Pam, Brett, Maddison, Cade and Emalyn McDonald: Cousin Fun Day 1 & 2

Cody, Katie, Paul, Benton and Quinn stopped for a visit while making their way from Montana to Pittsburg. After they spend a few weeks in PA, they will go to Myrtle Beach. We will miss seeing them in Myrtle Beach by one day. Bummer! They will stop here again on their way back to Montana from Myrtle Beach so we look forward to seeing them again. The kids had been waiting for their cousins to get here all day. They got here after 6:30 on Friday night and as happy as we all were to see the Stanley Family, I'm sure they were just as happy to get out of the car after 3 days of driving!

Maddi and Emma were very interested in Quinn. Quinn was very interested in playing and throwing the baseball.

We had some Chicago style pizza waiting for them to eat and then it was play time outside. So sweet and cute!

Brett wanted Cody to take a look at Cade's pitching and then the kids threw the ball for a while. Cody said Cade pitches just like his Uncle Todd (something with how he releases the ball), which is funny because he looks just like him too.

While waiting for the cousins to get here, Cade filled some time making water balloons, which were a big hit.

Katie is showing off her wet shirt after Brett and her had a little war.

Daddy helped catch Cade so Maddi could attack him. After some more time outside, we called it a night and sent the kids to bed. It worked out perfect that Benton slept in Maddi's trundle because those two love to talk before bed and sleep in late in the morning. Paul slept in Cade's trundle and those two crash out quick but are up at the crack of dawn.

Saturday morning the kids played the Bean-boozled Jelly Bean game they bought at the Jelly Belly store. There are two beans of the same color and it will either be a good flavor or a nasty one. For example, the white ones were either coconut or diaper wipes, the yellow was either banana or puke, brown was chocolate or canned dog food. Look at the anticipation on their faces...

Maddi and Paul must have had a nasty one because they are spitting it out!

Maddi with the little ones talking to Cocoa. Cade had a baseball game at 10:00, so we all went to cheer for Cade. They won the game, it was the first game of the playoffs.

After baseball, it was time to cool down at the swimming pool. I wish I had taken some pictures of Emma and Quinn at the baby pool. Quinn was LOVING it!

After swimming, Brett had scheduled a little pitching practice for Cade's travel team with Cody. The boys on Cade's team all thought Cody was royalty since he played in the minor leagues. Paul got to participate at practice too and from what Brett said, it was a great practice and everyone really enjoyed it. Emma and Quinn stayed home and played in the water and Maddi and Benton spent some time making more water ballons.

Little princess who wears swimsuits all the time decided to wear a costume to play in the water. What a goofball! Actually, I was getting stuff ready for dinner and had Katie take Emma potty. After she went potty, she took Katie into the basement and showed her the bin of costumes and had Katie put this costume on her. Miss Sassafrass!

Emma has never played in the water like this, she learned from little Quinn!

More hugs!

Quinn wanted Emma to wear a hat..

...but it didn't stay on long. Seeing this hat reminds me, Brett asked Cade to play golf with him and Cade said no because he doesn't want to wear a softball hat. Ha! Brett has been trying to convince Cade that it's a golf visor and not a softball hat, I don't think he's convinced :)

Now Emma's learning to throw a football with Quinn...all while wearing her dance costume. lol

Another hug that turned into...

...a tackle!

Poor Quinn is crying and Emma isn't sure what just happened.

Apparently Emma thought it was quite funny.

Dinner time!

Quinn wanted to swing but once Cade started pushing him, he got scared. Poor baby!

Cade to the rescue!

Trampoline fun.

I'm so glad I got to see my little brother :)

These kids were going 100 miles an hour all.day.long. Where do they get the energy?

Aunt Katie and Miss Maddi. Katie kept offering to make a trade for Maddi. Benton even wanted to trade Paul for Maddi. Maddi is not available, she's a keeper for sure. I tried offering Emma for free, no trade. We never did work out a deal, so we all have our own 3 kiddos :)

We had gone to a friends and played with the water balloon launcher, so we got one for Brett for Father's Day. It was so much fun!

The balloons were going about 5 houses down the street.

The spectators.

The launchers. And then the launcher broke! It snapped on Cade as he was shooting it and it popped him, and it hurt, and that was the end of the water balloons.