Last week we ventured off to the land of 10,000 lakes for Mike's sister's wedding!
There was so much to see and lots and lots of time planned with family.
The day after we arrived, we headed to the Mall of America to see Legoland and Nickelodeon Universe, formerly Camp Snoopy.
All those legoes were pretty cool.
We had to get lunch and the food court is about 3 or 4 times as big as the ones at the malls here-REALLY!
Emma and Ethan got McDonalds and Mike and I got Panda Express....mmmmmmm!
Emma really liked her juice
We ate right in front of one of the lego dudes at Legoland-a big Transformer. Anyone who knows Ethan knows what a huge Transformer fan he is so I just had to get a picture of him in front of it.
After lunch we went to ride some rides at Nickelodeon Universe. It's an amusement park in the mall-so cool.
Here's Ethan on his favorite ride, Swiper's Sweeper
He also liked the bumper cars
he had to ride with Mike because he's not tall enought-yet, maybe next year!
He really liked the Wonder Pet's Flyboat too.
I went on it with him the first time, but the second time, we only had one ticket left so he got to go with other kids.
(it's similar to the Big Shot in Las Vegas, only not as high and not on top of a building)
That night we went on a double date with Mike's sister and her hubby, we'd never met him before then and wanted to get to know him.
We found mustaches in the car, there is a story but I won't get into that here, so Mike tried the Mario one on.
Fitting don't you think? Matches his eyebrows!
I love how much Mike makes me laugh!
that's right, jammie parties with just me, Ethan, and Emma are back. No, I 'm not complaining just commenting that I get them back...I really like them.
Emma was doing this...
We ate right in front of one of the lego dudes at Legoland-a big Transformer. Anyone who knows Ethan knows what a huge Transformer fan he is so I just had to get a picture of him in front of it.
After lunch we went to ride some rides at Nickelodeon Universe. It's an amusement park in the mall-so cool.
He also liked the bumper cars
he had to ride with Mike because he's not tall enought-yet, maybe next year!
(it's similar to the Big Shot in Las Vegas, only not as high and not on top of a building)
Fitting don't you think? Matches his eyebrows!
The happy couple
Another happy couple
Saturday afternoon was the reception. The wedding colors were black and white with an accent of orange.
At the wedding dinner Friday night, Mike put a whoopie cushion under the bride's chair (his sister). It was a joke we played right back on him. We evenentually gave them the whoopie cushion but not until after Emma had a lot of fun with it.
She really enjoyed pushing on it and sitting on it, though she got a better result from it by pushing on it like she is in this picture. She even took a jump to land on it, completely missing it, but laughing about it. I don't know what was funnier, the sound the whoopie cusion made or how much she laughed at it and enjoyed it!
(The reception was going to be at a park but it was rained out. But since it was planned at the park, the kids all got orange shirts with Team Herrington and Team Cottle (the groom's family) on them so the kids could run and play and not mess up thier good clothes, hence the t-shirts and jeans my kids are wearing!)
They remind me of Master Shifu from Kung Fu Panda.
Just Emma
Just Ethan
Ethan and his cousin, Daniel
Just Emma
My attempt at taking a picture of all 3 of us
A better attempt, but no Emma, she ran off, but not too far...
At the fininsh line
Mike wasn't feeling completely himself, but he did beat his time from last year by 5 minutes, and when you run 13.1 miles, I say that's a pretty good result!!
I guess the sun was in her eyes!
Emma has been pictching in too!
she got to sweep up all the crumbs from the donuts.
