A Visit From Our Cousins

On Monday March 10, 2014, Melia, Melissa, Kyla, and Alana came up to visit us. I babysat Emily that day. As they were getting here, all of the kids were waking up from naps so everyone was in a great mood and ready to play! Mondays are Alex's early  night so he was home by 5. We were able to grill outside and Mary, Chad, Dad, and John came over.

 

Just hanging around!

He wants to be like Daddy. He doesn't say many words but he does say "beer". No worries....it was empty :)

Cousins who pee together, stay together!

How sweet are these three???

CHEESE!!

 

 It was a delicious meal. Mac n cheese, green beans, corn, steak, chicken.... DELISH.

Alex is always the last one eating....especially with a grilled out meal.

Delicious dessert!

Note Charlotte's hand on Alana. She is obsessed. She feels the need to touch her constantly.

On Tuesday, we all got up, got ready and headed to Peoria. We took the kids to the Caterpillar museum. We didn't know how kid friendly it would be but loaded up all four to try it.

It starts with a movie. Sawyer started BAWLING. He gets nervous when we go into new places. He thought we were at the doctor. Perfect. He screamed. And screamed. When he finally settled down, we went back into the movie. The movie theater was in the bed of their biggest truck. It was GINORMOUS!!!

Check out those wheels!!!

 

 

 

 

Sawyer was in heaven.

 

 

 

 

The movie theater was in the bed of the truck behind Sawyer.

 

 

 

They had "games" for you to play too.

 

 

 

Alex was MIA for a long time. I found him at the games :) Typical boy.

 

 

We are comedians on the side.

Alana was so good. All she did was sleep. Such a good girl!!!

After we went to the museum, we headed to lunch at a Mexican restaurant in East Peoria. It was chaotic but the kids were really good...Considering we had a 3, 2, 1, and 4 month old. We then headed home to hang out. We had mostacolli that night for dinner. We watched movies and hung out. Kyla ended up with allergy issues while at our house so they headed home to the doctor on Wednesday morning.

We had a blast. The kids loved playing. They had a blast just hanging out. We were so glad they took the time to come up and hang out with us for a few days. And luckily, the weather wasn't too bad or too cold.