The Cousins Came!!

We were so excited to have the cousins and Auntie Sharon come visit!! We tried to squeeze in a TON of fun in just a few short days. I'll hit the highlights and then add more pictures as we go.

Here's a picture with Andrew and Brooke. They had so much fun together. Brooke barely let Andrew out of her sight...and kept his scratching her back the whole trip. He probably has carpel tunnel syndrome after leaving here. Hopefully he won't be injured as he leaves on his mission!

This is a picture of the two at Nashville Shores, one of the water parks in the area. The kids had so much fun. They went on one of the huge water slides continually. Then that night, we watched Iron Man next to one of the pools.

The highlight of the trip has to be our trip to the temple. We were able to go do baptisms for the dead at the Nashville Temple. We went with our ward's youth. It was so great to have this much of the family gathered in the temple. What a great experience to have the cousins together serving in the temple. Blake was able to baptize the kids and then got to confirm some of them too. Sharon and I stayed and did the laundry. Even that was fun. There's just something wonderful about serving together! The kids were so cute riding in their own car. They stopped and ate at Wendy's and then went bowling afterwards.


We had some family names to do, but I forgot to take them to the temple with us. Trust me, I'll never live that down. Now however, Sharon and the boys have some to do in AZ and we have some here in Nashville! Kenny was kind enough to be forgiving. My whole ward knows the story and still teases me about it, but I can live with that.

A few days later we rented a pontoon boat and went out on Percy Priest lake. We rent a tube which was hilarious because the boat was so slow. But the kids had fun anyway. The could do all kinds of tricks since the wake was small and they were going slow. We barbequed hamburgers and had a picnic out on the lake. (We sure know how to eat!)

The boat had a slide on the top. The most fun they had was having contests jumping off the top deck of the boat. I think Austin won the belly flop contest - but at what cost? He also won the biggest splash. Parker won the smallest splash. Then of course Andrew had the craziest flips.




I had to add this last picture just to prove that you can dress them up and they do look pretty good! Grammy made them promise not to change clothes after church so we could take pictures. Then what happened? She went right in and changed her clothes after church! We made her change back into her church clothes so she could sweat just like the rest of us. And of course Sunday was the HOTTEST MOST HUMID day of the whole week! We were all glad to get out of those dress clothes. But don't they look great?