Fun with Family

Hanging in the pool at home. She almost never uses this tube any more she is getting really brave in the water.

If your dog won't eat Mikayla will help by force feeding him I mean hand feeding him...she does it so well and they just take it. :)

Playing with the paints...oh yeah we forgot we are supposed to use paper...

Oh that's not paper, either???

Once again waiting at the airport in her special waiting chair, phone in hand...this time waiting for Grandma and her twin cousins she has not seen here at our house for over 10 years.

They finally arrive Grandma and the girls

Fun at the mall park....

You cant take a picture of one and not the other :)

More fun at the Mall

The girls getting dizzy...or were they already :)

The Girls out for a cruise

You know I had to take them for their first Spa Pedicures....

Us at the Arch 1st time for Mikayla

First for the girls at least that they remember

Did they go up or did they not??? Ask them!

On the roof at the City Museum after walking up all 11 flights of stairs in the heat with no air circulation, no air conditioning, no fans, no open windows.... can you say never again.

G and Mikayla in one of the many climb through mazes at the City Museum

After seeing this room of machines that make shoelaces you can then understand why they went to the round annoying continuously untying shoelaces and Velcro....I myself would love to still have only the flat laces in all colors.

To rats in a maze

Awesome pic area

Of course as you can see it is better when you wear bright colors for these pics

Mikayla loved running up and down these ramps even by herself we had a hard time getting her off them

Mikayla sentenced to a life of scrubbing floors with a sponge...as you can see we gave her a life time supply of sponges she could not even find the floor :)

We have had our fun at home and we had our visit with family. Mikayla's twin cousins have never been here in 10 years and came for a week visit with Grandma. I am not sure who had more fun. It was a busy and quick week. We visited the Arch, The City Museum and to the Festival of Little Hills. Being the girls are pre-teens they were not upset when we also visited 4 different Malls while they were here. At the malls we played at the indoor park, the outdoor race track, the Merry Go Round and the large Trampolines. At Frontier Park they had their hand at the rock climbing wall and bounce slide. At The City Museum they just could not get enough of it. Mikayla did a bit at the City Museum with G but she had fun playing at home with Grandma and the girls and just watching the girls having fun together. You know I had to take them us all out for a girls spa day so they can have their first official Spa Pedicure. We even went to the park right here near home where we had some fun. Every day was filled with fun and being on the go. I am not sure if the girls came to like my boys or not but I do know the boys had fun tormenting them. When all was said and done the day they were to leave, G left first. I had to take him to the Airport so he can head to VA when I returned it was Grandma and the girls trip to the Airport to head home. Needless to say after they were ALL gone Mikayla, the boys and I had a very quiet few days... NOT. The evening they left I threw in some laundry and was in the play room with Mikayla when I heard the gush...we sprung a major water leak, a pipe/hose busted and HOT water was shooting across the room. I had fun trying to turn it off as the HOT water was shooting at me in the process. I just thank God was watching over me being home alone, making sure I was in the basement to hear the water gush cause if I had been upstairs or out of the house who knows how much additional water and damage would have occurred. We did get it fixed quite quickly and again God was by our side and sent an angel to fix it for next to nothing compared to the major issue it was. After that Mikayla, the boys and I not only did have a quiet day or two but I think Mikayla was a bit lonely with no one to torment and play with her. The boys were also in the same boat and kept looking for the girls to play with. I think we are all back on track for now. Tomorrow Mikayla is supposed to have a play date with Kailyn. This will be the first play date for the two of them together. Kailyn has been home in the USA for just a short time now and transitioning quite well. Our next adventure will be to Florida in Sept. Another first for Mikayla...we will not be going to Disney as she is still a bit to young for that but we will do some other fun things that she will be able to do as we will be staying on Disney property and will surely go to Downtown Disney if not to shop, just to walk around (like we wont shop, right!) Shortly after Florida will be our big trip to Hawaii that will be a real treat for Mikayla with the lagoon, pools, Luau's and shopping at the outdoor mall (yes Mikayla does love to shop believe it or not) and so much more.

Mikayla trying to sit on a puzzle block G and Mikayla on the steep slide

Hamsters in the Wheel :)