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A Visit From Our Colorado Family

Published June 25, 2008 by Erin

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A few weeks ago my brother and his family drove to Ohio for their semi-annual visit. As usual our days were packed with fun-filled activities for the kiddos that left us all begging for more sleep. Despite the exhaustive days running after 4 toddlers, we all had a blast together and enjoyed our visit tremendously!
Mom has become so organized in preparation for our visit together and this year we all received (in advance) a printed itinerary of each day of the week. Believe it or not, we pretty much followed it to a “T”.
To start off the week we spent a night over in Archbold, Ohio to visit the Historical Sauder Village. The kids (and adults) really had a fun time “going back in time”, riding the choo choo train, visiting to the first school house and tons more.

Ryleigh Mae … oh, so cute!

The babies (for now)

We visited the Little Pioneer Village that was complete with a log cabin (kid sized) with all kinds of kid sized home toys… they had a blast cutting food for the “stew” and ironing clothes. It was a kids (and parents) dream!

Ethan, so serious ironing his clothes!

All Aboard!

So excited!

Cousins

So I’m just realizing I’m going to have to break our week into a number of posts so… stay tuned for more family pictures to come!

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Jen

Posted June 25, 2008 at 1:27 pm | Permalink

Too cute! Sounds like fun. I think that’s the first I’ve seen Ryleigh – other than her newborn pics! She’s a doll!!

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