July 20th - 28th

Last week my sister came in town from AZ. She has three boys and so as you can guess it was quite fun with all the boys running around at Grandma and Pops house. They can not get enough of swimming in the hop tub (that is what Mason calls pops hot tub) and wrestling. This house really never sleeps when everybody is here. We started our week off running back and forth to the airport picking up everybody that came in to town just far enough from each other they could not wait at the airport for the next one to come in! The next day we went to Snowbird to ride the alpine slide, zip line, riding the bull, jumping in the moon bounce, and waiting in very long lines! Fun for all! Everyone always comes in on Grandma's birthday to celebrate and it always starts a couple of days before the actual day. That night we got a babysitter and headed to dinner to start the celebration! On Sunday we had some friends and family over to continue the celebration with more food (my moms favorite). Then we finally got to her big day where we finished it off with going to see the new movie Hairspray! By the way Ben was able to come in and spend some time with us during all the fun! We also were able to go to Lagoon! Oh, was I excited! (I can not stand Lagoon) Jackson has been waiting all summer to go and he had a blast! He went on all the scary water slides and wanted to go on all the roller coasters but no one would dare go with him and I couldn't! He did manage to talk pop into a couple of them. But, he was so scared to go into the Haunted Houses which was funny! We rounded the week off with a tirp to the Zoo to see the Ghost of the Bayou! It is a white alligator and the kids loved it. We had a great time with our cousins and can't wait to see them soon!