We had a wonderful time with Jacob, Olivia, and Aunt Conny in town. We were so busy the whole time that I have too many pictures to go through. So here is a sampling of some of the many things that we did.
We went to the Children's Museum for the 4th year in a row. This year the kids got to make and launch their own rockets.
We also spent a lot of time at the pool.
We went mini golfing.
My golfing partners - Conny, Jacob and Luke.
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Uncle G's golfing partners - Ryan and Olivia.
We celebrated the boys' birthday with their cousins - complete with giant cupcakes. The boys got a new Harry Potter Lego set (Hogwarts castle) - and they couldn't have been more thrilled. We even finished off all of the 4th of July fireworks.
We went to Water World - twice. It rained a couple of hours after we got there on Thursday, so we had a rain check to head back on Monday.
The kids in their cabana.
Luke was totally fearless on this slide - that is him at the very top of the slide - second from the left. Ryan was even willing to try it later - it took him two times down the slide to decide that he didn't really like it.
The kids went to a Horseback Riding Day Camp - and Conny and I had 6 hours to ourselves, it was wonderful. Olivia, Luke and Jacob liked horseback riding - Ryan said he did not, because he fell off his horse.
We went to JumpStreet another day - where the kids could jump on giant trampolines.
Olivia loved it.
We even went camping.
Unfortunately there was a fire ban - so we had to make our smores over the camp stove.
The next day we went to Cripple Creek and rode the train - Luke fell asleep half way through it.
And the last day we went to Jungle Quest - where the kids got to rock climb and swing down zip lines - Ryan said this was his favorite.
Video of Luke swinging.
The 4th annual Children's Museum photo of the 4 kids at the Word Wall.
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Much of our visit consisted of building Legos. We went to the new Lego store and the boys used their own money to buy 2 Harry Potter sets (the Knight Bus and Hagrid's Hut) and Jacob got the Hogwarts Express. Conny and I spent 2 full days building Legos with the kids - and super gluing the sets together (the main pieces are glued together, but they can still play with all of the people and little pieces). Below is from this morning - we put together Hagrid's Hut today in order to keep Ryan preoccupied from being so sad about Jacob and Olivia leaving.
We had a great visit and the boys have been telling me all day how much they miss their cousins and can't wait for Thanksgiving when they will be back.
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