Hershey Park with the Sanger Cousins!

This past week Uncle Steve and Aunt Jennifer took eleven of the Sanger cousins to Hershey Park for a day of fun!  It was a perfect summer day and the lines weren't long at all!  By the end of the day there were many rosy cheeks from the sun and happy smiles on everyone's faces.

Of course it is always exciting to see if you've reached a new candy bar height! :)

Maybe next year, Bethany!

Hope, Lincoln, Lillia, Abigail, & I went straight to Skyrush, the newest roller coaster.

Aunt Jennifer and Bethany on the Coca Cruiser, the newest children's roller coaster.

Patrick and Hope on the Frontier Flyers

Elainah on the miniature carousel

Can you spot Abigail, Joy, Lillia, & Patrick in the front car?



 Sidewinder!  Patrick's favorite roller coaster:)

 David thought the carousel was pretty awesome!

 Joy blaring Bethany's horn :P

 Uncle Steve, David, and Joy on the Scrambler!

 Hope and Patrick

 Swings!!

"We're flying!"

Patrick & Joy

 There was a handler at the entrance of Zoo America with a 3 year old Alligator that you could pet.

 We take up a whole roller coaster!!

At the end of the day with the Hershey Bar!

Thank you to Uncle Steve & Aunt Jennifer for taking us!!

~Kaitlyn

Here's a little video I put together from Storm Runner..hope you enjoy! (by the way, Uncle Steve lost his phone on this roller coaster the year it came out, so I was kind of nervous about dropping Mom's phone!! :P thankfully I didn't!!)

*Surprise!* "Happy Birthday!!!"

A surprise party for my 17th birthday was definitely not on my radar screen Tuesday afternoon!!  I went shopping in Lancaster with Lillia and two of our Amish friends and when I arrived home a bunch of the young people and their families were there!!  I was completely shocked and I had no idea that my family had planned a party for me and kept it a secret for so long, as you can tell from my expression!!:P

:: Cousins ::

::delicious fruit::

 

::drinks::

::Papa John's pizza::

 

 

 ::Ella & Benjamin::

 

 ::Grandpa & Grammy::

 

 ::volleyball::

 

 ::David & Patrick::

 

I had an awesome birthday...shopping with my friends, surprise party, and to top it all off my cousin Zack let me drive his lifted Jeep!  Thanks to everyone who made my birthday so special!! 

Photo credits go to Abigail & mom!:)

 

~Kaitlyn

:: Springtime ::

April showers bring May flowers!

 

 

 Lillia has taken over the garden this year and her string bean plants are just peeping through the ground...

 

Thanks to Grandmommy we have a bed of mint growing in our garden!

There's nothing like a cold glass of mint tea!

 

 We doggy-sat one of our friend's German Shepherd dogs this past week.

 

 This little sweetheart is growing so fast!  He's crawling all over the place and tries to eat anything he can reach!

 

 "What's that in my trunk??"

 

Mommy and Daddy went to get mulch and when they got back guess who was driving?! :)

 

 Lillia did a great job on the flower beds!

 

 Hope went past on the zipline and on her way back she decided to grab onto a branch...

 

 ...and let the zipline go!

 

 What a monkey!!

 

 We recently got new living room furniture so David pulled our old sofa out to the curb with his tractor!

 

 Our old pool busted last year after being heavily used for the past nine years so Dad got a new one earlier this year.  David pulled the pool supplies (and pool assembler) down to the pool site.

 

Around the beginning of May, Dad fixed up our old pool site and put railroad ties around it.  He also got a load of sand this past week.  He plans to get a load of river stone to put between the railroad ties and edge of the pool.

 

Fillin' it up!