Our summer fun: the Aquarium

Another family day courtesy of our local radio station.

A couple of weeks after the ABQ Jump we had the opportunity to go the Aquarium. The Aquarium here is pretty good, but small and it does not take long to go through. It is attached to some beautiful Botanical Gardens though and together they make a fun day, during nice weather.

This was the first time that Katie went to the Aquarium that she was old enough to notice the beautiful creatures that are there. She really enjoyed it!

Look at these sharks!

All of our cute kiddos + one of Eric's friends.

Our summer fun: ABQ Jump

Each summer a local radio station has a summer road trip program. They choose a location here in town and broadcast from there. During their broadcast you can get into that place for free! We have been to a lot of these this summer. Free fun is the best! Plus they go to all the places that we would be going to anyway.

The first week they were at ABQ Jump.

The boys love this place but Katie is a little unsure about it. The place was packed and I think that it was a little to much for her. She only will go down one of the slides if Brandon or Eric was with her.

Eric was an awesome big brother this day and he took Katie every time she asked. It was such a great moment for me to see them getting along so well!

Josh was bouncing everywhere! This kid has so much energy and this was a great way to get rid of some of it!I love the wedgie face!

There is always one...

Last week there was a rare day where everyone was home and we had nothing to do. So we took the kids to the mall for these fun jumps that they have set up there. They each got 15 minutes of play for just $3.00. Great deal, we were excited! They pretty much only have one rule, you CANNOT go down head first. You must always be feet first. One child understood and had a blast!

This one did not understand and was kick off after the first time he went down! I thought that I was going to die. The employee had just told him that he need to go down feet first, he runs up to the top and comes down on his stomach, head first. So he was forced to sit on this bench while his brother had a blast.

And he sat there while sister enjoyed her treat, a pretzel that she so nicely shared with Daddy.

Despite that, it wa a fun way to spend an afternoon together.

Fabulous Family Fun!

Tonight we went to CLIFFS Amusement Park with Brandon's work.. They provided dinner and admission to the park. THANK YOU !!!!

We had SOOO much fun! The boys rode everything that they could and loved it. One ride scared them, but as we walked by it later they wanted to go back.

We hit kiddie-land so that we could find something that Katie could go on. They were really awesome about letting her on. She had a great time if the tantrum that she pitched at the end was any indicator. I personally thought that she was so brave because some of the rides went fast and others went into the air, but nothing. She was happy!

The tilt-a-whirl... MY favorite ride.

I am not a big fan of the roller coaster thing, so I was happy to keep Katie while Brandon took the boys on those rides. It is a good thing that he likes them, the boys don't need to see Mom freak out because she is more scared then they are!

Katie liked the merry-go-round.

I think that we took about 80 pictures tonight! It was so fun to capture on film this fun night with the kids. We are already talking about the next time that we will get to go to CLIFF'S!

~ don't forget to check out the video's of us at cliff's on the next post~

Family Outing

Tonight we went to Hinckle Family Fun Center with Brandon's brother and his family. It was such a great night! The kids had a great time running through the course and getting a "holey one." My boys tried really hard to get the ball in the right way and they did really well at it. But I think that my niece Carly had the right way of playing all along, she would run up to the hole and drop the ball in. Way to go Carly! Afterwards we came to our house and had pizza and ice cream. It was a fun night for us. We love having family near us. It is great that our kids can be friends as well as cousins.

My cute boys had a lot of fun. I tried to get a picture of all of them, but they would not hold still long enough!

Gabe

Carly

It was fun for me to get pictures of Brandon tonight. He doesn't really like to have his picture taken but he didn't fight to hard tonight! Of course, not to many are up close.

Here he is teasing Marissa about her golfing. And below is Aaron. Nice cheesy wave!

I guess the only person that did not have a great time was Katie. She was fairly content in her stroller and I think that she enjoyed watching the other kids. But still, I know that she would have liked to get out and be with the others. Sorry cutie! Maybe next time.

ketchup

Eric played his first practical joke yesterday. While I was out with Joshua he took packets of ketchup, folded them up and placed them under the toilet seat. Just a little while later when I was helping Joshua with his bath I noticed them. I actually thought maybe my father-in-law or brother-in-law had done this and we had just not noticed. I left them there to show Brandon; I just thought that this was too funny. But he went into the bathroom to talk to Josh and before I could get to him he sat down. Ketchup was everywhere! Boy was Brandon mad! Even though I was the one to clean this up I think that this was a great joke. The ideas that they get from books!