Company picnic

Jacob's work does a good job keeping the employees happy. We have great benefits (it cost $10 to give birth to each of my children, including all the pre-natal appointments), a really fancy Christmas dinner party every year where they give away awesome prizes like iPads and flat screen TVs that we never win, and every spring they have a company picnic at some fun, family-friendly place. This year the company picnic was at Golf 'n Stuff.

Rachel took to mini-golf real quick. She's convinced she's great at the sport. And if it were called hockey-golf, she'd be right.

Annie was more interested in the cool things all around, like castles, waterfalls, and grass. And she was happy to have a ball to hold. That girl always has to have some little trinket or toy or rock in her little hands.

Ryan liked the water. We spent the whole time keeping him from diving in.

The kiddos:

Rachel had a good time at the jumping castle, and eventually Annie got brave enough to have a little fun, too.

Rachel was the only one tall enough to try the race cars. Ryan and Annie were very happy to sit on the sidelines and watch the excitement. Rachel got to go twice. Once with Mom, and once with Dad.

Since Annie didn't get to ride the cars, I took her out on the bumper boats. She liked it for a half a minute. Then she got wet a couple times. She promptly informed me, "I all done!" Rachel got to finish out that ride, which she was rather happy about. And then I only had to be out there for one round, which I was rather happy about.

Annie found this merry-go-round while we were boating and she and Ryan were more than happy to sit on it stationary. We didn't have any tokens on us, and it didn't seem worth it to go get some just for this dinky ride, but I discovered that it was easily pushed, so we turned it on Mommy-power and everyone was happy for the ride.

A fun time was had by all. We had to pry Ryan and Annie off their little animals to go home. We'll have to head back to Golf 'n Stuff again sometime.