My Life with Boys: Stay Cation 2009

Well instead of going on a vacation this year (Brandon rarely liked to vacation when he worked for a company so now this is as good as we were getting this year) we took a stay cation. There still was a little work involved, but not much and we just enjoyed time as a family. We started out by going to a park that had a splash area and pond.

Here's Cash asking "What's that?" his favorite phrase. He is an exclamation and questions child. The majority of words out of his mouth are "yeah!" "wow!" "what's this?" "ready, set, go!".

Then we had fondue night with the neighbors where the boys enjoyed getting nice and messy.

The night ended with a fireworks show since we forgot to take all the fireworks with us to Brandon's parents on the 4th.

We fit in some other things like junk store shopping where I picked up some kid's chairs for next to nothing and spent lots of time a centennial park riding bikes and feeding the ducks. The big event of the week was a trip up to Holiday World. And I must say I have not been a parent ready to tackle Disney with my kids maybe because they are extremely active and don't sit still and the thought of waiting for longer then 5 mins for anything gives me nightmares...that said Holiday World was very nice. We stayed for 9 hours and when we got in the car we really did not feel exhausted. Here's a few pictures from the day...

We ended the week with Serving Saturday at church. Every few months our church goes out in the community to give back which is one of the things that really drew us to this church when we were looking for a change. It was nice to be a part of it for the sense of community and getting to know others, but at church on Sunday they showed the video and pictures from the day where 450 members went out into the surrounding community and helped with businesses and people's homes and it really gave me a huge sense of pride to be a part of a church that is focused on helping and serving the community and something I really want my boys growing up doing. I took this picture from our pastor's blog here.

After the morning there was a special Kid's Stuff service and then a carnival for the church and neighborhood kids. It started raining, but that didn't stop the boys from having fun. Here though Parkes is pouting because he wanted a different pony then was available.