Labor Day weekend we packed up the car and headed for Manson/Pomeroy for the weekend. And we accomplished a lot!
Saturday we drove back and went out to Grandpa Dennis and Grandma Linda's. We hung out with Uncle Adam's family, Aunt Hunter, and Grandpa Ron. The kids enjoyed running around outside and Grandpa Dennis smoked some yummy meat. Then we headed on over to Grandma Ruth's and enjoyed a quiet evening there.
Sunday Grandma Marjean and our family got up and going to the Community Orchards by Fort Dodge. They have an awesome "Back Forty" full of all sorts of fun for the kids. We met up again with Uncle Adam, Aunt Sarah, Landon, and Mabel. The kids wore themselves out playing until we decided to head to the Sportspage for lunch. (I think this was the first time we've all gone out to eat together :-)
After the Sportspage we stopped back at the Orchard for a bit more fun, then headed into Fort Dodge for some ice cream at Dairy Queen before heading on back to Grandma Ruth's. Landon invited Caleb to stay over at his house, so Caleb had his first official overnight stay :-) Aside from a lot of giggling and Caleb almost falling out of bed multiple times it was a huge success! I'm sure this is the first of many!
Monday we planned a get together with a whole lot of family at Grandma Ruth's. People started arriving around 10:00 and we enjoyed coffee and rolls. Then we started playing some games including a scavenger hunt, a relay race, and sardines. Then we enjoyed a delicious meal and played a few more games including a water balloon toss and a bit of baseball. Lastly there was a parade that even had some candy thrown out to it's audience :) But by the late afternoon it was time to pack up and head home. To our dismay, neither child fell asleep on the ride home but they remained in relatively good spirits.
It was early to bed that night! And our next trip back we hope to get a ride in a tractor, combine, or semi :)
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| Ready for some fun at the orchard...this was after telling them we wouldn't go in until they posed for a picture :) |
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| Jumping on the air pillow! So much fun, even mom got in on it! |
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| Rolling in the big tubes...Caleb loved this and went a bit too fast and knocked it out of it's boundary. |
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| Jumping some more :) |
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| All about the "choo choo express!" according to Aubrey! |
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| Climbing tire mountain! |
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| Aubrey ready to slide! |
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| Weeeeee!!!!! |
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| Fun in the corn box. |
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| Mid-jump! |
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| "Milking" a cow. |
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| Dress up in the little house. Aubrey and Mabel had fun in there. |
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| Our little pumpkin head :) |
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| Look how big the girls are. |
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| And the boys... |
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| Checking out the goats and feeding them the corn from their pockets after playing in the corn box. |
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| Caleb's turn to "milk" the cow. |
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| Caleb's response when Landon asked if he could spend the night. |
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| Aubrey made her own little fort after Caleb left and found a picture of Adam and Sarah's from their wedding. She said she would put it in her bedroom because "it's nice." |
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| Silly girlies hanging out on Labor Day. |
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| Madeline joining them. |
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| Baseball time! |
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| Swing batter, batter, swing! |
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| Relaxing with cousin Nolan. |
