Fun in the Water

 Later that same day, we decided to let the kids run around in the sprinklers. They had a blast.

I think you'll be able to tell from this sequence of pictures that holding the hose was definitely everyone's favorite part.

 The kids all lined up to go down the slide...

 With Sareny waiting at the bottom to spray them all.

Such fun!

They rotated back and forth from the big slide and the little slide.

And they traded who got to be the sprayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 Keeley isn't really very fond of getting sprayed in the face.

 But she managed to have a little bit of fun.

And then things got really crazy.

Actually, Grammy and Bampa decided that the swingset needed to come down, since it was rusting at the base and not very sturdy. It didn't take much for Bampa to push it over. The kids pretended like they were in the middle of playing when it went down.

 And KeeKee really wondered why she couldn't get in the swing anymore.

It was a fun weekend visiting with family!

Visiting Grammy

We planned a trip to Grammy and Bampa's house in September when we found out that Cassidy and James were visiting for two weeks on their way back to Hawaii. We don't make it out to Hawaii very frequently to visit them there, (haha) and we thought Grammy's house was just a little bit easier to get to. We visited Grammy and Bampa at school on Friday, and had lunch in Bampa's classroom. 

The kids had fun checking everything out, like the driving simulator.

After lunch, we visited the school's memorial garden remembering students who have died while in high school. Cassidy's best friend Nicole May was one of those students, and we posed Ivy Nicole by her stone.

Cassidy and Ivy together by the stone.

The next morning, the kids all wanted to have a ranger ride. In the first group was James, Ivy, Truman, Bamps, and Keeley.

Second group was Sareny, Finley, Isaac, and Bampa. I sat Keeley on Sareny's lap, because I felt a picture was needed.

 And I loved both pictures, so here they are again.

 Then they put on their very stylish Clicks sunglasses, and they were off.

Keeley was okay being left behind.

Clark County Fair--the other stuff

In between all those rides, we took in a couple of shows and ate some funnell cake. The plate of funnell cake was left unattended, and Keeley headed over and helped herself.

She was so cute wadding it in! You can see that her poor little eyes haven't quite recovered from the sunscreen though.

Then while Keith and I went out to the van, Sareny and Isaac rode the mechanical bull. I would have liked to have seen them--I bet they were cute. When we got back, Finley had decided she wanted to try it, but just after Lexi paid, she changed her mind. So Lexi got up there for her 8 seconds of glory.

The ride starts out really gentle and gradually increases in ferocity.

This was moments before she toppled off.

Those sore little eyes! I was amazed that she left that cute little hat on so good, because since that day, she tries to take it off as soon as it touches her head.

We went in to see the animals.

Some of the adults in our group, including Scott's grandma, who lives in Las Vegas.

We all loved these cute little piggies.

I don't know what it is about baby pigs, or really baby anything, they are just cute!

Sareny and Finley.

The little spotted pig kept trying to eat, but its mom was standing up eating, so it wasn't getting a good latch. It kept trying though!

There is Isaac with the pigs.

Grammy Jo held little KeeKee.

More of Grammy and Keeley.

The last thing we did was watch an acapella group perform. The rest of our group had already seen them earlier in the day while I took Isaac and Sareny on rides (and Finley slept), and Keith thought our kids would really enjoy the show. So we stayed and watched their second performance while the everybody else went home. It was a really cool, fun show, and the kids loved it so much we stuck around and met a few of the band members afterwards.

 They were really nice and talked to the kids for a while. Finley didn't want to get in the above picture, but agreed to get in the bottom one at the last second. Silly girl!

Anyway, I think it is safe to say that fun times were had by all at the Clark County Fair.