Family Funplex

The family Funplex was really fun. My in-laws were moving to New Mexico at the time, so wanted to visit with us for a while, because they did not know how long it would be before we saw one another again. Also, they brought Dodge (my step son) to us from Idaho to save us some gas money, so it worked at for all of us. While they were here we thought we should do something exciting, because we have not done many family activities together with one another, since Austin and I have been married. The first thing we did with them was celebrate my mother in-laws birthday at the park. That was really exciting because we had a BBQ, and the kids seemed to really enjoy that, especially Kianna. Kianna is my littlest sister in-law. I do mean littlest. Kianna is 4 years old and she is sooooo cute. She got mad at me when I went to distribute the cake, because I assumed that since she was so little that she would not be able to eat a big slice of cake like the rest of the children. Well, she did not like that I gave her a smaller piece than everyone else, so she started crying. I felt so ashamed, because I broke that little girl’s heart. As I kept asking her what was wrong, she continued to sob and that made me feel all the more guilty. Finally she told me that she did not like that I gave her a small piece and everyone else a big piece. I quickly rectified the situation, by giving her another slice of cake, bigger than the other children’s slice. She was very happy then. My mother in-law did not look to pleased either when she received her cake. Unlike Kianna’s incident, my mother in-law got part of her cake on her nose, she was not impressed. I guess this day was full of surprises for the Grover girls.
The kids played and had a great time, at the park during Grandma Grover’s birthday party. I distinctly remember my mother in-law telling the kids, “do not get in that pond, I do not want you to get your clothes wet.” After 30 minutes of being there, three kids got their clothes wet, and two got their shoes wet. They did not listen, and she was unimpressed. On the plus side, Austin did a excellent job grilling the hot dogs and hamburgers, it was his second time ever using a grill, but the meat tasted like it was cooked by an professional grilling, namely George Foreman himself. This reunion was full of joy and laughter, and then we went back to our house and watched “The Night at the Museum,” and had popcorn. It was fun.
The second thing that we did with my in-laws was swimming at the Family Funplex. This event was exciting and enjoyable as well, if not better. The funplex had a lot of attractions for little children. It had kiddy slides, big slides, and medium slides. It had a Hawaiian theme that was cool too. Ammon and Ahmad kept nagging me to go on the biggest slide that they had; I was very reluctant, because I have not been on rides or slides in ten years. I was scared. But I also was happy that they wanted to have fun with me, so I tried it anyway, and let me just say, I almost literally had an asthma attack. It was not even one of the biggest or longest slides I have ever been on, but I guess it was scary because I have not done it in so long. I was very upset that they laughed at me on my way down, because I was so scared I was trying to hang on to the sides of the slide and trying to stop myself from moving. All in all it was fun though. After that horrific incident, we went to the main pool and played with some of the little kids. Tymesha and Traneice kept hanging off my neck like little capuchins (monkeys), and I did not like that, but they too were having fun. Dodge and Kianna seemed to like going down the baby slides. They would not stop. Kianna would sit in the water, in the shallow end of the pool, just to see how it covers her body from her bottom to her nose. It was cute. Grandma Grover just sat down in the water and watched all the kids play; she seemed to have enjoyed watching everyone else have fun. It was a very productive and fun filled event.