Pump It Up!!

This last Saturday Ben's parents took all of us (kids and grandkids) to a place called "Pump It Up." It is a really fun kids play zone that is full of multiple inflatable play structures like slides, trampolines, and obstacle courses. We had a blast. Both the kids and the adults are allowed to play on the structures and since we had the place to ourselves, all of us adults (including Grandma & Grandpa) had a grand old time playing on all of the structures. We had races down the obstacle courses, piled as many kids on to one person for the slides, had basketball games, and gladiator/king of the hill type competitions. I think us adults had just as much fun as the kids did, if not more, and I think this will be a Christmas tradition from now on.

Parker going through the obstacle course

Going up the climbing wall in the obstacle course (which was actually the hardest part even for the adults)

On the obstacle course

Ben & his sister Heather racing

Maddie & Daddy (Maddie showing some attitude)

Coming down one of the slides: Maddie, Ben & Parker

Parker going down a slide

Maddie playing with some of the little toys they had for babies


Gladiator game: Ben vs. Paul (his brother)

Wahoo-go Ben!

Here's the grandkids (minus a few): Parker, Maddie, Tyler, Nathan, (Cole hiding in the back), Taya, Clara, Ashlyn, Chloe, Isaac, Gavin, & Porter

Then today we went to the OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry), and had fun there with the cousins as well. They had all kinds of fun science things that the kids could do, and Parker was actually old enough to do most of it (although not old enough to understand it of course).

Parker using stencils (although he was way more interested in the pencil sharpener that was right by the stencils)

Dinosaurs-Parker's favorite!

With the cousins-Chloe, Taya & Gavin

They had a really awesome kids area that had so many different things in it. Here's Parker playing with the cars and blocks area.

And here's Parker playing in the water area-also his favorite