We just got back from a trip to Oklahoma and we had a BLAST! It was so much fun. The kids played pretty much nonstop anytime that they were awake, which was nice so the adults could hang around and talk and eat and play games too. We drove this time and the kids did great. Deacon got a little carried away with the marker, in this picture you can't see it all over his face.
Here are the girls on our way out of town.
This isn't the best picture of Maddie but it's the best I could get in her carseat.It rained on us probably about half of the drive on the first day, we stopped in Nebraska for the night. Then the second day it rained on us practically the entire time, hard down pour but we were able to still make really good time.
On the day we got there we celebrated Annie and David's birthday and my mom got a cookie cake from the Great American Cookie Company. They make the most delicious cookie cakes and other yummy things and there isn't one in Utah so I was glad we had one and it was the first one Ben had ever had and he loved it.
The kids helped their Nannie shuck corn from the produce stand in town. It was fun to see them do it because I remember doing this when I was a kid.
Maddie just hanging out
On Sunday we were able to go to church together and then afterwards Ben baptized David. It was a really nice baptism, except for the part when I had to speak, but I think it made the girls more excited for when they get baptized.
The next day we went and had a picnic at a park and the kids chased around a bunch of ducks and then went to the water park. I didn't take any pictures that day I guess. It was a lot of fun and it was fun to see all their older cousins want to play with them in the kiddie part of the park. Deacon also gashed his head open thankfully he didn't need stitches and it was at the end of the day.
The next day we went to the dam and had donuts and let the kids skip rocks and play down by the water.
On our way to the dam Ben almost ran over a turtle which never really happens in Utah so we stopped and let the kids get out and look at it. I think they were all too scared to touch it.
They also had just gotten out of bed, that's why their hair looks so crazy. Later that day we went bowling.
This is how Annie liked to watch her ball go down the lane.
Emily and Annie bowling. Emily won between all the kids and even beat my score!
Deacon celebrating after knocking down some pins.
Ben and Deacon
The next day we spent the day at my Uncle Ottos and it was so much fun, it's one of my favorite places to go.
The kids rode 4-wheelers
golfed
Maddie's first time on the 4-wheeler
Play with horses
Maddie riding with mom and dad on the golf cart
The kids all fished. I love this picture of Annie jumping on the dock.
Deacon's first time to catch a fish.
The kids all trying to steal a ride back up to the house.
My Uncle BBQs amazing food and he cooked for us that night and it was so good. We also ended the night by doing fireworks. It was a great day.
I told Deacon to say cheese and this is what he did.
The next day my sister got married. She got married at my dad's baseball field in our town and it was so nice.
Here we are on the baseball field. It was so hard to keep Deacon off the field. He kept going to home plate and pretend to hit the ball and then run the bases.
The morning of the 4th, we went up to the gym in my moms school and let the kids play with all the fun stuff they have in an elementary school gym. It was a lot of fun. The kids bowled, set up their own wipe out course, hula hooped, rode scooters, attacked each other with all sorts of fun stuff. Then we played gotcha and dodgeball. It was a lot of fun.
Deacon wanted to stay on this.
Then the night of the 4th we walked up to the school and watched the fireworks show that the town does. It was a good show. Emily started crying because she was so sad that it was her last night there.
I love this picture of Maddie and Deacon holding hands on the drive home.
We were able to drive the whole way back without stopping and the kids did great. We had so much fun, it took us a couple days to recover. We are so glad that we went
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