Hangin' with the cousins...

While Spencer and I were at the hospital delivering baby Bentley, our boys were staying with family. Noah and Ian stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Campbell, while Cohen was being sat by Tricia and her family. The boys all appeared to enjoy the time they spent away from home; they got to do plenty of fun things to keep them busy like go swimming and go to the movies and play with cousins. Even after Spencer and I returned from the hospital and got settled back into our daily routines, our family has been so kind to take our 3 older children for a few hours at a time, sometimes even for an occasional sleepover, just so Spencer and I can get some extra added sleep.

My sister Tricia sent me the following pictures below from her Iphone; they're of my kids and her kids playing during the times they stayed over at her house...

My boys call Aunt Tricia's house "the FUN house"...
she has 8 kiddos of her own
and
she has toys of all sorts,
including a trampoline, a swing set, a jungle gym, a kid friendly helicopter
and a kid friendly airplane in her backyard that my boys LOVE to play on.

In this picture below, the kids are pretending that the jungle gym is a pirate ship
and Noah is the Captain...

As you can probably imagine just by studying the picture below,
Trish's kids have had a lot of practice climbing this thing...
my boys however, had a little bit of difficulty getting their feet successfully off the ground.

The kids had fun digging for dinosaurs in the backyard,
using the kits that Grandma Truesdell sent them.

Cohen learned to be very domestic after playing a lot in Bella's pinkalicious room...

...while Noah tried to prove to his older cousins that he was a BIG BOY
by fearlessly doing a jump off the skateboard ramp on his skateboard...

... he still needs to work a little on sticking his landing.

Trish said she came upstairs to look for Ian and Bella
and found them porking out on food that was left out on the table...

Some of the littler kids found the packing box that was filled with packing peanuts
that Grandpa Truesdell made to transport the ships from New York to Utah in...

...and decided to make it into their own little "crate 'o fun"!

Of course,
once it was time to leave,
my boys had made quite a mess...
SO...
like the helpful kiddos they are, they offered to clean up their messes...

...Cohen grabbed the mop and began mopping...

...and Noah grabbed a hose and hosed off the mess of crumbs he left on the back porch.

Last but not least,
my boys never leave without giving hugs...
but on this occasion,
Bella refused to let Noah leave before she gave HIM
a hug AND a kiss on the MOUTH!
OH MY!
I think we have kissing cousins!