New Years - Speckmans Visit

Wish I would have been able to keep up with all of the holiday posts and done this one a long time ago.   We had such a great visit from Tyler, Amanda, and Peyton for New Year's. 

We surprised the boys with a visit to Legoland in Grapevine.   

We hadn't been before, and we knew ALL the boys would love it.  

We kept it a secret and they had fun guessing where we were headed. 

As soon as we rounded the corner they were very excited.

Hard to really show this in a picture - but it is an entire room with scenes of Dallas built from legos. 

Went to the 4D show where we had rain, wind, snow,  and a couple of upset children : )

None of ours had ever watched a movie with 3d glasses, they sort of enjoyed it ; )

I was just worried about my camera getting wet.

Maggie was just worried about getting out of there.

 

 They got to ride lego cars.

Here's Jack - no problem.

Cooper - well, he cried.   Silently.  And was begging to get off.   Couldn't make it work.  Couldn't steer.  And the guys working there, did there best.

We cheered him on (we were on the other side of the fence) but he was very relieved when it was over. 

 

Poor Charlie wasn't tall enough for this or the play structure, so he was pretty unhappy.  

 

The boys could make lego cars to race down these cool ramps.  Jackson was in heaven.  He could have stayed at this part for hours.   He kept making changes to his car every time he raced it. 

Tyler took Maggie to check out the princess castle : )

After that we headed to the Rainforest Cafe for lunch.  

Kind of a bust.

Lousy service. 

Cooper was terrified of the moving gorillas that were making noise.

How cute are these two holding hands ???

The rest of the weekend, we just hung out.   Thought about going to get drinks on New Years, but we just stayed in like some old people.

We drank a little champagne, had a really, really hard time figuring out how to watch the Times Square ball drop - only could get Dallas's local version.  

One night I made everyone play Cranium.   Colin and Tyler weren't thrilled about playing, but they didn't seem to hate every second of it.   

And they did a good job, and didn't lose to us girls by too much : )

Here are Peyton and Jackson performing Christmas songs for us. 

Peyton is a little more of a "performer" than Jackson, 

but somehow he convinced Jackson to go along with it. 

We heard Jingle Bells alot.

: )

Cooper did his own thing. 

Played with the iPad.

Did some acrobats.

So happy that we got to spend some time with our friends.

Miss them! 

Ready for another visit, you guys!