For Spring Break Skyler's immediate family all got together for a few days. It was awesome.
We stayed at this place called Conifer Lodge. It was huge, plenty of space for everyone. There were tons of trails and bikes to use, a big park close by and passes to the water park down the road, and the biggest hot tub in Sunriver was on the back deck. Yes it was big.
The only thing I am disappointed in, is my lack of pictures to show for it. We also went to a local bowling alley one day, which was pretty entertaining to see all the kids getting into it...and beating our scores (in our defense they were using the bumper lanes.)
Funny, not so funny story:
Two years ago we visited Bend with Skyler's family. We went to church with a fussy Hayley.
Ended up in the ER for ear infections. Granted she'd been out of sorts for 2 whole days by then, (hey we were new at diagnosing ear infections ok.)
This trip: Hobbes had been a little out of the norm and fussy the prev. day. Sunday at church he's crazy fussy and I notice he's got crusty's around one ear. Back to the same ER as before. Inner and Outer ear "infrlections" as Hayley says it. We were in the same room even. Bend is fun but, come on kids! Too many similarities.
Ok, back to more interesting things, I brought a bunch of "Minute to Win It" games to play with the kids during down time. I had a blast watching them try to figure them out.
Just a few...
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Carry 5 paper bags cut into different heights across the room using only your head.
With Hayley's tights on their head and a baseball in the toe, the had to knock over 10 water bottles. The kids were surprisingly really good at this one.
Blow a paper cup down the length of the table using a straw.
This one was hard for a couple reasons, I didn't have enough straws so they had to use half straws, the table was also like 8-9ft long and wavy since it was planks from a tree.
Too funny. This one you had to move a cookie down from your forehead to your mouth.
There were a few other games too, but lastly they had to build towers out of cups and take them down again in a minute. There were some really nicely shaped "towers".
All in all, what a fun age to do these creative activities, just being able see all the different solutions their brains came up with.
This was the big park. Just like at Christmas, Hayley and Melina were inseparable.
We had such a fun time with everyone and were sad to all have to disperse again at the end of the trip. But....a HUGE thank you to Lynn and Joell for making it possible. Organizing activities, finding the lodge, providing food and smiles etc.
