Girls week..Sort of...

Over the memorial holiday my Sister-In-Law along with her two girls came for a week long FUN filled visit.

This week I know, will forever go down in history for both Britt and I. There will be stories told about naked people on Minnesota Ave, other bizarre behaviors of those in Rapid City, and the memories shared for years to come of our cave explorations, (oh I wish we had pictures or even a video camera for that fiasco) car seats with pee, suffering through a 1 hour car ride with the stench of throw-up coming from the back seat..seriously, looking back, I can't help but think, "our poor kids!" All in the good name of Family Memories.

 My BOY brood and her GIRL brood literally spent everyday exploring and sight seeing. We took over 100 pictures which obviously have not all been included...but I did get close.

And after the kids were in bed we would stay up way too late, divulging in all sorts of juicy stories and scrumptious goodies including our decent attempt at keeping the fire burning in my chiminea long enough to make our smores.We eventually had to break out the gasoline...SAD I KNOW. 

Then to waking up early the next day to head out on another day full of adventure.

 It literally took me days to recover once they left...

I have come think that we might have been separated at birth, good thing we married brothers or I would never of had the privilege of getting to know and love this girl.

However, I can't hardly wait until we do it again...Hopefully next time we can do it without the kids!

 

 

The Junior Rangers getting sworn in...

 

 

Panning for gold with the ultimate miner who had thousands of dollars worth of gold nuggets around his neck in the leather satchels along with the watering trough that eventually was the dunking place for my cell phone by that cute lil' rugrat!

Cal with his cuz' who he lovingly called "Ya Ya"                        The wild monkeys playing at Sheraton Lake

                                                                           Bebe, the only one brave enough to get in the water

 Outside the "99 cent All you can eat Pancake Feed"

by the end of the week this was usually the scene between these two. She had had enough boy time. And he couldn't have enjoyed the thought more that he could upset her so easily...this relationship will be a lot of fun to watch grow!

Dinosaur Mountain

This is where it almost turned into a real Shirley outing which ALWAYS ends with someone in the ER. Creed was swinging on the railing and lost his grip and fell backwards on the cement/rocks. Of course the initial amount of blood had us a little freaked out and the only thing handy was a DIAPER...yes, poor kid walked down the mountain with it on his head. Luckily once we washed off the head wound we were relieved to see that stitches weren't needed and after a quick visit to our trusty Dr. Rich to make sure everything was on the up and up we went on home.

StoryBook Island

was our final destination it is always a crowd favorite.

Till next time...