Cousins re-unite

What a wonderful mid-summer get together for Kari, Bryce, Keira and Audra. The Williams' were traveling through central Indiana en route to a week's stay in Cincinnati. So we got to spend 24 hours with our favorite Colorado residents this past weekend.

 That's Kari at the top of the picture, swinging as high as she could go.

The girls obviously knew how to play together and enjoy one another's company. However, with Bryce almost 2 years old now, he wanted to make sure the terrific trio made room for the growing boy! The kids played in Gran and Beep Beep's back yard, went really high on the swing and got to eat Ice Pops together.

 
 Saturday morning the Grandparents volunteered to take all four squirts to the Children's Museum on their own. This was a brave task and one that apparently went off without a hitch. The kids got to see plenty of neat displays at the Museum and then were treated to a tasty lunch at Steak N Shake, Kari's favorite.

 Meanwhile, The Keckler and Williams parental units quickly took advantage of their few hours of peace by heading to Carmel for some drinks and lunch. It was a great time for us to catch up and talk about the joys of parenting. It also was a chance to visit Bub's Burgers, which was recently was featured on Travel Channel's Man vs. Food.

Of course Kevin had to give their "Big Ugly" challenge a try. This was a 22-oz pre-cooked burger. After hitting the grill, it ends up as a 1-lb burger. It was delicious, as was the Elk burger each of the other three had. After completing the challenge, Kevin got his picture taken and put on the wall inside. "Boiler Up, Big Ugly Down!" That's on my picture should you ever visit this establishment and want to see it.

When we got back to Gran and Beep Beep's, we had some time for the cousins to play and wrestle with Uncle Jason, as well as play outside again. Then it was time for a delicious grilled salmon dinner and some angel food cake (Kari's first try and she loved it!).

The Williams crew needed to head out Saturday after dinner for Cincinnati, but while the stay was short it was awesome to see them again and get some updated pictures of the four cousins together.