Angie's Challenge

This isn't something that I would normally do, but Angie inspired me to give it a try. Here is my scrapbook page of Sarah's memorial day!

Memorial Day and Princess Sarah

Sarah got to wear her new patriotic barrettes for Memorial Day. Her hair is long enough now for 2 ponytails, not quite for 1 yet. Soon, though.

They really do love each other. Doesn't always seem like it! I hope they like the new one just as much!

Cody and I went to the dentist last week, so a friend watched Sarah. When I went back to get her, she had her fingernails and her toenails painted! It was her first time, and she loved it. She had to have green polka dots on her toenails, though, so they would be camo! She really is half princess, and half hunter girl.

Turning 4!

For his birthday, Cody requested a cake with a hunter, a 4-wheeler and deer. Hmmm.... Couldn't find that in the cake catalog at the store, so I had to make one myself! He was so excited for his birthday. He got lots of cool hunting gifts. We celebrated on Sunday, and it was "casual Sunday" at church, so he got to wear his Carhartt's. He even won a prize for the most redneck dressed person at church. What an awesome birthday!

Camo on the inside too!

Boalsburg

At the last minute, we decided to go up to Boalsburg on Sunday for the memorial service. It turned out to be a really nice day. They had all kinds of helicopters and tanks that the kids could crawl through. Cody was uncharacteristically shy in the beginning and didn't want to go on anything, but Sarah crawled right up with Daddy.

The only thing Cody was interested in were the guns (surprise, surprise) and he talked to this soldier who told him all about them.

By the end, Cody was much braver and ran around with my cousins kids checking things out.

He wore this flight vest, but he couldn't walk in it. It weighed almost as much as him!

After the service was over, the helicopters took off one by one and flew over the grounds. Sarah waved goodbye to all of them.

She mostly enjoyed running around the grounds while waiting for the next helicopter to get warmed up.

She thought it was hilarious to snort like a pig. My little princess!

Bobbleheads

We drove up to State College the other day to buy Cody a bigger helmet for his 4-wheeling because it hurts his ears to take this one off. The man at the store advised us that Cody's helmet is fitting him nicely and we shouldn't get a bigger one. They did, however, have a girl's helmet on sale for half price, and once Sarah put it on, she didn't want to take it off. So, we didn't get what we went for, but now we have a matching set of bobbleheads!

Bear!

The other day, Cody was napping on the couch and Sarah and I were making dinner. All the sudden, I looked outside and saw a bear walking around my car. I thought that Cody wouldn't want to miss it, since the two of them are always talking about bears and growling. I tried to wake him up, "Cody, Look! Look! There's a bear!" Well, Cody didn't wake up, but Sarah shrieked in pure terror. I was so surprised! The bear didn't hang around too long after that, turns out he was scared of us too!

Great Wolf

Our family vacation happened a little early this year, since we will be pretty busy this summer! We went to Great Wolf Lodge and got a room that had bunk beds in a little cabin for the kids. They LOVED playing in it....sleeping, not so much. Oh well, maybe next time!

Even the restaurants were cool. The one we ate in when we first got there was supposed to make you feel like you were in a tent!

Sarah discovered that she could float with her vest on. She would walk all around, then suddenly let herself fall backwards and float, laughing the whole time.

Both kids enjoyed splashing in the jets of water.

They really got along well, maybe because they didn't know anyone else, but they hung out together a lot and followed each other anytime one went down a slide, the other one had to, too.

They did this green slide together about a hundred times. The guy at the top just laughed because they would come running up together and Cody would try to get Sarah to go down the one beside it so they could race, but she wanted to do exactly what he was doing!

The orange slide was probably Sarah's favorite. While Cody and Daddy were off riding the big slides, she spent her time on this one. She did it for a couple hours straight! No napping during this trip, too much to do!

Mike did all of the slides and Cody did all but the 2 he wasn't allowed on, but I don't have any good pictures of them. They had a blast though, and I am sure we will be visiting here again someday!