We spent most of Friday playing with our cousins at their house. They just put up a huge new playground and had a brand new John Deere riding toy for the kids. Lots of hours of fun spent there. Well, except until Kate got run over by cousin Trennen! The kids got a little excited to start driving and forgot to wait until everyone was in the car. Looking back it was pretty funny to see but at the time it was very scary to see this tractor that holds up to 140 lbs going over Kate's leg, tummy and up her arm! Saturday we spent the afternoon there too (and boy was it hot out!). The only issue was the two beagle dogs they have. Unfortunately because of the girls' incident with the big black dog, they are very afraid of dogs and that caused some trauma around the two little puppies. We made some progress but still have a long way to go! Any suggestions, please provide!!!
Saturday night we baptized cousin Preston. The girls had such a great time holding him, especially Kate. She couldn't stop kissing his forehead. And Annie couldn't stop kissing his feet! What great cousins they are going to be to him! Then on Sunday we spent some time visiting Kristin and Chris' HoneyBaked Ham store. We got to make our own sandwiches in the kitchen and learned that we probably wouldn't get paid much if that was what we did for a living ;) I think we are lucky we don't live around there or we would be eating their food a lot!!! Kris and I got some girl time and went to the outlet mall for a few hours so that was nice. And then we got to spend some adult kid cousin time over at our Aunt's house playing video games on Sun. night.
Mon we got up and left at 8:00 a.m. and decided to drive through the UP rather than through Chicago. What a nice change of pace! We all really loved it. The girls were doing so great that we decided to drive through all the way home! 15 hours later (and a stop for lunch, dinner and The Mystery Spot) we made it home at 11:15 p.m. I can honestly say that the girls did not complain once on the way home!!! We watched Cheaper by the Dozen 2 more times than I would like to remember and spent hours playing with Silly Putty (which we keep finding all over the car)!
We had a great visit with our family and wish we could spend more time with them. We also learned this weekend that we will probably move the girls into the same room soon as they both really enjoyed sleeping on single beds in the same room! What little buds they have become! We look forward to seeing everyone again for Christmas as we will be making the trek back in a few months!