Back from Grandmas

We are back from our fairly spontaneous trip to Grandma and Grandpa's house. Brian wasn't able to make it due to work and the show but I went against my better judgement and made the four hour drive anyway. The kids were actually pretty good in the car, we made good time, and the trip was a nice get away from the everyday. Here's a rundown of our activities. Oh -- and if you want to stop the music from playing so you can hear the videos better, just scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and press pause.

Jaren cut his top two teeth. For some reason my children prefer to do all their painful teething at someone else's house.

The girls exhausted themselves on the Bounce N Slide.

Jaren learned that he LOVES to play the piano.



We went to lots of parks and playgrounds.




Joelle and Jillise rode the zipline swing at one park and LIKED it.



We went to the library and got some fun new books to read with Grandma.



We went to the river with Uncle Johnny to feed the geese, throw rocks in the water, and look for arrowheads.




We went to Aunt Katie's new house to visit the cute turtles.

We went to the fun new water park:




And we got so tired that we had to take lots of naps.



And lastly, here is a video of Jaren dancing. It isn't from our trip, but it is too dang cute to not include. I was watching Ellen today and Jaren was having fun destroying his play area (you'll notice his destructive abilities in the movie). The music comes where Ellen dances through the audience and I started dancing and being silly and Jaren joined in. My camera was on the counter, so I grabbed it to get it on film. The camera is shakey because I am trying to dance to get him to do it again. I'll leave it to your imagination to picture what THAT looked like. :)