All the Cousins Together

It's a special time when we can coordinate all of Ollie's cousins on Mama's side to be in one place at the same time. A few weeks ago (okay, okay, over a month ago) we did just that in Hershey. Uncle Sean and Tia Natalia kindly hosted us all at their place for the week, including Grandma! We all had lots of fun adventures together. (And even a few nights out without the kids!)

First up was a trip to visit some exotic animals on a safari train.

With Grandma's help, we fed the animals special animal crackers that they gave us.

Jack seemed to like them as much as the animals did.

Uncle Sean decided he didn't want another baby after all while trying to wrangle three kids at the same time.

Ollie really got into feeding and petting the goats.

But the crowd favorite was the cute little baby goat.

Ollie was also brave enough to pet the alligator with Tia Natalia.

Then it was off to visit Chocolate world.

Everyone waited patiently together to go into the 3D show.

It wasn't Ollie's favorite part (a bit scary for him), but he was pretty adorable watching it.

He did love pretending to be a factory worker though.

And couldn't wait to eat the samples!

We got a group picture with all the kids and Mr. Hershey Kiss.

And we even got a group picture with all of us! (except Uncle Matt and Aunt Nikki who were off drinking and riding adult roller coasters, just kidding, they were still on their way to Hershey).

Then it was time for some good old-fashioned backyard fun.

With a special birthday surprise for Mama—Grandma baked her a carrot cake, Mama's favorite!

Even Jack liked it.

Seems the highlight was Hershey Park though. The carousel was loads of fun.

Ollie went on a few rides with Grandma.

And a few with Mama.

Actually, come to think of it, the highlight of the trip was actually just hanging out and reading books together.

Lots and lots of books.

We miss all of you tons and are really happy that we could spend time with all of us together. Next time will be Uncle Matt and Aunt Nikki's fabulous wedding in Florida! Yeay!