Wild Waves

We went to Wild Waves with Ashlee and her girls in August. The kids rode rides and played in the water. We loved going and are tempted to get a season pass next year...

The roller coaster. Jordan and Jack rode on it with all the Crabtrees. Kenzie was happy she was too small to go.

Jordan and Sam are in the front.

Jack, Alli, Jordan, Kimber, Kenzie, Sam, (another kid).

Kenzie was excited to go on this ride until it started moving. Then she started screaming. Kimber convinced her to close her eyes so she would be so scared. It worked and she stopped screaming. But she was thrilled to be off the ride and wouldn't go on anymore rides that went up high.

She loved the cars.

And boats.

Then Jordan joined her on the boats.

Jack rode the teapots over and over again with his cousins. 

Kenzie.

Jordan.

Coleman

We ate lunch in the car then went back in to play in the water.

Coleman and Kimber.

Jordan.

Jackson

Sleeping Kids

Coleman sleeping out of his swaddle. He only sleeps out of it at bed time. I still wrap him at nap time. He doesn't seem to sleep as well during nap when he's not wrapped up.

Jackson

Since we put Coleman in the boys room, the boys have to sleep in the loft on pillow mattresses. I thought I should document this. They are very excited to move soon so that they can have a real bed to sleep on. :)

Jordan.

Kenzie.

Amazon Summer Picnic 2012

We went to Amazon's summer picnic this year. It had been 3 years since we'd gone to it. Our kids were much more into it this year then before. They loved it.

 Jordan on the bouncy slide.

Jack on the bouncy slide. 

Kenzie wanted to go on the slide with Doug. I wasn't so sure it was a great idea, since she doesn't like slides and especially doesn't like bouncy slides. But we thought maybe she'd go down with Doug. She started freaking out at the top, but Doug just grabbed her and made her come down with him. She wasn't very happy. But she did survive :)

Doug, Kenzie, Jackson doing the water balloon fight. Jordan, Colie, and I were across from them trying to hit them. None of us got even close to hitting the the other ones.

 Jordan

 Kenzie.

 Jackson

Coleman spent most of his time in the stroller.

They were excited to do the bumper boats. Jordan had a little bit of a hard time steering though.

Kenzie didn't end up enjoying it and asked to get out soon after getting in.

Jack loved it.

 The kids all got kites for being there. They loved flying them. And now love flying kites anytime they can. This Jordan.

 Jackson

 Jackson's dragon face paint.

Jordan got the Seattle skyline. Kenzie didn't want one. 

Doug took the big boys to play Angry Birds so I took the babies to the baby area. Colie was happy to get out. Do you see his shirt? I made him an amazon one an old one of Doug's. It didn't really turn out that great and was too short. But it worked for the 1 day he wore it. :)

 This was all Kenzie wanted to do the whole day. It was kind of in a far away spot so we couldn't find it until the end when we were about to leave. She loved it and was so excited to finally ride on it.

 

Kenzie, Jordan, Doug, Jack

Coleman and I just watch and waved "hi."

Blue Angels

We went to New Castle Beach to watch the blue angels in August. It was pretty cool, but Doug was disappointed that we couldn't see them when they were flying low. The kids seemed more interested in playing in the water. But I think we all still had fun :)

We ate pizza for a picnic lunch.

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The blue angels are in this picture if you look really hard.

The Trip Home

The trip home didn't go as smoothly as hoped. 2 years ago when we were leaving Hawaii on a red eye flight, the plane was 2 hours late. That meant sitting in the airport with tired grumpy kids at 10:00. This time, the plane was on time, but we were too late. We left the house with about 3 hours to go until our flight was supposed to take off. We stopped at the store. I took a little too long trying to find something that might help to make sure Kenzie's ears wouldn't hurt, since the night before she had been crying because of ear pain. I didn't find anything, and hoped that the Tylenol I had would be good enough if needed. After driving 20 minutes Kenzie has to go potty. So we stopped and all the kids went potty. Then we drove to the airport Doug dropped the rest of us at about 11:30 (for a 1:15 flight) off while he went to return the rental car. It took what seemed like forever (the kids were not being well behaved...) but was actually 30 minutes. We had to go through customer service in order to get our tickets because of the way we had to book them in order to get the best deal  for each ticket. The kids were booked separately so it looked like they were unaccompanied minors. Customer service took so long. We were in line at least a half hour and there were only 4-5 people in front of us. By the time we got to the lady it was  35 minutes  until our plane was to take off and she wouldn't let us check in. Doug tried to persuade her, but she just kept saying she couldn't do it. She also said we couldn't get out money back because the tickets were nonrefundable. We could change the tickets to another day but we'd still have to pay a ton to do that. And the next available Hawaiian Airlines flight was the next day. She said there was one ticket we could buy and we could do standby for the others. But there wouldn't be any guarantee that we'd get on. So after talking to her for awhile about our options she sends us away while we make our decision so she can help other customers. We look for flights leaving that day. We found one that is going to Bellingham (a couple hours north of Seattle (I think it's north)). They were only 250 a ticket I think. Way cheaper than any of the flights going to Seattle. It was departing around 11. So that's what we did. We bought those tickets. Then spent the entire day at the airport. The kids played around the chairs. We ate pizza for lunch and dinner. I guess Doug ate something else for dinner. They played on Doug's phone and my kindle. Watched Netflix. Played DS. Then finally we were able to get on the plane. The kids slept pretty well on the plane. Pretty much the whole time. There was only a little crying from Kenzie and Coleman. I only slept a couple of hours since I was holding Coleman. Doug didn't sleep at all since he was holding Kenzie so she wouldn't cry. 

Coleman stealing Kenzie's snacks.

Doing sticker books.

Searching for a new flight.

watching Dora.

Playing DS.

Coleman even played on the Kindle.

DS, DS, Dora.

After we arrived in Bellingham, we got our bags. While Doug was getting the bags, a lady came and asked my if the kids were all mine. I told her yes and she was like "you gave birth to all of them?"  I saw another lady point us out to her husband too. :) We got a rental car, ate breakfast, started driving,switched drivers after a little bit because Doug was going to fall asleep, drove some more, stopped again because I was afraid I might fall asleep (which has never happened before) took a nap, then drove home, unloaded the car, dropped it off at a rental place near our house, then finally came home. It was quite the adventure. But the good news is, Doug emailed Hawaiian Airlines, and told them about what happened and they are giving us a full refund! So at least we didn't pay double for our return trip home. Plus we got to go to the Bellingham airport, which I thought was nice :)

I can't wait for out next big family vacation! 

ALOHA!