Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Vacation fun!

The kids and their cousins played with the nerf guns for hours! They loved it and loved being together.

Do all kids just love trying to get pictures of things in the air flying? They thought this picture was pretty cool!

New Years Eve the kids got to go ice skating with some of their cousins. They enjoyed it alot more than we thought they would. They even got a lesson on how to skate from one of the instructors there. It was a great alternative to going to the snow. They really got good fast and spent the entire time skating (over 2 hours).

Christian, Meliah and Lizzy, skating together! I love my kids, they are such a blast!

Lizzy started off by skating with Aaron holding her hand. Once she got her skating lesson, she went off on her own and did amazingly well. The kids all had a super great day!

After skating we went to Aunt Terri's house and spent New Years Eve with a ton of cousins. I can't even remember how many kids were there. We played murder, heads up seven up, night at the museum and simon says until midnight. We also made hats, ate ham and celebrated Marin's birthday.
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3 comments:

Hollye said...

That all looks like so much fun! Happy New Year to all of you!
Luv and HUgs!

January 6, 2010 at 7:47 PM
AaronTara said...

It looks like they had a blast! Where did you ice skate at?

January 6, 2010 at 10:17 PM
Jinnyruth said...

You guys look like so much fun! I'm glad it was such a blast.

January 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM

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