Fun In The Sun

Actual Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011

We got a special treat from Uncle Donnie and Aunt Ann, they took us all to a water park.  As you can see the kids were beyond excited about it.

Ava LOVED the slide, and that's putting it lightly.  

Every time she came down the slide she headed right for Uncle Donnie and splashed him like crazy.  Poor Donnie, I think he got stuck with the wildest one.   

It was a blessing to have Don and Ann there with us because there is no possible way I could have kept an eye on all three kids by myself.  They were all going different directions.

At one point some of us headed over to the Lazy river to float around for awhile.  I had Ava on my back to begin with but then the life guard said we couldn't do that so I asked her if she thought she could swim for awhile, with her life jacket on of course.  She had a grand ol' time floating down that river.  They had jets in the water pushing the water all the same direction just like a real river would.  At one point Ava turned to me and said "Look how fast I can swim in this pool Mom.  Can you even believe it?!"  I had to chuckle and I told her I was proud of her.  

I was in charge of Parker most of the time and he was easy.  All he wanted to do was "Floaty Boy."   He would just lay back and sing "Floaty Boy!  Floaty Boy!"  Anytime I tried to set him up and get him to run around he would get mad and lay back down.

After the water park we headed back to Gram's and Chel's and the kids played some more.  Brooke and Jacob got along so great.  Brooke is literally a month older than Jacob so it's fun to see them interact.  I wish we lived closer so we could all hang out more often.  It would be great to watch them grow up and go to school together.

While the bigger kids were outside, Ava was inside with Uncle Chris cleaning Fishy's tank. 

Or water jug I should say.  

I kid you not, this fish has lived in that water jug for the past 2 maybe even 3 years.  One year at my nephew's Birthday party they gave away fish as prizes.  Fishy was the only little guy left and he kinda hung out in that jug on the counter.  It's so funny because every Summer when I go home I see Fishy sitting there in the same spot on the counter.  Chris takes good care of him though.   It's funny because when Chris walks in the kitchen fishy follows him and gets excited.  It's hilarious to watch. 

We headed over to my Mom's for dinner and more importantly, Orange Soda floats (We may or may not have had Orange Soda floats for Breakfast the next morning... and maybe for a Mid-day snack as well... A wise person once told me "Calories don't count when your on vacation."  That's true, right?)

I had a few glow stick left from the Yoda Soda so I threw those in.