Jump Mania ~ 10.22.08

This past Wednesday, the boys and I joined some other mom's and their kiddos at our local Jump Mania. It is a building that is filled with inflatable slides and obsticle course for the kids to jump and climb around on. I have been meaning to take the boys ever since it opened this past summer, but never got around to it. So when my friend, Angela, called Tuesday night to ask if I wanted to join them and some others from church, I "jumped" at the chance to check it out. ;)

It ended up being myself and 4 other moms with our 7 kids...and of course other moms & kids were there as well. Both the boys had a REALLY good time for the hour or so we were able to stay. I had hoped to stay longer, but since non-thinking me had put both of them in long-sleeves they were both hot and sweaty and I had to get Drew home to get a shower before school. I originally thought that Drew would be the oldest and all the others with us would be kids around Zach's age, so when Drew's friend Trey showed up too, he was SO excited. It also created a problem with leaving though since he didn't want to stop playing with Trey when we had to go. :) Anyway, a fun morning and we will certainly have to go back again sometime when we have longer to stay. Drew was off running with Trey most the time so I didn't end up with many pictures of him. I also got to experience one of the inflatable courses first hand when I had to go help a stuck Zach. UGH! Out off all the kids there - I am the one that came out injured! lol I ended up pulling something in on of my thumbs (that I am still having problems with) and got a plastic burn on an elbow. lol I am just WAY to old to be going through things like that! :) And BOY am I glad that the only pictures taken of myself going through the course were taken with my own camera which Angela was holding for me! At least I then had the power of the delete button!! We were the first ones in the place (it had just opened for the day), and the boys didn't quite know where to start first. Drew going up...
and coming down. Zach's turn to climb up... and come down. He LOVED it! Drew trying to give the stuck Zach a boost up. It didn't quite work... so this was where Mommy had to go in to help. Of course the only way out was to complete the course. UGH!

Zach also got a little lost in one of the obsticle courses. He was in the thing a little more than 5 minutes before Mommy finally got him to follow some other kids out. :) Drew had gone through too quickly for him to keep up.


I was also so glad to be able to spend some time with a friend of ours who had moved to Montana and her son (her husband was out golfing with our pastors and the other missionary men). They will be missionaries to the Middle East soon and were in town for our Missions Conference at our church.