Happenings

Greg had last week off from school, so we decided to take full advantage. We tried to fit in as much as we could.

The first part of the week, we took a little trip to Branson MO. We met my brother's family there. It was so much fun! The girls were so excited to play with Christain and baby Benson.

Here we are in the Hotel. It was nice because they gave us adjoining rooms. We stayed on my Dad's points, and because he has so many they gave a these yummy chocolate covered strawberry's.

Later in the day we went to a fish hatchery and looked at all the fish. It was pretty fun, but free.

The kiddos eating breakfast.

The next day we rented a boat for a few hours. We had so much fun! I haven't been boating in forever!
The kids had a blast.

 Even if you can't tell by their faces :)

After boating we were walking back to the van and saw turtles in the water.

Eating dinner at the Red Lobster.

On the day we left, Jared and Greg went and did this surfing in the air thing. They got harnessed to a board, and then went on a ride.
Here is Greg. They said it was fun.

Eating lunch at a diner before we left. Crazy kids.

The very next day, Brinley had her first day of her last year of pre school.
She was beyond excited that Daddy got to take her. She has been LOVING school.

Julianne really wanted to stay too.

Brinley actually has a new school. They built it over the last year and she was chosen to cut the ribbon at the open house.

Later in the week went to Missouri's Botanical Gardens. We've been wanting to do this since we moved here, especially because it's free to residents. It was awesome! Right now they are doing a Chinese theme, so everything was decked out with Chinese themed stuff.

They have a really fun kids garden that the girls had a lot of fun in.

 Well almost a lot of fun in. Brinley climbed up a rock and was too scared to come down.

On Sunday Greg and I decided to take the girls to see the St. Louis temple. When we lived in Philly the girls would always come with us to the temple because it was 2 1/2 hours away.They saw the DC temple all the time. Now we lived about 20 min away and because we always get a babysitter when we go, they never have seen it before.

We gave Brinley the camera and this is what she took. Pretty good.

The girls and I skipping.

It was a fun week!