Schuddes visit June 08

Silly boys! Why aren't the carseats as much fun in the car?
Balls and shoes what boy could want more?
This ball is almost as big as Jordan, but he carried it around all day!

I hate the birds, but the boys had the time of their lives!
Wow!
Snap! Ethan loves alligatores.
Wild gorilla on the loose.

Big turtle!

Ryan loves In-and-Out Burger! Yay for the new one in St. George!
Happy Fathers Day!
Thanks Ryan and Tara for the "Proud Dad" shirts
Jeff got some treats and a haircuts. Thanks Tara he needed it!
It fits great, now we just need austin to come out and wear his!

Even in the van we were squished!
Naughty Aunt Tara gave Ethan, Jordan's binki.
The nastiest, worst sounding, creepiest bug in the world.
And they were everywhere! Watch what you eat Jeff!
The date was live plants. Talk about time consuming daily!

We love the horses!
Waiting in line is fun for three creative boys. Good thing they entertain themselves this was a LONG line.
They even found friends to play with them. Monkey's!
This was a fun little helicopter ride that went along the top of the kids area.
Fun, but definately not worth the wait.

Too bad only Praker was tall enough to ride!
This was ethan's very favorite ride. We went over, and ver, and over...
This was an awsome haunted house/buzz light year (Disneyland) type ride.
And over...
This was a mini magic carpet type ride that went like 20 ft up in the air. I wasn't allowed to ride pregnant, but Ethan and Jordan could ride. How lame is that?

The cute pirate ship play area. It was great for toddlers!
WEE!!!
Let's race guys!
Daddy and Ethan floating. Ethan loved the freedom his life jacket gave.
Look Dad I can swim!

Boy is it cold! The sun went down and the boys got cold fast. Good thing it was time to dry off and get dressed.
We love water!
Happy boy!
Ethan loves Daddy! Luckily Dad is an oven to warm him up!
On the train ride after the waterpark.

So this ride looked innocent enough and there was no height requirement so we put the boys on. Lucky fot us there was no line and they got right on. However, when the ride started we were horrified to realize that the ride went really fast around the corners and I am very surprised they don't all suffer from whiplash. We learned a valuable parenting lesson, watch the ride before you send young children!
Parker in a Jeep ride.
We didn't find this ride until the end of the day, but they rode it probably 20 times. They loved it.
Ethan was falling asleep, but he loved the horses and screamed when the ride stopped.
Waiting to fiqure out what to do about getting home. They were all so tired from no naps, but they were still having fun!



This was an awsome visit from the Schuddes. We had so much fun and laughed our guts out! So the source of the most laughter was definately when we were at King's Island (a amusement park near Cincinniti). We arrived early and got a great parking place. We unloaded the kids, our swimming stuff and a very few of the snacks. We went in to the park and decided that the non-pregnant adults should ride a couple big roller coasters while the kids were still entertained by being out of the car. They rode two great rides and then we went on some kid rides. At about noon we decided to go back to the car and get some lunch. Well we were almost to the car when Jeff turns to me and asks me for te keys. That was very interseting to me seeing as I had never had the keys. Well we searched all of our stuff and couldn't find them. So we contacted security and they didn't have them, we went back to all the rides and no one had turned them in. So we called the car dealership to see how to get a new key made. Unfortunately because it was our friends van we couldn't get a key made. Our friends whose car it was were in Utah for the month. We prayed about it and felt good so we continued to enjoy our day thinking when the rides closed down they would be found. Well the park closed and an hour later they had searched all the rides and no keys. So we called our friends in Utah and they said they had a spare key inside the house and a hiden key to the house outside. So we sent over our good friend James to find the spare. After much work he located the hidden key and found every spare key in the house to be sure he had the right one when he drove the 2 hours to cincinniti to rescue us. Then he went to our other friends house to get our spare key so we could get in out house when we got home. Meanwhile we put the kids to bed in their carseats and Jeff and I laid out on the gravel. P.S. it is the only cold night we have felt here in the summer and I am 7 months pregnant so gravel laying is really comfortable after a day of walking around. Anyway at about 2 am they arrived and gave us the spare key so we could go home. Jeff and I were freaking out because we found out that to replace their keys was over 300 dollars and our Honda car key was attached which would be anothe $250, but we continued to pray and felt good. Two days later we called the amusement park and they said they had found our keys and would mail them to us. Yay! Talk about the power of prayer and a good lesson in God's timetable.

P.S. Jeff no longer uses those pant pockets when sitting down or riding rides.