A few days after we returned from Utah, Erin and her family and Hannah came to visit us. The kids were just thrilled to over excitement at going from one fun trip to another to another. They were really happy to have their cousins come to visit our home.
Hannah was climbing on the tire swing when all the kids saw her and asked her to push them. We were in beautiful little Lanesboro to bike along the Root River.
Hannah pushed Katie, Sam, Madeline and Ella. Then she pushed Max, Marcus and Sam.
All seven kids heading on our bike ride.
Sam and Addy
Marcus
After the ride, Sam was climbing up some rocks
Madeline and Katie ran through the sprinklers.
All the kids love Hannah. She was so entertaining and so nice.
Waiting for ice cream
6 of the seven kids choose superman ice cream. Ella got Caramel delight.
A man who looked similar to Santa, and gave the kids pictures of Santa and his reindeer. Marcus was enthralled the entire time.
Ella and Katie loved the special breakfasts we had: German Pancakes, Biscuits with homemade jam, sugar cereal. No one complained. Later that day, we went to our third cave in a month. Max was still apprehensive, but wanted to keep up with Marcus. The girls were pointing out the cave formations of soda straws and cave bacon.
The girls enjoy one of our favorite activities in Rochester. Every Tuesday in the summer, the track club hosts races for the kids. The races are divided by age and gender, and the kids can run 50m, 100 m, 200 m, 400m, 800m and 1 mile. After that, we went to the YMCA and went swimming, which made everyone happy. then we stopped for pizza on the way home. Late bedtime for everyone.
Addy loves Hannah.
Sam loves to run, and loves his ribbon for running. Many of the kids his age have a parent run with them, but Sam wants to run by himself.
Max is lined up with the 4 year old boys on the left hand side.
cousin Katie running with the 5 year old girls.
All the kids loved our quiet time activity of building something with marshmallows and toothpicks.
Ella build a 3 dimensional house. The children didn't let any of the marshmallows go to waste afterwards.
We had a few sleepovers, which kept the girls up late and up early in the morning. We had fun showing everyone what we like to do here in Minnesota. We loved visiting with Hannah and talking about her mission to the Dominican Republic. The kids loved riding their bikes in the culdesac, and playing in our back yard.
Their last night here, Ryan watched the kids, and Erin, Hannah and I went out for Vietnamese food followed by a Dalia specialty, shopping at Goodwill.
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