Fun family visit to Minneapolis!

The above pic was stolen from Heidi's blog :). This was before Grace and I got there...it's such a cute pic!! (click on any pic to make it bigger!)

Grace at the American Girl store

Aang from Avatar doing Kung-Fu moves with the kids :)
Kim and Jeff on the scary Sponge Bob roller coaster that went straight up....and straight down! They are in the back on the right.

Ethan and Ben. They are only 3 months apart and are such good buddies!
Noah giving Matt the 'Spidey' hands
Plugging their ears while the train goes by. There is a train track right behind Linda's house...the kids got a kick out of watching them whiz by.
Matt and Andrew
Grace and Lexi...the only girl cousins. Grace ADORES Lexi!!

Grandma Cathy, Matt and Ben went up to Linda's on Monday for our annual Watt/Beck/O'Brien/Peterson gathering. I decided to stay home since Grace was throwing up w/a fever Sat. & Sunday and still felt kind of crummy Monday morning. Rich had to work and Tyler decided to stay home and hang out with his friends since we're moving soon. Joel, Heidi and the boys were there too. By Monday afternoon Grace was feeling better and we were sad that we were missing out on all the fun, so Tuesday morning we drove up to join the crowd. We all had such a fun time! The kids all have such a great time together. We hung out Tuesday and Wednesday we went to the Mall of America. The kids rode some rides and we shopped a bit. Grace got to go to the American Girl store and oh my, was she in heaven! She could have come out of there spending thousands I'm sure, it's such a fun place. We came home today and now several of the group are feeling sick....I hope it wasn't Grace that gave it to them, but I think she was totally better by the time we got there. Hopefully!