Julie and Carter's visit!

YAY! We had a visit from Julie (my freshman year room mate from college) and her son, Carter. Brayden was looking forward to this for weeks (So was I)! We had so much fun, it was super-hot, in the 90s and 100s all weekend. All of the kids played in our wading pool the afternoon they got here. Which got kind of wild by the end, but the kids had a great time! Then that evening the four of us went to the movie in the park. It was the best thing ever, it's free and it was the perfect night. They played "A Bug's Life." The boys got to run around before the movie started and Carter even got an ant painted on his face. (Brayden was a little nervous about that). We didn' stay for the whole thing because everyone was tired from our big day.

The next day we went to River Front Park. Kent took the boys to an IMAX movie, which apparently they weren't big fans of. They couldn't wait for the rides. Julie and I shopped a bit, and then met them after the movie. They got to go on every ride at least once. Kent was a trooper and rode almost every ride with them. They even went on the spinning ones that made me sick just to watch. I was impressed!

After the rides and some lunch at the Pita Pit all the kids played in the fountain downtown. Ellie was the bravest, and was drenched from running all the way through while everyone else watched. As Nick Kralj says, "She's an animal." I have to agree, she is funny to watch, I think she will be keeping up/chasing the boys just like I did as a little girl. :)

After the park, we all came home and had naps. When everyone was rested after dinner, Julie and I thought it would be nice to take the boys for a bike ride down to the park. The boys hopped on their bikes and I loaded the girls in the wagon. Not so fun. Brayden fell before we even got to the park and had a total melt down. We had to go back to the house to get a band-aid to fix it. Julie and Carter went on down to the park. Later I found out Carter had a melt down also. Too much fun jammed into a day! Two tired moms learned their lesson.

It was a great weekend and visits like this make me miss Julie even more!