Cousins Week

 We decided it would be fun to have some of the cousins come and stay for a week, so we invited two of my brothers kids to come stay with us for a week and play, and play we did. We picked them up on our way home from the black hills, then the fun began! The first day they were here we had a water day, we set up all kinds of stations in the yard to play in and had some friends over, the girls above are playing in shaving cream pool, the boys are playing on the slip and slide

 While I would love to recap all of our fun I will spare you the details and what nots and just hit on the highlights, which we really didn't stop while they were here except for naps and bedtime, we played and played and played, so fun! 

 One night we had a super hero party, we made capes and masks and ate super hero food, we did super hero training building towers as high as we could, collecting kryptonite, target practice with silly string, and of course an obstacle course full of super hero tricks crawling, climbing, hopping, and flying!

 We took advantage of the kids starting school in our area and went to the splash park to enjoy it, The kids did a lot of running, we stuck to just the splash pad as this is the park Addy broke her arm at, and it was her first time back since the accident she did great considering the trauma of it all, and we had fun.

 Grandma and Grandpa were good to join us here are there, grandma almost every night she would come and play with us. We loved having her/ them here. Another night we did a Drive in Movie, Doug got appliance boxes for the kids to turn into cars and decorate, Grandma brought pizza and we watched a movie. Everyone got five tickets that they could use to shop at the concession stand I put together they could choose their treats.

 We made flubber which was a huge hit, we do this a lot, but everything is more fun with friends and cousins.

 Like I said we did oodles of playing inside and out, the kids loved playing in the toy room but also loved the scooters and toys outside, Alex and Addy are close in weight which makes a teeter totter much funner then with your little brother because you share the work. 

 James loved having someone to play ball with, every kind of ball

 We played baseball one night, or our version of baseball, it was quite funny. My little guy has been working all summer long on a skill he has now kind of got down, he still misses some but for the most part he can hit a ball that is thrown to him, with a bat, he has crazy tracking skills. We went to a baseball game while the cousins were here and then we played baseball or some version of it everyday. Even though it was our last semi pro game for the season I have a feeling we will see many more baseball games with this kid before we are really over.

 Grandma and her grandkids.

 We had a pirate party one night, we made fun food James helped me make the gold dabloon pancakes. He is such a good side kick.

 We did pirate games, after we had a treasure hunt to get find our pirate attire. I made eye patches and sash's out of stuff I had around the house, and then I found some rags for their hats.

 More playing! Addy loves having passengers in her car, to which she is rather a crazy driver.

 The last night the cousins were here we turned their cars into a big fort for a cousin sleep over, which our kids only lasted like 2 hours of but it was a fun idea. and The cousins had fun.

 The kids did all kinds of artwork which then became our decorations for our party's We so loved having the cousins to play, The kids were so sad they had to go home but we have returned to life as we know and soon fall will be in full swing and we will have oodles going on again, so we are thankful for the time we had.