2 in a row!

I have had visitors two Sundays in a row!  How exciting.  I love it!  This weekend Nicole and the kids, and Brad and Ty headed over to Canada to have a cousin get-together.  It was fabulous!  Brad and Ty stopped at the hospital to visit with Laura and Melia before they headed across.  Nicole, Amanda, Nicholas, and Gabby ran a few errands and then they headed across.  Funny thing was that they pulled into the driveway at the exact same time.  (After Nicole drove past the house like she typically does, drives to the end of the street, turns around, and waits for me to flag her down in the right driveway.  She insists that all of the houses look the same.)

There was a slight problem before everyone arrived....I was trying to top off the pool so that when the kids came, the pool would be filled and we could use the hose for the slip-n-slide.  So, I had the water running and was cutting fruit.  When I looked out the window to check on the pool, it had collapsed!  I was sooooo annoyed.  Not all of the water had come out, but a significant amount was gone.  Here we go again waiting and waiting to fill the pool.  So, when the kids arrived, we once again had the hose running into the pool!

Tyler, of course, was only interested in the basketball net.  He is probably the only kid I know that doesn't go crazy when he sees water.  Nothing competes to a basketball net!  WEIRD!

The other kids naturally gravitated toward the freezing cold water!

Then it was time to slip-n-slide!

Pretty impressive that Tyler got this close to the water....But he WILL NOT let that ball down!

Here the kids took a quick break to eat some yummy fruit!

I love this picture of everyone looking at something!  Too bad I cut off Brad's head and check out Tyler in the background just getting ready for another shot.  Everyone was actually looking up in the sky at a huge plane flying overhead....flying quite low....getting ready to land!

Enough about the plane!  We want more fruit!

I love Cameron's face in this picture.  

This one was a little better, but Nick's eyes were closed.

This is the best picture I could get of the two girls together.....Eating....

Amanda was trying to warm up a bit.

Not sure why Brad has such an inquisitive look on his face....

Tyler is also fascinated with bugs.  Here he is checking one out.

Here he is killing it!

Enough killing bugs....he wanted his balls back...Here we go again and again and again.

Not sure where Emmersyn was off to...

But, she decided to rejoin the fun shortly....

Brad passing out a little more fruit to the little ones.

We took a short break to come in and eat some pizza.  Gabby, Emmersyn, and Tyler decided to hang out in Emmersyn's room while the older kids were playing downstairs.  Not sure what the older kids were doing, but check out these little ones!  Gabby decided to get undressed and raid Emmersyn's armoire to pick out a new dress to wear.

And would you expect anything else from Ty and Emmersyn but jumping on the bed?  These two are monkeys!

Then the kids headed back outside into the pool.

Brad was asking us what else he was supposed to do while his wife was in the hospital recovering from birth.  He was having a good time with a little father-son bonding before the little girl arrives home.

Tyler taking a 20 second time out!

Nicole and Gabby playing a little catch.

I found Nicholas and Cameron hiding on this side of the pool.  When I asked them what they were doing, they said they were getting warm in the puddle of water that was on the outside of the pool!  So funny!

Wow....here comes Tyler checking out the pool!  With the ball in his hand.

He can't take his eyes off of the basketball net!

Emmersyn had fallen asleep on the couch after she ate.

Now all of the kids were trying to warm up in the puddle of water!

Brad was off to rescue Ty from the puddle!

After they warmed up, they hopped right back into the frigid pool.

Tyler started doing some trick shots.  From the seated position....

With a softball.....

With a football.....

Thought this was a cute picture of Brad and Ty.

Tyler would only give me one picture.  Then he turned his attention back to the ball! AHHHH!

Thanks for coming over!  Can't wait for the next cousin get-together!