steam

Friday night we went to the Steam Show with my brother, sis-in-law, and their kids.  Caleb and Logan had lots of fun - what could be better than eating ice cream, seeing tons of tractors, watching a model airplane air show, and hanging with cousins??  Eric and Lea Anne were reminded that going to something like this with Mike is no better than going with Dad - every few minutes he runs into someone he knows and has to stop and talk.  :)

 Logan and Heidi - they could be twins!  :)

 Caleb wasn't so sure about standing in this big wheel with Boden.

Saturday morning Mike had to work.  Boo!  We did visit for a little bit.  A few times now when we've gone we've gotten to take a family dump truck ride to dump the celery 'pritz' in the back - the boys seem to enjoy that.  They also really like riding hi-lo with Mike.

Saturday evening we had a get together with our care group from church.  It was at a family's house who live on the farm - it was like an amusement park for the kids!  Before supper the boys got to go around and see all the animals - cows, chickens, cats, dog.  I wasn't out there, but I guess a calf licked Caleb's hand and he wasn't too thrilled with that.  After supper the host was trying to read a kids devotional, and our boys don't exactly do very well with sitting still yet.  Caleb climbed up on the couch and did his body slam thing on the other kids who were sitting there so nicely.  :)  (Caleb was on HIGH energy, the ENTIRE evening.)  Logan got attached to a balloon (they had a birthday party the night before) and when we were headed outside and I told him he couldn't take it with him, he flipped out big time.  Screaming and doing his wet noodle move to the max.  Lovely.  After all that, we took a hay ride to the ice cream shop!  Once we got back to their house the kids got to check out the animals some more and run around and play.

 On the hay ride.

Checking out the animals.

Sunday we had my niece, Katie, with us for the day.  We went to church and had a lazy afternoon around the house.  I hope she wasn't too bored.  :)

Last night was my nephew, Boden's, birthday party.  What fun!  They had lots of water activities in the backyard, so the boys were all set.  After supper the boys played great indoors, too.  It wasn't quite as exhausting as some of the other social events we've had lately.  :)

 The boys stayed busy for awhile standing on this mini slip'n'slide and getting wet.  Caleb also had fun running down the hill a bunch of times - he gets to the top, makes sure he has an audience, then runs down.

 They played for quite a long time with the hose and cup.

Notice Mike taught Caleb to put his hand over the end of the hose.  :)