Dad's family...

My uncle Steve Thompson, was here for a short visit over Labor Day weekend! We all got together for dinner at Mom's on Sunday afternoon! Here are a couple of photos of my grandparents and their children. They aren't together that often so when they do finally get together, we always take their picture!

Left to right: my dad: his brother, Kevin Thompson: sister, Vickie Best: and brother from Florida, Steve Thompson.

Grandma and her son, "Stevie Jo" :)

Parker's rendition...

Last night at bedtime, Parker was saying his usual "night night" prayer and decided to change it a little! He said, "Now I lay me, down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. May angels watch me through the night, and wake me up, in the middle of the night..." Jonathan quickly replied, "Uhhhhh, scratch that!" I cracked up! Parker quickly corrected it to "in the morning light!"

I don't know about you, but when I was little, it had a different ending! More morbid... I like this version better! (Does this make his prayer a NIV?)

Our family day!

We decided on a spur of a moment to spend our Labor Day at Kings Island in Cincinnati. I was on line and saw they had a good rate on their tickets for Labor Day weekend. We didn't get over there until around 1pm and ended up staying until the park closed at 8pm! We took our three kids and spent the most part of the day in the Nickelodeon kids part of the park! Parker had a blast and the twins enjoyed it too! They didn't get to ride as many rides as they did earlier this summer at Disney World, but they still enjoyed being outside and watching all the people! It was a beautiful day and not crowded at all!
The only thing I did not enjoy was the log ride... Parker absolutely begged to ride it and he and Jonathan went and got in line! I had parked myself on a bench in the shade and the twins were actually being good and quiet! My cell phone rang and Jonathan said, "They said if the twins can stand alone, they can ride this ride too! Bring them on over!" So... I go over, empty out my valuables from the diaper bag, grab a kid on each hip and head for the line! It went fairly quickly and our party of 5 filled up our own boat! They made us actually sit the twins down on the bench and not on our laps. No seat belts, nothing... As soon as we hit a wall, water splashed in on us and they started screaming!!! We topped the hill and tried to keep them covered, but it was no use... we ALL got drowned! They really screamed. There was an elephant at the end as we were coasting in to dock and it "sprayed" us and completely finished soaking us! As we pulled in, I felt like a horrible mother, two kids screaming their heads off and an almost 5 year old jumping up and down and yelling "we got soaked!!!" Needless to say, that was our last ride of the day!!! I hope it didn't scar the twins for life...
We stopped at Frisch's Big Boy on the way home and filled our tummy's! When we pulled in our driveway at 10:30pm, all was quiet in the SUV!!! What a nice sound!!!
Here are some pics of our fun day! Hope they don't bore you! There are a couple of shots of the drowned rats in there somewhere...

King's Island 2007

Have a great holiday!

Welcome to McDonalds...

They tore down our McDonald's on Hwy 31 this week and there is nothing left! Parker was crushed when we drove by the other night. He cried the whole way home and decided that the only builder he likes is his Grandpa Bob!!! He was so mad at those excavators and bulldozers! We tried telling him they are going to rebuild it and make it better but he doesn't understand. We heard it will be two stories tall and have a double drive thru! We need it, that place is always packed and cars are lined up on the street! In the meantime, while they rebuild, we will be supporting Wendy's more often... (At least we still have McDonald's on the other side of town too!)