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We haven't seen much of Korinne around our house the last week or so. With cousins Abigail and Elsie in town she has pretty much been at Grandma's 24-7.

The trio even sang a special musical number in our Sacrament meeting last Sunday and did a great job.

On Tuesday Tiffany and I took the kids to the Willow Park Zoo. 

It's a small zoo that takes less than an hour to see in it's full glory, but it is always a nice little outing for kids.

Jameson's response to the loud honking swan.

We timed it right to be around for the opening of the petting zoo where they let you feed the goats and pet them, too.

Jameson liked petting the Burrow.  I was impressed at how chill he was with all of the kids, which would explain why he is in the petting zoo. :-)

This was the week of the Cache Cup and Britton's team started the tournament on Wednesday night.

They won their first 2 games and made it to the semi-final game on Friday afternoon at 2 p.m.

They lost the game after going into extra time and then penalty kicks.  It was a real heart-breaker and kept them from going to the finals the next day but I think they felt good about how well they played during all 3 of their games.

Jameson decided to make a bird feeder on Friday morning.  This is what I found sitting out on the back deck, a house with broken bread in it and a big cup of water.

He then decided that if he wanted to attract birds that he was going to need to make it a lot fancier so he added more water, fake fruit, a scarf to hang out on and a few other things.  I even heard him calling out to birds telling them they were welcome to come over now. It was cute.

On Friday our neighbor Carrie invited us and some other families to her Aunt and Uncle's farm in Cornish.  They have created quite a little playground complete with a pond and a "Redneck Waterslide". We arrived a bit late because on our way to the party I was rear ended at a stop light going through town. Jenna and Jameson were with me in the van and while it felt like we got hit pretty hard there wasn't any visible damage to our car.  The other guy's car had a lot of damage so I'm not sure why ours didn't.  The guy that hit us was on his way back to the hospital to work another shift after having slept for only 3 hours because he had worked the night before.  He was completely sleep deprived and apologized over and over.  We waited for an officer to come and made sure there was a complete report of the accident before we went on our way to Cornish.  We arrived at our destination around 12:30 p.m.

The pond had a zip line, jump tower, kayaks, a paddle boat, beach and some floating docks to play on. Talk about a kid's playing paradise!

If you look closely you can see Jenna on the zip line.

Our friend Lacie brought her razor and we used it to shuttle everyone back and forth between the pond and the waterslide.

There she is, the Redneck water slide

I wondered if Jameson would have the guts to ride by himself since a few years ago he would only ride it with Adam.  He jumped on that thing like a boss and rode down more than any other kid there.

Here he is as part of a train with the water splashing in their faces.

Josh and Carrie brought their RV so for lunch they cooked up some pasta and Lacie brought a delicious salad.  Erica and I brought snackies of fresh fruit and a few treats.  It was a nice change of pace to have a warm meal on a "picnic-ee" kind of day.

Josh loves to play games with the kids on these floating docks.  He throws them off and then they all try and put their toes on the edge and not fall in when it rocks back and forth.

While Jameson wouldn't put his face in the water he enjoyed being in the water and going on the paddle boat, kayak and playing in the sand.

Jenna didn't have anyone her age there, but had a blast anyway. There was so much to do it was impossible not to have fun.

Jenna taking the little kids on a ride.

You'll notice that Adam and Britton weren't in any of the pictures, Britton's semi-final soccer game was right in the middle of our day at the farm so they stayed back.  While I was sad that Britton's team had to lose in such a heartbreaking fashion, I was a little relieved that they both would be available on Saturday to go down to Orem for the Hale Center Theater production of "Peter Pan."

Captain Hook really stole the show in this production

Wendy and Peter Pan with Jameson and Korinne

My Grandma Ann purchased tickets for all of the Grandkids and Great-Grandkids that could make it to the play so I got to see cousins I haven't seen in years.  In fact, more than a third of the audience was made up of Kerr relatives though none of the younger generation knew each other.  

Hale Center Theater has quite a nice theater in West Valley, so I was a little surprised to pull up to the Orem location and have it looking so. . . so un-theater like. 

Once you got inside however, it looked just like their other theater with the stage in the middle of the room and seats all around it and the play was very well done.  I'm always impressed with how creative people are in the theater community. I'm not sure which was more fun, watching the play or watching Jameson watch the play.  He was absolutely enthralled and his facial expressions were priceless.  It was the perfect play for the little kids and they all loved it.

Jameson held his ticket during the entire show

After the play my sister Heather's family, my parents and us found a park and had a nice lunch before making the long drive home.  The 6 foot Subway sandwich was more than enough to feed the group.

It was quite the spread, actually, and we were all stuffed with a lot leftover so I guess you could say it was a typical family picnic. :-)

On a whim we decided to stop at Ikea on the way home.

I thought we could get through in an hour or so, but it was more like two.  We walked out with kids cups and bowls, a lamp, a duvet cover and decorative pillows for my bedroom and a wooden train set for Jameson all for $43.00. Wow. It was quite an experience.