We had a great time together as a normal family on our vacation to Wisconsin Dells! We had ten wonderful days together but by the end of the vacation, I think we were all on Daddy's nerves! :)
Of course, we couldn't let this trip get by without a crazy story or two! You know me...
One day the twins wanted to ride the inter tubes in the "lazy river!" I thought it sounded like fun so said I would take them! I got in the water, grabbed a double raft, and then proceeded to try to jump in very graceful like!!! I was a bit awkward to say the least. I was feeling mighty proud of myself for finally getting onto the back of that thing when all of a sudden...my inter tube did a complete flip backwards and down I went! I came up sputtering and looked at Jonathan who was about to die laughing at me. It was then that I realized that I had lost my glasses in the current of the river! Oh no.... I am blind as a bat too!!! I let my inter tube float away and grabbed the twins. Jonathan proceeded to climb into the river and go searching. He did end up finding my glasses quite a ways on down the river. They weren't broken and I was thrilled. That experience wasn't very "lazy" for us that day!!!
On Wednesday night, the weather had been bad and it was really storming outside. They kept talking about tornado warnings in certain counties. Of course, we had no clue what county we were even in that day!! The sky was black and winds were strong, thunder and lightening flashed but we didn't let that stop us from sleeping soundly! All of a sudden, Jonathan and I woke up to an ear piercing sound of the fire alarms going off in our resort! We both quickly got dressed and I went out in the hallway. People were staggering out of their rooms in a daze wondering what in the world was happening! I began to try to wake the kids who hadn't even moved since the sirens began blaring!!! Talk about extremely sound sleepers... Parker wouldn't budge and I was trying to figure out how in the world we were going to carry these kids down 5 flights of stairs! The sirens stopped as I was trying to wake the kids and I told Jonathan to go downstairs and make sure it was really something big before I woke up our kids!!! Ha!!! He took the elevator downstairs of all things!!! Said it was total chaos in the lobby and people were asking what time it really was! Would you believe it was only 11:22pm!!!!! Ha Ha!!! The storm had actually knocked the power out a couple of times and that caused the alarms to go off. It took us a while to settle back down and sleep but the kids never knew it happened!
The next morning the kids were looking out our patio door and saw some debris on the patio. As they looked below, Paige saw that a huge pine tree had fallen just below us! Good grief....
Click on the picture below for a photo journey of our vacation!
Parker's 8th birthday was on Sunday, September 19th
I can't believe we have an 8 year old!
He chose this theme when the Reds were still in the playoffs!!
World's biggest baseball nut!
Parker with his siblings and cousins!
Paige and Peyton, 4 1/2 years old.
Today, August 17th, 2010 marked the first day of school for our twins, Paige and Peyton. They attend Asbury United Methodist's "Children's Morning Out" on Tuesday and Thursday. They were so excited to start back to school and eagerly jumped out of bed this morning. I know that before too long, I'll have to drag Peyton out of bed for school. However, there was much excitement in the air today at our house as we quickly got ready for school and ate a good breakfast. The twins are in the Red Room this year and Mrs Hollie is their new teacher. I'm hoping that they learn a lot and that this gets them all ready for Kindergarten next year!
On July 4th, we got to visit TaMerra Edwards...
Paige thought she was hot stuff cause she got to hold baby TaMerra!
Parker fell in love with the farm cats at Jonathan & LuRhe's and wanted to bring one home!
Parker & Peyton having the time of their lives on the Edwards 4-wheeler!
Parker did a great job driving Peyton "slowly" around the farm!
He just HAD to take me for a ride!
I think Daddy enjoyed his ride more than I did!
Paige had her cousin Jesse wrapped around her finger!
Boys will be boys...
