Memorial Day Weekend

For Memorial Day Weekend we drove up to Kansas to see family and a few friends. Ryan's brother B.J. and sister-in-law Jodi were in town so we made sure to come into town the same time they did!

We had a great time seeing family. The boys LOVED seeing their uncles! (Cooper, BJ, Jackson, Ryan, and Chris)

Grandpa S took Cooper on a ride on the lawnmower.

We also went to a park! There were some fun things to play on.

Oops, these pictures aren't in great order! A family photo of "the kids" Jackson was yelling because he was really hungry!

There was also a fun carousel at the park.

and, since it was KS, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Lion were there! (Lucky Chris got to be Dorothy...I forced him :))

I had to take a picture of the boys in their matching outfits!

There was also a fun train at the park that we rode. Cooper loved it!

Back at the house we had a good time blowing up two play pools that G & G got for the boys. We tried to blow up the actual pool but it was taking forever so we finally borrowed an air pump.

and the boys got right in the pools! Cooper loved this one with the slide.

and Jackson loved his baby pool.

We took a four generation picture

and then another brother picture.

Cooper's getting a little wild here, can you tell?

Jackson liked playing with his Uncle Chris!

and enjoyed playing with Great-Gma S

But I think the water guns were the hit of the trip for Cooper. He wanted to play with them the entire trip!

One day we made it up to KC to see a few of our friends. This trip we tried to see some friends that we hadn't seen in a long time. We met Ryan's long time friend Bill and his wife at this fun outdoor shopping area. I don't have pictures of the adults, but I have a picture of Cooper enjoying the water fountains! Can you see him? He's the fully-dressed kid in the middle with a hat on. The only child with a hat on. My poor child, I would put permanent sunblock on him if I could! :) We didn't know about this fun water fountain or I would have brought a suit for him.

But being fully dressed didn't bother him one bit!

We had a BBQ that evening at my friend Nichole's house. We went to high school together and I hadn't seen her (or our other friend Shannon) in probably 4 years! We hadn't met eachothers' kids before. So we had a wonderful time catching up, just like old times!

Nichole's daughter Samantha (who is only a few weeks older than Cooper)Cooper playing in the water

I didn't have a picture of Shannon's son Payton by himself, but you can see him at the table. They had a yummy BBQ and then played in a bounce house and sprinklers.

The kids are all ready to play!

The last person we saw while in KC was my friend Jamie who I went to grad school with. She has a son Kaiden who is 4, and her daughter Jaelyn is 6 months.

Cooper and Kaiden played a dancing game on the WI. Aren't they so cute playing it together?

We had such a great time in KS and are looking forward to driving up again in a few weeks!