Cousins

We finally convinced Justin and Marie to move back to Tucson. :) Marie and the girls came out at the beginning of the month and have been staying at my parents house while Justin keeps working out in Georgia the rest of the month. In October he'll drive out here and they'll move into their apartment. We're just excited for the kids to have cousins close by. Now I get to be the favorite aunt, since with kids this age the favorite is the last one they saw. :)

Whenever Peyton sees me, she comes right over and says "up!"

McKenzie likes me most of the time.

We went to Lakeside Park to feed the ducks today, but before heading down to the lake the kids had to take some turns on the slide. 

Annie's fearlessness at the expense of her own safety is tempered by slides, I guess, where she refuses to go down by herself these days.

 

Annie and Kenzie have become friends somewhat (as much as 2-year-olds or almost 2-year-olds can), and they have fun running around together.

Cutie:

Peyton didn't want to leave the slide once she'd tried it. She kept climbing back up again and again.

Finally we decided to go down and find some ducks to feed.

Here's everyone throwing bread into the water. Yes, not to the ducks, just into the water. Apparently the ducks were full or didn't like the wind or something. The few that were out on the lake wouldn't come near us for anything.

So we continued our walk along the path around the little lake. The girls had fun running and chasing each other. And McKenzie rather enjoyed pushing Ryan in the stroller when she wasn't running with the girls. 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a beautiful morning, if a bit windy, but we all enjoyed our little outing to the park. So nice to be out of the 100 degree heat, at least for a while.