Texas Trip - July 6th-7th - Cabelas, Date Night & Saying Goodbye

We had one last hurrah to say goodbye to most everyone.  

We met Grandpa & Grandma Dean and Guy & Sharon at Cabelas for lunch.

Mom, Joe, Amanda & the boys, and Erin & Luke met us there also!

We love all of the animals. They have the neatest displays:

Our little family with Grandpa & Grandma Dean:

Our little family with Guy & Sharon:

The cute cute boys with their pop guns. They ABSOLUTELY LOVED these guns and had so much fun playing with them the entire time we were there. So much fun, in fact, that Aunt Sharon decided to get them each one. Thanks Sharon!!

 Jeff's cousin & her hubby, Erin & Luke,  came up for a quick visit.  We had dinner with them at Joe & Amanda's the  night before and then they joined us for lunch here. It was so fun to hang out with them and get to know them better!! 

These boys have way too much fun together. It is so fun to sit back and watch them play:

Me & Amanda. 

I LOVE this girl. I feel so lucky to have a sister in law who is such a wonderful and truly amazing friend.

Someday maybe we'll live close enough to get to hang out on a weekly basis. (if I don't drive her crazy!) Miss you. :)

DATE NIGHT:

That night we got a babysitter and went on a date with Mom & Dad.  I love all the fun we have with kiddos, but it is always so wonderful to have quality adult time as well. I love spending time with them and talking the night away. It was great:

JULY 7th:

Since Mom & Dad were packing up and heading to Estes Park with her family, we packed up a day early and went to Joe & Amanda's for our last day. I HATE saying goodbye. Really hate it.  

We got one last shot with the kiddos and the grandparents on our final day with them:

And here are a few fun ones of Mom & Ryder playing one day:

We love you so much Mom & Dad!! 

Thank you for a wonderful, memorable, and amazing vacation!!

Texas Trip - July 5th - Legoland & Rainforest Cafe

One of the BIG activities we wanted to do was Legoland. 

It was definitely a hit with the kiddos!!

Mom & Dad took the two littles: Ryder & Nora to walk the mall while we went inside and had a blast!

It's all indoors, which made for some seriously weird lighting, so forgive the photos.

Loved the awesome lego motorcyle:

Weston:

Tave:

Cole:

Ava:

 Somehow I missed Owen...bummer!

They loved playing in the big lego playground:

The lego scenes were incredible.  Here is Dallas Cowboys stadium:

They have Duplo town, where there are big legos to build with and my kids loved climbing them:

James, Amy, & Ava:

Joe, Amanda, Cole, & Owen one of the three rides. 

We rode all three. And loved them.

 (If you happen to go to this legoland in Dallas, just be warned: there are only three rides and you only get to ride them each once. Weird? I agree.) 

After the rides, the kids had a blast building a car to race on the track. The dad's were a big help with these. I didn't know what I was doing!

And then we went to the 4D lego show! SO COOL and cute. :)

 (another warning, I think these glasses are where I got pink eye two days later...so bring sanitizing wipes if you are going to EVER wear 3D glasses!)

And here is Jeff with Dirk Nowitzki:

 We loved Legoland. It was a fun change from the typical places we visit.  

Afterwards, we met up with Mom & Dad and we all went out to Rainforest Cafe!
The boys had never been there, so it was a cool experience for all of us!

Each of the kids got to pick a balloon animal, awesome!

I love this shot of all the grandkids (minus Nora who was sleeping!) with Grandma & Grandpa.  

They were so exhausted after Legoland & Rainforest Cafe that they wanted nothing to do with this!!  

Aren't they all so stinkin cute though!!

Texas Trip - the Fourth of July!!

We were super thrilled to spend the fourth of July holiday in Texas.  We have wonderful traditions that we do in Utah, but we couldn't wait to try something new!  The cold/fluish thing had hit me on Sat. (yay, just in time to run a 5k) and now it was on to Jeff. So he wasn't feeling too hot.  We spent the day with Mom & Dad, went to Sam's club and had lunch and just hung out. It was fun.  

Ryder loves animals and always tried to get to Daisy if she was around:

Our little fam. celebrating the Holiday:

Since Jeff wasn't feeling too great and Ryder's bedtime is so early, they stayed home with Dad to have a chill night.  Mom & I took the boys to meet Joe, Amanda, the boys, and James & Ava.  Amy was sick too, boo. :( 

We went to a big carnival held at a sports park. It was AWESOME. 

Besides being hot Hot HOT, it was loads of fun!  The boys favorite thing was the bounce house:

I love this shot of these buddies:

Joe, Amanda, and their cute boys:

 Mom, me and my cute boys:

James & cute Ava:

We brought special treats and glow in the dark stuff to play with and the kiddos had a blast running around, getting hyped up on sugar, and being crazy. It was awesome!

Happy Fourth!

ps I totally stole the last 2 pics from my cousin, his turned out much better than mine! Thanks Alex. :)

Texas Trip - July 2nd - 5K and a BBQ!

We started the holiday weekend out right with a 5k!  

It was so fun to do it with so many family members.  

My goal was to jog the entire thing (no walking) and to finish under a certain time

and i did it!! yay! 

We had all these cute guys cheering us on at the finish line:

Afterwards we headed back to mom and dad's for - you guessed it - a pool party & bbq.

I was horrible at taking pics..so most of these posts are random shots of whoever was close by when i had the camera. I didn't even try to get everyone in at least one shot..which is a first for me. oh well... i love what I did get!

Texas Trip - July 1 - Studio Movie Grill

We were able to go on a fun date night with the adults. 

We saw Transformers 3 at Studio Movie Grill. It's a pretty awesome theatre where you order your dinner/desserts before the movie and they bring it to you while you watch. 

Pretty awesome!!