one fine day

today was a good day, my brother Jacob is in town (yay!) and came over for a while. the kids tried to wear him out by running loops around the house, playing basketball, jumping in the bed. you know, typical stuff. then aaron's parents came over and they continued their performance for a while, we had some more fun. and then in the evening we went to ants in their pants and the kids played in the ball pits and threw token upon token into the various machines in effort to "purchase" a rubber ball (twin to many of the rubber balls already in our posession at home, most likely bribes from other stores) for kieran and an interesting miniature dog with a giant head for andie (somehow we also owned one of these at home, likely from our last ants excursion, and the girl behind the counter offered it out of pity seeing as andie wanted it but was only really eligible for a friendship bracelet or policeman's badge with our remaining tickets. and by giant head i mean like half an inch, the whole dog is pretty tiny) ... is it bad that every time i see the chinese fingercuffs behind the glass i think about their possible use as a disciplinary measure for the kids?

yep, a good day filled with family, craziness, and treats, what more could you want?