Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Memorial Weekend 2011

Had a great long weekend this Memorial weekend. Lots of outside time. The kids love to play outside and Dennis and I are firm believers of kids being outside to run and use their own brain to find things to entertain themselves (with a little help from blow up pools, bikes and swing sets).

Friday night Daddy took the kids for a "ride" on the tractor.



Saturday we went to Chloe's 10th birthday party at the RollerZone in Farmington. Kyrah tried roller skating for the first time. She didn't like it very much, even with Daddy doing all the work. Raya on the other hand loved having someone push her around on skates.

Sunday was family day at the cabin. The kids were in the sand and "pool" all day. Raya liked the sand and puddles the most while Broden and Kyrah liked the pool. The water was so cold though, but they didn't seem to mind until the minute they got out.

Broden did well floating around by himself. The water in this pool is only 3 feet deep so they were able to stand whenever they wanted.


Such a good look'n boy!


Hmmm does someone look a little cold??

Birds eye view.


The weekend ended with a little back yard pool time. Broden who last summer and even recently at the Community Center pool was never much of a water kids sure changed his tune this weekend. He was in the blow up pool more then anyone. He would take a running dive towards it and slide into it. This is vey different from previous pool time where he would sort of sit back and hated to get his head wet.

Raya of course is the water baby and loves all pool time except at the cabin where she likes to sit in the sand and play in "puddles" rather then get in the pond water.






Enjoying the slide.




Another example of a very different Broden. I have never seen him lay in the water like this. Not sure what changed in him this weekend.


The morning of Memorial Day, we took a trip to the zoo. To say it was crowded and had to have had every stroller within a 50 mile radius there is an understatement. Overall the zoo was a success, except we stayed about one hour too long. The last hour involved a lot of whining and crying, but they got to pet the goats and see some great animals.




This is one of my favorite pictures from the weekend. Raya and Daddy looking soo cute. This is pretty much where Raya spent her time while in the goat pen. She is just not an animal person.




Broden would brush a goat then run away screaming. He is such a squeler, always so loud and screaming and talking all the time. We will have a lot of notes sent home from school if he keeps this up.





Kyrah showing Broden how to hold the brush.


Kyrah was dissapointed that we did not get to see the snakes. This is a picture of them in front of a bird display. She really liked the zebras and monkeys - the elephants too but that was the last thing when heat and tiredness had set in.

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