Labor Day

What a great weekend with family!  Karissa flew in last week so we met up with her in Houston Friday afternoon to visit with our grandparents and cousins that we hadn’t been able to see in a year or so.  It was great catching up and I wish we were able to get down there more. 

Eating our fries with Aunt Karissa.

Four generations – mom, Ted, me, Ty, and Karissa

After that quick stop in Houston we headed to Springfield to spend the weekend with Jeremy’s family.  Amanda and Pete came down from Columbia so the whole family was there. 

Tyler went crazy with the boys – it’s never quiet when they are all together and someone always gets hurt.  This time it was Ty, though surprisingly it didn’t happen until the last day.  There were quite a few tears but it’s all better now and he just ended up with a scratch behind his ear and bruise on the edge of it. 

Saturday we just hung around the house relaxing and catching up while it rained all day.  Sunday we headed to Silver Dollar City in Branson with the Johnson’s.  Both Jeremy and I haven’t been there in probably 15 years.  I don’t remember much and it has changed a lot.    We had a great time and we discovered Ty loves roller coasters.  The first one we went on was called Fire in the Hole.  It’s a pretty tame roller coaster, but parts of it are in the dark – Ty didn’t really like those parts but when I asked him if he liked it afterwards he said yes.  They had a great kids section too.  Ty was tall enough to ride at least six of the rides plus the river raft one.  We might have to purchase the Six Flags season tickets for next year.

Everyone else had the same idea – go to SDC the only nice day of the weekend – it was packed when we got there, we were in parking lot 5 and Ty was so excited because our shuttle was actually a school bus.  All three boys sat together.

Waiting in line at Ty’s first roller coaster – Fire in the HOLE!

Sometimes it’s hard to tell – but look I have proof – they really do like each other.

Ty’s second roller coaster!

Spinning in the teacups!  This one made me super dizzy – not sure I can do this one still.

Brent and Caedman riding at the top of the big pirate ship thing – glided up and down.  We are sitting with Ty in the middle of the boat.

Flying dumbo!  These were pretty neat.  They went around in a circle and you had control of going up and down by pushing a button on the elephant’s head.

In an attempt to get the boys out of the house Monday and burn off some energy we went to Nathaniel Greene Park, but it was just too hot and muggy to stand it for too long.  After a yummy pizza lunch we hoped in the car and headed home.  We put Ty to bed early and he slept until 8 this morning! Thanks for wearing him out Caedman and Keagan. 

For an example of how tired he was – I went to bed around 10:30. Shortly after I laid down I heard a thump….kinda sounded like Ty falling out of bed but I talked myself out of that since I didn’t hear any crying.  15 minutes later I’m still wide awake and worrying whether not that was him, so I got up to check.  Yep, he had fallen out of bed in his sleep and was fast asleep on the floor.  So I picked him back up and put him bed – he never even opened an eye or made a peep. He was exhausted!