Wood Creek Party People

Our street had the

1st Annual Wood Creek Block Party

today...

I REALLY loved the bounce house!

And test driving all the other kids' cars

But I'm still talking about the bike race...

On your marks,

get set,

GO!

Jack made a nice showing

My friend Ryan and I were a bit slower

I may have been in last

Oh, for Pete's sake!

Pushing may be faster!!!

Cut me some slack!

I am the youngest kid in the race!

(even if it is by 3 days)

We ate, drank,

colored the street with chalk,

had water gun fights,

lost bocce balls down the sewer,

and had even more fun going below to get them back out!

We may have got a car or two stuck in the lawn

It was too much fun not to make an annual event!

We have awesome neighbors!

Celebrating the Mamas and Papas

We had a joint party for 

Mother's Day and Father's Day

with Mom's whole family.

Everyone enjoyed some tasty food

and lovely conversation in the shade on this beautiful summer day

We enjoyed the pool!

We may have stripped down to our birthday suits

for a swim,

but Mom promised to keep those pictures to herself

until we're bratty teenagers.

Thanks, Mom.

Fun in Downtown

We look forward to Downtown Days every year.

This year did not disappoint!

Daddy headed down early to help

the neighborhood team in the BBQ contest.

Once we were up from nap,

Mom loaded the van and we were off for adventure!

(Mom was really proud of her parallel parking skills...)

We had some bar-b-que at the Legacy Wood tent,

watched a few trains pass by (2 of them!!!), 

and set out with Grandma and Grandpa for some fun!

First, we hit the space shuttle Atlantis replica

The flight simulator was pretty cool,

but I did get a bit scared with all the noise and lights

I recovered quickly, though,

and Wes and I hopped on our first ride of the night

As you can see,

the train was a LOT of fun

Next was the carousel

Then the pony ride

 We asked Wes if he wanted to go...

his face lit up and he screamed "YES!" 

and nearly jumped off Dad's shoulders

Weston LOVED it!

 The next ride Wes was too small to get on

and Grandma was too big to get on.

Everyone was shocked when I shrugged and jumped on by myself

 How could I turn down spinning teacups?

We tried our had at some games

Turned out they weren't too tricky

And we won these AWESOME bats

Thanks Grandma!

We finished off the night with a final spinning ride

(Mom loved it!)

 then some funnel cake and dancing to the music of the bands.

What a fun night!!!

Wonderful Wonderscope

Mom was a bit burned out at work,

so she took the day off,

grabbed a few donuts to celebrate National Donut Day,

called our friend Olli,

and we headed to Wonderscope for the morning...

It was our first time there,

and will not be our last!

We started the day with this cool vacuum tunnel system

You put the scarves in,

it sucks them up,

zig-zags around,

and shoots them out

Pretty cool!

 The water room was a hit too

 See,

you connect all the tubes together to get the water

to run where you want it to go

Three future engineers...

like fathers, like sons!

(Olli's dad is an engineer too)

In the art room,

we made paper plate snakes

I even cut mine out by myself!

West tried out the face painting

And we moved on to the vet clinic...

Do you have an appointment?

Drs. Reed,

saving the puppies

one at a time

Everyone needs clean bedding

And a good brushing

The roller coaster room

was pretty fun

Olli explained the finer points of gears

to his mom

We rolled golf balls down huge ramps,

did a little shopping,

and harvested the garden

Olli and West got a bit kick out of the puppets

Ruff!

This guy almost had to come home with us--

it was love at first hug

We made a second trip to the vet clinic.

It was definitely our favorite room!

To top off the morning,

we headed to Fritz's for lunch

A final train ride with a friend...

...makes for a very good morning!