and I know that most of you love them, but I'm a Jeep girl and this was a really difficult transition for me.)
But enough of my wallowing in self pity or whatever it is. I was actually really grateful that I got to have my neice and nephew for a week and that we had a car we could all fit in so we could go and do super fun things every day. So onto the happy stuff..
Day Four (Tuesday)
Horseback riding, Ziplining, and Swimming in our underwear (the kids, not me).
Colton's first time on the horse by himself. He liked it, but lasted about 20 seconds once they actually started moving before starting to slip to the side. He rode with mom after that.
I was very proud of Corbin. He doesn't ride very often because he is allergic to horses and because of that has developed a slight fear of them. But he did great and I think he had fun too.
Lexi LOVED riding the horses and was very happy that she got an extra turn at the end and her and Uncle Russ got to ride fast. She is a natural with those horses!
Levi was a little bit more timid, but they had fun riding together. Aren't they cute?!
Cody still doesn't like to do it, but everyone else had a great time doing it over and over - even Colton!
[Sorry, not going to post the underwear pics, there are some weirdos out there. But those boys sure had fun in Grandma Sharee's little plastic pool!]
That afternoon, after "quiet time", we all went to see Toy Story 3. It was good, the kids loved it, Colton was almost entertained, but I'm still not convinced it was worth the $60 we dished out. Maybe next time we'll just stick with movies at home.
Day Five
Hiking the Grotto Trail and a Service Project.
(Why are my sisters kids smiling and all my kids are grumpy pants?)
We made it to the waterfall!
And of course you have to have shaved ice after working so hard on the hike.
You can read more about our service project on my other blog (which is quite sad at the moment and woefully behind on our Summer of Service), but the long and the short of it is we went to a park, had a picnic and picked up trash. We noticed last time we went to this park that it was in serious need of a clean up, and we were right. We filled our trash bag and could have done more. Of course we did plenty of playing while we were there too, but every time they brought me a piece of trash, they got a jelly bean. It worked out great!
Day Six
Swimming! (We did clean the house in the morning too, but who wants to blog about that.) Russ and Colton stayed home and took naps and Grandma Sharee went with me and the four kids, and we had a great time! It was such a hot day, I couldn't imagine doing anything else.
Cody jumped in the pool about a thousand times, right in the same spot, over and over.
Everyone loved the lazy river.
Corbin went down the fast slide! What a brave kid!
And now for the real truth, obviously (or not) this is a back post, and right now we are actually on vacation in Oregon. And now it is 11:15pm, which is really past midnight our time, so I am getting quite sleepy . . . so much to your sadness, I'm sure, this post is once again . . .
To Be Continued . . .
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