A Visit from the Michiganites!

This past week my brother Corey and his family came to visit from Michigan. My kids were ecstatic to have them here. They flew in on Saturday and we went to Culvers for lunch and then they stayed and played for a minute before Ragnar took John and Cavin to the Monster Truck Jam. They met up with my other brother Chris and his two boys and had a great time. Cavin looks forward to this every year, so I was grateful they obliged him and came along!

Cavin could hardly contain his excitement as he idolizes his older cousin John.

Must be a guy thing???

Ragnar brought Johns friend Collin with them and they seemed to have a good time.

Corey and Stephani left for a cruise and so we played with the kids while they were gone. We went over to Angel park for a beautiful, sunny afternoon.

Cavin and his buddy at the top of the rocks.

Here are all the kiddos. 

We went over for a quick dinner at McDonald's after playtime.

The boys wanted their own table ;)

On Friday I took the kids out of school early and we went over to Skyzone to let the kids jump!

They had a family dodge ball tournament.

Cavin was not cooperating in this picture so the kids decided to do bunny ears :) haha.
Afterward we had a pizza party and watched a movie and then Ella got to spend the night with Madi and get pedicures with Grandma in the morning. She had a blast.

On Saturday we celebrated Coleton's birthday with some of his friends. We are glad to have Coleton in our family! 

On Monday after my brother came back we got together for a family dinner and FHE. The kids play well together outside and the weather has been wonderful. They played duck duck goose....

 And then football!

Ella was so sad to have Madi leave. She doesn't have any older girl cousins here, so she sure loves to have some girl time when Madison comes. We are glad we got to see them all and look forward to our next visit!

New Years Week 2016

My brother Chris and his family were headed to the San Jacinto Monument and Battleship and so we decided to tag along! The kids had a fun time looking at some history, and mostly just being with their cousins. 

All of them in front of the battleship!

Uncle Chris was our tour guide!

Watch out for the kids!

This is the face I constantly see on my brother :)

 There were some pretty steep stairs up and down the ship!

Crew's ready for his nap on the boat!

Leave it to Channing to strike a pose!

The older kids decided to go to the top with Uncle Chris!

 Cavin quickly came down! Too high for me as well!

Proof that I was there! I think that's the only picture I was in!

We had a picnic in the chilly weather and next went to the San Jacinto Monument. It is a very tall building!

Deacon was trying to climb the stairs for the picture!

Silly cousins!

They had a nice afternoon there. We enjoyed seeing some history about the great state of Texas!

New Years Eve was my nephew Crew's birthday so we spent the day there celebrating!

We went on a scavenger hunt..

Grandpa was kind enough to go out of his way and find everyone their pine cones we were missing.

Here is our birthday boy!

Time for his cake smash!!

After the cake smash we had a fire outside to make smores!

It took a while to get the fire started but it served its purpose and we had yummy smores.

These girls have fun together! 

Natalie all bundled up!

We stayed the night with my dad and Natalie (since my mom is still gone) and my dad was keeping Deacon busy with tennis balls! He had a blast! At one point he had it in his hood and he looked like a dog circling over and over trying to get it! It was pretty funny!

Such a good grandpa! It was a fun week and we hope 2016 brings many wonderful things!