Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Sunday...

This past Sunday, the kids and I took a little trip after church... first we went and had lunch with some friends by the creek, then I took them up to Easton to play in the fountains... One of our teens, Bailey, works up there and we wanted to see her. So first we went to the fountains that they could play in and get all wet, since she was on break when we got there. They had a ball! Auri was a little leery of getting wet, until one of the little squirts got her, and then it was complete fun after that. Jackson got right in... They both had so much fun, we'll do this again for sure!!!


I love this first picture of Jackson, He stood there waiting for the water to start spraying and then all of a sudden it shot up all around him...


This is Auri, before she actually got wet. She would go between the squirts and around the outside... by the time they were done though, she was soaked!


Jackson was posing for me, you can't really see it, but he had his hand on one of the squirts and was standing as if it were his cane, he cracks me up!



After we left there we went to where Bailey works, at the other fountain, this is a beautiful little body of water and the fountain in the middle would get really small and then shoot really high, it was quite lovely. At this fountain you can sail little boats... They don't have motors, so all you can actually do is turn them and let the wind do the rest...


This was our ship, she was number 23 and had the word Paradise written on her sail...


Jackson steered the ship first, and Auri and I watched, at one point, he steered it right to his sister who had her feet in the water... I love this first picture of Auri, something about it is just very sweet and precious...


In this picture Jackson is trying to figure out how to steer the ship away from the side, we eventually just grabbed it and turned it around... But he did a good job!



After Jackson it was Auri's turn to steer the ship... She didn't really get it that you have to turn the little lever one way to make it go right and another way to make it go left. She is still learning this, she practices all the time with her little Strawberry Shortcake remote control car at her dad's and with my VW bug remote control car at our house... She's learning, but I think the fact that it was in water make it a harder concept to grasp... Here are a few pics of her trying to get the ship to go...



The ship was way across the water on another wall...



She got it to come back from the other wall!!!




I think this part of the day was too calm for them... They would have much rathered stay in the water and play... But it was fun regardless! They eventually gave me the controller for the ship and they just played with their hands and feet in the fountain while I made the ship go all over the place, including around the middle part where the fountain actually shot the water up...


All in all we had a rather fun afternoon, and we'll definitely do this again!!! It costs nothing, and it is nice to be outside!


God Bless, have a wonderful day!!!

Do something special with your kids! Trust me, you won't regret it!


-Kristen

2 comments:

Sam said...

What a fun way to spend a day. Very cool.

And cool new site design, btw.

Kristen said...

Thanks!!!