The Farm!

I had a class reunion in my hometown about 2 weeks ago, so I took the kids and we stayed at my parents' farm for 5 days. We had a busy week and did lots of fun stuff.

We went to the State Park one day to see the bison and play at the beach.

Grandma and Grandpa helped to build an awesome castle!
Mackenzie quickly held up her title of "destroyer". (her outfit was destroyed too)
Thank goodness Rylan is patient with her and just kept working to fix it!

One afternoon, Rylan and I had a date day. Mackenzie stayed with Grandma while Rylan and I had a day out to ourselves. We first went to a waterfall park just to walk around and look at the waterfalls. Rylan was so excited to go to the top of the look-out tower.


He demanded that I take pictures of him jumping off the rocks.
And then more pictures as he rested in the grass.

After the waterfall park, we went and saw Toy Story 3. It was so cute! The last movie we took Rylan to was about a year and a half ago and it didn't go well. He didn't sit still, got bored and we ended up leaving early. He sat perfectly through this one. When it was over, he turned to me and asked, "what's on next?" He was bummed that we had to leave!

After the movie, we went to another park to play, got some groceries and headed back to the farm. This is what he looked like when we got there.

(new umbrella, can you tell?)

One of the kids' favorite things at the farm is playing with the outside faucet. Buckets of water are always fun!

Mom and I took the kids to a pool/water park one afternoon and we had so much fun. I didn't know how Mackenzie would do, since she didn't like swimming lessons very much, but she loved it! We had to watch her so close because she would just start running deeper and deeper and then fall down and go under. She's definitely the fearless one!

The last day we were there, we went to Chuck E. Cheese's for lunch. I've never taken the kids there and they had a blast! I was glad to have help from my parents though.

Never too old to have fun! (not that you're old dad, you understand!)