Mom and Dad braved Chuck E. Cheese's with the kids...

We headed to Chuck E. Cheese's today. The kids had seen a commercial and had been singing "where a kid can be a kid" for about a week now. Dad decided to brave it and bring the family along. They had never been there before. It was hard for them to play some of the games. We tried skee ball once but when everybody ducked because the balls were flying, we quickly moved on to something else. The problem with a lot of the games is that they are for taller and older kids. We did find a few they really liked. Katelyn liked the rides that moved. Kyle liked the ones that gave out a lot of tickets. Kolden liked the action games, so Dad had to sit behind him and steer the wheels and push the buttons. We split our time so that each one of the kids had some "special" time with Mom or Dad. They really like that. Their favorite thing was the ticket muncher- the machine that counted the tickets. Then we got to head to the counter and order prizes. We sure spent a lot of time choosing our crap-I mean treasures. All in all it was a great afternoon and we were really surprised at how good the kids did. We spent $30 for lunch and 2 1/2 hours of entertainment for 5 people.

July Gibson Reunion

We had a reunion on my Mom's side of the family, the first one in 35-40 years. It was good to see all of the family, but honestly I didn't know many of the people. The kids seemed to have a good time. Daddy had to stay home and get better, he had an ear infection. All of the kids were on antibiotics for ear and sinus infections. I was very pleased with how they all acted for being sick. There weren't many children for them to play with, but a couple. I wanted to chat with the family members about old pictures and family history, so Papaw was left to fend for the children at times, you can see how that turned out!!

Papaw was supposed to be watching, but he did not think the boys would follow suit when he got himself a slice of chocolate cake! Good Job Papaw!

We combined the long drive with a trip to the Grissom Air Museum in Peru, Indiana. We had a great time looking at all of the planes. Kolden just couldn't believe that there were that many "fighter jets" in one place.
Kyle just wanted to sit in the planes and shoot anything that moved. Katelyn was a bit more independent--She wanted to do everything for herself. (hmmm Wonder where she gets that?)

A new beginning...

In my spare time, I have decided this may be easier to share info with folks who live far away. So we will see how this works.

We have had our share of the summer colds and it could very well absorb the entire month of July. Kolden had a double ear infection and eye infection, Kyle had a left ear infection and an eye infection and Katelyn had a sinus infection and eye infection. Not to leave anyone out Daddy had a sinus infection and possible double ear infection and Mommy had a sinus infection and ear infection! I wonder what we all did before medicine?

I am not sure where my summer has gone. It seems as if it was yesterday that we got out of school and now seems like tomorrow that we are headed back. I also feel like I have gotten nothing done this summer. Thank goodness I have Carole here to help wrangle the kids. I feel like I have so much to do and never enough time. I am in my summer habit of staying up late again and I will have to quit that again soon so that my body can adjust, but it is so much easier to do stuff when the kids are sleeping!