A&W visit/ Legoland

 Charles had a few days off of school so they had planned a trip to get out of the cold winter in Omaha. We were happy that the weather was great in Florida during their visit to see us.

We picked them up from the Orlando airport and then we all stayed in a hotel that night so that we could go to Legoland the next day. Charles and Marion love playing with their legos and they knew the characters from the movies. They seemed excited to be there!

At some of the rides they had legos for the kids to play with while they wait!

My favorite part of Legoland was this area that was filled replicas of well known places built out of legos. The photo above is the Daytona Speedway. 

Washington D.C. (New York is in the background)

Nasa

Kids decorated sugar cookies. I had plans to make the cookies from scratch and then have the kids create their own shapes with cutters....but then I got lazy and Ashtyn and I decided to just buy already made ones from Walmart ;) It actually turned out great and I will do that again for sure! Simple and fun.

Their was a Friend to Friend broadcast from the church so the kids watched it and colored along when prompted to. I love that the church is now offering these kinds of broadcasts for kids.

On Sunday Aaron and I were speaking at the ward in Palatka so we all attended services there in the morning. That afternoon Aunt Joan came over to have Sunday dinner with us. Here we are teaching Aunt Joan how to play Kids of Carcassonne. It is a fun and simple game and the kids love to play it.

It is always nice when Joan comes over. She is so spunky!

Ashtyn and family were leaving early Tuesday morning from Orlando so we had booked them a hotel nearby for Monday night. On our drive down we stopped at this cool park in Daytona Beach and stayed for a couple of hours. Afterward we ventured to Bass Pro Shop and then on to Orlando.

The day after they got home was Anders First Birthday! They are all getting so big! We love our grandkids and look forward to flying out to Utah soon to meet our new grandson Lucas who is the first member of the cousin club!