Visiting with family - Chuck-E-Cheese

The basic itinerary of the week before the wedding: Thursday, I received my endownments; Friday, rehearsal dinner; Saturday morning, wedding ceremony at the temple; Saturday midday, wedding reception in Mckinney.  I was able to come to my parent's house the Monday before (due to work, Danny couldn't come until Thursday afternoon), to help with a few final preparations as well as spend some time with my family (Amanda and her boys spent the whole week with my parents).  One of the first things we did was take the boys to Chuck-E-Cheese with the entire family (Michael and Meghan joined too).  It was a lot of fun getting to be a kid again, in a way, playing games, eating pizza, winning tickets, and just having fun.  I'm sure the boys enjoyed it too.

Of course, Andrew loved the cars.

Seth... not so much.

... Grandma got run over by my nephew... lol.

... despite many games being a little too difficult for a three-year-old to understand, Andrew was quite dedicated in playing them.

Even Seth liked to help play games when he could.

... a very intense game of air hockey (and note, this is a kid's size air hockey, kinda hard to play on when you have to practically kneel to be at the right height).

but of course, tickets are way more fun than watching others play.  We all contributed to the nephew's prizes / tickets, though the award for most by far goes to Michael, the skeeball champion.  He won the skeeball jackpot three times in one night!

... I guess meeting a six-foot mouse can be a little intimidating for a one-year-old.

Michael and Dad also played a ton of basketball...

... very serious competitors, haha.

There was this one racing game that Andrew really really wanted to play (a little too big for him though, so I helped with the pedals while he steered), but it kept being used.  So he waited and waited sooo paitently, and when it was finally our turn, it ate our last token.  I felt so bad, he didn't understand why he couldn't play.  But thankfully, the workers gave us two tokens free to replace the one it ate, so he finally got to drive.  Thanks Chuck-E-Cheese!