More fun things with the Rasmussens

The kids played in the crazy down pouring rain one afternoon...

We went swimming...

We watched fun things on the ipad (Lucy finally started to warm up to them a teeny bit)...

We played at a big, indoor play place on a rainy day (there's a gated small part for little kids, and then the huge, tall part for older kids)...

 I now present you with the two best crazy faces Lucy has ever made.  :)

 Jackson and Bennett were so excited, they did dances when they got to the bottom of the big slides (not really- we just got some funny action shots of them).

We painted, made up fun games, and ate lots of snacks...

We played with glow sticks and tested them out in all the dark rooms of the house...

Michelle does gel nails and has all the professional equipment and gave us mani/pedi's that are still going strong over a week later!  She also taught me how to make her version of chocolate chip cookies, which happen to break every rule about baking cookies but they are surprisingly awesome

Ryan read books to the kids....

Domino phones

One morning, Lucy and Stella pulled two booster seats out of the back room and put them next to each other in the living room.  They took a seat and then each picked up one domino and had a conversation with each other like they were talking on the phone.  It was the cutest thing ever.  I'll let the pictures do the talking since I don't know what they were saying.

Young's Dairy Farm

This was Marc's last day with us, so for something fun to do we headed out to Young's Dairy Farm.   We started out by seeing all of the animals and tractors.  After that, we headed over to the game area.  Since it was the week of the 4th, their all-around passes were half-off so Jackson and Bennett got one and ended up playing mini-golf, going down this big slide thing, and doing the driving range (which they surprisingly liked and were good at).  We ate a packed lunch and then wrapped up the day by getting some of their homemade ice cream!

King's Island

The Rasmussen's drove up from Florida to visit us from June 29th- July 7th.  Unfortunately, Marc had to fly back after just a couple days to get back to school, but Michelle and the kids got to stay for a while and keep us company, which was so fun!!

The first day they got here happened to be the Saturday that Ryan's work had an activity at King's
Island, so they met us at the theme park and we hit up some rides with them (mostly kid rides in Snoopy Land).  It was great weather that day!  Not too hot, not cold at all, and it rained just a little bit here and there, which helped with the crowds.  Perfect!

 Checking out the dinosaur exhibit, where the dinosaurs move and make noise.  Lucy slept at the beginning of this and when she woke up halfway through, she was scared to death of the dinosaurs when they'd make noises.

 Ryan and Jackson are high fiving each other while Marc is soaring.  The kids behind Marc started copying him on the ride.  It was funny.

Even though she's not smiling, Lucy loved this little car ride and Bennet was the perfect person to ride it with.

Before:

 During (this thing was crazy high!!):

After:

In case you can't tell, this is Ryan and Michelle with Lucy and Stella peeking out the window.

We all finally convinced (bribed) Jackson to ride the big yellow roller coaster, and he liked it so much that he rode it twice in a row- here he is with Ryan.

She was a little tired at this point...

 

This was the saddest/funniest part of the day.  Stella and Lucy were begging to get on rides and loving the few they got to go on, so we passed this little ladybug ride and there was no line, so we hurried and just threw all 4 kids on.  It seemed cute and innocent and no one above a certain height could go on, so you know, we thought it was harmless.  Then, as the ride started, we quickly realized that it really whipped the kids around the corners (like a little kid version of the scrambler ride).  Jackson, Bennet, and Stella loved it, but it shocked the heck out of Lucy and the poor thing bawled the whole time and yelled for mama.  It was hilarious, yet broke my heart at the same time.  I felt really bad.

Here she is, already a little unsure of it.  And Stella's just biting the bar out of excitement. :)

 The ride barely started moving and she's already not doing so hot.

...and the first corner whip....

 Yep, she's done.  And the ride just started.  The one problem though was that Lucy was SO tired before she even got on the ride, which didn't help.  Also, Stella was still somewhat of a stranger to her at this point, and she doesn't do well with new people.  A minute after we took her off the ride, she was asking to go back on, so I'm sure it was just a combination of those things that made it so bad the first time.  Another funny part about this ride is that Jackson hated that we made him go on and then ended up declaring it as his second favorite ride. :)

We ended the day by grabbing some taco bell and then going home and getting everyone to bed.  It was a fun day!