A weekend in Louisiana!

What can I say, we sure love Daphne. She is a great sister, friend, and an even better Aunt. We were excited when we were able to get a weekend together to come visit her in Baton Rouge. She comes so often to Texas, that it was about time to return the favor again.

On the way there we made good time, until right before we were about 15 miles away, and then it took us an hour to go 15 miles.  We were in good company parked on the freeway next to our German friend. :) When we got there Friday night, we ate dinner, and then took a quick, chilly dip in the pool. It was fun to be there. That evening we watched SING and then we all had a nice rest. 

Saturday morning we exercised, and went to start the morning off with delicious famous Louisianian Beignets!! They were from a place called the Coffee Cafe and they were great!

It was this carb girls dream to eat them, and the kids loved that they made them in finger shape as they were easier to eat! 

Food selfie to document our first real Beignets!

After we ate breakfast we bought a kite and headed to the Louisiana kite festival. It was a perfectly beautiful day! The wind was blowing great and it was sunny and so pretty!!

Ella got the hang of kite flying pretty fast and really liked it. Channing occasionally would come and help out.

Ella could have flown the kite for hours. The boys tried the minion kite for a bit, but mostly kicked the soccer ball or threw the football outside.

Channing enjoyed lounging on the blanket and Deacon mostly had Daphne kick the ball with her. With the music in the background, she got him to dance with her a little bit. 

It really was a perfect morning and so nice to be outside and just enjoy and relax. After the festival we listened to conference. When the sessions were over we headed over to a BBQ at the pool!

The kids love Daphne's apartment complex and talk about it all the time. Cavin loves the volleyball pit and the girls love to play in the sand.

The kids even made sand angels in the sand ;)

Ragnar and Daphne took turns grilling and we had a delicious, big, juicy burger by the pool!

The pool was a little warmer today, but still fairly cold. The others embraced it better than me! I was freezing and so would stick toward the shallow side. 

Ragnar went to priesthood session and we finished playing in the pool. When he got back we watched the movie "Hidden Figures" which I thought was a good movie.

Sunday morning we watched the first session with Daphne at her house. She was great and played games with the kids before it started. They love playing with her.

After the session we headed home as there was a tornado warning coming in and it was supposed to be heavy storms. We definitely hit the hail and storms for a while, but the kids slept for part of it, until someone had to go to the bathroom! Ahhh! So sad, then of course everyone woke up! 

We watched through my phone, but it was hard to hear through all the storms. When it finally cleared up, we had about an hour and a half to go. That's when Deacon said he felt bad and so I sat by him. He threw up everywhere! He's never thrown up before! I think too many goldfish and a little car sickness got the best of him. It was not a pleasant last hour home, but we made it!!

We feel so lucky to have Daphne in our lives and we had such a great time visiting her. We are so grateful that she is only 4 hours away and we can see her often. It was a fun weekend!