week with cousins

Another great part of our week last week is that cousins Carter and Lily were here.

It's always fun when they are here.  Grandma and I trade kids back and forth.  Girls one day.  Boys the next.  We take a head count at every meal and bedtimes.  It's great. 

 

Aunt Angela came up on Friday for the weekend and we all got together for some more family fun. 

Friday night was the drive-in movie in Redfield.  This was a first for our family!  We had a beautiful evening with lots of popcorn and blankets to keep us warm.  We saw Monsters U, which I liked even better than the first Monsters movie. 

 On Saturday, we made our annual trip to Storybook Land.  Rachel went with us last year, but this was the first year she could enjoy it.  As the big kids ran from place to place, she wanted to stay at each just a little longer!  All of the slides were like Christmas to her!  Teresa reached her goal of growing and is now tall enough for the balloon ride!  The boys may be outgrowing the Storybook Land attractions a bit, but you can see they still had quite a bit of their own fun, too. 

 Here are our two families of Melius cousins--Landen (9), Teresa (5), Carter (8), Scarecrow (74), Lily (6), Rachel (1) and Nathan (7).