Luke left on his fishing trip on Thursday and the kids and I had a jam packed weekend of fun! We started the weekend with parent-pick up for Bishop and Chess Club! He was asking about joining Chess Club so we had him check it out and he loved it! It's from 4:10-5pm every Friday that there's school and it's a time for the kids to play chess! His first game was against a 3rd grader....and he won! He then got to play a friend from his class, but they didn't have time to finish their game! He wants to go again so we will register him!
Friday evening brought another night of soccer! It gets dark earlier so it was fun to play with the lights on! There is one more make-up game next week, but we won't be able to make it, so this was Bishop's last game. He loved it and it was a fun event for Friday nights!
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| The tradition of taking their shirts off after their games continues! |
Saturday morning brought gymnastics for Nora and a visit to Trucksploration at the Upper Campus! Community Ed brought in a bunch of trucks for kids to check out, which was a lot of fun! There was a firetruck, construction truck, police car, BOMB squad and a medic helicopter landed while we were there (and we had to run away from it--it kicked up so much sand)!
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| Checking out the firetruck |
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| Bishop and Charlie in front of the Bomb squad car |
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| The medic helicopter landing! |
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| Inside the medic helicopter |
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| In the huge construction truck! |
From Trucksploration we hurried over to the MOA to Nickelodeon Universe for a birthday party for Bishop's friend, Asa. They were generous enough to include Nora as well-so she jumped right in and loved going on rides with the boys!! The first roller coaster Bishop went on was the Rock Bottom Plunge--a very intense roller coaster....and he loved it! They went on the Pineapple Popper (bouncy house), Bumper cars, Guppy Bubbler, Log Shute (2 times), Ghost Blasters (their favorite), and Nora ended the day on the Fairly Odd Coaster! It was the first time where the kids were more interested in the "big rides" than the "kiddie rides"!
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| Coming out of the Ghost Blasters |
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| Waiting in line for the Log Chute |
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| The front of the Log Chute |
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| Nora did NOT like the guy in blue! |
Sunday morning brought church and a trip to Apple Jack's Orchards with the Bormann's! It has become a little tradition that we go to Apple Jack's together and this year was fun as we tried a few new activities!
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| The boys stick together! :) |
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| This was a tough picture to get! Silly kids!! |
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| Oh my goodness they've grown!!! |
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| The girls! |
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| The bouncy pillow! |
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| "Sisters" always happy together!! |
Bishop waited patiently in line to do the apple launcher and he loved it! He got 3 tries and got pretty close! It was fun to try something new!
Apple Jack's added a zip line this year and the kids loved it! The Retzer's were also at Apple Jack's and Bishop had fun going through the corn maze with Jack and Jesse! The weather was unbelievable! It was warm and sunny......and while it was busy we were still able to do what we wanted and have fun!!
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| Auntie Shelly is always SO good to Bishop and Nora! We love you Auntie!! |
We missed Luke a lot this weekend--but thankfully we were busy enough that the weekend went by fast! The kids were on their best behavior and I had so much fun hanging out with them!!
