one day after we got home Gray found scissors and cut of his Disney wrist bands. He came to show me and at that very moment he grew up to me. he has had them the last 4 1/2 months. no one could get him to take them off. then one day he didn't need them anymore. I must admit I was sad.
now the time is 3:22 am so you will understand that my posts are out of order. so I will tell you how our day went and then just enjoy the photos. up,gifts, the magic house ( a kids museum) then we meet Chris and Laura at the zoo, lunch, dinner, walk down the river front to the arch, up it, back to hotel more gifts, swim sleep. we used every hour of the day. see had a full birthday.
That's right it's not really called the arch. after dinner we walked down the river to the "arch" and took the tram up to the top
this is us in the pod style elevator which normally would seat 4.
at the peak
looking out the small windows. it was creepy to look down and see no building under you.
now this is out of order because we ate after the zoo, know you will understand. the lady behind me is Lauras mom.
the crown is from C&L
after all this we went back to open more gifts and swim. Chris stayed with us at the hotel it was a great visit.
hooray we meet up with Chris and Laura
boys only on the huge bug, yuck.
it was so so hot!
me and Gray rode the train which he loved.
This was probably one of the most amazing places I have ever been, really. it is an old warehouse turned fun place. it is like some rich, artsy,tradesmen got together to but all these unbeleivable things together. the pictures won't even compare to the awsomeness of this wild place.these pictures are climbling structures attachted to the building. you enter them from floor 2. you can walk, crawl in every part of the structure
ok so you see this tunnel, if you enlarge it you will see it continues up, 7 stories up, right over the parking lot.now another cool thing is that for everyone of these tight spaces there is an adult , mom,friendly alternative.
this was the old elevator shaft. the boys are up there.
this is of coarse the chinese garden, but the fun thing about this one is that it was a self timed picture. David set it up and ran around the lake to get in. some people there applauded him upon his success. I love run in pics
they conquered th rock.
this was the water feature and boy it was hot so it was a wonderful treat.
no explanation needeed
on our way home we dropped off Tristan then headed straight for our new cousin. We were all so happy to meet "calebs baby",which is what they still call him. don't know why Jackson is so tricky, anyway upon meeting him Grayden says "he has feet and hands" so excited. but you will notice in the picture J doesn't have pants on, well Gray wasn't happy about that "were's his pants, courtney he has no pants, hey no pants" finally courtney just put pants on to stop grays worrying to which he said "how come he has no socks?"
G"nice baby" . O, finally gets to hold him.
it was a double treat! we got to see the new Mrs. Rummelhoff too! Olivia could not be any happier,a new baby and Brooke, heaven!
I adore this picture
hooray Colby!
our kids got the prize, by far, for the most mail. thanks to all who wrote, dinner line up was a big highlight for us.
same size.
I don't remember the name of this game, but (Brooke especially) notice olivias huge clifford in use! our donantion to the costume closet which gets used everyday at camp! 
Jenny had a leak in her sink at the craft house so the health officer came to the rescue
even livvy needed to visit the office
he did have time to be dad to.
