At the end of June we got to go to Cincinnati to visit and play at Nana's castle. Camie and her family came and Amber came, so it was a week long family party! It was hot while we were there, but we barely noticed since we basically spent the entire week in the pool.
Aunt Amber got some baby time.
We were able to see some friends, unfortunately not quite everyone we wanted to see since a week passes by too quickly but luckily we saw some of our closest friends. We have really missed living close to Trisha and Trevor and it was fun to meet there new little Duffy and see how much Trey has grown up.
Trisha and I grew up together, it was fun to see her little family.
Like I said.... we basically spent the week in the pool; it was Kate and Liam's first pool experience and they loved it.
We finally got to see Papa's new building. It is an amazing building, with amazing views.
All the big cousins at Papa's desk.
We fit in a Reds game too, which was a lot of fun because the kids are at the age that they are really into baseball and some of the players. Jacob loves the Reds, specifically Joey Votto. We had a box which was great since Liam and Kate came to experience their first Reds game.
Gapper also came to visit the box (Kate was thrilled)!
The kids got Joey Votto batting gloves and they seriously wore them for the ENTIRE game, even when they were eating. It was very funny to watch. They also were very into the game, cheering loud and dancing to the music at breaks.
One day we spent the morning and early afternoon at Kings Island, it is fun now that the big kids are big enough for a few more rides (Jacob and Claire are a couple inches shy on some of the big rollercoasters). Thanks to Camie and Amber for keeping the babies while we took Wyatt to kiddie-land and to the Dads for staying with the big kids after we left.
After Kings Island was more pool time.
Luckily we got to see our good friends Marnie and Adam while we were there and cannot wait for them to be moving just a 2 hour drive from us.
Babies also got to experience the trampoline for the first time, they loved it.
And Kate discovered if she got real close she could see things under the trampoline.
Nana had lots of treats planned.... one night was s'mores.
More pool time. The dads and kids built a floater bridge across the pool and the kids would try to run across it and jump in the tube at the end.
Aunt Camie turned out the be the best swim teacher our kids have had and finally on our last day of swimming started to practice without floaties.
Lydia is sweet older cousin to play so well with Claire.
We left on a Sunday, then we were delayed, then we got stuck in Detroit for the the night and rerouted early the next morning, but we made it home...
And it was worth the trip...
5 comments:
Sounds fun! I'm jealous of all that pool time!
Looks like some good family time and fun!
Can't wait for ours.
Mom
So much fun!! I feel bad that we were out of town and missed you all! Maybe we will catch you anothe time! And in the last picture...our Kate and Liam drinking bottles of Pediasure?? Or is it Ensure-oh wait that is for old people:)
It is similac formula...the only thing they had in the hotel gift shop.
You forgot to write about the afternoon the kids spent in the hot tub--with buckets all around the edges. It was the day they were conducting scientific experiments on the water. One was in charge of testing for sunscreen. One was testing for chlorine. One as testing for......you guessed it!! After a week with that many kids in the pool---who knows what level it was! Such a fun week of memories.
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