O-H-I-O !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our trip to Ohio was AMAZING!  We left Arizona at the end of May and were able to stay with the Grzelaks for almost two whole weeks!  We had so much fun that Mom had over 200 pictures from our trip.  To save time, she condensed them into her favorites which she chose to post.  After a month without a computer (mom dropped it on the kitchen floor), we are finally able to upload our pics.

Apparently Mom is short on time, so the descriptions will be VERY brief.  Mom has promised to upload the videos and insert more text when time allows...

We arrived at the airport bright and early, ready for a day of travel, and SO excited to be going to OHIO!

Believe it or not, but Mom said that Macie and I were the most WELL BEHAVED kids she had ever traveled with!!!

After a good night's sleep we woke to a huge feast that we ate together with our friends!

We spent the day exploring outdoors with the Grzelaks!

Here I am swinging on a branch:

I got tired of riding my trike, and Mom had to take one for the team:

One of our favorite things was hanging out at the Country Club.

The evening were so nice; after dinner we would play in the yard, lounge together in the living room, and have story time before bed.

  

We celebrated many things while we were in Ohio including Aidan and David's last day of school.  Here we are eating a special breakfast we had made for them.

We made sure to give them lots of hugs!

We stopped at Kroger a few days after we arrived and SURPRISED everyone in the store.  The store manager announced our arrival over the loud speaker and all our favorite people from every department came to welcome us back!

They made us personalized Kroger name tags for us to wear.

 

  I even helped Jeanie behind the floral counter while Mom shopped.

We made out like bandits- balloons, rings, donuts, etc. - We LOVE Kroger!!!!

One day Mom took Boy Riley, Macie, and I to the COLUMBUS ZOO while Ashlyn went to dance class.  I was SO excited to see all my favorite animals again!

 

 We quickly made our way to the snakes, and even got to pet a Rosy Boa.

I made sure to push the "crocodile roar" over and over again for old time sake.

 We had the best time at the Zoo with Boy Riley, playing, laughing, and enjoying each others company!

 

Macie's favorite part of the Zoo was riding the TRAIN and petting the animals!!!

 

After a quick nap in the "little house" we all made our way back to the house to spend time with Ashlyn.

 

 Because we had such a great time at the Zoo we decided to go back again with Ashlyn, Miss Elizabeth, and Aidan!

I just LOVE spending time with Ashlyn.

 We did NON-STOP activity while in Ohio, and Macie loved having so many friends around.

 When the weather was warm we spent time at the Country Club swimming, and Macie loved watching the big kids swim.

From time to time Macie got a little unruly, but Dave stepped in and used his magic to calm her down!

 We made sure to stop at Kroger every time we drove by to give hugs to all our favorite people!!

Our time in Ohio FLEW by, and before we knew it we only had a few days left.  As promised, our WHOLE clan made the trek to Cincinatti to spend a day at Kings Island!!!

Here we are (except David and Patrick, who took off to ride the BIG kid rides):

  

Here is Macie on the bumper cars:

Mom and Miss Elizabeth nominated Dave to be the lucky adult that would take the kids on the log ride.  He was awesome, and we all had a blast!

 We stayed at the amusement park right up until it closed at 10pm.  Mom was proud of Macie for being such a trooper!!!!!!!!!

We all had a great time together!

After only one more day of fun we had to say goodbye to our friends and head back home to Arizona.

Leaving Ohio was hard, but we were sure excited to see Dad!!! We spent hours telling him all about the fun we had.  Now that we are home, Mom has two weeks to pull together my birthday party, so the next few weeks should be pretty interesting...