My wonderful sister, Cory, came to visit with her 3 children and we had so much fun. We took tons of pictures and laughed a lot. Alyssa asked us, "what you funny about?" a couple of times as Cory and I were about to cry from laughing so hard. When I tried to describe it to Chris he just looked at me with a blank expression. Thank goodness for sisters. My other dear sister, Stacy, asked to see the pictures, so these are for you. Wish you could have been here too (but it was a lot quieter where you were!)
Cousins playing in the basement. There were a lot of goofy moments and they played so well together (minus Alyssa screaming at Paul and him punching her in the face-minor issue).
Sweet Lily. That girl is a doll and so sweet.
Sammi and Hailey had a lot of fun playing together.
At the park.
Paul crying on the playground. I was trying so hard not to laugh, but that kid is so darling, even when he is sad.
Happier times at the park.
We headed to Brookfield Zoo and had a lot of fun (minus the time when we lost Alyssa for 10 of the longest minutes of my life).
Alyssa and Paul actually sharing space and liking each other.
Cute kids!
These girls kept having sleepovers in the same room and hanging out together. So cute.
At the Peggy Notebaert Nature museum in Chicago (thanks Kori for the recommendation). They have a room full of free flying butterflies that the kids either loved or hated.
Sammi used Lily's flower to try to lure a butterfly to her and eventually got one on her finger. On the other hand, Hailey was really freaked out, but still tried to get them to land on her...not really sure about the psychological issues there.
Little Miss Happy
Cute girls
Playing in the water
Tired out on the drive home.
They spend tons of time on the trampoline-this is right when they all woke up and couldn't even get dressed first. Cute girls.
Cory may kill me for posting this, but I thought it was hysterical. The kids were putting water balloons in their swimming suits and then jumping on the trampoline to pop them ("Sonic Pop"). But, they would walk around forever before they would pop them and it just looked too funny.
The balloons entertained for hours!
Mr. goofy. Paul is too funny and has a darling personality.
I just had to post this b/c a lot of our time was spent watching different sporting activities. The kids were so patient driving all over and watching various games every night of the week. We sure loved having the Hopkins family here and can't wait until Florida!
