And That Was August 2010

As usual the pictures are in the reverse order. HA! Well, the Cullingfords were going down to visit my mom and dad and decided to drive to our house first and spend a day and then continue on to my parents' house. It was so much fun to have them here and hope they come back soon. WE went with them to see a volcano that had some basalt pokey thingies that looked really cool. Quentin was nice enough to haul all 4 older kids up the stairs while Wendy, the babies and I stayed behind. Unfortunately after they came back down, Erin took a little tumble down a hill and got scratched up pretty good on her back.
The next day the Cullingfords went to Playmobil land and from there continued over to Frankfurt. Ben was lucky enough that he got a couple of days off so we also could go to Frankfurt. On the way there we stopped in Aschaffenburg and walked around for a while. It was really pretty and we enjoyed ourselves.
In Frankfurt we went and saw some cool 'walls' that were made out of little sticks and twigs and then water runs down it to extract some of the salt out. It looked really cool and your lips tasted salty after awhile. There was also a really fun playground that the kids loved.
While we had all the Gram grandkids gathered in one spot we tried to take some pictures. It was a bit of a challenge to get all the kids to look, smile and look normal at the same time. HA!! After 1/2 hour or so the kids had had enough. :D
Joshua, Liam, Laney, Erin with Nyah and Tyler
Stick wall hahaha

Close-up of the wall of sticks with water running down it.

Aschaffenburg. Walkway next to the Johannisburg castle.
For some reason I really like this picture.
Johannisburg Castle
The beautiful View.
Walking to the castle
On the way to Frankfurt. Ty was grumpy and Laney was just pretending. :D
So we were all eating breakfast and suddenly we hear Ty yelling, "Dad, I want some cereal will you grab it for me 'cause I'm going to the bathroom?" Sure Ben says and goes to grab it, open the cupboard and sees Ty squished in there next to the cereal. That boy sure makes us laugh.
The basalt volcano things. :D
The view from the volcano.
The Cullingfords brought the kids a really fun liquid chalk machine thing that squirts it out and some really cool looking chalk. So the kids had a lot of fun playing with it outside.
Erin with the chalk machine.
Laney and Joshua
Ty and Joshua
The babies. Liam was so cute and just wanted to touch Nyah. It was really cute.