Friday, December 12, 2008

More Fun With Cousins

These are a few more pictures of our trip to Pittsburgh to visit family. We enjoyed several of the local parks in the area. Taylor and Cole still talk about their cousins like we live with them. We love them so much! We miss having family so close and hope to see them again soon!

Thanksgiving

Wow, It has been almost a month since I last posted anything. Sorry everyone! For Thanksgiving we drove to visit Troy's brother Lance and his family. They will be in PA for a few months until Cammi receives a Lung transplant and recovers. We were so excited to see them and look forward to seeing them again soon. Please pray for them and the donor's family, that peace and comfort will fill their hearts. We appreciate their generosity and hospitality to us. Taylor and Cole still talk about their sweet cousins, Carter and Reilly. Cole told me the other day that he wanted to go back to their house "because Carter loves me." Well, we truly felt loved by everyone. We felt so welcome and even are ready to adopt Judy (Cammi's Mom) as our own Mom. We had so much fun doing crafts, going to the park, visiting the Children's Museum, playing games, and just truly enjoying the time together. Certainly it was a time we will always reflect on with gratitude and joy. Here are some pictures from our trip. The Children's Museum had a section dedicated to Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Cole is fascinated with watching the trolley go back and forth. Carter dressed up as one of the characters from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Reilly put on a puppet show with King Friday's wife, the Queen. In another play area, they had a car the kids could pretend to change the oil, fill the gas, drive, or just climb all over. This was Cole's favorite, filling the gas tank.One entire floor was dedicated to water play. The kids donned rain coats and started the fun. Bath time will never be the same again. All the kids enjoyed the water fountain area. They could connect PVC pipes to make different water fountains. over 20 different spouts were coming out of the ground and they could channel the water any way they wanted. This also made for very wet kids. We spent a good 30 minutes drying their clothes on the wall mounted air dryers to keep them from being dripping wet. The fun more than made up for it, though.