Jackets in July, a Wedding and a Waterpark

Friday was a bit cool, especially for July....I'm not even sure we made it out of the 50's! It felt more like Spring or Fall than it did the middle of July. We had to wear our jackets to play group, and still ended up getting chilled. Hopefully we will be back to July like weather by the time we leave for vacation on Saturday (7/25). Andrew tested out his new paints on Friday while Jenna took her nap. Friday he did two masterpieces; the 1st was of a pirate ship in the water, with one good pirate and one bad pirate and there was also a goat jumping over the moon (not sure where the goat came from). His second picture was of two boats sinking next to a dock, which I think was from their bath that morning when they kept purposely sinking their toy boats.

Painting his prirate picture:

Earlier in the day (while we were eating breakfast) Jenna wanted to feed her baby. She went down to the basement, found the tray, then proceeded to buckle the baby in, and attempt to put the tray on. Saturday we went up to Elk River for a wedding. Jenna was a tiny bit antsy after sitting in the car, so she was pretty 'busy' during the ceremony. We told her that Chelsey, the bride, was a princess so she kept herself busy at the end of the wedding watching the princess. The kids were excited to stay in a hotel, and knew that on Sunday we'd get to go to the water park. Needless to say the question of the day was " Can we go to the water park now?"

Where's the water park?Jumping Jenna!

Joe was the last of the Robinson kids to get married. My parents and Art & Sue have been friends since tech school, so all of us kids grew up together, and are all fairly close in age. It's always fun to see everyone, and with 3 weddings this year, it's been a treat to see everyone so frequently.

The clan (Beth, Chris, Paul, Joe, Charlie, Kate, Jenn, Nick):The clan w/ their significant others (minus one)*:*Jenn's husband Bryce is serving over in Iraq right now

Andrew and Jenna had fun at the reception and dance. They had a photo booth where they asked all the guests to have their picture taken, then one copy was put in a guest book for you to sign, and you'd get to keep the other copy. Andrew loved the photo booth and was really sad to see it taken down. They also had a great table with lots of kids toys, color books, etc. to help entertain the kids while we were waiting for food....it was great, and I'm glad the my sister noticed it and took the kids over there. Jenna liked to dance, but her version of dancing was jumping up and down a few times, and running circles around the dance floor.

Jenna not eating:

Andrew teasing his Uncles:

Heading out to dance (aren't they cute?):

Jenna & Uncle Nick:

Good-night Hugs (it was after 11!):

Sunday morning the kids slept in, and they started the morning off with a pillow fight with Uncle Paul:

After eating breakfast we headed down to the water park. Bruce and I weren't sure how the kids were going to do, since the last time we had Andrew at a water park it didn't go very well, but they both LOVED it. Both kids even went down the Big slides. Andrew had fun going down the water slides with Daddy, Grandpa, and Uncle Paul, and even went down one that was pitch black at first (including a drop) and then dumped you into a 'mixing bowl' (as he called it). I was amazed at how much he enjoyed that water park. Jenna went down one of the big slides with Bruce and instantly asked to go again...unfortunately the lifeguard decided she was too little to go down the 2nd time we tried(after we climbed ALL those stairs), even tho she had just been down (we were just a wee bit irritated).

Andrew was sleeping before we even made it to I-94 (which was about 5 minutes), and Jenna held out a little longer, maybe 15 minutes. Both of them were exhausted from all the fun!