Grandma and Grandpa's visit

We had a blast with my parents while they were here. Here is a quick recap of the fun.

We all went to visit Chimney Rock historic site on the Oregon Trail. They had a visitor center there that had a small wagon that kids could load up with pretend bags of flour, beans, sugar, ect. as well as blankets and other items. The wagon had a light that showed when you were half full, full, and overloaded. Alan thought that was the coolest thing ever so we loaded and unloaded the wagon twice. I will send pictures of that when I get some from my parents.



We also went to the Riverside Zoo here in town. It was nice weather for a walk. Below is a picture of Alan comparing his "wingspan" to some bird wingspans. He has a smaller wingspan than a red tailed hawk (blue bird on board).

Then Reed was able to get Thursday and Friday off. We did Easter on Thursday morning and then we all packed up and headed north to Rapid City, South Dakoka. The weather turned nasty that day - it was cold and snowing. We had some adventures finding our hotel and then the hotel messed up our reservation. That was frustrating but we found another hotel to stay at and it worked out all right. The next day we went to an indoor water park called WaTiki resort. Reed and I had a ton of fun but I don't think the boys liked it as much as we were hoping. They had a fun kid area (shown below) but every 5 minutes a HUGE bucket of water poured on top of the play area - it totally freaked Alan out and he didn't want anything to do with it after that.

Luckily they had a lazy river that both boys enjoyed. The lazy river had a walk in entry that Alan enjoyed wading in.

Conner and Alan both enjoyed playing at the edge of the kid play area (out of reach of the big bucket of water)

The adults had fun on the slides. Below is a picture of my parents wiping out at the bottom of one. We finally convinced Alan to go down a slide in a tube with me. He seemed to have fun until we tipped over at the bottom and Alan got dunked. After that he didn't want to go on anymore slides.

While we were in Rapid City we enjoyed eating at a Pirate restaurant and then at Boston Pizza - Yum!!! Then for breakfast on our last day together my parents took us out to a delicious breakfast at IHOP. Can I just say that I love going out to breakfast? Anyway, then we headed to the main attraction: Mt. Rushmore. It was pretty impressive. It was interesting to visit the museum/visitor center.
My parents in front of Mt. Rushmore.

Reed and Carissa

Alan and Conner

After that we had to say goodbye to my parents and head home. Thanks for the visit!

Easter eggs and baskets

My parents came to visit us last week so we did Easter on Thursday so that they could be here for it. Alan enjoyed coloring Easter eggs but Conner was too tired and grumpy to want anything to do with it.

The next morning Alan was excited to learn that all of the eggs were hidden outside. He did a really good job this year finding the eggs and he would get SO excited to find one.

I helped Conner find a couple of eggs - he thought they made interesting chew toys.

After we found all the eggs we came inside to find our baskets. Conner found his in the tub and was interested in the candy.

Alan was VERY excited to find his basket. He was grinning ear to ear as he pulled out his loot.