Field Trip

Field Trip

We went to the fire department that is closest to our house yesterday. It was the last thing Carter had to do to earn his wolf patch in Cub Scouts. I've been meaning to make it a field trip for the kids all summer since I thought the girls and Dylan would like to go to. So after talking to Laura we decided to just go show up the next afternoon. I called Margene a few hours before and asked if she and her kids would like to join us. Kendall has been asking to play with Sydney for the whole summer so I thought this would be a great opportunity.

Question of the Day:
Carter - "How fast does this thing go?"
Fireman- "We can get it up to 76 downhill on the freeway but it doesn't feel very fast cause other cars are still passing us."

Off we went. This fire dept. is so cool. It is 2 stories tall and so they have poles coming down from where they sleep to where the trucks are. The kids got a tour around the truck. They only have a pumper truck there, and then inside for a tour of the building. The kids loved the recliners in their "living area" and the girls really loved the full length mirrors in the weight room.

Kendall loved having 2 friends to play with. She is such a social girl.

4th Fun

We started off the day with our annual 4th of July Neighborhood bike parade followed by bomb pops and the fire dept spraying the kids with water from the firetruck.

Then home for some daylight fireworks. Dad even let the kids light a few.

Kendall wasn't a fan of the noise but was still a good sport.

Then over to the Tallent's house for a BBQ and Fireworks. What could be more 4th of Julyish than 30+ kids and a whole pack of snaps for each and then some going off at the same time.

Then later the sparklers! Oh what fun and a little bit scary watching all the kids with sparklers. The kids had so much fun.

Kendall and Sydney had a great time at picnic together too.

The day ended with Dylan lighting up his own Spark Scooter in the dark.

(The video isn't great except for the sparks you can really see those)

Kendall says the cutest things

Kendall says the cutest things

This morning Zach asked Kendall to give him a goodbye kiss before he left for work. Kendall quickly ran over and gave him a kiss and then promptly said

"Leave."

We busted up laughing.

Happy Birthday Dylan!

Dylan has been counting down months, then weeks and then days til his birthday. The night before he informed me that it was just too hard and he couldn't wait any longer it was just too hard. Zach was coming home from work early and I asked Dylan if he wanted to call his Uncle Ryan who shares his birthday. His responce was I have to talk to my dad first and find out where my scooter is. He has been asking for this particular scooter for months. I don't know what the exact difference is between his old scooter (which is not a razor) and all the other scooters on our block (Everyone else has razors including Carter), but the razor scooters seem to be much faster than Dylan's so now that Dylan not only has a razor but a spark razor he is now the most popular boy on the block! Lucky for everyone else he is also a great sharer. He has let everyone else try it, including his brother and his dad. He has also been great at sharing the walkie talkies he got and has counted his money a hundred times talking about what he is going to buy with it. I guess we are going shopping today.

Now you can see what all the fuss was about. Here's Dylan on his Spark Scooter!

Science Center!

Science Center!

St. Louis has the best Science Center! I remember going there when I was a kid and told Carter and Dylan all about the bridge that goes over the

freeway and that they could use radar guns to see how fast the cars were going. They were pretty excited. Too bad the freeway was closed while we were there. But we still had a great time anyway!

We built the arch!







Played with the activities outside.


















This is where we stayed at Union Station. We had so much fun together. We'll let you know where we're headed next month!

Riverboat Cruise

Riverboat Cruise

The next morning we went out on a Riverboat cruise. We got to go on the Tom Sawyer. The kids wanted to ride in the front the first half and the back the second half. We all had a good time listening to the interesting facts that they were telling us about the river and the St Louis area.

We went out to breakfast to Denny's. We waited about forever for our food, so we pulled out the camera and looked at all the pictures that we had taken. And then we took a couple of us there waiting patiently.

St Louis Mini Vacation!

St Louis Mini Vacation!

This year we decided we are going to play tourist around our new home town. This weekend we went to St. Louis. Originally we were going to go diamond digging which changed to Omaha, and when we couldn't get a hotel room in Omaha for less than $200/night we ended up in St Louis. It still ended up being a great time!

The water was higher than I remember and we had to go park in a garage. There were tons of people parked in no parking zones, but we decided against taking our chances getting a ticket.

Waiting to get on the tram to the top of the arch. This is why Kendall is so tough. Her brothers love to tease her. At least you can tell she is still smiling.

Looking out from the top. The kids thought this was great fun!



Back at the bottom a picture with the arch.