Dairy Days and Cousin's Wedding Reception
Some recent happenings around here include my cousin's wedding reception. He and his wife got married in Mexico then had a reception in Wisconsin. (An aside, what is your opinion on the common marriage of today, ie two people living together then being married by a justice of the peace, outside a church of course? I have mixed feelings, as this type of marriage is a contract, an agreement, and really just comes down to a piece of paper that is too easy to undo. On the other hand, there is a form of commitment, which is at least adds some dimension of permanency beyond sharing a roof and unfortunately a bed. What do you do in this case, when you are invited to the wedding and/or reception? I was glad in this case to have an excuse to not go to the wedding but felt ok about going to the reception.)
Anyway, the boys had a great time with the pinata, their little cousin Addy and a new friend, David, as well as the rest of the family.
As you can see, they couldn't get enough of the pinata even after all the candy fell out... so they attempted to put it back together and then went at it again and again.
The boys with cousin Addy and friend David
A four-generation photo, with Great-Grandpa, and a beautiful view!
The boys had a great time at the Dairy Days and Brunch also. They had some fun things for kids to do, such as a pedal tractor pull, petting calves and other animals and seeing cows, a wagon ride behind a tractor, and exploring various tractors and a combine. The boys loved it!
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The tractor pull. Something I had never heard of when we lived in a medium-sized city, but something that is big around here. For those of you who have never seen one, they usually take full size, usually older, tractors that have been fixed up and attach something to the back that is weighted and somehow actually gets heavier the further it's pulled, then drops a sled so that it has more drag on the ground. Of course, the point is to go the farthest.
Tractors and combines, oh my!
Petting calves.
Just a couple more photos to end this post with:
My second breakfast on Saturday: spaghetti and meatballs followed by ice cream.
The boys playing baseball. Notice how Blaise has the football helmet pulled down over his eyes and face. That is his catcher's mask. The boys love to do this. Isaac typically puts one baseball hat on backwards and put another one on over his face. They also will wear backpacks backwards for the chest protection catchers usually wear. Sometimes one of us (Andy or I) will be asked to stand behind the "little catcher" and be the "big catcher" or ump.
Today, we're going to the pool. Andy took the boys last week and said they both actually went down the waterslide with him, which is about 3 stories tall, over and over. They've also recently been going under something that pours water down onto them from a mushroom-shaped "roof" just above them. Both of these, as well as their willingness to go into the water to their chins, are new things for them. My father-in-law has free tickets to a big outdoor water park near us, which he offered to us. We went last year, and it turned out to be a pseudo-disaster (basically the boys would scream if we tried to get them on anything, or even just to wade in the calf-deep water), but this year they will likely have a great time! :) It's great to see them enjoying stuff like that!
Enjoy your day!
Anyway, the boys had a great time with the pinata, their little cousin Addy and a new friend, David, as well as the rest of the family.
As you can see, they couldn't get enough of the pinata even after all the candy fell out... so they attempted to put it back together and then went at it again and again.
The boys with cousin Addy and friend David
A four-generation photo, with Great-Grandpa, and a beautiful view!
The boys had a great time at the Dairy Days and Brunch also. They had some fun things for kids to do, such as a pedal tractor pull, petting calves and other animals and seeing cows, a wagon ride behind a tractor, and exploring various tractors and a combine. The boys loved it!
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The tractor pull. Something I had never heard of when we lived in a medium-sized city, but something that is big around here. For those of you who have never seen one, they usually take full size, usually older, tractors that have been fixed up and attach something to the back that is weighted and somehow actually gets heavier the further it's pulled, then drops a sled so that it has more drag on the ground. Of course, the point is to go the farthest.
Tractors and combines, oh my!
Petting calves.
Just a couple more photos to end this post with:
My second breakfast on Saturday: spaghetti and meatballs followed by ice cream.
The boys playing baseball. Notice how Blaise has the football helmet pulled down over his eyes and face. That is his catcher's mask. The boys love to do this. Isaac typically puts one baseball hat on backwards and put another one on over his face. They also will wear backpacks backwards for the chest protection catchers usually wear. Sometimes one of us (Andy or I) will be asked to stand behind the "little catcher" and be the "big catcher" or ump.
Today, we're going to the pool. Andy took the boys last week and said they both actually went down the waterslide with him, which is about 3 stories tall, over and over. They've also recently been going under something that pours water down onto them from a mushroom-shaped "roof" just above them. Both of these, as well as their willingness to go into the water to their chins, are new things for them. My father-in-law has free tickets to a big outdoor water park near us, which he offered to us. We went last year, and it turned out to be a pseudo-disaster (basically the boys would scream if we tried to get them on anything, or even just to wade in the calf-deep water), but this year they will likely have a great time! :) It's great to see them enjoying stuff like that!
Enjoy your day!
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