Memorial Day Weekend -- Trip to Kirtland, OH

For Memorial Day Weekend, Jason took a day off work so we could take a little trip. Early Friday morning we drove 2 hrs to Columbus, Ohio to the Center of Science and Industry (COSI). It's a neat museum with a great Kid Space. Ethan and Lydia easily played in the children's area for two hours and after a picnic lunch watching the construction workers outside, we all went and saw some of the other exhibits. Ethan was fascinated by the Gadgets exhibit and played for a long time with the ball cannon.

Ethan loves trucks and was happy to sit in one his own size

Lydia loves to walk around and push herself around on cars

Ethan loved trying out all the various percussion instruments lining the sidewalk to the museum

Ethan just laughed and laughed to see thing fly up the wind tunnel

He spent a lot of time here at the ball cannon

Lydia loved trying to catch the balls suspended in air

Ethan was hanging on the other side of the fulcrum to lift the Honda Civic off the ground

Lydia likes putting the balls into this machine that would launch them out the top again.

Ethan was really interested in this wind tunnel and so we finally consented to let him try it with Dad, but then he was so scared he wouldn't stand under the wind.

We left close to 4:00 and drove another 2 hours to our hotel near Kirtland, which is really where Ethan wanted to go since we left in the morning. :) It was bedtime by the time we got there and fortunately the kids slept pretty well through the night.

Saturday we went to the historic sights at Kirtland. Lydia had a hard time with the long tour, but we enjoyed seeing and learning more about what we're reading about in the Doctrine and Covenants.

Kirtland Log Mill and Ashery

Newell K. Whitney Store

Kirtland Temple

We enjoyed our tour of the Kirtland Temple as well. I volunteered to play "The Spirit of God" on a piano inside as part of the tour. It was a neat experience. We let Ethan and Lydia walk around the temple grounds afterwards and caught a few cute pictures of them as well. After our tour we drove home, stopping in Columbus for dinner on our way. We were grateful the kids traveled well.

She has quite the personality :)

Ethan 3 1/2 yr  & Lydia 15 months

On Memorial Day we went to a ward activity at a park where they had a 5K and then potluck breakfast. Jason ended up getting 1st place in his category, although he didn't have much competition. :) We stayed and played frisbee and played on the playground at the park. Later in the afternoon we got all ready to swim at our community pool only to find that it was broken and didn't open as scheduled. Jason was a trooper and ran through the sprinklers a few times with Ethan and Lydia instead.

Ethan trying to cover his face from getting wet

Ethan and Lydia recently started thinking it was fun to hold hands in the car. One afternoon Lydia held Ethan's hand until she fell asleep and then Ethan started getting mad because "Lydia won't hold my hand anymore." I love these two cuties!

Holding hands