Kansas City with Family

We spent a fun family weekend in Kansas City with my brother's family at the beginning of October.

We brought the kids to Kansas City several years ago for a family vacation and stumbled upon a fun museum with an awesome kids' area. Since we were headed back to Kansas City, we thought it'd be fun to spend a few hours there. We arrived Saturday afternoon, and the kids took off playing. 

There was a grocery store, farmhouse, diner, hospital, school, jail, post office, theater, and some other fun themed areas. 

Is anyone surprised that the construction area was the first place Samuel visited???

The kids also spent some time exploring the rest of the Johnson County Museum. The highlight was a full-size house from the 1950's showing off all the modern conveniences of the times. 

The cousins arrived later that afternoon, and the kids kept playing. They were so excited to spend time with their cousins. 

We rented an Airbnb for the weekend. While some of the adults ran to pick up dinner, the girls played in the backyard. 

Elisabeth had recently learned the game Statues from her PE class, and she taught everyone how to play it. 

One of my favorite parts of the weekend was playing games with Jeremy and Anna. We stayed up late both nights playing games. They brought a fun one called Cosmic Encounter, and we brought Dice Forge, Dominion and Tokaido. We all have similar tastes in board games, and we took advantage of the time together and spent hours and hours playing games while the cousins played. 

The kids stayed up late playing together. They so enjoyed the quality time to be together. 

After lunch on Sunday, we drove over to a homestead/farm place that a friend had recommended and spent a couple of hours exploring. We saw lots of farm animals, played on some playgrounds, petted baby goats, and even saw a blacksmith demonstration. The weather was gorgeous. It was a fun way to let the kids burn off some energy. 

The kids spent their last evening together playing Switch, and the girls played spies, and random other things while the adults played more board games and stayed up way past all of our bedtimes. 

After breakfast on Monday, we said our goodbyes with plans to see each other again in the Spring and also plans to make our KC weekend an annual tradition. 

This Little Girl slept almost the whole way home. All that cousin fun wore her out. 

We all missed Grammy over the weekend but were thankful to be together as a family starting new traditions.